The Land of Wind was hit by Kairen's trump card, directly splitting open a scar, and the entire Rōran turned into something like Hiroshima after a nuclear bomb.
Sara stood alone amid the ruins, staring blankly at everything around her.
What happened?
Rōran… and all the people of Rōran!
They all—
Two lines of hot tears streamed from Sara's eyes. The nation was gone, and the people were gone as well.
And the Kairen she had just met was gone too.
Everything slipped away from her side—her mother as well, Rōran as well.
"Hey!"
A hand gently patted Sara's shoulder.
A familiar voice reached her ears. Sara immediately hugged Kairen, crying like rain.
"Wuwuwu… you scared me to death. I thought you were already gone!"
Kairen quietly held Sara.
Rōran's high walls had been destroyed, and the merciless wind from the desert blew across the ruins inside.
He used his own warmth to comfort Sara's heart, which felt profoundly lonely.
After crying for a while, Sara was filled with guilt.
"I should have discovered Anrokuzan's ambition earlier. I failed my people! I harmed them…"
Kairen patted Sara and reminded her, "Look over there!"
Sara looked to the left. Kairen's shadow clones were carrying a group of ragged Rōran people out from the ruins.
There were children, there were elderly… and quite a lot of them.
Sara tightly gripped Kairen's hand. "Kairen!"
Her emotions were surging at this moment.
The people of Rōran hadn't all died. The city could be rebuilt if it was gone, but it couldn't exist without people.
Smiles appeared on the faces of the Rōran people who had survived the calamity, and they passed that emotion on to Sara.
Kairen smiled. Another nation saved by him.
Up to now, he had already changed the fate of three countries.
In the end, it was because of Kairen's kind nature—not because the female protagonists of those three countries were all very beautiful.
"Boss, look over there."
A shadow clone reminded Kairen to look in a certain direction, and Kairen did so.
In the middle of the ruined Rōran, a massive purple pillar of light shot straight into the sky, like the pillar of heaven and earth.
This was Rōran's dragon vein chakra. After being hit by Kairen's trump card, it hadn't been completely destroyed.
This chakra, capable of traversing time and space, was truly astonishing.
Sara was a bit worried. "Kairen, should I seal it?"
Although the people of Rōran possessed the power to control the dragon vein, they themselves couldn't actually use it.
Possessing a treasure invites disaster. Naturally, something so dangerous should be discarded as early as possible.
Kairen smiled faintly. "No need to seal it. It's a gift from heaven to your Rōran people. You should make use of it."
"Actually, Anrokuzan wasn't wrong to use the dragon vein for armament. This world is chaotic, and one must have the power to protect one's country."
"It's just a pity that Anrokuzan was weak yet overly ambitious, trying to rely on this power to unify the Five Great Nations. That was truly unwise."
As Kairen spoke, he walked toward that place.
A sound came from the ruins beside them.
Two enormous golden pangolins lifted the broken stones and slabs off their bodies, then turned into black-and-white, adorably clumsy forms.
It was Wolon and Fenchu. Kairen had gone all out without even giving a warning, causing the two standard-bearers to be buried directly in the ruins.
The two bears developed a bit of resentment toward Kairen, rolling around by his feet and biting at his pant legs.
"Mmnh~ •᷄ࡇ•᷅ "
A nearby shadow clone picked up Wolon and Fenchu, constantly comforting the two strategists.
"Don't complain, you two strategists. I'll compensate you later—bamboo shoots bigger than a person, how about that?"
"Mmnh~ (๑ت๑)"
The closer one got to the dragon vein chakra, the more one could feel the spatial pressure within it.
The dragon vein seemed to be connected to another spacetime, exuding endless might.
This pressure was useless against Kairen. He approached the dragon vein, opened the Tenseigan, and carefully observed this purple chakra.
Actually, he had some thoughts about the dragon vein. The Land of Wind lay to the south near the sea and was in a subtropical climate.
Logically speaking, this country shouldn't be so unlucky that not even a forest visible to the naked eye existed.
But there wasn't one. Aside from deserts, the Land of Wind had nothing but deserts.
It was very likely related to the dragon vein. The dragon vein drained the vitality of the Land of Wind's soil, causing it to undergo constant weathering.
Of course, these were all just guesses. Even if Einstein came, he wouldn't be able to explain this kind of thing.
Kairen gently placed his hand into the dragon vein's energy. It was like a powerful wind pressure—an ordinary person's hand could easily be torn apart.
But Kairen only felt a slight numbness, while the dragon vein's power seeped through his skin into his body.
The system's voice sounded.
"Ding!"
"Detected a spacetime breakpoint. Host, please prepare. Spacetime traversal, begin!"
What?
Spacetime traversal!
Wait! I haven't even cleared this map yet!
The system didn't bother arguing with Kairen. Resonating with the dragon vein's power, an extremely powerful attraction pulled Kairen into it.
"Mmnh~ (⊙_☉)"
In the moment of danger, Kairen brought the two pangolins beside him along as well.
...
At the same time, in the Land of Grass.
Minato removed his mask. Naruto confirmed his identity with him—three generations of ancestors gathered together, full of harmony and joy.
Minato looked at Naruto, who had pulled up his clothes to reveal his navel.
That black Eight Trigrams Seal pierced into his heart like a thorn.
How desperate must he have been to turn his own child into a jinchūriki?
Jiraiya patted Minato's shoulder and comforted him.
"Don't feel guilty. That's the future. Now that you know the truth, you should be on guard. Be more careful with Kushina from now on."
Minato nodded solemnly.
In his heart, he vowed to train properly and seize everything that should be seized.
After initially resenting Minato, Naruto gradually came to understand that Minato hadn't done it intentionally.
He sacrificed himself to save the entire Konoha Village—this was the true Fourth Hokage.
Jiraiya added, "By the way, tell us more about the future. What happened to Kairen? Where did he take this world?"
"Kairen? What Kairen?"
Naruto was full of confusion.
Jiraiya was about to explain.
Naruto's body emitted a faint white light, becoming more and more transparent, as if he were being rejected by this world.
"What's wrong? What's happening?"
Minato explained, "It's probably because of spacetime restoration. You don't belong to this era. In the end, you still have to go back."
Naruto's face was full of reluctance.
"Dad!"
Minato tried to pat Naruto's shoulder, but found that he only touched a layer of illusion.
He sighed helplessly, then smiled. "Naruto, work hard. And also, be careful of someone named Kairen. His ambition is too great, and—"
Before he could finish speaking, Naruto turned into a beam of light and disappeared from this spacetime.
...
Spacetime was like a seven-colored tunnel. Inside it, there was no space and no time, like a high-dimensional world.
There, Kairen's Tenseigan saw the truth of spacetime.
Time flowed in the form of images, until it got stuck at the moment Kairen crossed the dragon vein. Spacetime couldn't record Kairen's time.
He was an anomaly, throwing time itself into confusion.
Kairen held Wolon and Fenchu. The spacetime traversal brought an intense dizziness, and the two panda cubs passed out.
He tightly focused his mind, constantly forcing himself to stay conscious.
Kairen's system was continuously devouring the dragon vein chakra.
"Absorption progress: 10%!"
"20%…"
"50%…"
"100%!"
"Dragon vein chakra fully absorbed, and spacetime Flying Thunder God generated."
"Generation started, progress 0.1%…"
"0.2%…"
Kairen could no longer register what the system said afterward, because he had already passed out.