As young Obito's words fell, his figure abruptly left Rin and Obito's side, appearing before Naruto.
He said calmly, "Naruto, are you willing to sacrifice yourself to save the whole world? This war started because of you. If you're willing to hand over the Nine-Tails inside you, the war will end faster."
Naruto was stunned, an unnatural expression flashing across his face.
If what Rin said earlier was true, then young Obito was the kindest one.
Moreover, young Obito had once activated Kamui at all cost, allowing him to return to Konoha to meet Jiraiya.
He owed him this favor.
He truly didn't want to fight young Obito here.
However, regarding young Obito's words, he refuted them.
"This war indeed started because of me, which is why I'm so eager to end it!"
"I'm willing to sacrifice myself alone in exchange for world peace."
"But giving the Nine-Tails to you all will only give you more power, bringing even more despair to the world. I'm not a fool, I won't do that!"
Young Obito looked at Naruto, eyes flickering, "Naruto, once you reach a higher level, you'll find that many of our actions weren't wrong."
"You're just shackled by the ideology of the Five Great Shinobi Nations, unable to see the more fundamental truths."
"That's why me and the me from another world so desperately want to break those shackles, break the rigid ninja system, so that everyone is born as human, and lives as human."
Naruto grew angry, "So you and the other world's you both think that being born as human means dreaming all day?"
"Living a life of intoxicated dreams, can that be called living?"
Young Obito was a bit surprised. Why did Naruto's eloquence become so sharp when directed at him?
Could this be some sort of divine providence, some fate or destiny secretly affecting him, dooming him to fail?
He shook his head and said, "Naruto, I initiated the Infinite Tsukuyomi for other reasons. The situation isn't as simple as you see."
Naruto accused, "No matter the reason, it's not a reason to drag the whole world into death with you. Even if the world truly is to be destroyed, it should be up to everyone to decide, not you selfish guys!"
Young Obito murmured, "Yes, the world's future should be decided by everyone, not just by the elites including the Five Great Shinobi Nations."
"Naruto, when you followed Jiraiya, did you ever go among the common people, observe the lives of those at the very bottom?"
Naruto was stunned. Of course he had been among the people. For instance, he had helped Ero-Sennin write Icha Icha Paradise, and even had it printed by an ordinary bookstore owner.
He also once peeped outside a hot spring with Ero-Sennin, got caught, and was chased around by a bunch of regular people in a panic.
But those… weren't what young Obito meant. Young Obito was talking about the suffering of the world.
Like during Team 7's early missions, such as the time in the Land of Waves, they'd seen those kinds of situations.
But why… were those events already beginning to blur in his memory?
When he tried to recall, only a vague concept remained, but not the details or images?
Seeing Naruto struggling to remember, young Obito said, "When facing problems, I think what's worse than avoiding them, is ignoring them."
"Because some people are insignificant, because their lives are full of suffering and you're powerless to change them, you didn't face the problems, you subconsciously ignored them."
"You only remember the passionate scenes, but you've forgotten what real ninjas are like, how miserable and numb the people at the bottom really are."
"Naruto, that's the root of your problem, you never entered their world, so how can you represent them? You once promised Nagato to take care of the Land of Rain, but I can now say for sure, decades later, the Land of Rain will still be the same."
"Do you know why? Because the Land of Rain has too many tragic people. With your pure and flawless morality, you can't interact with all that filth and sin. So your brain automatically filters it out, makes you ignore it, makes you forget it."
"Naruto, the one truly dreaming all day, living in a drunken fantasy, is you!"
"You already cast the strongest genjutsu on yourself!"
Naruto's pupils sharply contracted in that instant.
Suddenly, Naruto changed, became extremely angry, as if he had lost all reason.
A massive chakra erupted from Naruto's body, and his whole form warped, instantly undergoing full Tailed Beast Transformation.
However, unlike a perfect Jinchuriki's transformation, this time Naruto's transformation leaned more toward a berserk state. His body turned into a chaotic, unordered mass of brownish-red chakra.
In the next moment, the tailed-beast-transformed Naruto moved, with wild killing intent, charging toward young Obito.
His speed became astonishingly fast. When he dove forward, young Obito only barely managed to enter his intangibility state, and Naruto's body passed right through his.
Young Obito was shocked. The speed of berserk, killing-intent-filled Naruto now was almost comparable to his own Six Paths state.
In Six Paths mode, his speed already surpassed the limits of human reaction, even Flying Thunder God and intangibility were a bit too slow to keep up.
Good thing it was him, anyone else would've been shredded to pieces by that move just now.
No wonder earlier, when Naruto was filled with killing intent, he instantly tore off Kaguya's arm.
Young Obito's expression turned serious. Naruto's state right now was very abnormal. Perhaps because he didn't know how to respond to his words, he'd entered a kind of self-protective berserk state.
'Is he now acting purely on instinct, eliminating danger?'
'If that's the case, this Naruto is simply invincible, unable to reason with, and when he can't win an argument, he just goes berserk. Who can have mutual understanding with that?'
'Could this be the influence of Asura's chakra?'
Just as young Obito was pondering this, Naruto, whose attack missed, roared. From his body, countless chakra arms extended outward, like a violent storm, lashing toward young Obito.
These arms struck the ground around young Obito repeatedly, the ground was smashed to pieces. Countless debris and dust floated up.
However, at the center of the attack, young Obito stood unscathed, quietly watching Naruto's performance.
Indeed, even with Eternal Double Kamui, young Obito's best defense technique was still intangibility, one trick to eat all meals. No matter how strong the enemy becomes, if they can't touch you, they can't hit you.
Young Obito murmured, "Though speed and power increased significantly, he's completely lost his reason, acting only on instinct."
"In battle against me, he might not even be stronger than before."
"Perfect, just right to test out a new ability."
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