"I'll ask you one more time—are you Uchiha Madara?"
Renya pointed his gunbai at Uchiha Obito and questioned him without any courtesy.
"I hope you'll answer properly!"
Faced with Renya's question, Uchiha Obito narrowed his eyes and didn't reply right away.
Seeing the masked man fall silent, everyone present understood that this guy was definitely not Uchiha Madara.
He was just using Madara's name as a cover to play tricks and bluff people.
"Hmph, I knew he wasn't Uchiha Madara!" Ōnoki snorted coldly.
Among everyone present, aside from Renya and Shimura Danzō, he was the one who least believed the masked man was Madara.
Someone as proud and powerful as Uchiha Madara—if he truly hadn't died, he would have long since completed the "Eye of the Moon" plan with overwhelming power.
As for Obito's claim that he was severely injured and lost his strength, that was even more ridiculous!
Those who had originally been fooled, seeing the masked man unable to answer, realized one after another that they had been deceived.
"Who exactly are you, and why are you pretending to be Uchiha Madara!"
Faced with everyone's questioning, Uchiha Obito still didn't say a word.
His gaze fell on Renya, and the face beneath the mask turned ashen.
Where did this guy come from?! And why does he have the gunbai I hid away?!
"I am Uchiha Madara. I don't need to prove anything to you."
After a moment of silence, Uchiha Obito suppressed the confusion and anger in his heart, and his voice returned to calm.
In truth, his identity wasn't important. As long as the plan could be realized, that was enough.
"Heh, looks like you won't shed tears until you see the coffin."
In front of everyone, Renya once again took out a piece of flesh and blood from his ninja tool pouch.
"Renya, you're not planning to…"
Shimura Danzō looked at the flesh and blood in Renya's hand, his expression growing more and more strange.
"Heh heh, exactly what you're thinking."
As Renya spoke, he instantly appeared in front of a White Zetsu that was observing from the corner and yanked its body straight out of the ground.
No one present understood what Renya was planning to do.
"Since you say you're Uchiha Madara, then I'll call out the real Uchiha Madara and have you confront him!"
Uchiha Obito's pupils shrank sharply, and everyone else wore expressions like they'd seen a ghost.
What is this guy even talking about?!
He's going to call out the real Uchiha Madara to confront him—has he not woken up, or have we not woken up?!
Shimura Danzō showed an expression that said "just as I thought."
The moment Renya took out that piece of flesh and blood, he had guessed his good friend was about to make a big move.
All he could say was, Renya really does love stirring up trouble…
"Danzo, which Madara do you think I'll summon?"
Renya suddenly realized a problem and subconsciously asked his friend.
That piece of flesh and blood belonged to Madara from that timeline, but they were in the original timeline—and in this timeline, Madara had also died.
So which Uchiha Madara would be brought back by the Edo Tensei?
Shimura Danzō: "…"
To be honest, he really had been stumped by that question.
Also, isn't your Edo Tensei not fully mastered yet?
If you let Uchiha Madara out, will there really be no problems?
Forget it—since it's Renya.
In the end, Shimura Danzō didn't stop him.
"No idea. Try it and see."
"Alright, we'll have the answer right away."
Renya didn't waste any more words and directly formed hand seals to use Edo Tensei.
...
Before everyone's shocked eyes, Uchiha Madara appeared in an Edo Tensei body!
"U… Uchiha Madara…"
Ōnoki's face was filled with shock, fear surfacing in his eyes, as if he were recalling the scenes of being dominated by Madara.
"So I'm finally revived. Looks like that kid Nagato has grown up."
Uchiha Madara opened his eyes, felt that something was off with his body, and when he looked down, he froze.
"Not Rinne Rebirth?"
"It seems it's not the Madara I know—it's the Uchiha Madara of this timeline," Renya said quietly.
He had just turned his head when he realized Danzō had already put a great distance between them.
Shimura Danzō knew that Renya's Edo Tensei was only half-baked. He could only summon the dead back from the underworld, but couldn't control those brought back like Tobirama-sensei could.
In other words, Uchiha Madara wasn't under Renya's control…
For his own safety, it was better not to stand so close to Renya.
Renya: "…"
Isn't that a bit much? Shouldn't good friends share both fortune and misfortune?
"Kid, were you the one who summoned me?"
Uchiha Madara looked at Renya in front of him. His current state should be the Edo Tensei Tobirama researched.
"That's right. That guy claims to be Uchiha Madara, so I called you out to confront him."
Renya pointed at Uchiha Obito on the high platform and explained what had happened.
Uchiha Madara: "…"
He thought this kid had summoned him for something important—who would've thought it was to make him confront Obito?!
Does this guy have nothing better to do?!
"Kid, are you that bored?"
Uchiha Madara looked coldly at Renya, not hiding the killing intent in his heart.
Since he had been brought back by chance through Edo Tensei, it was just right for him to carry out the "Eye of the Moon" plan himself.
After all, Obito and Nagato were far too useless.
So many years had passed, and they still hadn't revived him!
"Madara, I haven't fully mastered Edo Tensei, and it's the most primitive version."
Facing Madara's threat, Renya grinned.
The current Edo Madara was not the body that Yakushi Kabuto had improved during the Fourth Shinobi World War. Being able to exert even one-tenth of his living strength would already be good.
Uchiha Madara felt his frail body and finally understood why this kid was so confident.
In his current state, there was no way he could carry out the "Eye of the Moon" plan.
"How boring."
Uchiha Madara crossed his arms and closed his eyes again.
Since this Edo body wouldn't do, there was no need to fight.
He, Uchiha Madara, had spent a lifetime on the battlefield and had only ever lost to Hashirama. He didn't want to lose to some brat now.
Seeing that Uchiha Madara had no intention of fighting, Renya said to Uchiha Obito on the high platform,
"Now, do you still dare to call yourself Uchiha Madara?"
Uchiha Obito: "…"
He had thought someone might question his identity, but he had never imagined someone would drag Madara out to testify.
He understood Edo Tensei, but he couldn't figure out where Renya had gotten Madara's flesh and blood.
You should know that back then, he had hidden Madara's corpse himself.
This guy not only had the gunbai, but also Madara's flesh and blood—his whole existence was just dripping with weirdness!
Meeting Renya's questioning gaze, Uchiha Obito spread his hands and said somewhat helplessly,
"Some things don't need to be taken so seriously. Who I really am isn't important…"
He suddenly jumped down from the high platform, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.
"You only need to know that my plan is about to succeed!"
With that, he had no intention of staying and vanished from the spot in an instant.
It really did look a bit like his lie had been exposed and he could only slink away in embarrassment.
"How ugly, Obito."
Uchiha Madara said in a low voice that only he could hear.