On the Broken City Wall,
the two watched Shennong leap away, their gazes somewhat dazed.
Uchiha Ci took a deep breath, glanced at the scroll in his hand containing Zero Tail Dark Chakra, and tucked it into his leg pouch.
The Zero Tail, known as an aggregate of Dark Chakra, was a power that had naturally arisen in the ninja world outside the Nine Tailed Beasts.
The darker the heart of the person wielding this power, the greater the strength they could unleash.
Holding that scroll, Uchiha Ci only felt his heart sink.
Honestly, he simply could not understand why someone like him, who was merely courting death under the banner of the Great Cause, had received such a precious gift.
It also served as a reminder.
Though his motives were a little off, what he was doing was actually not much different from the protagonists of certain hot-blooded manga.
Courting death had become easier,
but the side effects of becoming a hot-blooded manga protagonist had come along with it.
What was with random old men always popping up to help at crucial moments?
That was way too wrong.
His truest desire had clearly been to avoid involving anyone, avoid changing any major plot developments, and, alone in the vast Ninja World War, find a suitable opportunity and a suitable powerful enemy to kill him.
So where had things gone wrong?
Uchiha Ci could not help frowning, feeling that things were not so simple.
"Come on, what are you still spacing out for?" Seeing him deep in thought, Mei Terumi waved a hand before him and urged him softly.
Uchiha Ci frowned, his suspicious gaze falling on the girl who had spoken.
Then realization struck him.
The key to the problem lay with this cute-looking yet utterly detestable girl, who