After the Masked Man refused the command, only two things emerged from the Other Dimension.
A torn fragment of a black-thread trigger seal.
And a page from an underground medical log.
The log was not about Obito.
It documented a coma near the end of Madara's life.
The life-support tubes behind the old man had once stopped supplying him after the Underground Root Network broke.
White Zetsu had taken three days to reconnect the chakra supply.
Throughout those three days, Madara had been unconscious, his heartbeat and Eye Power responses reduced to a minimum.
Strangely, the precise wording of the Moon's Eye Plan had changed during that very period.
On the last page before his coma, Madara had written only, "Use the Eye of the Moon to preserve what reality cannot accommodate."
On the first page after he awoke, it had become, "Use Infinite Tsukuyomi to replace the present world."
There were no blank entries for the three missing days.
Every day had a complete record.
The records used the same stone tablet, yet followed two different dating conventions.
In his own entries, Madara marked time using both the moon's phase and the number of life-support fluid changes.
The black handwriting recorded only the moon's phase, with no mention of medication.
The pages covering those three days of unconsciousness therefore appeared continuous, but the life-support fluid numbers jumped straight from forty-seven to fifty-one.
The missing forty-eight, forty-nine, and fifty had not been torn out.
Madara had never written them.
Black Zetsu had filled the gap with three days of his own reckoning, then appended the records made after Madara awoke.
The Records Team also discovered that Madara's Confirmation Symbol overlapped the end of the black writing, but not the contents from three days earlier.
After waking, the old man had