Experience Teaches, You'll Get It The First Time

From the moment Naruto was pierced by the blade, this battle entered garbage time.

Madara suppressed his killing intent toward Shin, watching coldly and indifferently.

Naruto's injury caused Kurama's chakra mode to dissipate! The fox head protecting Sarada crumbled, and Shin grinned as he launched his pursuit.

"Sarada!!!"

Sasuke, protective of his daughter, threw himself forward as a meat shield, taking a solid shuriken piercing to his back!

In his pain, he gasped in shock: "This... my mobility is!!"

Shin's right eye released a pupil light, his taunt dripping with mockery: "Peace hinders humanity's further evolution—this is perfectly displayed in you!"

"And stopping evolution will surely lead to extinction..."

"Boom!" Sakura Haruno, who had pursued from Konoha, descended from the sky, a heavy fist exploding against Shin's chest. "Look what you've done to my husband and daughter!! You bastard!"

"Ughhh...!!" Shin screamed as he was sent flying backward; that punch had ruptured his internal organs!

Chen said, "Sakura Haruno—you've likely seen her before. She is now Sasuke's wife."

Madara's gaze showed no ripple of emotion. A supporting character's highlight couldn't make up for the protagonist's failure, and besides... that kind of by-the-book attack wasn't anything impressive in Madara's eyes.

Sakura's forceful entrance directly turned the tide of battle.

Naruto pulled the blade from his abdomen, mobilized Kurama's chakra, and while repairing the puncture wound, summoned two Golden Chakra Arms that firmly grabbed Shin and his clone children!

Sasuke also pulled the kunai from his back and began a long-unseen, husband-and-wife exchange with Sakura.

His composed demeanor suggested he had already fully grasped Shin's dojutsu.

Everything was bottoming out and turning for the better.

But it was already too late. No matter how sufficient their excuses for their earlier blunders, no matter how they tried to reclaim their shining moments in the coming fight...

They couldn't make up for the fatal, elementary mistakes they had just committed, nor the weight they had lost in Madara's estimation.

Making such low-level errors and still being alive—it was only because their opponent was too pathetic!

If it were him, he'd have killed them ten times over!

Madara said, lost in thought, "Those two's combat instincts have decayed to the point of being unwatchable. Thirty years old—the age when a shinobi should be entering their prime—yet they left their prime in their youth and have been sliding downhill ever since."

"That Shin may be trash, but one thing he said was right... peace hinders human evolution."

"And stopping evolution will surely lead to extinction."

A White One-Eyed Monster suddenly descended beside Shin, its eye releasing a black vortex that sucked Shin, his clone children, and Sakura Haruno inside!

Naruto and Sasuke exclaimed in shock, "A Space-Time ninjutsu?!"

Chen turned to seek Madara's opinion: "Do you wish to continue witnessing?"

Next, the following events would unfold like dominoes.

Sakura, in Shin's base camp surrounded by a group of clones, would use Medical Ninjutsu to treat Shin's injuries.

Naruto, Sasuke, and his daughter would head to Orochimaru's base to inquire about Shin, as Shin was one of Orochimaru's former test subjects.

Then, Sasuke's Rinnegan would recover its depleted pupil power from exploring the Different Dimension, he would activate his complete Susanoo, and storm Shin's old lair.

Shin would ultimately be backstabbed by his own clone children, meeting a miserable end.

Madara said, "No need. I have no desire to chew on rotten cabbage leaves I've already tasted once."

Chen said, "It seems you now believe that what I showed is the undeniable future without my interference."

Madara turned his gaze to Chen's profile: "I have a question. Didn't you try to reveal the 'future' to Naruto and Sasuke? You said you were looking for like-minded companions. As heroes who ended the Ninja World War, those two would be perfect candidates, wouldn't they?"

Chen shook his head, a helpless smile appearing on his face.

Watching Naruto's retreating figure accompanied by Sasuke and his daughter, he said, "How many times do you think I've tried to communicate with them over the years? I've lowered my stance as much as possible, but in the end, I couldn't even meet that Lord Hokage 'in the light of day'."

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Madara said, "But you could have used harsher methods, couldn't you?"

"Perhaps."

In Chen's mind flashed the so-called 'test' Shikamaru had given him three years ago in Konoha's reception room.

"Your words and actions are far too suspicious. Standing from the position of Konoha's Hokage Advisor, I simply cannot believe what you say."

"If you want to prove yourself, cooperate with Konoha's procedures—first seal your chakra, then stay briefly in Konoha's Detention Room, and let the Yamanaka Clan verify whether you're telling the truth or not!"

Shikamaru Nara, I can probably guess your motives for saying that... but unfortunately, I, Uchiha Chen, am not so low as to grovel at Konoha's feet!

Any healthy cooperation between people is built on respect.

I can lower my stance and show my sincerity, but that doesn't mean you can climb onto my face.

That was Chen's answer to Madara.

"Prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain. Teaching through experience always cuts deeper than teaching through words. Naruto and Sasuke need to be harshly schooled by reality before they can fundamentally reflect on the reasons for the ninja world's regression."

"That is not merely the result of peace, but fundamentally a problem of 'system.'"

After a long silence.

Madara finally asked the question that weighed most on his mind.

"Then why did you choose me? You should know that I was once someone who tried to push the ninja world into the abyss, right?"

"Wait a moment."

Chen looked down at his watch.

Evening, 7:49 PM.

"Time, I reckon it's about right. I need to go retrieve that thing first."

"Whoosh!" A black vortex spun, and Chen and Madara arrived in the shattered lair.

Here, large patches of blood, shuriken, and traces of battle remained.

The fight between Naruto, Sasuke, and Shin had come to an end, and they had just left the scene.

Chen found the remains of a white creature beneath the broken rocks.

It was the vessel that carried Shin Uchiha's Space-Time Ninjutsu eye.

This white creature, due to its peculiar appearance, was jokingly called 'Uchiha Boss' by fans of the Hokage.

In the latter half of the battle that erupted in this old lair, Uchiha Boss had been taken down by Sarada with a single punch, along with the eye capable of space-time movement.

Madara immediately understood what Chen was going to retrieve.

"You're going to reverse time and restore this thing to before it was destroyed, aren't you?"

He recalled the scene when Chen had used 'Omodaru' on him before—that technique reversed time over a specific area as a whole, and the state of things that had once existed in that area would also be restored accordingly.

"But if you do that, the girl who destroyed this eye up close will also be reversed back here, won't she? Then Sasuke, through his Rinnegan, and Naruto will immediately track you down? Are you planning to start a fight with them here?"

Chen smiled lightly and said, "Fighting here wouldn't be a problem, but my appearance fee is quite steep. I wonder if they can afford it~."

Oh? Madara was surprised: Naruto and Sasuke were a bit rusty at the moment, but that was also due to their long absence from battle. If they found their rhythm again, their combat power would be no less formidable. The state they showed in the illusion during the fight against Otsutsuki Momoshiki was a living example.

And Chen clearly had the confidence to not fear those two. He was hiding his cards deep.

Chen got back to business and said, "Omodaru's Time Reversal isn't limited to spatial areas. It can also target a specific 'object' individually. It just requires one extra step—like this, placing a hand on the target object and reversing its state alone!"

He crouched down and pressed his hand onto Boss's corpse.

"Just like this!"

Under Madara's stunned gaze, Chen's right eye trembled with a vermilion radiance!

—Omodaru!