Chapter 226: The Death of Obito

Seeing Minato activate her battle stance, Uchiha Obito spoke: "Act now, Dragon."

The next instant, a sky-covering rain of paper drowned the spot where the two stood.

Minato paid no attention to Li Ang, charging straight toward Uchiha Obito's position.

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Uchiha Obito gazed at the scene before him with his right eye, his expression beneath the mask utterly still.

The whistling white paper passed through his body as if he did not exist in this world.

'Got you!'

He thrust out his right hand in a flash, gripping Minato's throat—she had appeared before him without warning.

Immediately, the whistling white paper was all sucked into his right eye.

But at that moment, some of the white paper was mixed with sheets bearing black patterns.

Boom—!

The next instant, a violent explosion erupted.

Minato floated in midair, gasping heavily, half her body turned into slowly drifting white paper.

"I underestimated you."

A hoarse voice came from afar; Uchiha Obito, disheveled, glared darkly at the Akatsuki angel in the distance.

He hadn't expected her to launch such a self-destructive attack.

More crucially—

"Dragon, why are you still standing there? What are you waiting for?"

Uchiha Obito turned toward the crimson-and-azure figure standing nearby, watching like a spectator—though the paper posed no threat, the figure had done nothing.

He furrowed his brow slightly, a sense of unease stirring faintly within him.

Hearing his name, Li Ang responded blankly: "Apologies, Lord Itachi."

Saying this, he stomped the water's surface, shooting forward as a crimson-and-azure streak toward Minato's position.

But before Li Ang could reach Minato, he was driven back by a flood of paper sheets.

At this moment, the Paper Angel had fully reassembled her body.

She raised both hands sharply and uttered a cold death decree: "All who stand in Changmen's way must die!"

As she spoke, the lake beneath her split open like Moxi parting the sea, countless detonation tags cascading downward like a waterfall.

Seeing this, Uchiha Obito's form twisted violently—he immediately tried to escape.

But before he could complete his transfer, several detonation tags stuck to his body.

Boom—

In the violent explosion, he was forced to interrupt his transfer.

Uchiha Obito, unable to fly, slid helplessly into the abyss formed by the detonation tags.

He looked up at the sky and saw a crimson-and-azure figure thrusting a spear toward the caster of this technique.

'Dragon'

Uchiha Obito's right eye, hidden behind his mask, grew even more vivid.

Boom boom boom—!

The next instant, a continuous roar of explosions erupted without end.

Li Ang halted his motion, gazing at the scene below—the kind that would make Katsuya weep—and asked: "Minato, how many detonation tags did you use?"

"Six hundred billion. It's the limit of my chakra," replied the Angel of Paper, wearing a paper flower, exhaustion etched on her face. "Are you certain you can kill Itachi?"

When she first learned her secret technique couldn't eliminate Uchiha Itachi, she had refused to believe it—after all, it was her ultimate trump card, crafted specifically for him.

Only after learning of the forbidden technique Izanagi—the one capable of reversing life and death—did she understand.

In response to Minato's doubt, Li Ang simply whispered: "Leave it to me."

With that, his sunlike eyes stared silently down at the abyss still erupting below.

Uchiha Obito was indeed hard to kill—but fortunately, his mechanism wasn't flawless.

With Minato's aid, he was already as good as dead in Li Ang's eyes.

Far away, a figure of stark black and white watched the battlefield, a flicker of shock crossing his eyes.

'What is that man doing?!'

It was Zetsu.

He realized his 'brother' was not following the plan.

Not only was he not helping Uchiha Obito against Minato—the two were working together!

'But why?'

Black Zetsu couldn't understand.

After all, the man wasn't allied with Changmen—what possible benefit could this bring?

He recalled their earlier conversation, and confusion welled within him.

On the battlefield.

The violent explosions lasted ten full minutes before gradually subsiding.

The instant the explosions ceased, Li Ang hurled the spear in his hand.

"Divine Declaration: Gungnir."

Having faced him so many times, he had long since sown the fate of death upon Uchiha Obito.

The next instant, a meteor pierced through the lingering smoke and shot toward the lake, whose waters were slowly filling the void.

Pthsh—!

Amidst the smoke, a man who had lost half his right face slowly knelt on the ground, his remaining half-face dazed and vacant.

'That's.'

'What?'

Just as his consciousness was about to slip into darkness, a sigh sounded beside his ear: "It's really not easy to kill you."

It was Li Ang.

He stared expressionlessly at Uchiha Obito, whose life force was fading further.

Uchiha Obito was indeed hard to kill; Shinra Tensei was practically a half-passive ability—unless you drained his chakra duration, you could barely touch him.

In addition, he could release Izanagi through his left eye.

Under normal circumstances, killing him was nearly impossible.

For safety's sake, Li Ang had directly shattered Uchiha Obito's right eye with Gungnir, preventing any chance of escape.

Yet even without nearly half his head, the man still hadn't died immediately—his vitality was astonishingly resilient.

Hearing the voice, Uchiha Obito lifted his head and looked ahead with his slowly closing left eye.

"Dragon."

"Why are you..."

He was about to ask why this man had not been affected by his genjutsu when he saw a never-before-seen Mangekyō in the man's left eye.

".!!"

"Impossible."

Uchiha Obito struggled to widen his remaining left eye, but the cost of Izanagi had irreversibly stolen his last shred of vision.

In the darkness before him, Uchiha Obito remembered how, the first time he met this man, he had been a madman chasing Uchiha power.

Why...

Would he be an Uchiha?

At that moment, a whisper from hell sounded beside Uchiha Obito's ear.

"Heh... don't rush. Uchiha Itachi will soon join you. I'll avenge the clan members who died that night."

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Uchiha Obito's face twisted in confusion: "What are you... talking about?"

"You two probably didn't think anyone survived that night, did you?"

Li Ang's expression was utterly cold.

This was his new identity among Konan and Changmen: one of only two survivors of the Uchiha clan massacre.

Of course, at first, neither of them believed him.

But when Li Ang revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, they fell silent.

Changmen and Konan finally understood why this Dragon had joined Akatsuki—he sought revenge on Uchiha Itachi.

Changmen also understood now why he had previously said Uchiha Itachi was problematic.

As for the Byakugan...

Li Ang claimed his right eye was blind; as long as he didn't actively use it, others couldn't easily tell.

"Cough—!"

Uchiha Obito, enraged and heart-stricken, spat out a large gout of blood.

Impossible. That night, he and Uchiha Itachi had both checked—no one could have survived except Uchiha Sasuke.

Unless Uchiha Itachi had left someone alive and never told him.

Before Uchiha Obito could think further, Li Ang stepped before him and leaned close to his ear: "I wonder how the Fourth Hokage would feel knowing the one who killed him was his own student."

"He and his Lady treated you so well."

Kill the body, destroy the soul.

Uchiha Obito whirled his head around: "You!?"

Before he could utter his final words, his consciousness plunged forever into darkness.

He was dead.

The mastermind who had operated for countless years as "Uchiha Madara" was gone.

Just as he had once used information asymmetry to kill Konan in the original plot, Li Ang now effortlessly killed him using the same tactic.

【Maintaining Sage Mode in battle, Skill EXP +13】.

【Using chakra in battle, Skill EXP +19】.

After snapping Uchiha Obito's neck, Li Ang stood up expressionlessly.

He regretted not obtaining Uchiha Obito's right eye, but for safety's sake, he had no choice.

Behind him, Konan watched his demeanor and assumed it was the emptiness after avenging his clan.

After a moment of silence, the mature woman with paper flowers spoke: "As agreed, you should now head to the front to support Changmen."

Hearing this, Li Ang turned from his regret and exhaled softly: "No problem, Sister Konan."

After all, this had been his agreement with the duo.

Now, once he dealt with the Ninja Alliance, he could begin his own plan.