Haruki Hyuga's Memory Fragments, the Unsealed Spaceship!

Konoha Village, Konoha Hospital.

After dealing with the troublesome Pot Shadow Danzo, Minato Namikaze brought Nara Shikaku here.

"Kakashi, Obito, Rin, it's really great that you're all okay."

After arriving at the hospital, Minato Namikaze first went to visit his three disciples staying at Konoha Hospital.

Ever since the Third Shinobi World War ended, Minato Namikaze had made time to bring back Kakashi and the others who had been left behind on the Sand Battlefield.

Because Kakashi and the others had been seriously injured while stopping Ato.

Thus, after returning to Konoha Village, Minato Namikaze had sent all of them to the hospital for treatment.

And now, after ten hours of emergency treatment.

Kakashi and the other two, who had suffered the lightest injuries, were already able to move freely.

"Sensei!" ×3.

Inside the clean and tidy hospital room, Kakashi and the other two were wrapped up like rice dumplings.

"You've worked hard!" Seeing their current state, Minato Namikaze's face showed both relief and guilt.

"Sensei, where exactly did that Saiyan brat come from?"

The thick-skinned Obito Uchiha directly jumped up and asked curiously.

This time, even Kakashi did not interrupt Obito.

Clearly, he also desperately wanted to know Ato's true identity.

The previous battle had left an extremely heavy shadow over Kakashi's heart.

It made the usually icy Kakashi especially concerned about Ato.

"Your top priority right now is to recover properly. I'll handle Ato's matter." Minato Namikaze gently patted Kakashi's silver hair and spoke earnestly.

"Yes, Sensei!" Under Minato Namikaze's expectant gaze, Kakashi and the other two solemnly nodded.

"Then I'll come see you another day." Minato Namikaze waved to the three of them before leaving the hospital room.

"Shikaku, take me to Haruki Hyuga's room."

After leaving the room, Minato Namikaze's expression turned serious.

Visiting Kakashi and the others had only been incidental.

The real reason Minato Namikaze had come to Konoha Hospital was that the Anbu had reported that the Yamanaka Clan had extracted information concerning Ato from Haruki Hyuga's memories.

As the first Konoha Shinobi to come into contact with Ato.

Haruki Hyuga's mind might contain important information about Ato.

Although Haruki Hyuga was still unconscious.

For the Yamanaka Clan, let alone someone merely unconscious, even if Haruki Hyuga had only a head left, they could extract every piece of information Konoha wanted from his brain.

There were far too many soul-searching and memory-reading ninjutsu in the Ninja World.

Because he was a Konoha Shinobi and also a member of the Hyuga Clan.

The Yamanaka Clan's memory-reading method was relatively gentle, though it also took relatively longer.

Just moments ago, Yamanaka Fu of the Yamanaka Clan had reported that he had extracted crucial information from Haruki Hyuga's mind.

Led by Nara Shikaku, Minato Namikaze arrived at the top floor of Konoha Hospital.

There was an enormous transparent barrier here.

This was a defensive barrier established by the Anbu, specifically set up to prevent anything unexpected from happening to Haruki Hyuga.

Minato Namikaze formed hand seals with both hands, and a door immediately opened in the defensive barrier. He then entered the hospital room.

Inside the room, Haruki Hyuga was submerged in a medical container filled with green healing fluid, with only his head exposed.

In front of his head, Yamanaka Fu of the Yamanaka Clan lowered his right hand with a weary expression.

"Fu, you've worked hard." Minato Namikaze walked up to Yamanaka Fu and gently patted his shoulder.

"Lord Hokage, these are the memory fragments I extracted from Jonin Haruki's mind."

Yamanaka Fu meticulously handed a Sealing Scroll to Minato Namikaze.

After taking the scroll, Minato Namikaze directly unfurled it and pressed his right hand against it.

Bang.

A cloud of white smoke rose from the scroll, and a memory instantly appeared in Minato Namikaze's mind.

The Sand Battlefield.

A metal sphere blazing with scarlet flames fell from the sky, smashing a massive crater into the ground.

Then, the metal sphere's hatch opened, and a tailed youth slowly floated out.

"It's time to greet this planet's natives!"

The youth's cold words also resounded clearly in Minato Namikaze's mind.

Then came a white beam of light that pierced through hundreds of kilometers.

At the end of the memory, Haruki Hyuga sealed that strange metal sphere inside an Object Sealing Scroll.

Then the memory abruptly ended.

Minato Namikaze lifted his right hand from the scroll. His gaze flickered as he muttered in surprise, "Could Ato really be a visitor from beyond the stars?"

He had fallen from the sky.

He had called the Ninja World a native planet.

That strange metal sphere.

And Ato's distinctly unusual combat uniform, along with the detector over his right eye.

Everything pointed to the fact that Ato was a visitor from beyond the stars!

Minato Namikaze's pupils contracted as he casually handed the scroll to Nara Shikaku.

After examining the scroll, Nara Shikaku's face was filled with shock. He said in disbelief, "A visitor from beyond the stars? In Ninja World legends, the Sage of Six Paths' mother, the Rabbit Goddess Kaguya Otsutsuki, also descended from the sky!

Could Ato and the legendary Kaguya Otsutsuki have come from the same place?"

Minato Namikaze did not answer Nara Shikaku's question.

He merely turned to an Anbu member and asked, "Where is Haruki's ninja tool pouch?"

An Anbu member swiftly handed Haruki Hyuga's ninja tool pouch to Minato Namikaze.

Minato Namikaze quickly rummaged through the pouch, then took an Object Sealing Scroll from inside.

Minato Namikaze's gaze flickered as he looked at the Object Sealing Scroll.

From the memory, Minato Namikaze already knew that the scroll contained the metal sphere Ato had ridden in.

He intended to study the metal sphere Ato had traveled in. Perhaps it might allow him to completely uncover Ato's origins.

"Fu, leave this place to you." Minato Namikaze gave Nara Shikaku an instruction, then directly left Konoha Hospital with Nara Shikaku.

Konoha Village, Forest of Death.

Minato Namikaze and Nara Shikaku appeared here.

"This place will do. Now, let's see what exactly Ato used to come to the Ninja World."

Minato Namikaze found a flat patch of ground and unfurled the Sealing Scroll in his hand.

"Release." Minato Namikaze raised the Seal of Reconciliation.

An enormous amount of white smoke swiftly erupted from the Sealing Scroll.

Within the white smoke, a Saiyan spaceship nearly three meters tall appeared before Minato Namikaze.

This was none other than the standard small spacecraft of the Frieza Force that Ato had ridden in.

Ato's spacecraft had only just appeared.

When dense arcs of electricity began flashing across its surface.

Accompanied by a series of crackling sounds.

Thick black smoke began pouring out from inside the spacecraft.

Bang.

Following the black smoke, a faint explosion sounded from within the spacecraft.

Warning, warning. The spacecraft is severely damaged. Please conduct repairs immediately.

Warning, warning. The spacecraft is severely damaged...

A cold mechanical voice came from inside the spacecraft, and then gradually became distorted.

Hiss.

With a puff of white smoke, the spacecraft's hatch automatically opened.

"What's going on?" Minato Namikaze frowned deeply as he stared at the spacecraft before him.

As a native of the Ninja World, Minato Namikaze simply did not recognize a spacecraft from the Dragon Ball Universe.

Therefore, he was utterly bewildered by the series of changes occurring in Ato's spacecraft.

However, just as Minato Namikaze was at a loss.

A holographic projection appeared on the spacecraft's main control console.

Within the projection was a figure with a toad-like head, dressed in a white scientific lab coat.

"Lord Ato, Lord Ato, can you hear me?

I am Kuros, a mechanic from the Ship Maintenance Department under the Frieza Force..."