After hesitating silently for a long moment,
Obito gazed at the Kitsune Ogre Kyo and said in his usual deep voice, firmly:
"That Kyo..."
"How strong is his real strength exactly...?"
"This time, even you were completely no match for him, Kitsune Ogre?"
Obito asked deeply.
The reason he so confidently drew this conclusion,
Apart from the battle he witnessed himself, the more important reason was, of course... that the Kitsune Ogre chose to retreat.
Even he, always aloof and arrogant, had for the first time fled the battle.
Nothing was more persuasive than this.
And at this moment,
Hearing this,
The Kitsune Ogre Kyo on this side was suddenly stunned.
Beneath the mask, a look of amused bewilderment appeared on his face.
Exactly how strong is Kyo??
This guy... is asking me to praise myself?
Kyo chuckled inwardly.
The outcome of this battle.
Was, of course, a result he had controlled.
After all,
How could Kyo's Gigai, with his Zanpakuto unreleased, possibly defeat a Hollowfied Kyo?
The two could be said to be completely on different levels.
In the battle just now,
If Kyo had really wanted to be serious, with his Hollowfied Kitsune Ogre strength, he could have completely defeated the Gigai clone within ten seconds.
But, he did not choose to do so.
Because he needed to let "Kyo" win.
The Kitsune Ogre,
Was ultimately an identity he had fabricated, with no substantial meaning of existence.
And "Kyo" was his real identity in this world.
What's more,
This battle was being watched by Orochimaru.
In that guy's eyes, Kyo was the supreme leader of Las Noches, an existence known as the King of Las Noches.
Since he was the King, his aura naturally couldn't be diminished.
Moreover, while acting to defeat the Kitsune Ogre, incidentally intimidating Obito was also killing two birds with one stone.
This way,
Presumably, Obito wouldn't casually come around to interfere with Akatsuki's Tailed Beast Capture Plan in the future, and Kyo could naturally be more at ease...
And, by having the Kitsune Ogre save him, he could incidentally do him a favor.
So why not do it?
As for why not directly kill him?
That naturally had a purpose.
First, Obito, as one of the most crucial characters in the Naruto World, always carried a whole bunch of system side missions as an important NPC.
If he died, Kyo would probably directly lose a huge wave of rewards in the future. Basically, it's all harm and no benefit.
Therefore, even just to squeeze out his value, he naturally had to let him live.
And the second point,
Was even simpler.
Currently, Kyo's comprehensive strength had basically reached the ceiling below the Six Paths-level.
It could even be said,
When he activated Bankai, he could even fight Six Paths level Shinobi head-on without fear.
Under this kind of disparity,
Most of the Shinobi from various countries were merely insects to Kyo.
Even Obito, with Kamui and Wood Release, was just a slightly larger insect to Kyo.
Kyo had no need to go out of his way to crush an insect; it would only make this world more boring.
In other words,
Wouldn't it be nice to have this insect work for him?
Thinking this,
Kyo's gaze once again fell on Obito, a faint smile appearing beneath the mask.
That's right,
The reason he deliberately saved Obito,
Was naturally to take this opportunity to win him over.
After all,
In several years,
He hadn't recruited any new workers for a long time...
Thinking this,
Kyo decided to give the answer to the question. Staring at Obito through the Kitsune Ogre mask, he spoke as if pondering:
"You ask about the strength gap...?"
"It's rather hard to say, after all, that man's power attributes are quite different from ours, difficult to judge."
"I don't understand, but I am deeply shocked."
"If we had more information about him, though... we might not necessarily lose."
Kyo said, bluffing in a very vague tone.
However,
After the words fell,
Obito, after a moment of slight pause, suddenly nodded in understanding, as if muttering to himself in a low voice:
"That's true..."
"Just as I told you before."
"That Kyo controls a Kekkei Genkai called the 'True Eye of the King'.''
"Although I don't know its origin, the abilities he has demonstrated are all very strange and ridiculous."
"I once experienced it firsthand..."
"Indeed, difficult to fathom."
Obito analyzed thoughtfully.
In fact,
He could understand the Kitsune Ogre's words.
After all, when he first encountered Kyo's True Eye of the King, he was even more bewildered than the Kitsune Ogre.
And, over ten years had passed,
His new abilities still emerged in an endless stream. It's just very ridiculous...
That guy,
Was he a Ninjutsu issuing machine…
…
Meanwhile, far away on the other side outside the Land of Rain.
At the Land of Fire,
Within Konoha Village!
While Obito and the Kitsune Ogre were discussing plans over there,
Today, Konoha suddenly welcomed several somewhat different guests.
They came from Sunagakure.
And their leader was surprisingly the two children of the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, the ones who had once come to Konoha to participate in the Chunin Exams.
Temari and Kankuro.
And at this moment, inside the Hokage's Office.
The Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, was sitting in the office, listening to the narration of the people before her.
As the narration progressed,
Her frown grew tighter and tighter.
Finally,
Her expression froze suddenly, and she abruptly spoke:
"Wait, what did you say...?!"
"An organization named Akatsuki... is capturing the Tailed Beasts?!"
Tsunade had been the Fifth Hokage for three years now.
Three years ago,
One night,
She met the man who was once her comrade, also one of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha, Jiraiya;
And a blond brat following Jiraiya, who claimed he wanted to become Hokage, a Genin named Uzumaki Naruto.
Originally, she didn't want to become Hokage,
But under Jiraiya's persistent persuasion and Naruto's disdainful Talk-no-Jutsu, she finally had no choice but to decide to take on this responsibility again.
However, to this day,
As Kage, she had mainly been leading the recovery work of Konoha.
After all, after the attack during the Chunin Exams three years ago, Konoha was in an extremely weak period, with a gap between generations.
Only by properly protecting the new generation of Shinobi as they grew up could Konoha continue.
Thus,
Konoha had no choice but to once again build an alliance with Sunagakure.
Even though Sunagakure had participated in the Konoha Crush Plan back then, they couldn't completely forget about it and had to instead start promoting friendly development between the two countries.
However,
Fortunately,
During these three years,
Sunagakure, for some unknown reason, seemed to have become exceptionally docile.
Trade with Konoha had also become very smooth, so much so that the diplomatic relations between the two villages had become increasingly close.
Although each had experienced drastic changes and lows,
Together, their strength was completely not inferior to the other powerful nations like the Land of Lightning's Kumogakure and the overbearing Land of Earth's Iwagakure.
Thus, the friendly alliance had continued to this day.
However,
Tsunade never imagined today,
Sunagakure would suddenly send envoy Shinobi and issue an emergency distress signal.
So,
Tsunade, who had originally planned to slip away for some gambling, had to suppress the itch in her heart and come to personally receive the envoys.
After all,
The entire Shinobi World now knew,
Sunagakure and Konoha were completely allies, sharing the same fate.
And if Sunagakure had difficulties and sought help, as their ally Konoha, logically and emotionally, naturally had to lend a hand.
Otherwise, if the alliance fell apart, it wouldn't just be a matter of reputation.
Losing reputation was a small matter,
Losing the village was the real problem.
Once the Konoha-Suna alliance collapsed,
They would inevitably become targets for Iwagakure or Kumogakure, and, to put it extremely, it was possible they would restart a war.
So, Tsunade naturally didn't dare to be careless.
Although the people Sunagakure sent seemed to be just kids who hadn't grown up yet,
She still carefully listened to their account.