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For over two years, Kisame Hoshigaki had been locked in this pool, watching the postwar Mist Hidden Village transform from ruins into shacks, and then from shacks into simple cottages.

In the end, those simple cottages became the prosperous streets they were today.

More and more people appeared, and the streets grew livelier.

More importantly, the reformed Mist Hidden Village now had fewer traces of bloodlust and more peace than it had before the war.

Everything was changing toward a brighter future.

It was becoming more and more like the world he had hoped for, where everyone trusted one another.

At last, he finally understood that the future depended entirely on individual choices.

Going with the flow accomplished nothing.

If he wanted a different future, he had to work for it himself, creating it bit by bit.

He could not simply hope to reach the heavens in a single step and directly realize the future he envisioned.

That was unrealistic.

Obito Uchiha's attempt to create a world through Genjutsu had ultimately been nothing more than self-deception.

A falsehood could never replace the truth.

A dream would always have a day when it ended.

"Good. It's excellent that you can understand that!"

Qi Shuang nodded, then continued, "Darkness and light coexist. You simply happened to be in the darkness and saw one of its filthy corners, but that isn't the entirety of the world."

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked toward the sky. "This world is vast, but my heart is small. It can only contain the Mist Hidden Village."

"I can't control what happens to the world."

"As long as I can use my power to change the Mist Hidden Village, that's enough."

"Trying to change the entire world with one's own power, like Obito Uchiha did,