Shimura Danzō had died long ago. As for when he had died...
Standing amid a haze, Uchiha Gen felt like laughing.
This was too funny. The man he had always wanted to kill had actually been dead all along. No wonder... no wonder the man who should have been causing the most trouble had barely appeared at all.
"I should have noticed long ago. Five Release Secret Technique? Something that weak hardly deserves a name in this Shinobi World. Your Sarutobi Clan... your true Kekkei Genkai is Ninjutsu Analysis. Professor of Forbidden Techniques, tsk."
Click.
The Mewtwo Capsule spun, and everything around him rapidly rewound, returning to reality.
With a smile, Uchiha Gen gently raised his hand and caught a falling leaf.
"If that's the case, then let me see... what the truth back then really was."
Dropping the leaf, Uchiha Gen raised his hands, formed hand seals, and held them before his forehead.
Mangekyō Sharingan!
Activate!
Dōjutsu-Neither-Living-Nor-Dead Past Self!!
In an instant, countless invisible threads of causality appeared in Uchiha Gen's vision. These threads... could lead to the past!
"These are all useless. I didn't exist in that era, so there's no causality connecting me to it. Which means... I need to establish a sufficiently clear causal connection to project into the past.
"No, I don't need to. That era isn't far from the present, so an object belonging to someone who experienced it firsthand will be enough to build a thread of causality.
"If it's that point in time... ah, this will be interesting. Kagami Uchiha, let me see what choice you made back then, as an Uchiha."
As his words fell, green flames burst to life over Uchiha Gen's body. Then his body began to dissolve, becoming a little green blob floating in the air.
The instant