Obito with two Sharingan!
Double Kamui!
Qingye sucked in a sharp breath.
This butterfly of mine, which had strayed into this world, had really stirred up quite a storm this time...
I'd thought the Battle of Kannabi Bridge had already ended, completely different from how it was supposed to go, and that afterward I could keep relying on my knowledge of the plot to get through the coming year of loan repayments.
But now an even bigger change was waiting for me!
"Qingye? What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
Kakashi asked, confused.
"...No, it's nothing."
Qingye came back to his senses and waved a hand.
Forget it. It didn't matter.
He was already on Uchiha Madara's radar. If Obito with Double Kamui joined the list in the future... He already had plenty of problems, so one more wouldn't make a difference!
The great battle had temporarily ended.
Qingye had killed hundreds of Iwa ninjas on his own during the Kannabi Bridge mission, while Minato Namikaze had carved his way through the front lines!
The two sides had started out with a huge disparity in numbers, but now the battle had somehow reached a strange deadlock!
In fact!
Konoha might even have the upper hand now!
Kitsuchi, Iwagakure's highest-ranking commander, had already been captured alive!
In any case, after such a fierce battle, both Konoha and Iwagakure would need at least a few days to recover.
The Medical Ninjas in Konoha's camp were now working at full capacity, doing everything they could to treat the wounded.
Inside Qingye's tent.
As usual, he summoned his Ninja Crow, and sure enough, it brought him another letter from the Uchiha clan in Konoha.
The letter said that the war between Konoha and Sunagakure had ended completely. Sunagakure had been defeated and had no choice but to negotiate peace with Konoha.
Some of Konoha's ninjas from the Sunagakure front would now be transferred to the Iwagakure front. Their clan leader, Uchiha Fugaku, seemed to be among those being sent over.
"Talk about perfect timing!"
Qingye couldn't help complaining.
If reinforcements from the other fronts had arrived a little sooner, the Iwagakure front wouldn't have had to fight so desperately.
Once the reinforcements arrived, the balance on the Iwagakure front would tip completely in Konoha's favor. The war here would probably be over very soon.
"Hmm, that probably isn't all..."
Qingye thought for a moment, picturing a map of the Shinobi World in his mind.
To the south, in the direction of the Land of Rain, Iwagakure was also fighting Sunagakure.
Now that the war between Sunagakure and Konoha had ended, Sunagakure would be able to send troops to fight Iwagakure too... Judging by that, the war on this front would probably end even sooner.
"System, show me my status."
[Stats: Spirit 9, Body 8, Strength 6, Speed 9, Ninjutsu 8, Hand Seals 7, Genjutsu 9, Intelligence 9]
His stats still totaled 65 points.
He still had a full year left to repay the Chakra Loan for his Mangekyō Sharingan.
With his current strength, he could definitely protect himself on the battlefield, but he still had to find ways to get stronger.
Come to think of it, after he'd taken out a system loan to obtain the Mangekyō Sharingan, the system had unlocked a new function.
But that function had been practically useless to him at the time, so Qingye had ignored it for the moment.
He brought up the system panel in his mind.
The system panel was now divided into two sections: "Permanent Loans" and "Temporary Loans." Each had options for "Talent Enhancement" and "Ninjutsu Learning."
As the names suggested, a Permanent Loan could permanently enhance someone's talent or teach them a ninjutsu.
With a Temporary Loan, however, the enhanced talent or learned ninjutsu would only last half an hour. After that, he'd have to repay the loan with ten days' worth of Chakra!
Temporary Loans also imposed much harsher restrictions on his Chakra.
Both times he'd taken out a Permanent Loan, his Chakra had been reduced to one card, equivalent to a Spirit stat of 6.
With a Temporary Loan, he'd only need ten days to finish repaying it, but his Chakra would be reduced to the equivalent of a Spirit stat of 1 for those ten days!
At that level, his Chakra might not even be much stronger than a student at the Ninja Academy...
Permanent and Temporary Loans didn't conflict with each other. He could take out one Temporary Loan while repaying a Permanent Loan, but doing so would automatically delay repayment of the Permanent Loan.
And if he'd already used a Permanent Loan to enhance his talent, he couldn't use a Temporary Loan to enhance it any further.
Taken together, this new Temporary Loan function was pretty useless to Qingye right now.
He couldn't use it to temporarily enhance his talent any further.
And if he temporarily learned a ninjutsu, he could only use it for half an hour. Afterward, he'd have to repay a harsher Chakra Loan over ten days, and the repayment period for his Permanent Loan would automatically be pushed back by ten days too!
All Qingye wanted now was to finish repaying the one-year loan for the Mangekyō Sharingan as soon as possible.
"Still, there is one other difference..."
Qingye narrowed his eyes. The system's Temporary Loan seemed to work on other people too!
He could give someone else a Temporary Loan to briefly enhance their talent or teach them a ninjutsu, but the target had to agree to the loan. He couldn't force one on them.
If only he could force loans on people. That would be hilarious!
He could lend his opponent some useless ninjutsu, like the Great Fireball or the Water Dragon Bullet, which required forty-four hand seals, then wait half an hour for their Chakra to get nerfed to hell!
Too bad he couldn't.
Qingye felt a pang of regret and asked the system in his mind:
"System, do I get any rewards for giving someone else a Temporary Loan?"
[No rewards.]
"?"
"System, say that again?!"
Why would he go to all that trouble if there was no reward?!
Not only would he be exposing the system's abilities for nothing, but it wouldn't even give him so much as a reward?
"System, what was the new function you said would unlock after I finished repaying the Chakra Loan for the Mangekyō Sharingan?"
[This function will unlock after the host has repaid the current Chakra Loan.]
"Could I give other people Permanent Loans?"
[Please explore on your own after repaying the current Chakra Loan.]
"Come on, is that what it is or not? Give me an answer!"
[Please explore on your own after repaying the current Chakra Loan.]
"System, if I really can give other people Permanent Loans, what's in it for me?"
[Please explore on your own after repaying the current Chakra Loan.]
"Damn it!"
This stupid system!
Whatever. He'd just keep repaying the loan, avoid delaying it as much as possible, and get through this one-year repayment period as quickly as he could!
Giving up on asking the system questions, Qingye continued exploring the Temporary Loan function.
Should he try it out?
Who should he lend to?
Who would even agree?
He couldn't just approach someone out of nowhere and say, "Give me your phone—no, your Chakra. This is a ninjutsu you'll learn in the future, so take it and use it. Then no one will make fun of you again."
Who the hell would believe that?
As he was exploring the function, a voice came from outside the tent.
"Qingye, may I come in?" Minato Namikaze asked gently.
What was he here for?
Qingye pulled his thoughts away from the system.
Minato Namikaze... Hah. With his abilities, he was the least likely person to borrow a Chakra Loan from him—unless it was during the Nine-Tails' attack, when he was about to die alongside Kushina Uzumaki.
Wait?
That might actually be an idea!
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