"What about you? Will you disappear?"
Obito Uchiha spoke softly at that.
"That doesn't matter. What matters... is whether you can protect Rin. Although you've awakened your Mangekyō Sharingan now...
From what I know of Madara Uchiha, he won't give up on hurting Rin because of that, because... he'll do everything he can to make you understand pain and use you for his own ends.
And we both know ourselves well. Rin and the others are our bottom line, and he... knows us just as well. So, Obito... don't be a dead last this time."
A smile appeared on Six Paths Obito's face as he reached out toward Obito Uchiha. He wanted to ruffle Obito Uchiha's hair, but his hand stopped three centimeters short of it.
"Leave it to me, Obito. We'll... protect our Rin together!"
Seeing Six Paths Obito's frozen hand, Obito Uchiha stepped forward and placed his head beneath his palm. The next moment, within both their eyes.
Identical patterns appeared: three sharp, curved hooks spiraled across one another, circling each other to form a distorted pinwheel pattern as their eye power intertwined.
"ROOOAR!!!!"
The enormous phantom of a monster appeared behind Six Paths Obito.
The monster's body towered like a mountain. Plantlike veins ran through its withered, grayish-brown frame, which exuded a terrifying, savage air.
It was a gaunt, malformed humanoid beast with long, shriveled limbs. Its skin resembled aged bark, covered in gnarled, protruding spikes.
Its head was strangely twisted, its entire face bearing only a single enormous Rinne Sharingan. Scarlet light from the eye stretched across most of its head. It had an ear on one side, a huge mouth split toward one cheek and filled with layers of sharp fangs, and nine pointed horns sprouting from its crown and lower jaw.
Ten thick, enormous