"Go back three years?"
Mikoto raised her head, worried. "Wouldn't that affect the future?"
"It won't."
Wuye reached out to stroke her cheek and said gently, "I just sensed the river of time. Our time has been at a standstill for these past three years, so theoretically, we can stay there forever and ever."
"Really?!"
Mikoto's delighted look filled Wuye's heart with a faintly bittersweet joy.
"Yeah!"
He nodded fiercely.
"Then let's go back to the beginning of those three years!" Mikoto said.
"Alright!"
Wuye grabbed her hand.
Whoosh!
In the blink of an eye, the two of them returned to three years earlier.
"What should we do this time?"
Mikoto held his hand, smiling so happily.
"We've seen all there is to see in this world, so let's go to other worlds," Wuye said.
"Yay! I want to go to other worlds!"
Mikoto cheered.
Wuye gently picked her up, and the two vanished from the Naruto World.
Three years was just about enough time to travel across a planet.
Three years after three years, they traveled through many places, saw countless different lifeforms, and experienced all kinds of local customs and cultures.
Until the end of the three hundred and thirty-third three-year period...
"Wuye... haven't we gone too far?"
After returning to the Naruto World centuries later, Mikoto was still just as she had been back then, nestled against Wuye's side and unwilling to let go of him even for a moment.
If everyone knew the countdown to their own lives, then everyone would cherish every moment of their time.
Because every moment spent was one moment less.
"Gone too far how?" Wuye asked.
Mikoto looked up at him, her eyes glistening. "Back then, I said you were unfair. For their sake, you ignored me and insisted on finding