Obito considered it. "Right, you once used the Rinnegan's space-time portal to reach Isshiki's stronghold. Aren't you considering doing the same this time?"
Sasuke said, "Of course I considered it. But when I opened a portal to those old space-time coordinates, all I found was an undeveloped void. Clearly, Isshiki's stronghold was only moved to that location later."
Obito nodded. "So you've already tried..."
"As for using the Tailed Beasts to lure Isshiki out, judging by the intelligence we have and my impression of his character... at the very least, he seems to be an exceptionally patient man."
"In the Shinobi World war I once instigated, the Ten-Tails was revived, and Madara and I became its Jinchūriki in succession. Then the Infinite Tsukuyomi was activated, his former enemy Kaguya appeared, and she was sealed again. Throughout all of that, he and his Kara remained spectators, neither asking nor interfering. Even when Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki—whom I never even met—were killed by you one after another, he remained unperturbed, patiently waiting for the Vessel he had chosen for Reincarnation to appear. It's hard to imagine someone like that abandoning his original plans over a stir in the Shinobi World—"
He had only just received the intelligence, yet he could already analyze it to this degree... Clearly, Free Obito had not been an empty claim.
Sasuke offered his own authoritative assessment. "Isshiki's failure to appear doesn't mean he doesn't want to. It's because Kaguya wounded him so badly that he could only shrink himself with Sukunahikona and hide inside the brain of a monk named Jigen. Just like that line you often used to wallow in self-pity while hiding in the Akatsuki under Madara's name: 'As I am now, I'm nothing but an empty shell'... Jigen is essentially Isshiki's shell. Once he's