Over 2000 years later
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[Template: Mastermind 99.98%]
[Template: Mastermind 99.99%]
[Template: Mastermind 100%]
[Template has been completed]
[The system has fulfilled its purpose and can no longer provide meaningful assistance.]
[Goodbye user]
[Shutting down]
"System."
"..."
"System?"
"..."
"System!"
"..."
"It's really gone now?"
"Yeah it's really gone now." Toshiko replied.
Chizuru whipped around his eyes already staring at the source of that voice just now.
"Toshiko!"
"In the flesh." Toshiko tipped his white hat.
"It's been a long time..."
"It has?"
"Yeah It's been 2000 years. You said you would meet me in a few thousand years when we first met."
"I see."
"Well, like I said, It's been 2000 years. I've seen it all, Madara, Hashirama, Naruto. It's interesting don't you think? Despite the changes I've made the events of canon somehow resisted the butterfly effect and happened in a similar fashion."
Chizuru looked upon the wasteland that covered the entire world. The final Chakra War had razed everything to the ground, no one left to fight and nothing left to fight for. It was inevitable and it happened in every simulation no matter what he changed. As long as those with chakra existed this war would always happen as the evolution of jutsu would always cause it.
"Where have you been this whole time? Aren't you a fellow transmigrator. I've been here for 2000 years waiting just for you. I already surpassed every little adventure and had influence beyond any when the whole story I transmigrated for came and went."
Chizuru raised his voice.
"I've been waiting for answers this whole time! Where are you! What have you been doing! What have you even been expecting from me!."
Chizuru's hands aggressively swung to his sides and out wide open.
"There's nothing here for me. I've just been slaving away at increasing my template for power I don't even need! I only focused on it because you asked me too. Why did it have to take so long! I haven't been able to be a normal for 2000 years. Do you know how little I've talked to other people I'm too big for anyone. I have no peers or close friends! I can't even get a girlfriend like I wanted before I transmigrated because I'm a fucking God! I can't even become numb to it because my template won't allow that! I don't even know... how to get out of here and travel the multiverse or anything like that."
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Toshiko had lowered his head. His face was shrouded in the shadow of his hat.
"I... no... We, need transmigrators like you."
Toshiko pointed at Chizuru with a finger gun gesture.
"Transmigrators who wished for abilities, templates, and talents. That were far too powerful for them to be a 'normal' transmigrator. Power that invalidated their journey and made it painfully short. Power that isolated them as the strongest. Power that made them gods far too fast for an interesting story."
Toshiko lowered his hand. His face still covered in the shadow of his hat. His had a thick cowboy accent.
"I'm glad. Because many transmigrators like you usually become detached. They view these worlds as no more real than before they transmigrated. Too many goddamn mega harems. Indulgence in depravity that would make me want to throw them into a goddamn Slaanesh cult in Warhammer if I could send them there."
He took a sharp breath in.
"Point is, Mikitaka and I are in desperate need of power. Because we're stuck here."
Toshiko paused his speech for a moment letting what he said sink in. His presence too heavy to allow Chizuru to talk just yet.
"When Shibai Otsutsuki transcended and became the Otsutsuki god. He did not leave this universe. He simply did what he always did and became a devourer god set upon a single goal. To consume the entire universe. Every star, every planet, of every timeline."
Toshiko took of his hat and held it to his chest. His eyes held a burning determination and terror staring straight into Chizuru's soul.
"When I mastered my system and turned it into a tool. When Mikitaka invented time travel and went to the end of time. Both of us saw Shibai's power. He has constructed a barrier around the entire universe that keeps everything in. That's why multiversal travel's impossible."
A spherical warp in space appeared, appearing like a gravitational lens of an immense object through it light in the center could be seen.
"You can meet Mikitaka through that wormhole. He can explain the rest."
Toshiko walked through the wormhole and disappeared.
Chizuru who was too shocked to process anything quite yet walked through the wormhole as well. When he passed through he shocked by what he saw. A comfy room with a giant glass wall and through it a black hole. The ground was covered in a carpet and there was just a simple wooden table in the middle of the room. One wall had a giant holographic image of computer background and on the other side was a large couch. The table had two chairs and Mikitaka was sitting in one of them.
"Sit down if you want."
Mikitaka pushed the on the other side of the table out with his foot, he remained seated.
Chizuru sat down on the chair. His eyes wide absorbing his environment.
"Do you want some cake? Personally I like having sweets when I sit here."
Mikitaka was currently devouring an entire cake on the table.
"... No thanks. Aren't you going to explain the 'rest' like Toshiko said?
Mikitaka quickly chewed and swallowed the mouthful of cake in his mouth.
"Ok. I'm going to drop some serious lore so listen carefully. I invented time travel!"
"..."
Chizuru just kept a blank stare at Mikitaka. He was frankly bewildered at the change in atmosphere between Toshiko and him.
Mikitaka clapped his hands together and continued despite the awkward silence.
"Now when I did the obvious thing with time travel and went to the end of time I saw Shibai Otsutsuki consume the entire universe. He forcibly caused the universe to collapse and ate it! And I thought, damn! that's some serious shit. I better get to becoming more powerful. So I did just that and eventually I discovered configuration space. To skip the scientific mumbo jumbo basically that meant I went outside of time itself and looked at the timeline from the outside."
He wildly gestured as if conveying a timeline line, before a holographic 'timeline' stream appeared in front of him. He explained a lot a very fast and despite his attempts to summarize his 'science' his explanations got hard to understand very quickly. Luckily Chizuru was superhuman in mind and body so he could keep up.
"Eventually I figured out the conditions for transmigrators to appear. When the events of the original Naruto series happens. When Canon is going on and no other transmigrators exist in that time period. There is a small chance for a transmigrator to appear.
"Wait how did you figure this out. This doesn't seem to be very scientific."
"Sheer trial and error. Anyways these transmigrators always come with some kind of 'cheat' or 'golden finger' like a system. So in order to build a force capable of defeating Otsutsuki Shibai once and for all I isolated the entire galaxy and placed it into one humongous time loop. Every time a transmigrator like you appears, we wait for you to reach your full potential then extract you. Then we initiate the next loop for the next transmigrator. That's why we want overpowered transmigrators like you and not those boring 'six paths level collect every bloodline' guys. Actually if they eat the chakra fruit, we kill them."
Chizuru's jaw was practically on the floor at this point. The scale of the explanation had long gone way beyond anything he expected. All he could muster himself to say was one thing.
"What."
"Oh that's because chakra fruits are actually the karma seals of Shibai Otsutsuki."
That's not what he was asking but Mikitaka was too deep in explaining to care.