The smooth submission of the Land of Demons and the Land of Snow had not made Naruto slacken in the slightest.
On the contrary, his next move was what truly gave him a headache.
After leaving the Land of Snow's capital, Naruto picked a mountain at random and used Divine Technique: Clairvoyance.
Yet even a Divine Technique that could see the past had its limits and difficulties.
The first problem Naruto faced was finding the target itself.
Kara.
In the original timeline, this mysterious group had been secretly founded by Jigen and brought together powerful cyborgs and mad scientists such as Delta, Boro, and Victor. Its members had complicated backgrounds, and most had only been recruited or modified after the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Even Kara itself might not have been founded before the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Naruto's limited foreknowledge told him only that it existed. He knew very little about the specifics, its early members, or how it had been founded.
And the current timeline was still before the Fourth Shinobi World War.
What did that mean?
It meant that Kara's core members in the original timeline-Delta, Boro, Kashin Koji, Amado, and the others-
Had either not yet been born, not yet been discovered or recruited by Jigen, or had yet to undergo the relevant modifications or gain their powers.
They were like iron filings scattered across the Shinobi World, not yet drawn to a magnet: without any pattern, and difficult to find.
What about Jigen himself?
As Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's "vessel," he faced difficulties of his own.
Isshiki had implanted Kāma into Jigen's body before dying, but Jigen lacked the aptitude to perfectly contain all of Isshiki's power and data. This made Kāma's extraction process abnormally slow, while Jigen himself was also constrained and unable to exert his