Note: The plot does not connect to Bo.
Outside Konoha Gate:
Tap—!
Step—!
Light, unhurried footsteps came from the distance...
One step at a time, they drew closer to Konoha Gate.
There,
stood a tall figure wearing red armor, black shinobi boots, and black gloves, with a mane of long hair flowing down to his waist.
If the First, Hashirama Senju, had been there, he would surely have recognized the figure as his former closest friend.
But,
Hashirama Senju was dead, so at that moment, no one recognized who the figure in red armor was...
Tap—step—
The tall figure continued to slowly approach Konoha Gate from afar, one step at a time.
All the while, a gentle breeze kept blowing through his thick black hair, making it sway endlessly in the wind.
It was as if it foretold that everything about to happen would shatter decades of peace!
"Hold it! Who are you? You're not from Konoha, are you?"
"Sorry, but you'll need to register your personal information!"
Just as the tall figure in red armor finally reached Konoha Gate...
There stood Konoha's two famed gatekeepers: Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane!!
In response:
"Hmph!"
The tall figure clad in red armor lowered his head slightly, his expression dark. Hearing their words, he let out a contemptuous chuckle.
Then, under the bemused gazes of Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane:
Clang—!!
The man slowly raised his head, revealing a pair of scarlet eyes with Three Tomoe.
In an instant...
The moment their gazes met those scarlet eyes, Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane immediately seemed to go blank,
both of them losing themselves right where they stood!
Tap—step—
The figure clad in red armor simply ignored the two gatekeepers.
Without a care in the world, he continued walking into the village at an unhurried pace!
Only after he had completely entered Konoha
did the two men behind him snap back to their senses as if waking from a dream.
Then:
"Huh?"
"How did we end up out here?"
Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane exchanged puzzled glances.
Neither of them had the slightest idea what was going on!
Clearly, they had completely forgotten everything that had just happened!
So they had no idea whether anyone who hadn't registered had entered Konoha...
At that moment!
It was just about noon, lunchtime.
Inside Konoha, restaurants like the Barbecue Restaurant were filled with quite a few diners.
Outside the shops, civilians and shinobi bustled back and forth!
A sign of Konoha's prosperity!
However,
amid all this bustling prosperity,
a solitary figure walked slowly down the broad road.
As he went, his deep black eyes seemed to casually observe the people around him, as well as Konoha's flourishing streets.
He was the man in red armor who had just entered through Konoha Gate!
By now, he had made his way into Konoha Village!
Looking at the scenes unfolding all around him, he said:
"Hmph...!"
"This place feels so familiar, yet so strange."
Chen Yiban looked at the scenes from his memories, now appearing right before his eyes in vivid reality.
He couldn't help but smile faintly as he murmured in awe.
Chen Yiban
had originally been from another world.
He'd grown up in an orphanage and, with the help of kindhearted people in society...
had managed to study through high school!
But he simply wasn't cut out for studying, so he dropped out before finishing high school and went out to make his way in the world.
Still, with an education that hadn't even gotten him through high school, what kind of decent job could he find?
In the years that followed, Chen Yiban had proudly become a food delivery rider, serving the people!
The reason he had ended up in this world, and even taken on the appearance of a powerful figure...
was that while he was delivering food, he'd been looking at his phone and failed to watch for traffic, causing a serious accident.
Chen Yiban had died in the accident, but unexpectedly became bound to an incredible, mysterious thing that called itself the Achievement Sign-in System.
Before the half-dead Chen Yiban could figure out what was happening...
the sign-in system had already given him his first sign-in for free!
And, by pure chance, he'd received: [Create Konoha · Uchiha Madara · Combat Template]
Since Chen Yiban had been on the verge of death and couldn't respond, the system directly applied the [Create Konoha · Uchiha Madara] combat template to him.
It even changed his appearance to match Uchiha Madara's.
Finally, it brought Chen Yiban, who had already died, from his original world to this world of shinobi.
And so...
that was why Chen Yiban stood on Konoha's bustling streets, watching people come and go!
In the meantime,
Chen Yiban hadn't cared who he became.
It was this power that had delighted him after he woke up and understood what had happened.
Chen Yiban spent a few days getting to grips with the many memories and combat experiences that had appeared in his mind, and familiarizing himself with his body.
He also figured out how the so-called "Achievement Sign-in System" worked:
It let Chen Yiban sign in once each day.
The sign-in reward could be anything!
There were no limits on its level!
It might let Chen Yiban rise to the top in one leap, or it might give him something like a pack of tissues.
Over the past few days, Chen Yiban had already signed in and received a pack of tissues—enough to make his eye twitch.
But aside from the one basic daily sign-in...
achieving certain milestones—
for example, defeating, killing, or subduing powerful opponents—
could also earn Chen Yiban additional sign-in opportunities.
That was why
he had come to Konoha!
To start... doing something, stirring things up!!
And besides,
Konoha was only the beginning.
Now that he had become Uchiha Madara and possessed all the power of Valley of the End Uchiha Madara...
deep within Chen Yiban, a man's insatiable hunger for power was growing wildly beyond his control!!
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