I was reading old chapters and I thought about this.
It's a high chance that madara's trump card can be izanami, it fits perfectly and can explain why madara said he had to do it
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Itachi announced izanami and said that it was
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Now we know izanami needs a little time to create the loop, and in itachi's case it
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BUT itachi already had it prepared, so it might take madara a little longer to activate it.
This is where the anticipation comes in, obito has izanagi, that's what madara meant by obito anticipating him. I think madara is trying to activate izanami before obito knows what happening and use izanagi to counter.
This will also immobilize obito
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, then madara can force him to use rinne tensei like he was trying to do at first before obito became the jinchuuriki.
So basically, madara is fighting hashirama to kill time and avoid getting obito's attention, he also told hashirama that he'll was gonna
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This is because madara only plans on fight until izanami is fully prepared, its been 6/7 chapters and itachi took 5 but it was already prepared though. And now that juubito just destroyed the barrier in the recent chapter, its about time that izanami is ready. Madara and hashirama should be done fighting and something big needs to happen soon, juubito hasn't fought madara yet and it will happen eventually
Yes there is a possibility that madara will lose an eye but he will achieve his goal that we know of so far, become human and he still wants to be the juubi's jinchuuriki himself. This strategy would be his first step. And the juubi can b controlled with one rinnegan eye because obito is doing it.
So I think within the next 2-3 chapters, juubito will attack madara and he's gonna use his trump card on obito and it'll be izanami.
What do you think?