At this moment, Obito was extremely irritated.
Explosive Tags were nothing new to him. He had been blown up before, more than once, and he was not even injured this time. But that was not the problem.
With such a loud explosion, there was no way Jie would miss what was happening here. Once Jie arrived, it would be too late.
"Woman, you've successfully angered me," Obito said coldly, his face dark. "But I won't settle this with you right now. When I get the chance, I'll make sure you understand the price of offending me."
Then he looked toward Black Zetsu. "We can't drag this out any longer. Take the Rinnegan first."
Black Zetsu also knew time was running out. He immediately activated the seal the real Madara had left near Nagato's heart.
The moment the seal took effect, Nagato's eyes filled with shock. This was different from Black Zetsu suppressing his consciousness.
Now, a strange force was directly taking over his body, and his limbs no longer obeyed him.
Under Nagato's shocked gaze, his thin right arm slowly rose and moved toward his own eye.
Seeing this, Konan acted at once. Several paper shuriken shot out, aimed directly at Nagato's right hand. He would be injured, but that was still better than losing the eye and his life.
Obito frowned slightly.
"What a ruthless woman. You can even attack your own companion."
He flashed forward and blocked Konan's shuriken.
"Ah!"
With Nagato's scream, the Rinnegan in his right eye was taken by his own hand under Black Zetsu's control.
"Nagato!"
Konan cried out anxiously. Her body scattered into sheets of paper as she rushed toward him, but Black Zetsu did not stop.
He immediately controlled Nagato's left hand, intending to take the other Rinnegan as well.
"I won't let you get past that easily."
"Kamui!"
A spatial vortex instantly formed in front of Konan, sucking a large number of paper sheets into the Kamui dimension.
"Explosive Tags, detonate!"
Konan shouted without hesitation. An explosion immediately came from inside the spatial vortex. At the same time, the Explosive Tags beneath Obito's feet began to burn.
"You think I wasn't prepared for you?" Konan said coldly. "Your body becomes solid when you absorb yourself or anything else. That is your opening. Now get ready to go to hell."
As soon as she finished speaking, a chain of explosions rang out.
Ever since she had begun suspecting Tobi, Konan had kept her guard up. This fake tree she had made was also packed with Explosive Tags, all for this moment.
Seeing the expanding fireball, Black Zetsu was afraid the Rinnegan in his hand would be damaged, so he immediately controlled Nagato's body and used one of the Rinnegan's abilities.
Preta Path absorption.
The flames from Explosive Tags were, at most, equivalent to a Fire Release jutsu. For Nagato, who possessed the Rinnegan, they were only a small supplement.
Before long, the fire cloud scattered. Obito had lost one arm, and he looked much more battered than before.
"Damn woman."
Obito gritted his teeth and glared at Konan.
In just ten years, he had somehow lost an arm twice. Losing an arm was not a serious injury for him, but his Mangekyō ability was Kamui.
First Minato had found its weakness after only a few exchanges, and now even Konan had figured it out.
Had Kamui become some trash move everyone on the street understood?
For Obito, this was not only painful. It was humiliating.
Konan was not unharmed either. Although she could turn her body into sheets of paper to reduce the impact, she had used too many Explosive Tags, and the distance had been too close.
Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth as she looked coldly at Obito.
"This was only an appetizer. If you still won't release Nagato, then we can all die together."
"I don't know how long your intangibility can last, but one hundred billion Explosive Tags exploding nonstop for two minutes should be enough to kill you, right?"
After discovering Obito's intangibility, Konan had been preparing large numbers of Explosive Tags.
Unfortunately, she had not had enough time to figure out exactly how long Obito's intangibility lasted, and the number of Explosive Tags she had prepared was far from the six hundred billion she wanted.
She only had one hundred billion.
But that did not stop Konan from bluffing.
After hearing Konan's words, Obito finally understood why the Akatsuki had never developed properly.
With so many S-rank missing-nin doing missions, the organization should have earned an astronomical amount of money.
He had thought Nagato was keeping a low profile while secretly guiding the ninja world. He had not expected all the mission funds to be spent by this woman on Explosive Tags.
And those Explosive Tags were even aimed at him.
Fortunately, it was only two minutes of explosions. His intangibility could last five minutes, so it was not much of a threat.
Obito stopped caring about where the Akatsuki's funds had gone. A cold smile appeared on his face as he looked at Konan.
"Die together? You can try and see who dies in the end."
Then he shouted, "Black Zetsu, do it!"
After receiving Obito's order, Black Zetsu did not hesitate. He controlled Nagato's left hand and reached toward the Rinnegan in his left eye.
"Dog biting dog. What a wonderful show."
Just then, a teasing voice rang out.
In that instant, both Black Zetsu and Obito's expressions changed sharply.
"Black Zetsu, forget that eye! Run!"
Obito shouted anxiously. Without caring about Black Zetsu's reaction, a spatial vortex immediately covered his body, trying to send him into the Kamui dimension.
But in the next second, Obito's face turned pale.
He felt a hand land on his shoulder.
"You came all this way. Aren't you going to leave behind a little souvenir?"
Jie slowly appeared behind Obito, a faint smile on his face.
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