Ye Chuan paid no attention at all to the shocked and complicated looks of those around him.
After confirming that Danzo was completely dead, his attention had instantly shifted to something more important.
[First Inheritance Template (Hawkeye · Dracule Mihawk) completed!] [...Countdown to unlocking the Second Inheritance Template: 00 hours 05 minutes 12 seconds...]
The countdown... was almost over!
His heart filled with unprecedented anticipation!
At the same time, his thoughts raced.
Danzo was dead, and Konoha's greatest internal threat had been eliminated for the time being.
But the external threats remained, drawing even closer!
Nagato had died from using Rinne Rebirth... but his Rinnegan was the most crucial part of Madara Uchiha's plan.
Long ago, during the Battle of the Valley of the End against the First Hokage, Madara Uchiha had obtained Hashirama Senju's cells and fused them with his own power of Indra.
After a long time, he had finally awakened the legendary Rinnegan as he neared the end of his natural lifespan.
To carry out his Eye of the Moon Plan, he had secretly transplanted his Rinnegan into Nagato, a war orphan with Uzumaki Clan blood, and arranged for Black Zetsu and Obito to guide him, hoping that Nagato would use [Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique] to revive him at some point in the future.
But... Nagato, that crucial pawn, had deviated from the script because of Naruto's talk-no-jutsu, sacrificing himself to revive the people of Konoha.
Now that Nagato was dead, the Rinnegan that belonged to Madara Uchiha remained in his corpse.
According to the original plot, next... Obito Uchiha would definitely go to Amegakure himself to seize the Rinnegan from Konan!
After Pain's invasion had ended, Ye Chuan had not immediately set out for Amegakure, partly because he needed to recover after the battle, and partly because he might face Obito directly, along with Black Zetsu, who might be lurking in the shadows. The risk was too great.
After all, Obito Uchiha's existence was tied to the deepest, most ancient darkness in the world of Naruto.
The will of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
Rashly confronting them head-on without sufficient confidence was extremely dangerous.
His original plan had been to wait until the [Second Inheritance] unlocked and he gained greater strength before deciding what to do.
And now... the timing was perfect.
[Ding!] [Countdown to unlocking the Second Inheritance Template complete!] [Congratulations, host! Successfully unlocked the Second Inheritance Template-] [Ryougi Shiki]!!!
"?!?!"
When he saw that name appear on the system panel, even Ye Chuan's current, unruffled state of mind shattered as though a thunderbolt from the heavens had struck him. His eyes widened instantly, and his mind went blank!
Ryougi Shiki?!
It was actually... her?!
As someone who had transmigrated from an age of information overload, how could he not know that name?!
The heroine of the Type-Moon world's The Garden of Sinners!
Ryougi Shiki possessed an Origin named "", a body connected to the source of all things, the [Root], and those terrifying, causality-level Mystic Eyes that could look directly at "death" itself.
[Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]!!!
"This... how is this possible?! The system actually..."
Ye Chuan's heart began to pound, and an indescribable wave of ecstasy swept over him.
He knew all too well what the [Mystic Eyes of Death Perception] meant.
Unlike the Sharingan, Byakugan, or Rinnegan, they were not "ocular techniques" based on chakra or bloodlines.
They were higher-level "Mystic Eyes" that directly interfered with "existence" and "causality"!
Anyone who possessed these eyes could see the "Death Lines" of all things!
Simply cutting along those "Death Lines" with a sharp weapon could bypass the target's defenses and directly "kill" its very existence!
This was a conceptual, causality-level power of erasure!
Just as Ryougi Shiki herself had said.
"If it's alive, even if it's a god, I'll kill it for you!"
Ye Chuan tightened his grip on Wado Ichimonji as countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
Hawkeye's supreme swordsmanship sought to push the act of "cutting" to its absolute limit.
What the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception saw, meanwhile, was the "concept" of all things coming to an end.
If the two were combined...
Using Hawkeye's swordsmanship to sever the "Death Lines" seen by the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception...
How terrifying would that be?!
Severing space? Severing ninjutsu? Severing barriers? Severing fate?!
Would even... Obito's seemingly unsolvable Kamui intangibility be as flimsy as paper before its "Death Lines"?!
If... if I could also bring Ryougi Shiki's inheritance to 100%...
Ye Chuan felt his breathing quicken.
Without a doubt, he would gain the power to truly interfere with causality and slay gods!
When that time came, never mind a mere Kaguya Ōtsutsuki-even if the higher-level Ōtsutsuki Main Family came, he would dare to raise his blade against them.
But after the ecstasy passed, Ye Chuan quickly calmed down.
He knew very well that, powerful as the [Mystic Eyes of Death Perception] were, they came at a cost.
"It looks like, just like Hawkeye's inheritance, this [Ryougi Shiki] inheritance will need to progress step by step."
Before his inheritance progress was high enough and he had fully mastered how to use the Mystic Eyes, he absolutely could not push himself and abuse them.
Otherwise... he might burn out his own brain first.
Even so, simply unlocking this inheritance and gaining that possibility had already multiplied Ye Chuan's confidence countless times over.
He once again looked toward Amegakure.
Once Obito successfully transplanted the Rinnegan and took control of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, the outbreak of the Fourth Shinobi World War would only be a matter of time.
But what if... I could stop him here?
If Obito could not get the Rinnegan, Madara Uchiha could not be perfectly resurrected, and the Eye of the Moon Plan would become a castle in the air.
Without the Rinnegan and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, even with the Mangekyō Sharingan and Kamui, Obito would have no way to launch the Fourth Shinobi World War.
As long as he could stop Obito from seizing the Rinnegan here... perhaps... he could nip the Fourth Shinobi World War in the bud entirely.
And let this world... reach its grand finale ahead of time?!
That possibility made Ye Chuan's heart pound once more.
Without a doubt, the risk was enormous.
But could Obito Uchiha's Kamui remain invincible before these eyes that might be able to see "death"?
"With this, I really do want to... exchange a few moves and see."
He hesitated no longer.
Ye Chuan did not even say goodbye to Tsunade and the others, who were still reeling in shock in the distance. He merely left them with a single sentence:
"Danzo is dead. I'll leave the remnants of Root to you. Something urgent has come up, so I'm leaving!"
Before his words had faded, his figure had already turned into a streak of light. [Soru] and [Geppo] burst forth in alternation as he sped toward Amegakure even faster than before.
He had to get there before Obito succeeded.
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