Hearing those words, Obito fell into thought, losing the desire to question him further.
Although the man before him looked just like Minato-sensei and had mastered Flying Thunder God and the Rasengan, he was neither the Minato-sensei in his memories nor the Fourth Hokage who had thwarted his revenge. He was merely a ninja with the same name.
Orochimaru might have been pulling strings behind the scenes, but the combat awareness his opponent had displayed in their earlier exchange confirmed that he retained considerable free will and was not completely under someone else's control.
Obito activated Kamui, twisting the space around the blond figure as though to suck him into the Kamui Dimension.
But in the next instant, Minato Namikaze vanished from his spot and teleported elsewhere, a sky-blue Rasengan already forming in his palm as he slammed it toward Obito.
With a thunderous crash, the Rasengan struck the ground, blasting out a large crater and exposing the sewer beneath.
By then, Obito had already evaded it with Intangibility. With ranged attacks at his disposal, he would not risk attacking at close quarters as he had ten years ago. He was also guarding against the second stage of Flying Thunder God.
The Flying Thunder God Technique was still as troublesome as ever! Obito lamented.
Although he was now certain that the man before him was not the former Fourth Hokage, Obito's wariness had not diminished in the slightest. If anything, it had grown considerably.
Freed from his responsibilities as Hokage, his opponent could take Naruto all over the Shinobi World without caring whether Konoha lived or died.
That had originally been Obito's own approach: using the mobility of Space-Time Ninjutsu to do as he pleased throughout the Shinobi World without worrying about being surrounded by enemies.
Moreover, Minato Namikaze now