Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea

"Seeing" Tsunade off, Uchiha Gen leaned back against the bed and absentmindedly fiddled with the pendant hanging around his neck.

It wasn't that he feared the so-called curse on the pendant. What he was thinking about was... what the pendant meant to him.

"Gen, are you all right?"

As Uchiha Gen stared blankly at the pendant, the tent flap opened again.

Uchiha Gen lowered the pendant and looked up. Minato Namikaze had walked in with Nawaki.

"I'm fine. What brings you here? And what are you doing here?"

Uchiha Gen shook his head slightly, then turned to Nawaki and asked with a hint of disdain.

Because of the pendant on his chest, he was now extremely annoyed with Nawaki.

"Hey, what's with that attitude? I came to check on you... Mmph!"

As soon as Uchiha Gen finished speaking, Nawaki, who had been fidgeting behind Minato Namikaze, immediately got angry and started shouting at him.

But before he could finish, Minato Namikaze clapped a hand over his mouth.

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

Minato Namikaze frowned as he covered Nawaki's mouth. He suddenly regretted bringing him to see Uchiha Gen.

"Gen, we just came to check on you. Since you're all right, we'll be going. We still have a mission."

Still covering Nawaki's mouth, Minato Namikaze smiled as he spoke.

"A mission?"

Uchiha Gen raised an eyebrow, puzzled.

"Yeah. Nawaki and I were assigned to the battlefield morgue. A lot of bodies have come in during this war... We have to carry them one by one and bring home the heroes who sacrificed themselves for Konoha."

Minato Namikaze spoke softly, his voice low.

"I see..."

Uchiha Gen nodded slightly. In a war, people were bound to die.

"Then we'll be off. Get some rest."

Minato Namikaze composed himself, looked up, and smiled at Uchiha Gen. Then he turned and led Nawaki out of the tent.

After the two left, the tent fell quiet again. The only sound was Charizard breathing as he slept in the corner.

Minato Namikaze and Nawaki's interruption brought Uchiha Gen out of his daze.

He closed his eyes and let his mind sink into Mist Space.

Standing amid a sea of cards whirling through the air, Uchiha Gen's lips curled into a smile. Excitement shone in his eyes as he watched the cards flying overhead.

He had fifty-five draws from the C-Rank Card Pool, four draws from the B-Rank Card Pool, and an A-Rank draw he had earned after defeating Rasa.

With so many draws, the cards whirling around Uchiha Gen had taken on a new color: red cards, surpassing even legendary cards!

Watching the countless cards circling him, Uchiha Gen's eyes burned with excitement as he raised a hand and snapped his fingers.

"Come on, let's see what good stuff I get from these fifty-five C-Rank draws!"

Snap!

The sound of his fingers snapping echoed through the empty Mist Space. The next moment, all the flying cards froze in place as if someone had pressed pause. Uchiha Gen looked up at the cards suspended overhead, his gaze alight with anticipation.

Boom!

With a soft pop, all the cards frozen in the air burst into glittering fragments. It was as if a sparkling rain had begun to fall across Mist Space.

In an instant, more than fifty cards descended like shooting stars and quickly began circling Uchiha Gen.

"No purple ones..."

Uchiha Gen activated his Sharingan and gave the cards around him a quick scan. When he confirmed they were all blue or green, a trace of disappointment crossed his face.

"Fifty-five cards, and fewer than ten B-Rank cards. What a lousy drop rate... Still, with only about a three percent chance of getting eight B-Rank cards, I guess it's not bad."

Looking at all the cards floating before him, Uchiha Gen swept the C-Rank cards aside and took down a blue one.

Unless they were item or creature cards, ordinary C-Rank skill cards could hardly add to his combat power anymore.

That didn't mean Uchiha Gen was giving up on them. He simply wanted to see what the B-Rank cards were first.

As soon as the card landed in his hand, its information came to him.

Fine: Bamboo-Copter

Source World: Anime—Doraemon

Card Type: Item—Tool

Description: Place the Bamboo-Copter anywhere on your body, and you can soar through the sky at will. However, please note that you should not take off when the Bamboo-Copter's battery is low.

"..."

Holding the card, Uchiha Gen fell silent.

When he was little, he really had dreamed of having a Bamboo-Copter so he could fly. But... pulling out a Bamboo-Copter in the Shinobi World and sticking it on his head? Wouldn't that look a little too bizarre?

"Sigh, maybe it'll come in handy somewhere unexpected. At least Groudon would probably be thrilled to have one."

With a sigh, Uchiha Gen honestly put away the Bamboo-Copter and turned his attention to the other cards.

Fine: Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea

Source World: Anime—Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf

Card Type: Skill

Description: Use Strange Power to summon over a thousand blades from the sky and strike targets over a wide area. The strike locations can be determined at will. The more Strange Power used, the more blades are formed.

"Did I hit some kind of anime jackpot? And what does a name like Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea have to do with Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf?"

Holding the card, Uchiha Gen looked utterly speechless.

Ever since he grew up, long before coming to the Shinobi World, he had stopped watching Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. Looking at this bizarre name, he didn't know whether to be baffled or just plain speechless.

Still, when in doubt, putting it into practice was the best way to find out.

Crack!

He gently closed his hand, and the card instantly shattered into streaks of light that flowed into Uchiha Gen's body.

The next moment!

Mystic Blade Dance Illuminating the Star Sea!

Chakra and qi instantly transformed into a strange power Uchiha Gen had never encountered before. Countless black-purple or golden Shuriken took shape, suspended in midair.

"It's a little ordinary, and its golden light overlaps somewhat with the Golden Light Spell. Still, it should be good for clearing out cannon fodder and showing off. Wait, this skill seems to have other uses, too."

Looking at the Shuriken circling around him, Uchiha Gen rubbed his chin and beckoned. Several of them floated over and hung in front of him.