"L-Lord Shiki…!"
"He's back!!"
The despair crushing Konoha shattered instantly when they saw Shiki floating in the sky, carrying a presence that guaranteed victory.
Although Shiki-sama seemed to be carrying something, that didn't matter right now.
Tsunade froze briefly before biting her lip hard.
"…About damn time, idiot."
The force immobilizing Obito vanished but Obito couldn't feel even the slightest relief because the moment that pressure disappeared…
Death arrived.
His instincts exploded with warning signals so intense that his entire body trembled uncontrollably.
Run.
Run immediately.
Every nerve in his body screamed at him to escape however when Obito tried to activate Kamui
Nothing happened.
Cold terror flooded his chest.
"No…"
Above Konoha…
Shiki slowly placed Itachi somewhere safe.
Then he drew his sword, gazing down at Obito from above as he spoke calmly.
"…You really pissed me off this time."
SHIIIIIING
The sound alone seemed to split the heavens apart.
Red lightning erupted across the sky.
For a single instant… everyone in Konoha felt the world fall silent.
Then, at a speed no one present could track, a slash carrying the power to cut anything descended.
One moment, Obito was standing atop the Nine-Tails.
The next—a thin crimson line appeared across his waist.
"…Huh?"
Obito's eyes widened.
Feeling something wrong, he slowly looked down... only to see his body beginning to slide apart.
Bang!!
Only then did he realize, to his horror, that the lower half of his body had slipped away from him.
He had been cut in half and it wasn't just that.
Not long after, the severed lower half of his body disintegrated into ash.
The remains scattered into the air before vanishing completely.
"AAAAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!"
A horrifying scream tore from Obito's throat.
His remaining upper body crashed violently off Kurama's head, blood spraying through the air.
The pain was unimaginable.
This wasn't something physical endurance could withstand through willpower.
It felt as though something deeper had been severed apart.
His very existence had been struck.
Obito smashed into the ground below, writhing in agony.
"W-WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!"
By now, Obito resembled little more than a mutilated torso, barely held together by panic and lingering life force.
The deep artificial "Madara" voice had vanished completely.
What came out instead was the raw, terrified voice of a young man.
His real voice.
The voice of Obito Uchiha.
The pain had even forced him to stop pretending.
"No… no, no, no!"
Panic consumed him completely.
Above him, Shiki's expression remained utterly cold, looking down at the screaming Obito as if he were nothing but trash.
And without any hesitation… his sword came down once more.
"You know what your biggest mistake was?"
A crimson arc flashed across the air.
"You actually thought you could touch my people… and still leave this place alive."
SHING!
This time, the slash landed across Obito's left arm.
The severed limb flew into the air.
Before the blood could even spray…
The arm turned into black ash and disappeared.
"GAAAAAAHHHHH!!"
Obito's face twisted in agony.
Even now, with no limbs remaining, he desperately writhed against the ground with what little remained of his body.
"No… no… this can't…"
He dragged himself sluggishly across the ruined ground like a worm.
But then...
Sensing something, Obito slowly looked up toward Shiki, who was descending from the sky.
At this moment…
Obito Uchiha truly understood despair.
That man…
Wasn't human.
Obito's breathing became ragged with fear.
In this moment, he forgot everything.
The Moon's Eye Plan.
Madara.
Hatred.
Revenge.
None of it mattered anymore.
He just wanted to live.
"ZETSU!!"
His voice cracked apart from sheer panic.
"SAVE ME!!"
"ZETSU!!!"
White Zetsu froze completely.
Cold sweat poured down his face.
Move?
Toward that monster?
Was he insane?!
Shiki finally stepped onto the ruined battlefield.
His black coat fluttered slowly behind him.
The red lightning surrounding his body illuminated the entire destroyed street.
Step.
Step.
Each footstep sounded like death itself approaching.
Then Shiki stopped directly in front of Obito.
"You rely on those eyes too much."
He slowly raised his sword one final time.
"You've spent so long hiding behind Kamui…"
"…that you forgot what happens when someone strong enough reaches through it."
Obito's eyes trembled violently.
Blood spilled endlessly from his mouth as he stared at the sword raised above him.
For a brief moment–Memories flashed through his mind.
Rin smiling at him.
Kakashi standing beside him.
Minato-sensei placing a hand on his head.
Team Minato laughing together beneath the sunlight.
Obito's face twisted in madness.
"No…"
"This world… is hell."
"I was going to create a world where everyone could exist…"
"A world where nobody had to lose anyone ever again…"
"So why…"
His hate-filled gaze locked directly onto Shiki.
"Why are you standing in my way…?"
Shiki's golden eyes finally shifted slightly but what surfaced within them…
Was disgust.
"Don't use that excuse to make yourself sound less pathetic."
"You talk about despair…"
Shiki slowly lowered the blade toward Obito's neck.
"But in the end…"
"You just became another coward trying to force your pain onto everyone else."
SHIIIIIIIIING!!
CHK.
A clean sound echoed through the ruined street.
Obito's head separated from his body.
The world spun violently.
Sky.
Ground.
Sky again.
His vision rotated uncontrollably as his severed head flew through the air.
Blood scattered behind him like crimson rain.
Obito stared blankly upward.
The dark night sky above Konoha entered his fading vision.
For some reason…
The pain was fading.
The hatred too.
All that remained… was emptiness.
"…Ah…"
His mouth moved weakly.
In the end…
He really hadn't changed anything.
Thud.
His head crashed against the ruined ground and rolled several times before finally stopping.
Silence fell across the battlefield.
No one moved much less even have the nerve to say something.
Because everyone could still feel it.
That terrifying rage radiating from Shiki like an enraged lion.
After killing one of the central figures behind the darkness of the shinobi world…
Shiki didn't stop.
He didn't even glance at the system notification echoing in his mind.
Instead, he slowly turned around once more.
His gaze shifted toward the distant Uchiha forces.
Toward Fugaku.
Toward the clan members who had chosen rebellion amidst the chaos and endangered his people.
Tsunade–the boldest among the women around Shiki.
Kurenai–who normally acted spoiled around him.
Even Yugito
None of them opened their mouths.
Every instinct in their bodies warned them not to interfere right now.
Fugaku's Sharingan spun violently.
"Shiki!"
BOOM!!
A massive skeletal Susanoo erupted around him instantly.
Several elite Uchiha activated their Sharingan alongside him.
Shiki merely stared at them coldly.
"…Pathetic."
Fugaku stared directly at Shiki.
"…Don't think the Uchiha will go down easily."
Although Fugaku was being controlled through Kotoamatsukami, the pride of the Uchiha Clan still remained his own.
Even after witnessing Obito get slaughtered moments earlier…
he understood the difference in strength but retreat was no longer an option.
Shiki couldn't even be bothered wasting words with him.
He was in no mood to question their reasons for doing such a thing neither did he care whether they had been manipulated or forced.
None of that mattered anymore.
What mattered… was that they had raised their hands against his people.
So when the massive Susanoo blade descended toward him
Shiki simply swung his sword once.
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!
A red-black slash erupted outward.
Fugaku's eyes widened in disbelief.
His Susanoo split apart instantly without even the slightest resistance.
The enormous chakra avatar shattered like fragile glass.
"No–"
Before Fugaku could even finish speaking…
A crimson line appeared across his body.
His torso split cleanly in half, however it didn't end there.
The slash continued forward without losing even a fraction of its momentum.
The elite Uchiha standing behind Fugaku never even had time to scream before their bodies turned to ash beneath the attack.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
The earth split apart violently.
Buildings collapsed one after another.
The ruined streets behind the Uchiha forces vanished completely beneath the overwhelming slash.
And where the Uchiha Clan had stood moments earlier…
Nothing remained.
Nearby… Mikoto collapsed to her knees.
Her entire body trembled violently.
"No…"
Her voice cracked apart.
"Fugaku…"
Her eyes stared blankly toward the ruined battlefield where nothing remained.
Not even ashes.
Even though Fugaku had betrayed the village and endangered her best friend, Kushina…
That didn't change what he was to her.
He was still the man she had spent her life beside, someone so close had vanished just like that.
On a distant rooftop
Little Itachi stood frozen in horror.
At only five years old…
Three tomoe spun violently within his crimson eyes.
His Sharingan awakened completely in an instant from the overwhelming trauma.
Tears streamed uncontrollably down his face as he stared at the place where his father had disappeared.
His small body shook nonstop.
"FATHER!!"
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