Konoha, at night.
After the fighting had stopped, villagers and shinobi had already begun repairing the damaged houses, one after another.
Meanwhile, inside the Hokage Building:
[Beginner Achievement Draws: 113!] [Intermediate Achievement Draws: 5!] [Advanced Achievement Draws: 2!] [Super Achievement Draws: 1!]
Looking at the information displayed in the system interface before him—a screen only he could see—
Chen Yiban sat alone in the Hokage Building, surrounded by unusual quiet.
After taking Konoha,
Chen Yiban had come to the Hokage Building by himself to rest!
No one had dared disturb him in the meantime.
And so, Chen Yiban began checking what he had gained today.
Hmm...
It was a fairly decent haul!
"Still feels like too little."
"I didn't kill many powerful opponents, but they should all have been defeated by me."
"By rights... I should've gotten more than this!"
Chen Yiban still seemed a little dissatisfied.
In response:
[Though Konoha's Jonin were no match for you, they never admitted defeat. Even in the end, they neither knelt to submit to you nor fell unconscious and lost the ability to fight. To count toward Beginner Achievement draws, a target must be at least an Elite Chunin, and you need ten of them!]
The Achievement Sign-in System actually answered Chen Yiban's doubts and complaints.
"I see." Chen Yiban murmured calmly.
In other words...
Although Kakashi and the others couldn't beat Chen Yiban, they hadn't admitted defeat, nor had they knelt and begged him for mercy in the end.
So Chen Yiban hadn't received any achievement draws for defeating the many Konoha Jonin, Kakashi included!
"All right, got it." At last, he walked over and sat in the Hokage's seat.
He looked again at the more than a hundred draws of varying levels displayed in the air.
"There are too many useless low-level draws. Can I exchange them for something else?"
Sitting in the Hokage Position, which should have belonged to Tsunade Hime, Chen Yiban rested his chin on one hand and spoke with a languid air.
[Certainly! Ten Beginner draws can be exchanged for one Intermediate draw. Ten Intermediate draws can be exchanged for one Advanced draw, and so on.]
The system replied again.
"Then exchange my 113 Beginner draws for one Advanced draw and one Intermediate draw," Chen Yiban decided at once.
"Then go straight ahead with the Advanced and Super draws!"
Chen Yiban added this as well.
After the low-level draws were exchanged for higher-level ones:
[Beginner Achievement Draws: 3!] [Intermediate Achievement Draws: 6!] [Advanced Achievement Draws: 3!] [Super Achievement Draws: 1!] [Drawing begins...] [Congratulations! You obtained: a portion of Hashirama Senju's flesh and blood from the Advanced pool!] [Congratulations! You obtained: Space-Time Ninjutsu: Flying Thunder God! (Mastered)] [Congratulations! You obtained: Eight Inner Gates Formation! (Mastered)] [Congratulations! You obtained: Rinnegan Jutsu: Amenotejikara!!]
"Oh?"
Chen Yiban propped his chin on one hand, lazily studying the draw results floating in the air. The corner of his mouth curled up.
"Hashirama's cells?"
"Too bad I already have Asura's."
"As for the Eight Inner Gates Formation... Hmm, paired with Izanagi, it might lead to a pleasant surprise. Not bad!"
"Flying Thunder God... That'll do too!"
"And last... The Super draw actually gave me the Rinnegan's ocular jutsu, Amenotejikara."
"Excellent. It's just a shame I still haven't awakened the Rinnegan!"
Chen Yiban lowered the large, gloved hand that had been propping up his chin. In the end, he looked rather regretful.
"Looks like..."
"Fusing with Asura's power—or the Hashirama power I just obtained—is now urgent."
"As for the Rinnegan... I'm definitely going to awaken it!"
"That'll require Tsunade Hime's help!"
As he spoke,
Chen Yiban touched his right eye.
At that moment, his right eye was still in the [Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan] state. He couldn't turn it off at will.
There was no helping it. His medical skills weren't very good. Earlier that day, to counter "Eight Gates Guy's" [Night Guy],
Chen Yiban had removed his original right eye and replaced it with a "Three Tomoe Sharingan" from his system inventory so he could use [Izanagi].
Though he'd ultimately killed Eight Gates Guy, Chen Yiban's lack of skill meant that after he put his "Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan" back in, he couldn't turn it off at will.
"I'll have her take care of this too!"
Chen Yiban muttered to himself. In the next instant, he called out:
"You outside, come in."
His right eye's Eternal Mangekyo and his left eye's normal black pupil fixed on the closed door. He spoke as if addressing thin air.
But then—
Creak—
A curvaceous figure had apparently been waiting outside for quite some time. Hearing Chen Yiban's words, she opened the door at just the right moment!
"Madara!"
"Tell me. What exactly do you want me to do?"
Tsunade Hime strode into the room, bristling with anger as she glared at Chen Yiban, who sat in the Hokage Position that had once been hers.
As she did, she noticed his right eye had a Mangekyō Sharingan, while his left was an ordinary pupil. It struck her as a little strange.
But she didn't give it much thought!
Just then—
"As for that..."
A cold, wicked smile appeared on Chen Yiban's face. He said calmly, "With that attitude, I can't very well let you start working on me."
"So..."
Click—
As he spoke, rough Medical Ninjutsu chakra glowed green around Chen Yiban's right hand. He plucked out his own right eye again.
Blood immediately streamed from the empty eye socket!
A chill of shock suddenly swept over the room!
"What... what are you doing?" Tsunade Hime stared at Chen Yiban, stunned and unable to understand his self-mutilation.
But then—
"Wait. Could it be... you..."
Tsunade Hime was quick-witted. She soon seemed to realize something.
"That bastard Danzo somehow got Uchiha Shisui's eye, and then you... So are you going to—"
As she spoke, Tsunade Hime shut her eyes the next moment.
She even turned her head away, doing her best not to face Chen Yiban's gaze.
In response:
"That's right!"
"You're at least a little clever. You guessed correctly. It is that Uchiha junior's Mangekyō—Kotoamatsukami!"
"But... you're Hashirama's granddaughter, aren't you? Do you really think you can still resist me?"
Chen Yiban openly admitted it.
He even threatened her outright!
He smiled as blood streamed from his right eye socket, making him look utterly sinister and terrifying.
"You... Madara! You're an even bigger bastard and even more shameless than Shimura Danzo!" Tsunade Hime seethed with rage.
But—
Could she resist him?
She couldn't!
At last, she let out a helpless, powerless sigh.
Tsunade Hime slowly opened her beautiful eyes again.
"Those who understand the times are wise," Chen Yiban said, his smile growing slightly broader.
Then the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in his right hand vanished into thin air. He pressed it against his right eye socket, and quickly pulled his hand away again.
"Mangekyō Sharingan... Kotoamatsukami!!"
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