Tobi really was beginning to question his life.
So everything they had been doing all this time wasn't secret at all, and everyone knew?
Then what the hell were they hiding for?!
Wait, that wasn't right!
Hardly anyone knew about the Sage of Six Paths and the Ten-Tails.
Unless Shinji had also read the stone tablet hidden beneath the Uchiha Ancestral Hall.
At this point, Tobi still didn't know that Black Zetsu had long since tampered with the tablet's contents.
"Why do you know so much?"
Shinji gave a mysterious smile and said, with the air of someone who could lie a person to death without paying for it, "Lord Jashin is all-powerful and all-knowing."
The Evil God, the new god of taking the blame!
The greatest of all time!
Tobi, who was being played for a fool, was speechless. "Then why is Hidan like an idiot who doesn't know anything?"
"People are different, of course. Just as not everyone in the Uchiha Clan could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan even at the clan's peak, and there was only ever one Madara Uchiha. Can you tell me why?"
Tobi was at a loss for words. He realized he actually couldn't quite win an argument against Shinji.
So he decisively changed tactics. "Shinji, come help me. Together, we can build a world without pain or war."
Smack!
"Show some respect and call me your senior!"
Shinji walked up and slapped the back of his head, nearly knocking Tobi to the ground.
Tobi was a little angry, but under a certain someone's half-smiling gaze, he immediately took a deep breath and obediently said, "Senior Shinji~"
"Mm, that's more like it. Whatever other identities you have, in front of me, you're just Tobi. Of course, if one day you feel you no longer need