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"Nagato, have you realized the gap in our strength?"

Uchiha Madara crossed his arms and looked indifferently at the shattered body of the Deva Path.

Even though Nagato possessed the Rinnegan, he was still no match for him.

Unfortunately, what came was only a puppet; he could not obtain the Rinnegan from it.

The Akatsuki members were completely stunned.

Their leader, who possessed the Rinnegan, had actually been defeated by Uchiha Madara.

Among them, Kakuzu’s expression was the ugliest.

The leader was not Madara’s opponent, and Madara was Renya’s backing.

That meant the money taken by Renya would never be recovered.

Even if that bastard appeared in front of him, he wouldn’t dare bring up the matter of money again.

After all, he couldn’t afford to provoke Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama...

Damn it, weren’t they dead?

Why have they appeared again?!

"Pain..."

Konan showed a worried expression; she hadn’t expected Pain to be defeated so quickly.

It seemed the person before them really was the legendary Uchiha Madara, not a fake like Uchiha Obito.

Space rippled.

Obito, wearing an orange single-eye spiral mask, slowly appeared, his expression complicated beneath the mask.

"Madara, you’re not dead?!"

Uchiha Madara was clearly dead, and even his corpse had been hidden by him.

But the terrifying figure before him was undoubtedly Madara!

What exactly had happened?!

No one present understood what was going on.

How could the dead return to the ninja world?

"So it’s Obito." Uchiha Madara remained calm, revealing no emotion. "How is the plan progressing?"

Regarding Uchiha Obito’s background, he had already understood most of it during the Fourth Great Ninja War.

He also knew that this guy was nothing more than a pawn he had chosen.

Uchiha Obito’s pupils suddenly contracted—this was definitely Uchiha Madara!

"The plan is proceeding."

Although he didn’t know how Madara had come back from the dead, he still answered honestly.

Didn’t you see that Pain’s body had been smashed apart?

He had no confidence in escaping unscathed in front of Madara...

After all, someone could even enter his Kamui space.

If he angered Madara, even hiding inside wouldn’t be safe.

Uchiha Madara nodded thoughtfully, but what he said next completely stunned Obito.

"Give up. The ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan is fake. We were all deceived by Black Zetsu."

Uchiha Obito: "???"

Renya had once told him that both he and Madara were merely someone else’s pawns.

At the time, he thought Renya had said that on purpose to make him give up the ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan.

But now Madara was saying the same thing.

"Madara, what do you mean?"

Uchiha Obito’s voice turned cold.

It was clearly Madara who had lured him into the ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan, and just as years of planning were finally getting on track—

This guy now said they had all been deceived.

No one could accept that!

Even Uchiha Madara couldn’t toy with him like this!

If what he said was true, wouldn’t all his efforts over the years have turned him into a clown?

"I said it—the ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan is fake. We were all deceived by Black Zetsu."

Uchiha Madara repeated impatiently.

Originally, he hadn’t wanted to meddle, but seeing Obito like this reminded him of his former self.

He had treated Obito as a pawn—wasn’t Black Zetsu doing the same to him?

In the end, they were all pitiful people who had been deceived.

For that reason, he was willing to tell Obito, so he wouldn’t continue down the wrong path.

Uchiha Obito froze completely.

"We were all deceived by Black Zetsu?!"

What kind of joke is this?!

Wasn’t Black Zetsu Madara’s will? Why would it deceive them?!

Fake—this must all be fake!

A genjutsu—he must have been caught in Renya’s or Uchiha Itachi’s genjutsu!

He would rather believe he was under genjutsu than accept that he had been deceived.

Uchiha Obito had lived in pain, constantly numbing himself with the idea of creating a perfect world.

But now Madara was telling him the ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan was fake.

Wasn’t that shattering his illusion?

"I’m not deceiving you."

Uchiha Madara said in a deep voice.

"Some things—just hearing them isn’t enough. Unless you see them with your own eyes, you won’t give up."

As he spoke, he cast a genjutsu on Obito, allowing him to witness the events of the Fourth Great Ninja War.

Uchiha Obito collapsed to his knees.

"Impossible... this must be fake..."

The ideal he had clung to all along was nothing more than Black Zetsu’s scheme.

The Akatsuki members had no idea what was happening.

Only Pain and Konan wore grave expressions—what exactly did all this mean?

Had both Madara and Obito been used by Black Zetsu?

At this moment, Black Zetsu hiding in the shadows: "???"

It had been hiding for so many years—had it suddenly been exposed today?!

And wasn’t Madara dead? Why had he come back to life?!

More importantly, how did he know the ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan was a deception created by it?

Black Zetsu was completely dumbfounded, utterly unable to understand what was happening.

Everything had been proceeding perfectly, yet in the blink of an eye it had become uncontrollable.

If this continued, wouldn’t all its plans become a joke?

Becoming a joke in others’ eyes was a small matter—the most important thing was that without Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito as pawns,

its sealed mother could not be rescued!

For it, that was a matter of utmost importance.

After plotting for thousands of years, it had been on the verge of rescuing its mother.

And then this happened.

Black Zetsu felt like dying.

Even now, it still couldn’t understand why things had turned out like this.

If it weren’t afraid of going out and not coming back, it would have already stepped out to confront Uchiha Madara and the others.

"Accept reality."

Uchiha Madara looked at Obito with some sympathy. Once, he too had refused to believe.

If Renya hadn’t taken him to other timelines, he might still be planning how to realize the ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan.

Uchiha Obito did not respond immediately.

This kind of matter was not something he could easily accept.

"Nagato, return ’my’ eyes to me."

Uchiha Madara stopped paying attention to Obito and turned his attention to Nagato.

Regardless of whether Uchiha Obito believed him, as long as he took the Rinnegan away, the ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan could not proceed.

It wasn’t that he particularly wanted to stop his counterpart in this timeline—he simply wanted to fulfill his promise and give that boy a pair of Rinnegan.

Deva Path: "..."

From their earlier conversation, he now knew the origin of the eyes.

So the Rinnegan belonged to Uchiha Madara!

But he didn’t want to return them—without the Rinnegan, he wouldn’t be able to realize his ideal of peace in the ninja world.

Although he didn’t understand what the so-called ’Eye of the Moon’ Plan was, whether Madara and Obito were deceived by Black Zetsu had nothing to do with him.

From beginning to end, his goal had always been to collect the tailed beasts and use force to deter the ninja world, thereby achieving peace!

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