Grandpa Is So Handsome

Bulma had considered this proposal too.

Even the "Four Red Yang Formation" jointly cast by the four Hokage could be destroyed by the Ten-Tails. The seal on her body was nowhere near that strong—at best, it was an enhanced version of the "Four Violet Flame Formation." As long as the yield was high enough, breaking it from the inside was not impossible.

But the problem was...

What would happen afterward?

Uchiha Hikari did not know how deeply she had been buried. If the seal broke and dozens of tons of rock above her collapsed, she would still be crushed into pulp.

Not every Uchiha could be saved by an old grandpa like Kenji.

Bulma: Um... that's not hard to solve. I can make an instrument and send it over first to scan the soil conditions on your side, then manufacture a bomb based on the results for a controlled demolition. By the way, are you a boy or a girl? Have you really been sealed for more than a hundred years? Can humans survive that long?

Nameless: I...

Uchiha Hikari hesitated for a moment, skipping over the question of her gender.

Nameless: Because of the seal, my bodily functions were suspended for a long period of time, which effectively extended my lifespan.

Bulma: That sounds kind of amazing. It'd be nice if I could study it...

Nameless: If you can get me out, I can take some blood samples and send them to you, along with materials on Sealing Techniques and such... Maybe we don't have to wait that long. Would you mind helping me test the effects of the "travel" function?

Bulma: Huh?

Dragon Ball World, West City.

Dressed in casual home clothes, Bulma lay on her bed, doing crunches while looking at the chat interface in her mind.

As a genius girl who had grown up around all kinds of high-end technology, Bulma was highly receptive to new things. She did not find something like a chat group impossible at all. However, allowing people from different dimensions to communicate was one thing; point-to-point transportation was another. If it could even accomplish something like that...

"That's incredible. It has to be a hundred times harder than time travel!"

Still...

It was worth a try!

Bulma, who had dared to set out alone and search the world for the Dragon Balls, naturally was not afraid of meeting an "online friend." She was merely a little curious—

"Is this person called 'Nameless' a boy? Is he handsome? If he's some Prince Charming..."

Amid Bulma's wild imaginings—

Nameless started a Group Live Stream.

Nameless requested entry into Bulma's world. Accept?

Bulma started a Group Live Stream.

Bulma accepted the request.

Several lines of text flashed past.

Two small floating windows appeared in the upper-right corner of the chat box. Opening them with a thought revealed Uchiha Hikari's and Bulma's locations.

On one side was a deep, dark underground space, with only a faint source of light emanating from the sealing formula, barely illuminating one corner of a coffin.

On the other was a girl's bedroom filled with a strong technological atmosphere, where blue-haired Bulma stood.

The next moment—

As the livestream image on Uchiha Hikari's side flickered, her entire body vanished from the coffin with a whoosh, leaving behind only the layers upon layers of sealing arrays outside. Then, almost at the same time, the image on Bulma's side shook slightly, and an extra person had appeared.

Forever with Sis: !

If Minato Namikaze had still harbored the slightest doubt while they were chatting in the group just now—

Then now, he completely believed in the existence of the chat group. The ability to ignore seals and instantly teleport elsewhere without even forming hand signs was definitely not something an ordinary ninja possessed. Anyone capable of that was likely beyond the scope of humanity.

"Something created by a god..."

On the other side.

Bulma's eyes widened in surprise as she stared curiously at Uchiha Hikari. "So you're a girl... You look so young!"

"...Can I borrow a mirror?"

Because she had entered the coffin immediately after crossing over, Uchiha Hikari had never seen her own full appearance. There were also barely any memories of her previous self looking in a mirror.

—During the Warring States Period in the Naruto world, mirrors were probably still luxury items. With her status as a "weapon," she naturally had no right to access one.

And now...

Splash—

Uchiha Hikari scooped up a handful of water and splashed it onto her face, then raised her head.

A fair, delicate face entered her sight.

She looked like a girl of twelve or thirteen, with exquisite features and long hair cascading like a waterfall. She wore a dark blue Warring States-style dress. Perhaps because she had fought before being sealed, the hem of the dress was already torn, revealing an ankle bound by shackles. Her bare feet were slender and small enough to fit in one hand.

As she walked, the shackles scraped against the floor, producing a series of dull, crisp clinks.

"Sharingan!"

Uchiha Hikari slowly closed her eyes, then opened them again several seconds later.

As Chakra surged, Scarlet Three Tomoe emerged in her pitch-black eyes, slowly swirling like liquid and faintly outlining the shape of a windmill, as gorgeous as rubies.

"Damn, I'm pretty."

The corners of Uchiha Hikari's lips curled up slightly, and much of her resentment over being forcibly transported through time and space dissipated.

After all...

Who wouldn't like a delicate, young Uchiha girl with a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan?

That was right.

Uchiha Hikari possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, and her Eye Techniques were exceptionally powerful—due to her unusual constitution, she had undergone several transplant surgeries during the time her clansmen had treated her as a weapon, gaining several different Eye Technique abilities as a result.

The first was "Marked Tsukuyomi." It was similar to Itachi Uchiha's Tsukuyomi, but it could leave a mark on others and then pull anyone bearing that mark into a genjutsu space regardless of distance.

The second was a plus-sized version of "Amaterasu," more flexible than ordinary Amaterasu and somewhat similar to Sasuke's "Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi."

The third was "Yachihoko," the ability awakened by her original body at the very beginning. After leaving a mark, it could extract and control another person's Chakra and spirit, or grant her own Chakra to others.

In theory, Uchiha Hikari's normal combat strength was roughly equal to Itachi Uchiha during his Akatsuki days, while her upper limit... was marking everyone in the entire ninja world, absorbing all their Chakra in one go, and turning herself into a low-end version of the God Tree, infinitely close to Six Paths level.

—That was only in theory.

Setting aside the sheer amount of work required to create that many marks, even if she could do it, her body would struggle to bear so much Chakra. She would likely end up like Eight Gates Guy, facing bodily collapse after a brief burst of power.

In short.

Uchiha Hikari was fairly satisfied with her new body.

It would be even better if she were a little bigger.

Mm... she meant older, not a certain part of her body.

"Are you done, Hikari?"

Bulma's voice came from outside.

"Yeah."

Uchiha Hikari dried her hands and walked out of the restroom.

Bulma carefully looked her over, her gaze lingering especially on the shackles around Hikari's feet. "Then... I'll find a way to remove those shackles first, and then give you a thorough physical examination. We can talk about researching and making bombs afterward."