Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall planned by Root had arrived.
For the past two days, Uchiha Rei had been living with Tsunade and Shizune. He either cooked noodles for them himself or drank with them.
Rei could clearly feel Tsunade's favorability toward him rising at a visible pace. Perhaps if he asked Tsunade to take him as her student again right now, his chances of success would be far greater than they had been back then.
Still, once you missed your chance, things lost their original flavor when you tried again. His past choices no longer mattered.
There was only one thing Uchiha Rei truly cared about now.
Once Tsunade had recovered enough, he wanted her to personally remove the Salamander Poison entwined within him.
But at the moment, that hardly seemed like a problem. Tsunade treated him quite well.
Even if Rei made a more unreasonable request, Tsunade would probably just smile and agree.
Of course, the past two days hadn't been entirely peaceful. Root had approached him again, trying to recruit him.
The visitor was the same Root Captain whose ribs Rei had once kicked in. That kick had kept him from taking part in the operation against Uchiha Obito. By a strange twist of fate, he had escaped the disaster and become one of the few survivors.
The Root Captain had brought Danzo's sincerity with him and once again extended an offer to Uchiha Rei.
This time, the terms were even more enticing than before.
Rather than offering him the rank of an ordinary member, Root wanted him to join as an "advisor," a position comparable to the one Orochimaru had held back then.
After all, although Uchiha Rei's strength had long since reached Kage Level,