"Are these daimyo's brains completely rotten?"
"They think they can kill Uchiha Chizumi with nothing but tens of thousands of genin?"
What the daimyo of the Lands of Earth, Wind, and Lightning didn't know was that while they were holding their eting, a group of White Zetsu were hidden underground—and among them was the oddball, Spiral White Zetsu.
"Still, it's got nothing to do with ."
While Spiral White Zetsu monitored the daimyo, he also relayed the information back to Black Zetsu.
As for Black Zetsu, he and Obito had gone to find Kimimaro, who was carrying out a mission together with Hōzuki Gengetsu.
"So the reason you recruited was for these eyes?"
Kimimaro looked at Black Zetsu, Obito, and Ōtsutsuki Toneri standing on the other side, and spoke softly.
Even though the people in front of him wanted his eyes, there wasn't much fluctuation in his tone. It was as if they weren't asking for his eyes at all, but for sothing completely trivial.
"Are these people your companions too?"
Ōtsutsuki Toneri frowned as he looked at Kimimaro. He was indeed inexperienced with the world, but when Obito and Black Zetsu demanded that this shinobi—who was also a descendant of Ancestor Hamura—hand over his Byakugan, Toneri still felt sowhat uncomfortable.
It wasn't that Toneri's moral standards were especially high.
After all, if his morals were that high, he wouldn't have been thinking of taking Hinata's eyes in the first place. To put it nicely, she was the Byakugan Princess. To put it less nicely, the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon had always considered Hinata's eyes sothing prepared for Toneri.
It was just that, in Toneri's view, since this descendant of Ancestor Hamura was supposed to be their companion, surely they shouldn't be forcing him to hand over his eyes like this?
"Hey, hey, don't ignore , bastards!"
"If you want to take Kimimaro's eyes, shouldn't you at least ask for my opinion?"
Hōzuki Gengetsu looked at the three people who had suddenly appeared in front of them, his tone displeased.
He hadn't been tead up with Kimimaro for very long. In fact, Gengetsu felt Kimimaro probably had sothing wrong with his head.
But to try to take his teammate's eyes right in front of him—how could Gengetsu possibly agree to sothing like that?
"This wasn't the first choice. It's only that, compared to you, Toneri is more suited to these eyes."
"If you're willing, I can replace them with a pair of Sharingan from the Uchiha clan."
Black Zetsu noticed Toneri's frown. While subtly signaling Obito beside him, he offered to compensate Kimimaro with a pair of Sharingan.
"No need."
"If you want these eyes, then take them."
"My bloodline disease has already improved a great deal. Consider these eyes paynt for treating ."
What Obito and Black Zetsu hadn't expected was that Kimimaro's tone didn't change much at all from beginning to end. And after Black Zetsu spoke, he directly gouged out his own eyes.
That decisiveness stunned even Gengetsu, who had just been speaking up on Kimimaro's behalf.
Gengetsu knew Kimimaro's head was probably a little abnormal. But the Kaguya clan was like that—having sothing wrong with their brains was basically common knowledge in Kirigakure. Still, this was the first ti Gengetsu had ever seen a Kaguya clan mber whose brain was abnormal to this degree.
Yes, Gengetsu had already realized Kimimaro was from the Kaguya clan. After all, during their missions together, Kimimaro's Dead Bone Pulse had been far too obvious.
"Gengetsu, please go back and tell the leader that I probably can't continue serving the organization. I'll have to withdraw."
As Kimimaro held out the bloody eyes in his hands, he spoke softly to Gengetsu beside him.
But that calm action made both Obito and Black Zetsu feel a chill.
It wasn't because they thought Kimimaro was especially ruthless.
It was because they suddenly realized that if sothing went wrong on Toneri's side, then Kimimaro would be a chess piece they could never recover.
"Eyes obtained by sacrificing a companion?"
Toneri frowned, but he still reached out and accepted the eyes from Kimimaro's hand.
As Kimimaro's eyes were placed into Toneri's sockets, in only a brief instant, those Byakugan, which had awakened only recently, already began emitting a faint pale-blue glow.
Kimimaro, however, could no longer see any of this.
After giving away his eyes, he didn't linger. He rely staggered off into the distance.
Gengetsu still wanted to say sothing to these people, but after seeing Kimimaro leave, he could only glare fiercely at them before hurrying after him.
"Obito, we may have been too hasty…"
Watching Gengetsu and Kimimaro walk farther and farther away, Black Zetsu couldn't help sighing to Obito beside him.
Although he had temporarily fooled Toneri with lies, Black Zetsu knew very well that lies would eventually be exposed. But a tool as self-aware as Kimimaro was sothing Black Zetsu might never find a second of in the entire shinobi world.
"I'll send Yakushi Kabuto a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan."
Obito watched Kimimaro and Gengetsu leave, but didn't say much. He only said that he would send Kabuto a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan.
"Yakushi Kabuto…"
After hearing Obito's words, Black Zetsu felt even more regret.
After all, Kabuto was also tied to one of his backup plans. And now, for the sake of the Toneri plan, he had faintly created tension between himself and Kabuto. That left Black Zetsu feeling uneasy.
"I need so ti to complete the evolution of my Tenseigan. If anything happens, you can contact my puppet."
After obtaining Kimimaro's Byakugan, Toneri released one of his puppets.
At this point, Toneri no longer wanted to think about anything else. He only wanted to use the power of the two Great Tenseigan to fully evolve the Byakugan in his sockets into the Tenseigan.
After releasing that puppet, sapphire-blue Tenseigan chakra appeared around his body again.
Before Black Zetsu and Obito could say anything more, Toneri had already flown up into the sky.
Konoha.
"The Great Tenseigan's location… changed."
"But why does it feel like the Great Tenseigan Father left behind is flying toward the moon?"
Hinata stood by the window. The mont the Hyūga clan's Great Tenseigan fell into Ōtsutsuki Toneri's hands, a faint sense of unease rose in her heart.
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