My Meaning Is to Unify the Shinobi World!

Crossing the border of the Land of Fire, the six of them silently avoided every patrol and hidden sentry.

Konoha, the Zetsu-secret conference room beneath the Hokage Building.

The heavy metal airtight doors silently slid apart.

Uchiha Fugaku and Orochimaru were already waiting beside the long table.

Fugaku wore a crisp Security Force uniform, while Orochimaru was draped in a white lab coat, with the pungent scent of experimental reagents still lingering around his cuffs. He had clearly just been summoned away from the armor production line.

Minato did not remove his Hokage Haori. He walked straight to the seat at the head of the table and steadily inserted the Fourth Hokage's highest-level authorization key into a recessed slot on the tabletop.

"Go to the lowest archive vault and bring me every text concerning ancient myths, the Sage of Six Paths, and the Rabbit Goddess. Immediately."

He did not speak quickly, yet his tone brooked no doubt.

More than a dozen ANBU silently accepted the order and quietly vanished.

Before long, the ANBU carried in several heavy Iron Shell boxes.

Moldy bamboo slips and tattered animal-hide scrolls with blackened edges quickly covered the long table.

Minato pointed at a damaged hide scroll depicting a horned figure. His voice was gentle, but it carried tremendous weight.

"In the past, we regarded Otsutsuki Kaguya as a myth. But now, I must tell all of you that the Sage of Six Paths and the God Tree are both real."

There was no unnecessary preamble.

Urashiki's spacetime travel, Momoshiki's ability to devour ninjutsu without regard, Kinshiki's overwhelming brute strength.

In the calmest tone, as though he were delivering an ordinary mission report, Minato recounted everything they had encountered in the future.

"We fought them. Only by gathering the strength of several Kage Level fighters