"Those three years...?"
Wuye pressed a hand to his brow, doing everything he could to suppress his pounding heart and restless emotions.
He had harbored doubts before, but now he sensed that something was wrong.
Those three years had been three years in the past—the three years Future Mikoto had returned to.
But if Past Mikoto had simply vanished, then theoretically, after the second Dragon Vein traversal, Mikoto should already have disappeared. She should not exist in this world.
So who, exactly, had disappeared?!
Could going back to those three years really bring her back?
Wuye did not dare to think too deeply about it.
Because he was afraid...
Afraid that he would lose his gentlest wife forever...
"Buzz..."
As light appeared at his brow, the river of time slowly flowed past before his eyes, as though billions upon billions of years had passed.
It never ceased.
The light at Wuye's brow traced back from the present point in time until it stopped three years after the first Dragon Vein incident.
"Mikoto..."
He murmured under his breath, his right hand clutching his chest as though trying to soothe his wildly pounding heart.
"You have to... you have to be there..."
His figure vanished without a sound.
When he opened his eyes again, the sunlight was brilliant, and the world looked entirely new.
The Naruto World that had not yet been changed by him and Otsutsuki Li Ping—how long it had been.
Wuye appeared before Konoha Gate.
With his current strength, he did not need any genjutsu. Even if he strutted about openly, no one would notice him.
Because time itself would erase memories and existences that should not have been there.
He walked into Konoha as it was then.
Presumably, no one at that time would have imagined that such