As the investigation deepened, the more information Adult Sasuke came across, the deeper the mark between his eyebrows became, almost never relaxing.
Relying on his familiarity with the village, he pieced together the outline of this Parallel World from the remaining encrypted records of Scroll and ANBU in the Konoha archives, and even the drunken chatter of some retired old Ninja.
Each piece of information is like a strangely shaped puzzle piece, forcibly embedded in the cognitive framework he built based on his own world experience, making an unsettling crunching sound.
The first twisted message is about Shimura Danzō.
In the history he knew, the Danzo who was always hiding in the dark, with his arms wrapped around Sharingan, and who carried out the "root" will into paranoia, eventually died in his hands, paying part of the price for the destruction of Uchiha.
However, in the intelligence context of this world, Danzo defected after Joint Chunin Ninja Exams.
The crime is to instruct Orochimaru to collude with Sand Ninja to launch Konoha Crush Plan with the intention of getting rid of Third and becoming Hokage.
This is bizarre enough in itself.
But what makes Sasuke feel even more ridiculous is the second message related to it: Orochimaru.
In his perception, the image of Orochimaru, who was obsessed with Immortality and Forbidden Jutsu, was cold and cruel, betrayed Konoha, established Otogakure and became the "teacher" he once followed, had a strange shift in the world's official records and some secret rumors.
It is said here that many of Orochimaru's early shocking human experiments and Forbidden Jutsu's development were not entirely due to his personal crazy thirst for knowledge, but were carried out under the instruction of Danzo, who had defected.
Danzo instructs Orochimaru?
Will Orochimaru in this period be willing to obey orders?
This reversal of the causal chain made Sasuke feel a strong cognitive dislocation.
It is as if the history he is familiar with has been re-edited and dubbed by an invisible hand, presenting a completely different narrative logic.
What was most difficult for him to understand, and even felt an almost absurd impact, was the information about Naruto Uzumaki.
The Naruto of this world was similar to what he knew when he was young, but when he was Joint Chunin Ninja Exams, he suddenly used Wood Release and Flying Thunder God Technique, destroying Konoha in an instant and rebuilding it with Wood Release.
Destroying Konoha is not impossible for Sasuke who owns Rinnegan and Perfect Susanoo.
However, Naruto can not only be destroyed in an instant, but can also rebuild Konoha "in an instant" after destruction.
Destruction and creation, in Ninja's perception, are two completely different dimensions of power, and the latter is often hundreds of times more difficult than the former.
Destruction is the release of energy and the disintegration of structure; while reconstruction, especially "instantaneous" reconstruction, involves the reversal of matter and the reorganization of structure.
This is completely beyond his understanding of the ordinary "Ninjutsu" or "Senjutsu".
Sasuke stood on the top of a wooden Tower, overlooking Konoha bathed in the sun below, confusion flashed in his eyes.
The breeze blew through the black hair on his forehead, but it couldn't dispel the fog in his heart.
This world... is really weird.
The defection of Danzo, the recharacterization of Orochimaru's behavior, the almost miraculous power of Naruto...
Every piece of information is like a key, trying to open a door that doesn't exist in his cognition.
The chains of hatred, power systems, and character relationships that he was familiar with were completely disrupted and reorganized here, forming a set of rules that were logically self-consistent but extremely unfamiliar.
This is not just a deviation in details, but a distortion in the fundamental setting.
It was as if there was a pair of larger, more elusive hands that plucked the fate of this world behind the scenes, playing a completely different melody from what he knew.
He closed his eyes and Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan quickly processed the contradictory information in his mind.
The confusion did not diminish, but the investigator's instinct gradually overcame the initial consternation.
The stranger and more contradictory it is, the more it shows that this world hides key secrets.
If he wants to know why this is happening.
The investigation must be more in-depth.
He needs to find more core insiders, needs to get in touch with closely guarded top-secret files, and even... maybe needs to face the Naruto Uzumaki of this world.
But stopping Otsutsuki Urashiki is the main purpose of his coming here this time.
But does Naruto in this world really need his protection?
After a day of investigation, Boruto told Sasuke the only information he had learned, which was that he had found the location of Naruto's new home in this world.
Sasuke has completely given up on his apprentice's investigative abilities.
However, he frowned when he heard the location mentioned by Boruto.
Naruto's home is still not its original location?
No wonder the place was so neat when I went to see it. It turned out to be because Naruto moved away.
The master and apprentice hit it off immediately and decided to go to Naruto's house to have a look at it in the evening.
It's night.
What appeared in front of them was not an ordinary house with a slightly larger size than expected, but a Courtyard.
Yes, a real, large-scale Courtyard with obvious traditional and traditional charm.
The courtyard walls are made of carefully built bamboo fences and natural stones. In the courtyard, you can see the outlines of scattered landscape trees and paths. Under the moonlight, the roof lines of the main house are graceful and stretched, and the area is far larger than that of ordinary houses.
Sasuke looked at Boruto who was a little restless and asked, "Are you worried?"
Boruto gathered his thoughts.
"I was thinking..."
He paused and his eyes returned to the Courtyard under the moonlight.
"Dad... lived in a big house by himself before?"
Although my home is a duplex, there is no way to compare it with the big Courtyard in front of me.
Sasuke shook his head.
"According to the information I gathered, this is a house he built using Wood Release. He used to live in a small apartment."
"Wood Release?"
Boruto, who had been secretly happy for his wit just now, turned his head sharply, his blue eyes widening in the moonlight, filled with shock.
"Dad... will you still Wood Release?"
Isn't that the iconic Kekkei Genkai of First Hokage Hashirama Senju?
That legendary Wood Release that can instantly create Forest and calm troubled times?
This is very different from the image of his father who is only good at Rasengan and Shadow Clone!
Sasuke shook his head slightly, his black hair swaying slightly with the movement.
"I don't know. At least in our world, I haven't seen your father use Wood Release."
"Let's go in and have a look."
The two of them jumped onto the roof at the same time.
As soon as he jumped onto the roof, Sasuke's expression changed instantly.
"No, there is Sensing Barrier, and in addition to Sensing Barrier, there is also anti-Sensing Barrier."
The light of Golden flashed.
A blond Young Naruto appeared behind the two of them.
"You two, we are guests. Why don't you follow me down and sit for a while?"
Sasuke lowered his head, secretly speaking in a bad way.
My own Sensing was deceived by the anti-Sensing Barrier. I didn't expect that the Naruto in this world would be so cautious and would actually decorate Barrier in my home.
Naruto looked at the two of them carefully, his eyelids twitching.
Is my future self really going to make a living? I really let them go!
"You are, Sasuke Uchiha!"