"My lord, although you serve the Great General, you cannot wander freely through the inner palace. If you offend one of His Majesty's consorts, even ten heads would not be enough to pay for it.
Please wait here in this little garden, my lord. I will take this woman to see His Majesty."
A eunuch cautioned Obito in the garden, then left with the woman.
Obito did not ignore the eunuch's warning, but he still had to find Rin.
With no other choice, he skirted the rules by standing at the courtyard entrance and looking outside, hoping to catch a glimpse of something.
Perhaps fate answered Obito's call. After an agonizingly long wait, he actually saw Rin, dressed in lavish, elegant robes, crossing a small bridge in the distance.
Seeing Rin, who had clearly already become another man's woman, Obito clutched his chest, his heart threatening to shatter.
He felt his Sharingan itching.
Obito had been worried that, because he possessed those memories from the dream, ordinary shocks could no longer awaken his Sharingan. Yet now, it had finally awakened.
In his dream memories, Rin had merely been stabbed to death by Kakashi.
But in this "cruel reality," Rin already belonged to someone else!
And that someone was a man he could neither challenge nor eliminate.
This was a pain he had never experienced even in his dream memories.
Obito wanted to throw back his head and howl, "No!" But he remembered the eunuch's warning not to disturb anyone in the inner palace and could only force himself to suppress his grief.
As tears blurred Obito's vision, his Sharingan awakened, jumping straight from nothing to two tomoe, with faint signs that it was progressing toward three.
While Obito watched Rin recede into the distance through his tears, she suddenly glanced