The gloomy, eerie Underground Kingdom.
The scent of damp earth mingled with roots and grass lingered in his nostrils.
Rather than the smell of earth, it was more like the mustiness of a place that never saw sunlight.
Those smells spoke to Obito Uchiha of decay and the twilight of a life already half buried.
Before him sat an old man on the brink of death, with pitch-black darkness behind him.
Obito Uchiha recognized him at a glance.
Although Obito Uchiha had never met Grandpa Madara in person in his own "world where Hokage Grandma existed."
Grandpa Madara's youthful appearance had been printed in textbooks.
And Obito Uchiha, who frequently visited the Hokage Office, had also seen a photograph of the elderly Grandpa Madara with Hokage Grandma.
The man before him...
How should he put it?
Without looking closely, he did indeed look very much like Grandpa Madara.
But on closer inspection, this old man had an incredibly imposing presence, though he wasn't quite as handsome as the Grandpa Madara Obito remembered.
Still, Obito Uchiha, who had once undergone Hokage Grandma's "physical correction," could understand.
The Grandpa Madara who was with Hokage Grandma must have been "corrected" since childhood.
And this world had no Hokage Grandma.
Obito Uchiha had already "died" once in this world. After his life reset, before the war, he had ignored the boring business surrounding Rin Nohara and instead done everything he could to research this world's history.
Then Obito Uchiha discovered a shocking fact.
In this world, no one from the Uchiha Clan had ever served as Hokage.
In this world, there had only been three Hokage.
And the Third Hokage was actually Hiruzen Sarutobi, a man of civilian origins.
Just look at his ability to govern... it wasn't exactly bad, but it simply couldn't