As an uncooperative resource, she was subjected to various tortures and threats by Obito.
Obito looked at Shion, who was on her last breath, yet still stubbornly refused to cooperate.
"Since you Shrine Maidens sealed the otherworldly demon, then I'll just kill you, and maybe the seal will automatically break!"
Obito had steeled his heart, a hard wooden plank formed by Wood Release already clutched in his hand.
"Even... even if I die, I will never... never open the seal."
Shion, breathing more out than in, responded with her last ounce of strength.
"Ssssh!"
The sound of a sharp object piercing flesh echoed in this sealed land of Moryo.
Immediately, a strange power surged, and Obito looked towards the seal with anticipation.
Afterwards, Obito witnessed a miracle, a miracle of resurrection!
A strange power surged, and the wounds on the already dead Shion began to heal rapidly, in less than five minutes.
Shion opened her eyes again, completely unharmed.
A bewildered Shion looked at her surroundings and exclaimed in surprise.
"I'm not dead? And the seal! It's loosened?"
This made Obito's eyes, which had been somewhat disappointed, light up.
Without the slightest hesitation.
"Ssssh~"
The blood-stained wooden spike once again pierced Shion's chest.
Obito waited quietly, but found no change; Shion was truly dead.
Extremely disappointed, Obito vented his frustration on the indestructible seal for a while, then left Shion's body and departed.
It wasn't until the next day that Obito was informed by White Zetsu.
The dead Shrine Maiden had resurrected again!
After more than a week, Obito understood the pattern: as long as he killed the Shrine Maiden, the seal would loosen, but she could only revive once a day.
As for why Obito was so clear about this, it was a conclusion he had drawn from countless times of piercing Shion's chest.
Moreover, as time went on, Shion's resurrection became faster and faster.
This gave Obito hope; after bringing Shion back to the Shrine Maiden Palace, all the guards and maidservants did not escape Obito's clutches and were all replaced by White Zetsu.
Obito, like clocking in for work every day, would go to end Shion's life at a fixed time.
The relationship between the Shrine Maiden and Moryo was deeper than imagined.
Obito understood this, but then immediately dismissed it; what did it have to do with him?
Just like today, Obito arrived at Shion's location precisely on time and killed her.
After recording the time taken for her resurrection and the exact moment of revival, Obito left.
Tomorrow, he would continue!
The Shrine Maiden and Moryo are two sides of the same coin.
To use a less accurate but similar analogy, it's like the Ten-Tails and the God Tree, or the relationship between Kaguya and the Ten-Tails.
The Shrine Maiden is Moryo, and Moryo is the Shrine Maiden, like two sides of a coin.
The Shrine Maidens of the Land of Demons have never had husbands; each Shrine Maiden would give birth to the next Shrine Maiden shortly before her own death.
The Shrine Maiden is not human, and neither is Shion.
Obito could not kill Shion because she was one with Moryo.
And each time Shion died, she needed to rely on Moryo's power to resurrect.
As the number of Shion's deaths increased, more of Moryo's power permeated, and the seal became increasingly weaker.
Obito didn't know any of this.
But Obito only needed to know that killing Shion could cause Moryo to break the seal.
Obito's goal was exceptionally clear and precise: Moryo.
Obito naturally knew about the Shrine Maiden's intelligence and that she could accurately predict others' deaths.
But Obito didn't believe for a moment that he would die at Moryo's hands.
I will never die before creating a world with Rin!
Of course, Obito's confidence didn't come from such a ridiculous reason; the real reason was the newly replaced three-tomoe Sharingan in his left eye.
As well as a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan he kept ready in his Pregnant.
It must be said that Madara still left some good things for Obito.
On a mountaintop in the Land of Demons, Obito sat cross-legged at the peak, quietly gazing at the full moon in the sky.
A gentle breeze swept by, and no one knew what was on his mind.
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