At that, Madara Uchiha raised his brows slightly.
"Negating every outcome directed at you... similar to my methods, but more conceptual. An unanswerable defense, indeed."
Madara Uchiha slowly offered his assessment.
"With this, you can never be killed. But likewise, you'll find it difficult to hurt me by transferring causality with a technique like that. As long as I anticipate it and switch my own spacetime coordinates before the causality takes effect, moving my true body to a point in time where that causal chain doesn't exist... what can you do? Because... that doesn't work against you."
As his words fell, Madara Uchiha flickered and vanished from the spot.
He shifted his own existence directly to a point in time before this event occurred.
At that moment, standing in another slice of time, Madara Uchiha quietly watched countless black holes devour that spot, followed by the collisions and annihilation of the black holes themselves.
The causal chain's target coordinates were already empty. Madara Uchiha's true body was long gone.
Without a target, causality naturally could not complete the transfer of damage, and Uchiha Gen's technique could not find its target either. But the predetermined effect already existed, so naturally, it could not remain where it was.
Uchiha Gen watched the empty spot, the smile on his lips unchanged.
That's old Madara for you.
Unfortunately, there's such a thing as pursuit across spacetime!
"You jumped to a point in the past? Then I just need to lock onto you with causality across the timeline. Whether you jump into the past, the future, or another world, as long as you're still the concept called Madara Uchiha, causality will track your existence itself, unaffected by temporal coordinates."
As his words fell, green fire burned, and a little green blob appeared above Uchiha Gen's