Traveling through Nagato, from conquering Konan to dominating the ninja world

"Minato, teacher...are you really going to kill me?"

The familiar yet unfamiliar call struck Minato's heart deeply.

"Swish!" He forcibly suppressed the glow of the golden spiral, retreated three meters away, and looked at the bloody back of the person lying on the ground.

The back was no less than that of a person who had been tortured by lingchi. Through the broken bones and rotten flesh, one could see the internal organs that were squeezed and bleeding.

The injury was so devastating that even if Lady Tsunade treated him personally, he would not survive...

After confirming the injury, Minato's eyes dimmed.

"Ou ...

Minato tightly grasped the Sword of Ninja Love and said in a low voice: "It is better to lie down and don't move. Causing a larger range of lacerations will accelerate your death."

"..." Obito ignored it and tried his best to get up.

"Crack!" Sure enough, when it was halfway done, the wound was torn further.

The severe pain...almost made him fall down again, but he held it in and managed to get up.

With his back to Minato, he slowly, slowly turned around.

“Crash...!” As he turned around, the transplanted right half of Bai Jue's body fell off completely. The blood gushing out from the crack dyed his comrades bloody.

Finally, he faced Minato.

"Hu, ha, hu, ha..." Half of the tiger-skin mask was still stubbornly stuck on his left face, and the wrinkled right side... and the Sharingan that was barely maintaining the three-magatama state, were all presented in front of Minato.

The right half of the body that had just been peeled off, which was obviously different from the flesh and blood, and the scarred face...

"As expected, you are Obito..."

It was Obito who was bleeding all over, but Minato felt that the blood was flowing from his heart...

"Why?" These three words contained too much emotion in Minato.

"Hoo, ha, hoo, ha..." After calming his breathing, Obito said in a childish and suppressed tone, "In order to cut off the cause and effect of this world, and create a world without the hatred of war, without the sin of killing, without the pain of separation, without unrequited love, and full of hope..."

"So, you attacked your sister Kushina when she was at her most vulnerable, released the Nine-Tails, launched a war against your hometown, Konoha, and killed your former companions..."

"Minato-sensei. The so-called companions, master and apprentice, village, and even the whole world are all illusions created by people's empty hearts in order to seek support. Everything is illusory. If you are tripped by such illusory things... you will be useless!!"

Minato looked at the 'disciple' who said these words in person in disbelief.

The memories he had witnessed in the past as a teacher and a 'friend' with the same dream were like boomerangs piercing his heart!

"You said that everything is an illusion? What about your dream of becoming a Hokage? What about the experiences you and your companions have had along the way? What about Uchiha Obito, who claimed that he would rather break the rules than abandon his companions, and who made Kakashi, Rin, and I proud? You want to say that these are also false???"

“Hehehehehe…” Obito shrugged his body and let out a sad laugh, “That’s right, it’s precisely because I’ve experienced all of this and seen through all of this that I realized how naive and ridiculous I used to be…”

"So what if you're the Hokage? As strong as you are, Minato-sensei, have you protected everyone you can? So what if you have companions? They are just used to reflect the weakness and ugliness in each of your hearts. A truly strong person doesn't need companions! That's right, only the weak will indulge in the so-called bondage of companions, while the strong will only conquer and drive."

"As for... Uchiha Obito, that's just the name of a dead man. The dead man with this name had a so-called bond with those living but zombie-like people, and the wise words he said, but it has nothing to do with the existence standing in front of you now, who is fake but wants to lead the world to the truth!"

Minato clenched his palms tightly and questioned Obito's soul, "So, when you were on the verge of death just now, you begged for mercy to force me to stop. Is that proof that you have nothing to do with the past? Do you still want to say that Uchiha Obito is dead!!"

“……” Obito was speechless.

It was a reaction driven by the instinct for survival, without any time to think.

As long as he wants to live, he must do that...

"Answer me, Obito!!" Minato asked in a deep voice.

"Okay, Minato-sensei, since you insist on asking, I'll tell you."

"Compared to the fear of death, what makes me more desperate is that after my death, this world will have no hope anymore."

"Even when I was begging for mercy, there was not a single moment of selfish thoughts in my mind, that is, there was no 'self' of Uchiha Obito, so... I can proudly say that I have nothing to do with the past, and Uchiha Obito is dead!!!"

"If it's not Uchiha Obito, then who was the one begging for mercy just now!!!" Minato asked in a deep voice.

"It is... the world! That's right, I am the world!!! I carry this hopeless world on my shoulders, the only hope for salvation. I am the hope of this world, and I am calling out to you!!"

"In this sense... Minato, you have indeed saved the world. You can call yourself the savior and be proud of it!"

Obito's remarks against Tiangang made Minato's heart feel like it had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Obito, is this what you want to say to me before you die? Or do you have something to rely on so that you can be sure of survival even if you are injured to this extent?"

"Heh." Obito smiled noncommittally: "Who knows. But you don't have much time left, Minato-sensei. This may be your only chance to end me completely..."

"..." Minato raised the kunai in his hand, murderous intent trembling in his eyes.

He had already sensed Obito's presence approaching rapidly from underground.

In the end...Minato let go of his hand.

He allowed Tobi to appear from beside Obito, spreading out his vine-like body and wrapping Obito in it.

With the help of Afei's chakra... Obito's right eye turned into 'Mangekyo' again.

"Swoosh!" The Nine-Tailed Fox's spiritual contract on his chest reached its time limit and automatically burned into ashes.

"Minato, even if Konoha wins this time, one day, I will come back..."

Obito started absorbing with his right eye, sucking it into himself without hesitation... Compared to the harsh words he uttered, his posture looked more like he was fleeing in panic.

Looking at the place where he disappeared, Minato sighed in his heart.

"Third generation, is this how you felt at that time?"

Sorry, I still left a big trouble for this ninja world...

"Then, it's my turn to clean up the mess..."

"Swoosh!!!" Minato disappeared in a flash...

Witnessing this moment, Nagato put away the crystal ball with a solemn expression.

——"No, Minato, these are my lines..."