Facing the sudden attack, Obito didn't show the slightest panic.
The Sage of Six Paths state provides a person with unimaginably enormous enhancement, not only possessing almost inexhaustible chakra, but all of the body's fundamental attributes are also greatly strengthened.
Now, his speed and reaction ability were almost unmatched in the entire shinobi world, his movements even faster than the original Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato.
He almost instantly withdrew the hand sign he had been preparing to perform, and instead raised one hand, aiming at the two people charging over.
In his hand, a Truth-Seeking Ball rapidly changed shape, quickly becoming a black semicircular shield that concealed his body.
The next moment, the heavy attacks of the two figures struck fiercely against Obito's Truth-Seeking Ball.
However, the seemingly extremely sharp attacks did not shake the Truth-Seeking Ball composed of seven types of chakra. The next moment, Obito roared, "Naruto, Sasuke, even at this moment, are you still going to stop me?"
"In that case, I'll just send you two to meet the Sage of Six Paths!", As the words fell, the Truth-Seeking Ball in Obito's hand changed shape again, and from the previously semicircular shield, two spikes suddenly sprang out, stabbing respectively toward Naruto and Sasuke.
These two spikes, in almost an instant, destroyed Sasuke's Kagutsuchi and Naruto's Rasengan, and the next moment, were about to pierce through their bodies.
At that moment, two more figures appeared beside Naruto and Sasuke, one to the left and one to the right, each placing a hand on Naruto and Sasuke's shoulders respectively.
Swish!
At the final moment, just before being pierced by the Truth-Seeking Ball, the four figures disappeared at the same time.
Obito almost immediately looked toward a certain location not far away, muttering, "Flying Thunder God Technique?"
As expected, in the place he looked, the four previously vanished figures appeared.
The ones who saved Naruto and Sasuke were naturally the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, and the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato.
Obito looked at Namikaze Minato, who was still in the same appearance as during the Nine-Tails incident, and temporarily stopped attacking. His body floated over and stopped at a spot closer to the group.
He looked at the teacher he once had and said, "You're still that fast."
Minato's eyes were filled with regret as he slowly said, "Obito, I had hoped for you to become Hokage. But I didn't expect… you'd become like this."
Obito said, "The one that made me become like this was this hopeless shinobi world. So I have to break it, reconstruct it, and restore it to the beautiful form I imagined."
"Compared to that, becoming Hokage is no longer important to me."
Minato's eyes showed guilt, because everything about Obito, he had learned from Kakashi's explanation, and from that explanation, he had deeply understood the root of Obito's change.
"Obito, regarding you and Rin… I'm sorry. As your teacher, I couldn't get there in time."
"If I apologize to you now, can you still turn back?"
If it were before meeting the young Obito, the current Obito would inevitably, out of resentment, ridicule Minato with a few lines. Saying things like, "You, the Hokage, didn't even recognize me, so the Hokage's just so-so."
But after talking with the young Obito, he had already let go of many things.
Besides, Rin was always watching him, he didn't want to ridicule the teacher Rin once admired in front of her.
After thinking for a moment, those words he hadn't shouted in a long time were voiced again, "Minato-sensei, I can no longer turn back."
"I, who caused your and sensei's death, can only keep moving forward to attain redemption, isn't that right?"
Minato's heart ached even more, because what Obito said was indeed true.
Even if he and Naruto forgave Obito, could their family's forgiveness replace the forgiveness of the countless who died in this war?
He could only say, "But a dream is just a dream. Continuing forward, what awaits you is not light, but an abyss."
Obito glanced at Minato-sensei and suddenly said, "Minato-sensei, someone once told me, a person's perspective, if not broad enough, is often limited by their narrow understanding."
"Regarding genjutsu, perhaps your views think it's just a deception, just a fake thing."
"But when the false becomes real, then even falsehood is real. If genjutsu is elevated to a certain level, the boundary between reality and illusion will be blurred, right?"
"In other words, how can you be sure that this shinobi world, this history, and all of us, are not also just someone's dream, or something created by some existence?"
Minato frowned, he couldn't even understand Obito's current way of thinking.
He could only ask, "Why… would you think that way?"
Obito looked up at the deep night sky and calmly said, "Because I have crossed life and death. In the world of the dead, I saw the person I missed. Even if it was just for a moment, I suddenly understood: if life and death can be transcended, then why can't reality and illusion?"
"Minato-sensei, doesn't your existence also prove this? Right now, what kind of form are you in, standing beside Naruto?"
Minato was stunned again. He had really never considered this question. When he died, the only way he imagined seeing Naruto after he grew up was by leaving part of his chakra behind inside Naruto.
But due to the Edo Tensei technique invented by the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, he truly, in a certain sense, broke the boundary between life and death, making the meeting between the dead and the living a reality.
'Could this also be… just a dream?'
Minato fell into deep thought for a moment.
Naruto, seeing his father silenced by just a few lines from Obito, felt a familiar emotion rising in his heart.
Before, he was like this too.
And the result? Just as he reconciled with Kurama, just as he acknowledged Kurama as a true friend, he lost him.
How could that be something he could accept?
With anger on his face, he roared at Obito, "Give Kurama back to me!"
"And you, who never became Hokage, what right do you have to preach to my dad?"
Obito looked at the yelling Naruto and suddenly felt that this so-called Child of Prophecy, often spoken of by the young Obito, wasn't that impressive after all.
He suddenly thought of something interesting and couldn't help asking, "Naruto, do you think you're the Child of Prophecy?"
Naruto was stunned, then became resolute, "At least, Brother Nagato once acknowledged me!"
"No matter if I'm the Child of Prophecy or not, I will stop you and win this battle."
Obito, however, said, "If you really are the Child of Prophecy, then why is all destiny concentrated on you alone? Why… must the future of the shinobi world depend on one person to redeem?"
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