[Inside The Kamui Dimension]
Obito Uchiha and Arisu stood facing each other.
Arisu looked calm and relaxed, strolling forward as if he were taking a walk in his own backyard, his pace neither fast nor slow.
Obito, on the other hand, was facing a great enemy.
Behind his mask, his face had already turned pale. His gloved palms were soaked with sweat, and his heart pounded like a drum.
Obito stared at the seemingly casual man before him, every nerve in his body stretched to its limit.
Bzzz!!!
Suddenly, the space around them twisted violently.
Obito made the first move. His body instantly became intangible as he rushed toward Arisu at high speed.
While intangible, he could not attack. He had to become solid again just before making contact.
Just as Obito was about to appear and his right hand was about to touch Arisu...
Arisu moved.
His speed was unbelievable, as if he had already predicted every one of Obito's moves.
"Purple Lightning!!!"
His right hand became a blade, and bright blue lightning burst out as he slashed hard at Obito's mask.
Bang!!!
The moment the Purple Lightning struck the mask, the famous spiral mask was instantly covered in cracks before shattering into pieces that scattered everywhere.
Obito's dry, wrinkled face, with only one eye showing, was fully exposed. His visible eye was filled with shock.
The Purple Lightning almost touched the tip of his nose. Half an inch farther, and his face would have been split open.
At the last moment, however, Arisu secretly held back a little. The lightning only brushed past him without actually cutting into his flesh.
Obito's pupil shrank sharply. Relying on years of battle instinct, he instantly activated his intangibility again.
Arisu passed straight through Obito's intangible body, and the arc of Purple Lightning cut through empty space before fading away.
Obito quickly rushed forward, breathing heavily as cold sweat ran down his face.
Just one exchange...
Another single exchange, and he had almost been killed instantly.
Obito suddenly turned around and stared at the figure with his back to him. Waves crashed through his mind.
'Just how strong... Is this man?!'
'So many years have passed.'
'Why hasn't he gotten any weaker?!'
'Is this really the strength of a man nearly sixty years old?'
Arisu slowly turned around, casually shook his right hand, and said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, your intangibility can only last about five minutes, right?"
Those words hit Obito like a heavy hammer.
His technique... had been seen through.
Not only that, but his identity had most likely been exposed as well.
Arisu was one of Konoha's top officials.
If he left this place alive, Obito's true identity would be exposed to the world.
When that happened, the image of "Madara Uchiha" that he had spent so many years building would completely collapse. He would never be able to keep fooling people again.
Thinking of this, Obito's heart sank.
But then...
"Heh... heh... heh..."
Obito suddenly let out a low laugh. The laughter grew louder, gradually becoming dark and crazy.
He took several steps back, widening the distance, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes.
"If that's the case... then stay here in the Kamui dimension and slowly starve to death!"
Obito made the most shameless, yet most effective choice.
He wasn't going to fight anymore.
He would simply exile Arisu.
He would trap him here forever.
As long as Arisu stayed inside the Kamui dimension, Obito himself would no longer be able to freely use Kamui to travel. But so what?
After a few days, this man would naturally starve and die of thirst.
Obito stared at Arisu with the smile of a victor.
"I refuse to believe I can't kill you this way!"
"Slowly starve to death."
Leaving behind those cold words, Obito's body twisted and instantly disappeared from the Kamui dimension.
In an instant, only Arisu remained in the vast, empty space.
Arisu stood there for a moment, slightly stunned, before letting out a helpless laugh.
"So Obito has learned the exile trick too? Tsk, he picked it up pretty fast."
He folded his arms.
"Even after all these years, this move is still as useful as ever. Obito, after you die, I'll exile you too. I'll send you to the Pure Land to clear fields and farm."
After saying that, Arisu casually found a folded section of space and sat down. He took out a lunch box and a water bottle from his personal storage space and slowly began eating.
"But if I go out now, it'll still be too early... They probably need a little more time outside."
Arisu took a bite of his hamburger, his eyes flickering slightly.
"I'll wait until they're almost done fighting, then I'll go out and deal with the last group."
———
[Outside, On The Battlefield Of Konoha]
Night had fully fallen. Firelight and explosions echoed one after another as the battlefield was divided into several huge combat zones.
The first main battlefield.
The Seventh Hokage, Minato Namikaze, Kushina in her Nine-Tails state, and Hiruzen's son, Shinnosuke, formed an iron triangle that firmly suppressed their opponents.
Their enemies were the Six Paths of Pain and the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.
The Six Paths of Pain fought together with Rasa.
BOOM!!!
Another violent clash erupted. Golden chakra collided head-on with the power of the Rinnegan, and the shockwave flipped over the ground for hundreds of meters.
The Chunin Exam arena was instantly flattened.
The second large battlefield.
Danzo, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, Fugaku Uchiha, Shisui Uchiha, Might Guy, Might Duy, Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma, Kakashi, and many of Konoha's strongest shinobi formed a united front against every member of the Akatsuki.
This battlefield was even fiercer than the one where Minato was fighting.
Kakuzu and the others had no intention of holding back.
Originally, they had planned to, but these people were simply too strong. If they kept holding back, they would be the ones to die.
After a full day of fighting, the outskirts of Konoha had become a wasteland.
The village had suffered terrible losses.
Broken corpses and shattered ninja tools covered the ground. The air was filled with the smell of blood and burnt flesh.
The medical team was so exhausted that their legs were shaking, yet they still couldn't save all the wounded.
Planetary Devastation hung high in the sky like a giant world-ending sphere, trapping Kushina inside.
Just before it completely sealed her away, a streak of golden light flashed wildly.
Minato Namikaze appeared.
He squeezed out almost every bit of chakra left in his body, activating Flying Thunder God over and over again to forcibly teleport the massive rock sphere into the distant wilderness.
A huge explosion shook the earth, sending dust hundreds of meters into the sky.
"Minato...!"
The moment Kushina was rescued, tears burst from her eyes.
But Minato himself dropped to his knees, gasping for breath as blood continuously flowed from the corner of his mouth.
His chakra pathways had been pushed far beyond their limits. His face was frighteningly pale, and his whole body looked completely drained. He could no longer stand.
The Six Paths of Pain looked at this scene coldly with their Rinnegan.
"Now."
In a flash, he appeared directly behind the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.
Without warning, a black chakra rod pierced straight through Rasa's chest.
Rasa's eyes widened. A choking sound escaped his throat as blood poured from his mouth, and his body collapsed weakly to the ground.
"Father!"
Gaara's scream was especially piercing across the battlefield. But before he could rush over, the Human Path of Pain had already restrained him.
The power of the One-Tail was quickly suppressed. Gaara went limp and was lifted with one hand by Pain.
The Konoha shinobi tried to chase after them, but the other Akatsuki members tightly held them back.
The aftershocks of explosions, collapsing rocks, and out-of-control ninjutsu claimed even more lives.
Screams rose one after another as people kept falling across the battlefield.
The Akatsuki's side was almost completely unharmed.
The only losses they suffered were a few Sand shinobi who had been used as cannon fodder from the start.
No one cared.