Lu You pushed open the infirmary door and walked out, only to see a familiar figure who had been waiting there for some time. His face, restored through Impure World Reincarnation, looked slightly weary.
"Do you really love Konoha that deeply, Minato Namikaze?"
Lu You raised an eyebrow, intrigued.
"Hahaha, I just don't want Naruto living in an illusory world, much less facing danger. You, it really has been a long time."
Minato Namikaze sighed. Rather than confront Madara Uchiha or Kaguya Ōtsutsuki head-on in Konoha, he had chosen to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to come to the Land of Grass.
"It really has been years in the blink of an eye. It must have been over ten years since I died. I've fallen this far, yet you're still as impressive as ever, You."
Time seemed to have left no trace on Lu You. Going by his age, he was already in his thirties or forties.
Yet he still looked barely over twenty.
"Choosing to leave for someone you love hardly counts as falling on hard times. Since you're here, things over there must not be going well.
"Did Madara Uchiha succeed?"
Lu You nodded.
"Your country's captains have already sent Madara Uchiha to his end. However, an even more powerful being who used his body as sustenance has awakened.
"Who could have imagined that even Madara would end up as someone else's pawn?"
Minato Namikaze sighed with emotion.
An even more powerful being?
The vast aura Lu You had sensed earlier, spanning the heavens and radiating thousands of miles, had indeed belonged to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
He had never expected Black Zetsu to still manage to resurrect his mother with things having reached this point.
Such filial devotion truly commanded respect.
"Right now, every living being in the