chapter 89 part 3
"No matter what's going on with you, you definitely can't dodge this one, right? Die!"
"The moment I opened my eyes, I had to fight the Eight-Tails. That guy truly shows no mercy in using me."
Although Madara had lost his sight, his most basic Sensory Ability still existed. With a slight tilt of his head, he already guessed what the Eight-Tails was doing.
"Just a Tailed Beast Bomb. If you think I can't deal with a Tailed Beast Bomb just because I have no eyes, you truly underestimate me."
Madara snorted coldly, his eyes tightly shut. The ethereal outline of Susanoo reappeared on his body. However, this time, unlike when he fought the Nine-Tails before, he didn't simply and crudely deflect the Tailed Beast Bomb with his Katana.
He exerted force through Susanoo, pressing against the Tailed Beast Bomb. Using the recoil force, he forcibly changed his direction of movement. With a leap, he jumped to Tsukasa Kaede's side.
A terrifying explosion appeared in the distant mountains. Dazzling bright light momentarily eclipsed the sun in the sky.
"Oh, you didn't die. I was just about to help you." Tsukasa Kaede didn't even blink, standing casually on a rock, looking at Madara who had landed beside him. He spoke these insincere words casually.
As for helping someone, not even Zombies would believe it, let alone Madara.
"Such a beast can't kill me. Compared to that, I didn't expect your method of using me to be so crude." Madara snorted coldly, somewhat dissatisfied.
Having just used Izanagi to rewrite reality, and opening his eyes only to see the Eight-Tails crashing down, even Madara fell into a moment of silence.
Although he had already mentally prepared himself before dying, he knew Tsukasa Kaede definitely wouldn't miss the chance to trigger his Zombie Transformation. Tobi and White Zetsu couldn't stop Tsukasa Kaede either.
But from dying to Resurrection, only a few days had passed. Tsukasa Kaede was so impatient to pull off such a big stunt, taking his corpse directly to the Land of Lightning to confront the Eight-Tails?
"I am a very frugal person, dedicated to making the best use of things. Anyway, you're already dead. It's only reasonable to make good use of you before your resurrection, isn't it?" Tsukasa Kaede said calmly. Regarding Madara's Resurrection, he didn't show any surprise from beginning to end. He narrated the entire process in a plain, declarative tone.
"Hmph, whatever you want. I've already prepared myself... My eye."
Madara extended a hand.
*Splurt!*
Tsukasa Kaede raised his hand and gouged out one of his own eyes, placing it in Madara's hand.
Madara pressed it into his eye socket. As a stream of blood trickled down, when he opened his eye again, the eyeball rolled around to adjust its position, and a Three-Tomoe Sharingan quietly emerged.
"Use it sparingly. I went through a lot of trouble to get a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Giving one to you instantly still pains my heart a little."
Tsukasa Kaede licked the blood that flowed from his empty eye socket to his mouth. Even as he spoke, his injury had already healed.
Madara said coldly: "If the plan goes smoothly, you'll have many Sharingan. These ordinary eyes aren't worth you expending too much effort on."
"You say it simply. The Uchiha Clan guards their Bloodline Limit very closely. Even for me, it's hard to find many opportunities to acquire them. Am I supposed to lead a horde of Zombies to launch a full-scale attack on Hidden Leaf Village, and take the opportunity to wipe out the entire Uchiha Clan?"
Tsukasa Kaede shook his head. "Moreover, I haven't found your favored successor yet, and you wouldn't let me do such a thing, would you?"
"You seem to greatly value the Uchiha's power. Did you sense something from me? But give up, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan is already the limit for excellent Clan Members. To reach the level of Mangekyo Sharingan, it's impossible for someone like you to achieve it," Madara said.
"Just Mangekyo Sharingan? In the few days since your death, I've uncovered many things. For example, Nagato's Rinnegan, that should be your eyes, right? Also, I know that the Gedo Mazo is the Ten-Tails' Husk."
Tsukasa Kaede tilted his head, looking at the silent Madara. "You wanted to hide the most crucial Intel from me, but you didn't expect to get into a mutual annihilation battle with a powerhouse like Mito Uzumaki, which allowed me to spot the anomaly. Madara, you truly are excessive."
"The feeling is mutual. You also hid a lot of Intel from me."
The two stopped speaking, and together looked at the Eight-Tails in the center of the lake.
The Eight-Tails was still stunned at this point; its mind couldn't process it immediately.
Everything it was experiencing now was more thrilling than anything it had experienced in the past few decades. Tsukasa Kaede alone already made the Eight-Tails wary in many aspects. He could control corpses for battle, and his Main Body hid far away to cast Jutsu. Even if it ignored the corpses and attacked his Main Body, it would be useless, because Tsukasa Kaede possessed Space-Time Ninjutsu, ensuring he was maximally invincible.
This was already extremely troublesome.
And Madara made the Eight-Tails even more apprehensive. He had died but then lived again. He used Susanoo without eyes... Calculating the time, if that person hadn't died in the Valley of the End battle, he would probably be around seventy years old now, wouldn't he? This aged appearance would likely be his, right?
"See? That ox isn't attacking. It's thinking. It must have already noticed there's something off about you."
Tsukasa Kaede scoffed: "Using Izanagi right in front of it, as long as it's not an idiot, it will definitely suspect your identity, and guess if you used this trick to deceive the First Hokage back then."
"The intelligence of beasts is low; there's nothing worth paying attention to. But you, you understand Izanagi so well?" Madara looked at Tsukasa Kaede beside him. His estimation of Tsukasa Kaede rose once again in his heart.
"It's not difficult. I've read through the Scroll of Seals and browsed through many Forbidden Jutsu on it. Although the Third Hokage mostly only showed me the names, he didn't let me see the Jutsu's effects. Only a few Technique Formulas like Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags had rough descriptions. But I personally saw Shimura Danzō use Izanagi in the Land of Rain. Many things weren't hard to guess then."
Tsukasa Kaede said calmly: "I asked the new Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. There's a Sealing Jutsu in this world called Transfer Seal, which can seal a Jutsu Formula somewhere, and then activate the pre-stored Jutsu Formula with a delay. You used this method, didn't you?"