Chapter 492: Don’t Think You’ve Won

Chapter 492: Chapter 492: Don’t Think You’ve Won

Whoosh...

Obito came roaring down from high above, piloting his azure-blue Susanoo. The two enormous Kamui Shuriken were clenched in its hands, held back and ready to be unleashed at any moment.

Beneath his spiral mask, Obito wore a grave expression. The Mangekyo Sharingan in his eye slowly spun as he carefully tracked every movement Kagami made on the ground below.

At that moment, Kagami suddenly shoved Kurenai away from him.

Bang!

Caught completely off guard, Kurenai was sent flying with a muffled impact before crashing into a dirt pit some distance away.

Immediately afterward, Kagami’s gaze sharpened and locked onto Obito in the sky.

Beneath his gale-patterned mask, the veins around his temples bulged prominently as he pushed his high-purity Byakugan to its absolute limit!

Both sides were using their dojutsu to capture every movement of the other, trying to predict how the other would attack.

It was just like the sparring matches they had fought as children at the Ninja Academy.

Except back then, both of them had still been immature kids. One had barely known how to properly use his Byakugan, while the other hadn’t even awakened the Sharingan yet.

And now...

They had both become powerful shinobi capable of influencing the very future of the shinobi world.

At that instant, their gazes met.

"How much longer can that body of yours hold out?

"Can you still move as fast as you did before?

"How much chakra do you even have left to squander?"

Obito sneered inwardly.

"Hmph... Do you really still have any chance of winning?"

He knew very well that Furin had been fighting ever since Satori first invaded Konoha.

Since then, Furin had fought one powerful enemy after another—Satori, Hiruko, Nagato’s Deva Path, and more. He had repeatedly unleashed large-scale Magnet Style techniques, as well as the advanced Shikotsumyaku secret technique, Dance of the Seedling Fern.

Even if Furin were naturally gifted like Hoshigaki Kisame and possessed an enormous chakra reserve, by now, his chakra should have been nearly exhausted.

"I have to break through his Susanoo if I want to make absolutely sure this works!"

After a brief pause, Kagami silently hoped,

"Obito... will you make another mistake?

"Will you give me another opening?"

Kagami was perfectly clear-headed.

He knew that whether he could succeed no longer depended entirely on himself.

More than anything, it depended on whether Obito made a mistake.

As long as Obito made no mistakes...

Kagami wouldn’t have even the slightest chance!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

At that exact moment, Obito controlled his Susanoo and hurled the Kamui Shuriken in its hands!

Accompanied by a deafening howl, the two enormous Kamui Shuriken streaked toward Kagami on the ground from opposite sides, each following a bizarre curved trajectory!

"Tch, Uchiha-style shurikenjutsu!"

Kagami clicked his tongue.

Obito’s shrurikenjutsu was a textbook example of the Uchiha style.

Because the shuriken didn’t travel in straight lines, instead following strange and unpredictable arcs, even with the Byakugan, Kagami found it difficult to accurately predict their trajectories in such a short amount of time and determine a safe path to evade them.

Knowing that the more he hesitated, the worse his position would become, Kagami’s figure flickered.

Instead of retreating—

he charged straight toward Obito!

Only by putting enough pressure on Obito would Kagami have even the faintest hope of forcing him into a mistake...

and baiting him into the trap!

Crack!

Suddenly, a crisp snapping sound came from the bones of Kagami’s left leg.

A burst of pain shot through him.

Kagami, who had been lunging forward at full speed, instantly lost his balance.

His charge slowed dramatically!

Kagami’s heart sank.

"Damn it, this body can’t hold out much longer!"

Whoosh!

The two enormous Kamui Shuriken came howling through the air from both sides, closing in on Kagami in an instant.

With no time to consider anything else, Kagami could only throw himself into a roll across the ground.

It looked somewhat undignified, but he narrowly managed to evade the Kamui Shuriken as they screamed past, almost grazing his back.

Riiip!

In an instant, a large portion of Kagami’s black cloak with gold trim was torn away by the wake of the passing Kamui Shuriken.

The flesh on his back wasn’t spared either. It looked as though a layer had been shaved clean off by a razor-sharp blade, leaving blood streaming down his back!

After narrowly escaping Obito’s attack, Kagami paid no attention to his injuries.

Instead, he immediately used the momentum to launch a counterattack!

A pair of iron-sand wings spread from his back, and Kagami shot straight into the sky, swinging the bone blade in his hand toward Obito...

......

In the distance.

Within the shadows of a ruined building, Zetsu’s body slowly emerged from the ground.

Watching Obito and Kagami locked in fierce battle in the distance, White Zetsu asked, "Shouldn’t we move a little closer? From this far away, there’s no way we can help Obito if something happens."

Black Zetsu shook his head. "The underground is completely packed with that dense forest of bones. Getting any closer would be suicide. What, do you want to find out what that Kamigami guy’s bone blade feels like?"

White Zetsu gave an awkward laugh. "Don’t joke around. That bone blade can even cut through Obito’s Susanoo."

Black Zetsu said nothing more. Instead, his gaze settled on Kagami in the distance, seemingly deep in thought.

Suddenly, White Zetsu muttered quietly, "That’s strange. That Kamigami guy’s body is obviously already having serious problems, so why is he still maintaining such a huge forest of bones underground? If it’s no longer useful, shouldn’t he dispel it as soon as possible to reduce the burden on his body?"

Hearing White Zetsu’s muttering, Black Zetsu frowned as well.

Then, something suddenly occurred to him.

His expression changed as he blurted out, "Not good! He might already know we’re here! He’s keeping that bone forest beneath the ground precisely to stop us from getting close. There must be something hidden underground over there!"

......

On the battlefield.

Using Magnet Release to fly, Kagami’s speed instantly returned to its peak!

Catching Obito completely off guard, Kagami struck again. His bone blade swept upward from below and once more sliced straight through Obito’s Susanoo!

Seeing his Susanoo turn as fragile as tofu before that utterly unassuming bone blade, Obito was incredibly frustrated.

Nevertheless, he immediately responded.

He dispelled his Susanoo to conserve his ocular power while simultaneously entering his intangible state before Kagami’s bone blade could reach his actual body.

But Kagami, who had seemingly exhausted everything he had to launch that final attack, could no longer hold on.

He suddenly spat out a huge mouthful of blood in midair!

Immediately afterward, the iron-sand wings on his back collapsed and scattered.

Unable to maintain his Magnet Release, Kagami plummeted headfirst from the sky—

Bang!

—and crashed heavily into the ground.

Still intangible, Obito descended to the ground as well.

The corner of his mouth curled upward.

"Can’t hold out anymore already?"

Lying on the ground, Kagami coughed up blood as he raised his right hand and pointed it directly at Obito.

"Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The high-speed bone bullets tore through the air with a series of piercing shrieks!

However, no matter how fast or powerful the bone bullets were, they couldn’t harm Obito in his intangible state in the slightest.

They passed straight through his body as though they were passing through empty air—

through nothing more than an illusion.

Obito slowly walked toward Kagami.

"To be honest, I’m a little curious about who you really are. Someone as powerful as you shouldn’t have remained completely unknown."

He paused.

"But it doesn’t matter anymore.

"It’s all over!"

Kagami struggled to speak.

"D-Don’t...

"Don’t think you’ve won!"