Uchiha Itachi composed himself, ignored Kimimaro, who was doomed to die, and likewise used the Body Flicker Technique to attack Jing Xiu.
Seeing that there was no longer any way to salvage things with Jing Xiu, Obito Uchiha vanished into the Kamui Dimension.
When he reappeared, one arm was already behind Jing Xiu, reaching for his bandaged eyes.
Kiyoteru Otsutsuki rested briefly, paying no attention to either Ryusei Otsutsuki, who had turned to dust, or Kimimaro, who stood motionless.
He did not even immediately move to seize Kimimaro's Byakugan, which he had coveted for so long.
Once again, he seemed to shrink the distance beneath his feet, looking like an old man strolling through a park, yet arriving first despite setting off later.
He reached Jing Xiu before Uchiha Itachi and Black Zetsu.
Looking at the deathly pale arm about to touch Jing Xiu's eyes, Kiyoteru Otsutsuki fired a golden beam from his left palm.
The beam shot straight toward Jing Xiu's head, without the slightest regard for the Rinnegan set in his eye sockets.
Obito Uchiha had merely calculated the position and movements beforehand. His main body was still in the real world, with only his arm undergoing hollowfication, intending to take the Rinnegan first.
He could not see Kiyoteru Otsutsuki's movements, and his transplanted White Zetsu arm was burned straight to charcoal beneath the beam.
In the few moments that Obito's hand bought, Uchiha Itachi had already reached Jing Xiu's side.
Without hesitation, he likewise thrust the kunai in his hand toward Jing Xiu's heart.
Taking Jing Xiu's life was ten thousand times more important than that pair of Rinnegan that stirred up turmoil in the Shinobi World.
Uchiha Itachi was ruthless and a man of few words. His kunai stabbed through the gap beneath Kiyoteru Otsutsuki's raised