After returning to the Imperial Palace with his mother, Uchiha Mirai bowed to her.
"Mother, I'm going back to my room."
Kurenai crouched down, straightened his collar, and smiled gently.
"Go on. You've been playing all day. You should get some proper rest."
Mirai nodded and walked into his room.
The instant the door closed, the innocent, childish expression on his face vanished.
In its place were calm, fathomless eyes.
Earlier, out on the street, he had recognized the group of ninja who had just arrived in Hidden Xuan Village.
Ninja from Konoha.
If he was right, they were the Konoha delegation sent to deepen cooperation with Hidden Xuan Village.
Following the course of his previous life, cooperation between the two sides would grow even closer next.
Hidden Xuan Village would begin building schools to help Konoha train ninja.
He even remembered that before long, his father would take Hinata Hyuga, Sakura Haruno, and Ino Yamanaka as his students, eventually marrying them once they reached adulthood.
But none of that was his main concern.
What concerned him was the Akatsuki.
According to his memories, the Akatsuki would begin large-scale operations next year to collect the tailed beasts.
His father would use the Akatsuki as pawns, waiting until they had collected most of the tailed beasts before making his move, seizing all nine tailed beasts in one stroke and accelerating the unification of the shinobi world.
Even so, he still felt it was too slow.
As he thought about this, those scenes involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
Momoshiki Otsutsuki, Kinshiki, Urashiki, Isshiki...
Those figures in white robes with horns growing from their heads, those powers that could destroy heaven and earth with a wave of their hands.
He remembered his father going from handling everything with ease to growing grave and