Otsutsuki Isshiki's eyes widened as he shouted, "Impossible! I clearly broke your technique!"
But even as those words left his mouth, just as his body passed through Obito's phantom form, that ethereal figure suddenly turned solid again.
Obito lifted his foot and kicked Isshiki hard.
BANG!
Isshiki was sent flying, smashing heavily into the ground, skidding across it and tearing out a long trench in the earth.
After doing all this, countless flickering shadowy duplicates suddenly appeared around Obito.
He said calmly, "Sorry, what you hit earlier wasn't my real body. That really was an illusion. No matter how much you attack it, you won't hit anything."
Still sliding along the ground, Isshiki suddenly forced himself to stop mid-motion. His whole body bounced back up as he lunged toward Obito again.
Seeing this, Obito merely gave a faint chuckle, "So it's come to this point, huh? You can't afford to waste even a single second? Let me guess, how long has this fight gone on? How much time do you have left to throw away?"
As he said this, he activated the Flying Thunder God Technique again, vanishing just as Isshiki's fist was about to touch him.
At that moment, Isshiki's heart sank into despair. He finally understood, these bizarre abilities of Obito's made dragging out a fight until he died an incredibly easy task.
Besides, he didn't have any time left.
He showed a relieved smile and suddenly stopped moving.
Obito asked, "What's wrong? Not going to keep fighting?"
Isshiki kept up the last trace of composure he could muster, "I just have one question. That move of yours that created all those clones, when did you activate it? I didn't notice it at all."
Obito gave a sly smile, "You mean the Phantom Flicker Body Technique? Actually, I used it right in front of you, when I teleported away with Flying Thunder God."
"I just forgot to tell you, when you mentioned that so-called 'divine technique,' I don't only have one, you know."
"I simply used the Fantasy Force to make a wish, that you wouldn't be able to detect it. I didn't think it would actually work on an Otsutsuki. I thought that kind of move would be useless against your kind."
Isshiki could no longer speak. As Obito talked, Isshiki's life was still burning away, he had merely given up struggling.
Before Obito even finished speaking, Isshiki's life was already extinguished.
He was dead.
Obito noticed this, walked slowly to stand before Isshiki, or rather, before Jigen's body, and murmured, "So he's dead just like that. The lives of the Otsutsuki aren't necessarily tougher than the insects crawling around the shinobi world."
"I actually had plenty more to say to you, like, don't underestimate the shinobi world. You lost to a technique created by something called 'ninjutsu.'"
"But never mind. Saying that means nothing now. So you call the Fantasy Force a 'divine technique,' huh?"
"Just like Kamui, 'the power of gods,' 'the technique of gods.' Fitting enough, I suppose. That divine technique of yours, was it that eye? Too bad, it doesn't seem all that impressive."
After grumbling, Obito shook his head, "Not all that impressive" was relative, compared to his abilities.
Otherwise, if it were Six Paths Naruto or Six Paths Sasuke fighting him, this battle might have been quite troublesome.
Since the opponent was already dead, and since he'd only been able to find him thanks to making a wish with the Fantasy Force, to locate the Ten Tails, and part of the Ten Tails had fused with that Otsutsuki… then that meant the rest of it must still be somewhere in this space.
Obito activated the Fantasy Force again. Instantly, he easily located the Ten Tails' true body, or rather, the God Tree.
He grabbed Isshiki's body, and as the surrounding space twisted, his figure disappeared completely.
The next moment, Obito appeared before a God Tree, smaller and thinner than Kaguya's, almost malnourished by comparison.
He sighed, "Didn't expect such a bonus. Though this tree hasn't absorbed much of the chakra from the shinobi world, so it looks small, at its core it's still the Ten Tails. Once I absorb it, I can become the Ten Tails' jinchuriki again."
Thinking that, Obito didn't hesitate. He absorbed Isshiki into Kamui's space, then placed his own hand on the Ten Tails' body.
With his other hand, he formed the absorption seal one-handed.
At once, the entire tree began to tremble, its body merging into Obito's form.
Having done this before, and since this tree was far smaller than the previous one, the absorption was remarkably smooth.
Before long, a white cocoon appeared within the space.
Cracks began to form around the cocoon, more and more, until it finally shattered completely.
Obito raised his hands, looking over his body, completely human, unchanged from before. He nodded in satisfaction.
Inside the cocoon, he had used the Fantasy Force to make one wish, that his body would not change. Compared to the forms of the Otsutsuki, he preferred his own original appearance.
As for the trial of will that came with absorbing the Ten Tails, he had simply invoked a "Willpower Check", and passed it instantly.
Though his flesh remained the same, he could clearly feel that his very essence had changed.
A familiar sensation welled up inside him, and Obito murmured, "Now, once again, I've become the Ten Tails' jinchuriki, the second Sage of Six Paths."
After this battle, his configuration had silently reached perfection, Double Kamui Rinnegan, Otsutsuki bloodline, Ten Tails' jinchuriki, flawless and complete.
At that moment, he suddenly sensed two souls rising within his body, two souls of Otsutsuki Kaguya.
He said softly, "I knew it. Absorbing Black Zetsu's power wouldn't be that simple."
"Kaguya, so Black Zetsu really was your true form. If I'm not mistaken, Black Zetsu is equivalent to that diamond mark beneath the monk's lip, right?"
"In Orochimaru's terms, that mark stores your data, allowing you to revive within someone else's body."
The two Kaguyas exchanged a glance, and both gave faint, bitter smiles.
One of them spoke, "Now, we can't do anything to you. For some reason, you possess a power that is… extremely high-level, even by our Otsutsuki standards. That's why you could awaken two divine techniques."
"It's precisely because of that power that, at your current level, you could now completely assimilate our Kama whenever you wish."
"We've failed. But we can still feel the souls of our two children remaining in the shinobi world. If you ever have the chance… please tell them that their mother still loves them."
After those words, the two Kaguyas' souls slowly began to dissipate, they chose to end themselves.
Seeing this, Obito couldn't help but sigh.
The Rabbit Goddess of the shinobi world, the creator of its greatest conspiracy, the ancestor of most humanity in the ninja world, Otsutsuki Kaguya, once so immeasurably powerful she could only be sealed away.
And in the end, she radiated… the light of a mother's love?
Obito suddenly remembered something Neji had said in the world of Infinite Tsukuyomi, ("The world may be false, but love is real.")
Otsutsuki Kaguya, leaving her final motherly love to her two children.
Perhaps, just like her true form, Black Zetsu, she too hoped that her children would, forever and ever, keep loving their mother.
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