Gone and Back Again

Obito let out a muffled groan and retreated rapidly, his face beneath the mask twisting with pain and shock.

How is that possible?!

What kind of ability is this?!

Obito glared at Shien, his single eye filled with disbelief and the unwillingness of someone being suppressed.

But years of habit made him decide in an instant.

Without another word, Obito's figure flickered. Kamui activated, and a spatial vortex swiftly swallowed him, making him vanish from the spot.

Shien's ocular technique, Izanami Echo, could rewind his own time. The longer the rewind, the greater the consumption of ocular power.

Supporting himself on his twin blades, Akabane stared at Shien in disbelief.

That troublesome opponent had actually been defeated by him so easily?

"Shien? Your eyes... and this power..."

As his thoughts raced, Shien also learned the other's name.

"Akabane, a large number of people in the clan compound have been slaughtered. The ones responsible are Itachi Uchiha and that masked man from earlier!"

"What?! Itachi?! Impossible!"

Akabane was struck dumb. Behind him, at the entrance to the Konoha Military Police Force building, among the survivors who had just gathered, stood a girl with beautiful long black hair—Izumi Uchiha.

Upon hearing those words, her body swayed violently. Her face instantly turned pale, her eyes hollow and lost as she murmured, "No... that can't be..."

"Fugaku and Itachi betrayed the clan together. They've already left the clan compound. There aren't many capable fighters left in the clan now."

Hearing that Fugaku had betrayed the clan, the remaining few seemed to have their minds crash before they immediately erupted into an uproar.

"What?! The clan head betrayed us?!"

"That can't be!"

"There's no time to argue!" Shien said decisively, pointing at the Uchiha corpses around them.

"Immediately gather everyone who can still move and withdraw to the core area of the clan compound near Fugaku's residence. Follow Shisui's command! We are not out of danger yet!"

"Shisui?! He..."

Everyone was shocked once more, but looking at Shien's unquestionable Mangekyo Sharingan and the hellish scene around them, Akabane gritted his teeth.

"Understood! Let's go!"

He immediately called out to the survivors, including Izumi, who was in a daze and being supported by her companions, and they raced toward the depths of the clan compound.

Shien watched them leave, his gaze sharp, while his attention turned to the Fate Savior in his mind.

[ Ding! Detected a major alteration to the fate of story character "Izumi Uchiha." World feedback has reached the third tier! ]

[ Reward issued: Izumi Uchiha's medical ninjutsu techniques, Mystical Palm Technique trial x1, 1:1 Ocular Power Replication (Izumi Uchiha's current state) ]

[ Note: Ninjutsu and secret technique trials ignore activation requirements and consume nothing. ]

A flood of techniques instantly poured into his mind. From knowing nothing to something, Shien now had a modest understanding of medical ninjutsu.

Though Izumi was only thirteen, she truly possessed a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

A cool sensation soon flowed into Shien's eyes.

Not only was the Mangekyo Sharingan's recent expenditure quickly replenished, but its upper limit even increased by quite a bit.

Shien exhaled. He had just saved so many people, yet only Izumi Uchiha had earned him a reward.

Once again, he gained a deeper understanding of his cheat.

He had just consecutively changed the life trajectories of Fugaku, Mikoto, and Izumi. The abilities he had obtained had already made him a fully qualified Uchiha clansman.

He was no longer the man who had just transmigrated here and could barely hold a blade steady.

Shien excitedly licked his lips. This rocket-like growth in strength intoxicated him.

He steadied himself. The danger had yet to pass, so he could not let his guard down.

He looked around. At least a dozen Uchiha corpses lay here.

His eyes flickered slightly. Then, without dealing with the bodies at the scene, his figure flashed and vanished into the shadows.

As though he had no choice but to abandon them due to the urgency of time.

Not long after, space twisted slightly once again.

Obito's figure reappeared. He clutched his still-aching ribs, his single eye warily and greedily sweeping over the Uchiha corpses.

After confirming that there seemed to be no ambush nearby, he quickly walked toward a corpse and reached for the pair of dull Sharingan.

He remembered that this one had a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Just as his fingertips were about to touch the eyeballs—

"You really did come back."

A cold voice, like Death's whisper, sounded from extremely close behind him!

Every hair on Obito's body stood on end. Without thinking, he tried to activate his intangibility!

But it was too late!

The long-ambushing Shien seemed to have foreseen all of his movements and understood the flaw in his Kamui.

At the instant Obito's form began to blur, Shien's figure made an utterly unnatural positional adjustment like a ghost.

His blade carried icy killing intent as it pierced precisely into Obito's back, straight through his heart!

"Pfft—!"

A penetrating wound! A fatal penetrating wound!

Obito's eyes widened sharply, his face beneath the mask twisting with agonizing pain and the terror of death.

He could feel his life rapidly draining away.

Death!

He would die! He really would die!

Before his consciousness completely sank away, extreme resentment and fury swallowed him—this Shien again!

Back at the Academy, he had surpassed everyone. Was he going to kill him here now too?!

"Aaaagh—!"

A silent roar echoed through his heart.

The next moment, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in his right eye spun madly, emitting a crimson glow!

Izanagi!

Reality was forcibly rewritten!

Obito, who should have died from having his heart pierced, blurred like an illusion before Shien's eyes and disappeared.

When he reappeared, he was already more than a dozen steps away.

The fatal wound in his chest had vanished, but his aura was weak. Clearly, he had consumed a huge amount of Chakra.

He did not even dare look at Shien again, carrying endless humiliation, rage, and an indescribable trace of fear.

He fled into a spatial vortex in panic and escaped.

When Shien turned around, all he saw was a spinning vortex fading away.

[ Ding! Detected a minor alteration to the fate of story character "Obito Uchiha." World feedback has reached the first tier! ]

[ Reward issued: Obito Uchiha's Fire Release ninjutsu techniques. ]

Shien drew a light breath. Obito had rewards too!

Though the first-tier reward was only one item, it still completed the final piece Shien lacked as an Uchiha clansman!

I wonder how things are in the clan compound.

Shien left without the slightest hesitation.

Obito, with only one eye left, probably won't dare show himself again.

Just as Obito used Izanagi's bizarre power to forcibly twist his fate of death in the real world—

The moment he fled into the Kamui Dimension, battered, furious, and alarmed, he had thought he could catch his breath for a moment.

The Kamui Dimension, that desolate land made up of countless gray-white cubes, was now filled with violent, chaotic dark-red Chakra!

"Roar—!!!"

An inhuman roar filled with endless hatred shook the entire space.

The Three-Tails jinchuriki who had originally been controlled by his Mangekyo Sharingan and stood here motionlessly like a puppet—the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi—

His eyes were no longer vacant as they had been while under control. Instead, they were filled with bloodshot veins and crazed killing intent!

Obito's Izanagi had not merely rewritten his own reality. In that instant, it had also severed the ocular power connections he maintained with all his targets!

Among them was his long-term mental control over Yagura Karatachi!

Yagura Karatachi had awakened!