"So, it's here."
Suddenly, a familiar yet strange voice echoed in the room.
Konan's eyes narrowed sharply as she turned around abruptly, only to see Yahiko dressed in the black cloak with red clouds.
But on his face was a cold smile she didn't recognize—one that even made her heart skip a beat.
"Ya—Yahiko?"
Her mind was in complete chaos, as if suddenly filled with countless distracting thoughts.
"How are you here?"
"Yahiko?"
But the face was Yahiko's, yet it wore a strange smile.
"No, no, no, I am not Yahiko. I am White Zetsu!"
Suddenly, Konan felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, invaded by an uncontrollable coldness that penetrated her bones and even her very soul.
"No, this can't be."
Konan murmured unconsciously, unable to accept this truth.
"Heh, nothing is impossible."
White Zetsu completely tore off his disguise, clearly enjoying Konan's expression.
"Looks like you don't know my true nature, do you?"
Ignoring the shocked Konan, he continued speaking to himself, "I am not a regular human. To be precise, I was created as a clone using the First Hokage's Cell. There are many clones like me, but only I possess consciousness. Do you understand what that means?"
"Adam gave you your 'consciousness'?" Konan was filled with shock.
"That's right. You're smart."
As he spoke, white spores spread across Yahiko's body, then reassembled into a human form nearby.
"I must admit, you are really strong." White Zetsu said calmly and confidently.
He was completely in control now, not worrying that Konan could turn the tables.
He enjoyed the look of despair in his enemy's eyes — it gave him the greatest pleasure.
"To survive through so many explosive seals, forcing me to abandon my original body..."
"But precisely because I abandoned my original body, I was able to successfully infiltrate this corpse."
It looked into Konan's increasingly desperate eyes. Although it had no gender traits, it felt an unprecedented climax.
"Where is Nagato?"
Konan widened her eyes, stunned as she asked.
"Heh, do you think Beyonder of Spectator Pathways can't control the corpses?"
White Zetsu laughed, his smile full of mockery. "Wrong. The sequence 4 Maniputor can forge Virtual Persona. These black rods may resist hypnosis, but they also reveal his location to me. My split spores easily found the original Rinnegan user."
"What happens next is simple."
It spread its arms and began to reveal its plan. "I hypnotized the original Rinnegan user, stole relevant memories, and then pretended to be Yahiko to gain your trust."
Konan suddenly seemed to realize something, her pupils shrinking. "That thought just now—was it implanted by you?"
By logic, she should have gone to rest directly, never come here.
Yet at this critical moment, an inexplicable thought compelled her to come!
"Of course, who else could it be but me?"
White Zetsu's words pierced Konan's heart like sharp thorns. "I must thank you. Without the secrecy of this chamber, I never would have found out."
Konan collapsed, her pupils shrinking sharply, trembling as if in fear.
"Alright, thanks for listening."
White Zetsu took a deep breath and smiled. "Now, you will witness the great moment when I surpass 'Adam'!"
"No!"
Konan suddenly struggled, trying to move forward to stop White Zetsu.
But, at the moment the thought crossed her mind, the implanted "hypnosis" forcibly suppressed her body's movement.
"Such a great moment—how could it be without an audience?"
White Zetsu spread his arms, walking toward the altar like approaching a throne. He reached for the flashy "book" on the altar, unable to hide the excitement inside.
"Now is the time. At this very moment, I will surpass 'Adam,' surpass my creator, and become a true god!"
This was why he didn't kill Konan, but instead let her watch.
White Zetsu arrived before the altar and stared at the small "book," a sinister smile spreading across his face.
"Adam, you're so powerful, but did you ever think that you could be replaced by your own creation?"
That existence, engraved deep in his memory like a nightmare and a fear, was now stored inside this "book."
It was too laughable, too humble, too insignificant!
White Zetsu laughed arrogantly and wildly until a figure appeared in the void—it was Uchiha Obito.
"Oh, you finally found it?"
Obito looked at the book with a cruel smirk.
"That's right, but I'll need your power to destroy this 'book,'" White Zetsu said, smiling at Obito.
"Just as agreed, something extraordinary enough for 'Adam' to use as a slumber vessel must be high level, so you must be the one to act."
"Of course, I will destroy it."
Obito's eyes turned scarlet, and the space ahead suddenly warped.
Konan watched this scene with furious eyes, wanting to scream out to stop them, but the hypnosis kept her powerless.
At the center of the warped vortex of space-time, a dark point erupted with intense crushing power.
However, what shocked Obito and White Zetsu was that Groselle's Travels was surrounded by a faint white light, remaining completely intact within the singularity caused by the distortion.
Uchiha Sogetsu calmly watched everything happening inside the empty room.
"Finally, it's about to begin."
This outcome was inevitable.
How could two mere Demi-Gods ranked at Sequence Four possibly destroy something created by the Dragon of Imagination with the authority and power of a true god?
He did not want to step into the world of the Groselle's Travels because he feared the resurrection trap left behind by Ankewelt.
If 0-08 and the Groselle's Travels combined in reality, Ankewelt would be fully revived!
"Then, enjoy your dream while it lasts."
Between reality and illusion, Uchiha Sogetsu's lips curled into a slight smile as he looked at both White Zetsu and Obito.
"Tch, as expected, it's not going so smoothly."
Seeing this, White Zetsu's face darkened immediately. "No wonder it was chosen by Adam to sleep—it can even ignore your attacks."
"Looks like we have to move on to plan B."
Obito quickly caught on and grinned. "No problem. Since we can't destroy it, we'll just enter it, find that guy, and finish him off!"
"That's the only way."
Although White Zetsu really didn't want to face 'Adam,' at this point, this was their only choice.
Obito and White Zetsu stared at the Groselle's Travels, exchanged a glance, then stepped toward the book.
The moment they touched the Groselle's Travels—
The book suddenly opened, its yellowed parchment pages flipping wildly, releasing a terrifying suction.
Obito and White Zetsu were completely helpless and got sucked directly into the book.
In Konan's shocked gaze, the flipping pages closed again.
Everything seemed to return to silence as if nothing had happened.
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