—Ashubha!
Everything except Sasuke himself was shrouded in a motionless gray gloom!
Sasuke shot forward with the Body Flicker Technique. Boom! With a domineering kick like Isshiki's all those years ago, he shattered the Susanoo Visor protecting the Ten-Tails' enormous eye and stopped directly in front of it!
Two seconds had passed!
"All right, this went more smoothly than I expected. One second left. I can start channeling Flame Guardian now. That should make it impossible for the Ten-Tails to dodge!"
Whoosh! The instant time resumed, black flames erupted around Sasuke like a raging torrent, pressing against the outer wall of the Ten-Tails' eye and coalescing into the form of the Nine-Tails Demon Fox!
"Now, Obito!!"
Obito's senses had not registered the three seconds during Ashubha, so Sasuke appeared abruptly before the exposed eye! Normally, information received through the eyes had to pass through the nerves and be processed by the brain before a person could act. Even someone mentally prepared would have to overcome the disorientation caused by that sensory jolt, let alone Obito, who was coordinating with Sasuke on this tactic for the first time!
But... with his superhuman will and the extraordinary composure he had forged through countless hardships while holding fast to his belief in freedom, Obito unleashed a level of concentration beyond anything he had ever achieved!
One second before Sasuke activated Ashubha, he had already gathered eye power in both eyes. The instant the black flames leaped up, his gaze swung into place like a sniper rifle, focusing through a gap in the not-yet-rampant flames on the Ten-Tails' eye, immense as a Red Wall!
The Ten-Tails' Kamui Phasing... was successfully canceled!
Whoosh! The surging flames instantly covered the entire surface of the eye. Amid the crackling of burning flesh, the Ten-Tails let out a