"Run! It's a Tailed Beast Bomb!"
Despair washed over Mei Terumi's face.
The greatest danger posed by the Tailed Beasts, the nuclear weapons of this world, was not the massive amount of chakra stored in their bodies, but their innate ability to mix Yin and Yang chakra to create a powerful nuclear blast—the Tailed Beast Bomb.
The power of a Tailed Beast Bomb was no less than that of an atomic or neutron bomb from the modern world. Its power could be scaled depending on the energy input from the Tailed Beast. For example, the Tailed Beast Bomb fired by Naruto in his three-tailed form could be blocked by Orochimaru's Triple Rashomon Gate. But the one fired by the complete Nine-Tails under Madara's control required the First Hokage's Quintuple Rashomon Gate to block.
The more Yin and Yang chakra was poured into it, the more powerful the Tailed Beast Bomb became.
But even if Yagura didn't release his full Tailed Beast form, the bomb he could fire while just wearing the chakra cloak was not to be underestimated. It could easily wipe out half the village.
Mei muttered in despair, "It's over..."
The Mist Village was incredibly weak at this moment. Like Konoha, they didn't have a single Kage-level powerhouse who could confidently block a Tailed Beast Bomb. It was a similar situation to Sunagakure after the Fourth Kazekage's death; unable to find a suitable successor, they had no choice but to make Gaara the Kazekage. There were simply too few strong individuals.
Just as Yagura's Tailed Beast Bomb grew larger and larger, fully formed and ready to fire, just as everyone thought it was the end, a three-pronged kunai flew out from the shadows, silently刺ing toward Obito's back.
Uchiha Nagi had deliberately made the kunai he threw at Obito a three-pronged one.
Hm?!
The masked man was, of course, Obito. His Mangekyo Sharingan's perception was powerful, and he naturally sensed the projectile approaching from behind. He turned and reached out a hand to strike the kunai.
The instant he made contact with the kunai, a young man with a deadpan expression suddenly appeared where the kunai had been, a sword stabbing toward his heart.
Swoosh—
Hm?! It passed right through? How is that possible?
Uchiha Nagi watched in surprise as his sword sank inch by inch into Obito's body, his entire person passing through him. Obito had turned intangible.
But I waited for the exact moment he touched the kunai to attack. How could he make one hand solid while the rest of his body is intangible?
"Heh heh. Uchiha Nagi? What a surprise. I was wondering who they hired. So, it was you." Obito was apparently used to being reckless. He remained unruffled even after being phased through, even managing a chuckle.
However, Uchiha Nagi saw it clearly. The moment his sword stabbed toward Obito's heart, Obito had let go of the black receiver rod he was holding. That was why the attack had missed.
But—
Even if he hadn't tricked Obito, he could still accomplish something else.
BAM!
The Fourth Mizukage, still in his Tailed Beast cloak, was sent flying into the sky by one of Uchiha Nagi's Monstrous Strength Fist uppercuts. The Tailed Beast Bomb he had just been about to fire lost its aim and shot into the sky, exploding into a massive firework.
BOOM!
A dazzling, small sun appeared in the sky, radiating intense heat and light. Some people nearby were temporarily blinded by the flash, but a wave of relief washed over them. The Tailed Beast Bomb hadn't hit the village. They had all survived.
"It's been a while. Your combat experience has grown quite a bit," Uchiha Nagi said with a smile.
He hadn't rushed to help Mei fight the Fourth Mizukage precisely because he wasn't sure if Obito would show up. And as expected, that scoundrel Obito had made his appearance.
What surprised Nagi was that Obito seemed completely unconcerned that his control over the Fourth Mizukage had been discovered. He had even been about to use the Mizukage to destroy the entire Mist Village with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Getting paid to solve a problem.
Uchiha Nagi had acted at the last moment. It was a pity he hadn't been able to kill Obito; he seemed more alert this time. At least he had successfully interrupted the Tailed Beast Bomb, preventing the Mist Village from being turned into a ruin.
As for the Fourth Mizukage, who was now falling from a great height, if the fall could knock him out of the genjutsu, then they wouldn't have to fight him. If it left him half-crippled, that was even better. So, Uchiha Nagi focused all his attention on Obito.
"Heh heh. You dare to appear before me, Madara Uchiha, again? You truly don't know your place." Obito was still putting on his usual arrogant act.
But Uchiha Nagi's faint, mocking smile infuriated him. The last time they met, this person had been a mere ant. Now, he was looking at him with such a superior expression. It was...
"Don't tell me you think you can defeat me just because you learned the Flying Thunder God Technique?"
"How will we know if we don't try?"
Uchiha Nagi smiled. When it came to intelligence on Obito, he was one of the most knowledgeable people alive. Obito himself was a novice. Even after awakening his Mangekyo, he was still a novice. He had so many good ninjutsu at his disposal, yet he insisted on competing with Minato Namikaze in taijutsu. And he was reckless, not treating his intangibility as a trump card, but revealing it to his opponent in the first round. What was he if not a novice?
Nagi's own Mind Teleportation, an instant movement technique that required no markers, was still unknown to anyone. A trump card should be saved for a critical moment to deliver a fatal blow. Who would be as reckless as Obito, showing it off all the time?
Swoosh—swoosh—
Two Flying Thunder God kunai shot toward Obito. Obito squinted his single exposed eye and smiled. This situation felt a bit familiar. The first time he'd fallen for it was against his own teacher. The second time was against the person right in front of him.
Shun—
Uchiha Nagi's sword followed the kunai. The first kunai passed through Obito's body; he had indeed turned intangible. The second one also passed through.
Just as Uchiha Nagi's sword, along with his entire body, was about to pass through Obito, Obito turned. From behind Nagi, he suddenly grabbed his leg. He activated Kamui, intending to suck Nagi into his dimension. Once inside his domain, he would be in control.
Could the Flying Thunder God be used to escape the Kamui dimension? Not even Minato Namikaze had dared to try. The longer the distance of the teleportation, the more chakra it consumed. And the Kamui dimension was a different world from the ninja world. How much chakra it would take to escape was unknown.
"Are you hiding explosive tags in your body this time? Hm?" Obito smiled confidently. He was certain that this was Nagi's real body, not a shadow clone. Hiding explosive tags on your real body? Are you trying to kill yourself? Or take me down with you?
He was so certain because Uchiha Nagi had used two specific jutsu: a Flying Thunder God sneak attack, and a Monstrous Strength Fist to punch the Fourth Mizukage into the sky.
A shadow clone could not use Tsunade's Monstrous Strength Fist. The clone would dissipate into a puff of smoke from the recoil before the punch even landed on the enemy. The laws of physics are absolute. A shadow clone, no matter how miraculous, could not withstand the massive recoil of the Monstrous Strength Fist. Even a fraction of that force would be enormous for a clone.
"Why are you so confident? Hahaha, why don't you take a look at where you are?" Uchiha Nagi laughed wildly.
Hm?!
"What?!"
Obito suddenly realized that he was no longer on the ground. He and Uchiha Nagi were now in mid-air.
"No matter how fast your space-time ninjutsu is, it still takes time to activate. The Flying Thunder God's teleportation time is almost zero. The moment you grabbed my leg, I activated it. Now we're both in mid-air. I'd like to see how you escape this," Uchiha Nagi said with a ferocious grin.
After the two kunai had passed through Obito's body, one had collided with the other, sending it flying into the sky. And so, they had both teleported up there.
"So what? I can still catch you in the air," Obito said grimly, continuing to activate the powerful suction of his Kamui.
When Obito was pulling someone into his Kamui dimension, was he intangible? The answer was yes. Obito had dared to grab Konan by the neck during her frontal assault and pull her into the dimension precisely because he was confident the suction force would prevent her from breaking free.
When the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, was caught, he also couldn't break free with physical strength. Fortunately, he used the Flying Thunder God to escape just before being fully pulled in. His body couldn't break free, but the Flying Thunder God could.
But while Obito was pulling someone into his dimension, if his opponent used explosive tags to attempt a mutual self-destruction, like Konan did, Obito's body, which was intangible on the outside, would appear in the Kamui dimension. And the explosive tags that had been partially sucked into the dimension with Konan's body would then injure Obito's body inside Kamui.
In other words, as long as an enemy could do what Konan did—attack Obito on both fronts simultaneously with explosive tags while being sucked in, preventing him from managing both inside and outside—they could harm him.
Therefore—
Uchiha Nagi narrowed his eyes. When he opened them again, they were a plum blossom pattern—his Mangekyo.
"Amaterasu!"
Black flames engulfed his entire body. Uchiha Nagi had cast Amaterasu on himself. Obito, who was halfway through pulling him in, was now covered in the black flames.
This method was the same as Konan's attempt at mutual destruction with explosive tags when she was being absorbed by Obito. The only difference was that one used explosive tags, and the other used Amaterasu.
But the power of Amaterasu was far greater, far stronger than Konan's explosive tags.
"What? Aaaahhhh!" The part of Obito's body that was inside the Kamui dimension began to scream in agony as it touched the black flames.
Obito was forced to stop the absorption and throw Uchiha Nagi away. But the parts of his body inside the Kamui dimension that had been touched by Amaterasu were now beyond saving.
Uchiha Nagi, thrown out in mid-air, used the Flying Thunder God to teleport back to the ground and then retracted his black flames.
"I wonder if you'll survive this," Uchiha Nagi narrowed his eyes, looking at the spot where Obito had disappeared.
Obito's mask only revealed one eye. Who knew if he had transplanted a three-tomoe Sharingan into his other eye socket, preparing an Izanagi?
But the power of Amaterasu was absolute. Once touched, even the Raikage had to cut off his own arm. Obito was as good as dead.
"Hmph. Serves you right for being so reckless. You're dead now."
Uchiha Nagi glanced at the other person, the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi. It was his turn.