Obito Uchiha's gaze moved back and forth between Rasa and the Nine-Tails.
"Even if you can rely on these methods to contend with the Nine-Tails in terms of chakra volume, there is still me."
"There is still me!"
"How will you withstand these Mangekyo Sharingan and Wood Release?"
But Obito did not attack immediately.
Instead, he waited for an opportunity.
He waited for the moment when Rasa fell into the greatest disadvantage possible while clashing against the Nine-Tails.
"Roar!"
A furious roar rang out.
The trapped Nine-Tails became even more enraged and violent under Obito Uchiha's control.
A massive amount of sand and dust rose into the air.
The surroundings seemed to be swallowed by a sandstorm.
"Now!"
Obito Uchiha suddenly approached Rasa's location.
"Kamui!"
Both eyes stared directly at where Rasa stood.
Immediately afterward, the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan activated.
The space around Rasa distorted instantly.
But for Rasa, who possessed the Byakugan, every movement Obito Uchiha made was within his vision.
The moment Obito moved, Rasa had already prepared himself.
"Quicksand Displacement!"
Rasa's figure disappeared and reappeared beside one of his sand soldiers.
A hint of disappointment flashed in Obito Uchiha's eyes, but he was not too disappointed.
"It would have been best if the first strike landed."
"But even if it missed, that was within my expectations."
"My attack is not over yet!"
Obito Uchiha's figure flickered as he chased after Rasa.
A kunai appeared in his hand, stabbing fiercely toward Rasa.
Clang!
Rasa returned Samehada to his back and drew the God of Anubis from his waist.
With a single strike, the kunai in Obito Uchiha's hand snapped apart.
The God of Anubis continued cutting toward Obito Uchiha.
Obito looked at the broken kunai in his hand and froze for an instant.
But he reacted quickly.
When the God of Anubis slashed toward him, he shifted his body into an intangible state.
At the same time, he drew another kunai and stabbed toward Rasa.
"Got him!"
Obito watched the kunai in his hand pierce into Rasa's body, and joy rose in his heart.
But immediately afterward, his expression changed.
Because Obito discovered that the sensation of his stab was clearly wrong.
It did not feel like piercing flesh at all.
It felt as if he had stabbed empty air.
"What is this? Can Rasa turn intangible too?"
Rasa, of course, could not turn intangible.
But Rasa could turn into sand.
After sandification, purely physical attacks had no effect on Rasa.
Obito Uchiha was unwilling to accept it and tried again.
But the result was the same.
This gave Obito Uchiha a deep sense of frustration.
This was an ability in which he had absolute confidence.
Through the intangibility of his body, he could render his opponent's attacks ineffective, while his own attacks could still injure the enemy.
Back then, it was precisely because of this ability that Obito Uchiha had dared to face Minato Namikaze head-on.
He had perfectly avoided Minato Namikaze's attacks.
In a certain sense, it was equivalent to having won.
After all, the Nine-Tails that forced Minato Namikaze to leave had also been released by Obito Uchiha.
And now, this ability of his had become even stronger.
Yet Rasa actually possessed an ability similar to his own, directly invalidating his strategy.
Obito Uchiha's heart sank, and he wanted to pull back.
But now, Rasa was the one who did not want Obito Uchiha to retreat.
Obito Uchiha's close-combat methods were already exhausted.
Rasa's were not.
Rasa rapidly swung the God of Anubis. Beneath his top-tier swordsmanship, Obito Uchiha was forced back step by step.
At the same time, Rasa's other hand changed shape.
A mass of sand gathered and wrapped around Rasa's arm, forming a massive sand arm.
But in reality, this was Crescent Moon Sand Dune.
Rasa held his sword in one hand and slashed toward Obito Uchiha.
His other sand arm also grabbed toward Obito Uchiha.
Obito Uchiha instinctively sensed the threat of Crescent Moon Sand Dune and fully used intangibility to dodge.
Facing the sharp blade of the God of Anubis, he coated his kunai in chakra to block.
But Rasa directly used another ability on his sand arm.
"Bestow N!"
A powerful attraction force appeared between Rasa's sand arm and Obito Uchiha.
Obito Uchiha's pupils contracted.
The next moment—
Puchi!
A burst of intense pain came.
Obito Uchiha's eyes widened.
Only then did he realize that the God of Anubis had actually sliced straight through his kunai, the blade cutting deep into his flesh.
At the same time, his shoulder had also been touched by Crescent Moon Sand Dune.
In an instant, the moisture in his flesh was drained dry.
Obito Uchiha had wanted to dodge both.
He had thought he could dodge both.
But because he wanted too much, he misjudged the situation.
In the end, he failed to fully dodge either.
A single mistaken judgment left Obito Uchiha heavily injured and instantly pushed him into an enormous disadvantage.
This made Obito Uchiha no longer dare to hold back any hidden cards.
"Susanoo!"
An enormous blue giant clad in armor suddenly appeared, wrapping Obito Uchiha's body within it and instantly separating him from Rasa.
Obito Uchiha gasped heavily, staring at Rasa with hatred.
"Rasa, I want you dead!"
"Now, how will you deal with this?"
But before Obito Uchiha could even breathe a sigh of relief, his eyes widened again.
And this time, they widened far more than before.
Because Obito Uchiha saw—
Opposite him.
Where Rasa stood.
An equally massive figure appeared.
No.
It was even slightly larger.
A golden giant suddenly emerged.
"What?"
"How is that possible?"
"Why do you have one too?"
"Are you also an Uchiha?"
An expression of utter disbelief appeared on Obito Uchiha's face.
Rasa's sandification ability was still something Obito Uchiha could understand.
After all, Kirigakure also had things like the Hydrification Technique.
But Susanoo was different.
This was exclusive to the Uchiha.
Moreover, one had to possess dual Mangekyo Sharingan to use it.
Rasa—what right did he have?
Was Rasa also an Uchiha? Had he also awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan?
And why was Rasa's Susanoo taller than his own?
Larger?
More impressive?
It made his own look like a counterfeit.
"Fake. Fake. It has to be fake!"
Obito Uchiha's eyes reddened.
"Die!"
The two gigantic figures collided.
The massive impact caused the ground beneath them to sink.
Countless grains of sand splashed into the air.
Even the berserk Nine-Tails could not help having its attention drawn over.
"You are fake!"
He shouted that with his mouth, but the more they fought, the more alarmed Obito Uchiha became.
Because Obito Uchiha discovered that he could not win at all.
In every aspect, the opponent's Susanoo held the advantage.
"No. Impossible!"
Despair appeared in Obito Uchiha's eyes.