Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea

After "chasing" Tsunade away, Uchiha Gen leaned back against the bed, staring blankly at the pendant hanging around his neck.

It wasn't that he feared the so-called curse of the pendant; what occupied his thoughts was... the significance of this object.

"Gen, are you alright?"

Just as Uchiha Gen was lost in thought, the tent flap opened once more.

Uchiha Gen lowered the pendant and looked up to see Minato Namikaze walking in with Nawaki.

"I'm fine. Why are you here? And you, what are you doing here?"

Uchiha Gen shook his head slightly, then turned his gaze toward Nawaki with a hint of annoyance.

Because of the pendant currently resting on his chest, he found Nawaki incredibly irritating at the moment.

"Hey, what kind of attitude is that? I came to visit—mmph!"

No sooner had Uchiha Gen finished speaking than Nawaki, who had been fidgeting behind Minato, flew into a rage and opened his mouth to shout at Uchiha Gen.

However, before he could finish his sentence, Minato clamped a hand over his mouth.

"Nawaki, be quiet. Lady Tsunade said that Uchiha Gen needs to rest."

Minato frowned as he held Nawaki's mouth shut; he suddenly regretted bringing him along to see Uchiha Gen.

"Gen, we just came to check on you. Since you're fine, we'll be heading out now. We still have a mission to attend to."

Still covering Nawaki's mouth, Minato said with a smile.

"A mission?"

Uchiha Gen raised an eyebrow, feeling a bit puzzled.

"Yes, Nawaki and I have been assigned to the battlefield morgue. There have been many bodies brought in during this war... We need to transport them one by one, to bring those heroes who sacrificed themselves for Konoha back home."

Minato spoke in a low, soft voice.

"I see..."

Uchiha Gen nodded slightly upon hearing this. In war, there is no avoiding death.

"We'll be going then. Get some rest."

Minato composed himself, looked up at Uchiha Gen with a smile, and then turned to lead Nawaki out of the tent.

Once the two had left, the tent returned to silence, save for the sound of breathing from the Charizard that had fallen asleep in the corner.

Distracted by Minato and Nawaki, Uchiha Gen stopped his brooding.

He closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into the Mist Space.

Standing in the center of a flurry of dancing cards, Uchiha Gen's lips curled upward. His eyes shone with excitement as he watched the cards swirling in the sky above.

Fifty-five draws from the C-rank card pool, four draws from the B-rank pool, and the A-rank draw obtained after defeating Rasa.

The sheer volume of draws had added a new color to the cards swirling around Uchiha Gen—red cards, surpassing even the legendary tier!

Watching the countless cards circling him, Uchiha Gen's eyes burned with anticipation as he snapped his fingers.

"Come on, let me see what kind of good stuff these fifty-five C-rank draws have in store!"

Snap!

The sound of the snap echoed through the vast Mist Space. The next moment, all the flying cards froze as if hit by a pause button. Uchiha Gen looked up at the suspended cards with eager eyes.

Boom!

With a soft sound, all the frozen cards in the sky shattered into crystalline fragments, making it seem as if a shimmering rain were falling throughout the Mist Space.

In an instant, amidst that crystalline rain, over fifty cards fell like meteors and began to swirl rapidly around Uchiha Gen.

"No purple ones..."

Uchiha Gen activated his Sharingan and swept his gaze over the cards. Upon confirming that they were all blue and green, a flash of disappointment crossed his face.

"Fifty-five cards, and fewer than ten are B-rank. This drop rate... it's truly a scam. Then again, getting eight B-rank cards with a probability of less than three percent isn't too bad."

Looking at all the cards floating before him, Uchiha Gen reached out and brushed the C-rank cards aside, then picked up a blue card.

Unless they were item or creature cards, standard skill cards were no longer enough to provide him with a significant boost in combat power.

However, that didn't mean Uchiha Gen was giving up on these C-rank cards; he simply wanted to see what the B-rank cards had to offer first.

As he took hold of the card, its information instantly became clear to him.

Fine: Bamboo-Copter

Source World: Animation - [Doraemon]

Card Category: Item - Gadget

Description: Place the Bamboo-Copter on any part of your body to soar through the sky at will. Please note: do not attempt to take off when the Bamboo-Copter is low on battery.

"..."

Clutching the card, Uchiha Gen fell into a silence.

Although he had truly fantasized about having a Bamboo-Copter to fulfill his dream of flight when he was a child, but... pulling out a Bamboo-Copter to place on his head in this Ninja World, wasn't that style a bit too bizarre?

"Sigh, it should have some miraculous effects in unexpected places. At the very least, if Groudon had this thing, it would probably be thrilled to death."

Sighing, Uchiha Gen honestly stowed the Bamboo-Copter away and turned his gaze toward the other cards.

Quality: Rare Name: Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea Source World: Animation - [Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf] Card Category: Skill Description: Utilize strange energy to condense thousands of blades that descend from the sky for area-of-effect strikes. The target location can be determined by consciousness. The more strange energy output, the more blades will be condensed.

"Did I poke a hole in an animation nest?? Also, what does a name like Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea have to do with Pleasant Goat and the others?"

Holding the card, Uchiha Gen was speechless.

Before coming to the Ninja World, he hadn't watched the cartoon Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf since he grew up. Looking at this peculiar name, Uchiha Gen felt nothing but speechlessness and confusion for a moment.

However, for things one doesn't understand, practice is the only truth.

Crack!

With a gentle squeeze of his palm, the card instantly shattered, turning into streams of light that surged into Uchiha Gen's body.

The next moment!

Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea!

His chakra and qi instantly transformed into a strange power Uchiha Gen had never seen before; countless black-purple and golden shuriken instantly took shape, freezing in mid-air.

"A bit mediocre. Its function overlaps somewhat with the Golden Light Spell, but it's not bad for clearing out small fry or showing off. Wait, this skill seems to have other uses."

Looking at the shuriken orbiting around him, Uchiha Gen stroked his chin and beckoned, causing a few shuriken to hover before him.