The voice behind the mask was calm and cold.
Obito's lone pupil abruptly shrank to a pinpoint.
He stared fixedly at the black-robed man's opening stance as he drew his blade.
The short sword slid half an inch out of its sheath, its edge glowing with a distinctive chakra light.
"That stance for the Body Flicker Draw Technique..."
Obito's tone changed.
"Shisui Uchiha?!"
Shock filled Obito's eye.
"Didn't you jump off a cliff at the Naka River and kill yourself?"
"Danzo gouged out your left eye! The Hokage Building even issued a notice about your death benefits!"
A dead man who should have turned to dust long ago was standing here, alive and guarding the storeroom!
Shisui did not answer his questions.
In this world, only the dead made the safest guards.
That was also the rule Chikage had set for him back then.
Since the entire village believed he was dead, he would be the sharpest hidden lock beneath South Street.
Shisui raised his right hand and gently removed his mask.
His left eye socket was empty, the eyelid closed.
But his sole remaining right eye snapped open!
Against a scarlet background, four blade-shaped tomoe spun rapidly before forming a peculiar pinwheel pattern.
A single eye-the Mangekyō Sharingan!
Violent ocular power surged through the cramped underground storeroom, lifting the hem of Shisui's black robe.
"Intruder, state your name."
Shisui's voice betrayed not the slightest ripple of emotion.
"Never mind. Chikage told me that anyone sneaking into the Vault could be crippled first and questioned afterward."
Before he finished speaking, Shisui had vanished from where he stood.
It was not an afterimage.
It was a Body Flicker Technique so fast that it exceeded what the naked eye could track!
So fast!
Obito was shaken.
Shisui had long been renowned throughout