XX-level Hokage

"I understand."

After Mashiro finished speaking, the system fell silent, indicating that Aya had fallen asleep.

Then, the "Cat Has Nine Lives" skill activated again, flashing with light, and Shizuka opened her eyes. The surroundings were still a vast, white snowfield, but Shizuka had vanished without a trace.

"So he left after I died? He didn't even bother to cover his tracks. He really underestimated me. But judging by his logic, he should be rushing to kill Izumi right now." With that, Mashiro sank into the shadows.

At that moment, in a special ward at Konoha Hospital, Izumi was lying in bed. Just then, his true self appeared out of nowhere.

The Emperor of Time possesses the ability to accelerate time. By applying this power to his own speed, he can make his true self travel anywhere without being detected by anyone.

"I never imagined I'd have to kill you three times." Shingo's expression was complicated as he looked at Izumi lying on the hospital bed.

Although the will of Otsutsuki Go is the majority for the true self, a portion still belongs to Uchiha Shin.

Chapter 221: Towards the Future

Therefore, for the true self, he sheds tears every time he kills Izumi.

Zhenwo took out a kunai and slowly walked towards the spring. Just then, a clear voice rang out.

I advise you not to do something so pointless.

Shingo turned around and saw that Mashiro had appeared in the corner of the ward at some point.

"You're not dead yet?" Shingo asked, looking at Mashiro with utter astonishment. "You don't seem afraid," Mashiro said softly.

Upon hearing this, Zhen did not reply, but simply looked at Zhen silently.

“That’s true. Based on your abilities, you think I shouldn’t be able to kill you. And you probably even think that after the body you’re using dies, you can be reincarnated directly into me,” Mashiro said quietly.

"Your memories have returned?" the true self asked coldly.

"I just know a few things. You've used this body for so long, it's time to return it." Mashiro said in a somewhat somber tone. Although she had no feelings for Uchiha Shin, blood-related, Uchiha Shin was indeed her child from when she was Uchiha Zero. "Want this body? Then come and take it." Shin said calmly.

Just then, the shadow behind True Self suddenly began to twist, and Black Zetsu, controlling Obito, emerged from it with "Kamui!"

Kamui was activated, instantly bringing the true self into the Kamui dimension. Mashiro then followed. After the Great War of the Hakusei, Mashiro did not choose to kill Obito.

After all, when her soul was taken away by the Sage of Six Paths, Obito did help her, for whatever reason.

Therefore, Mashiro spared Obito's life, intending for Kakashi, Kushina, Minato, and Naruto to decide Obito's fate after he recovered.

Now, in order to better deal with the true self, Mashiro specifically summoned Black Zetsu, who was training in the Shadow Kingdom, before heading to Konoha, and had it control Obito's body again.

Divine Power Space.

Shingo looked around, then at Mashiro in front of him, and said, "An independent space, huh? How clever."

In order to resist the special Karma ability of Otsutsuki Goshiki's Tenmei-kun, Mashiro specially brought him into the Kamui dimension. In this way, even if Shinga activated Tenmei-kun before his death, it could only mark Mashiro from afar.

"You must die here today," Mashiro said calmly. Mashiro didn't speak, but her pale green Rinnegan lit up.

He instantly appeared behind Mashiro, a black rod appearing in his palm, and stabbed towards Mashiro.

But it passed right through Mashiro, as if piercing the shadows. "Ranya Tianchen?" Mashiro muttered to himself, instantly retreating out of the attack range. Under the influence of Tianyi Zun, Mashiro could clearly understand Mashiro's abilities.

"Did you see that?" Mashiro said, drawing a "one" in the direction Mashiro was pointing.

But seeing this, the true self could only calmly take out a handful of kunai and throw it in front of him. Instantly, the kunai was split in two.

Shinichi was very clear about Mashiro's ability. As a derivative attack that transforms reality into illusion, whether it was the "one" slash or the "cross" slash, it was often invincible under Mashiro's sudden attack.

However, this attack also has a special weakness: the attack judgment is based on the lock of the line of sight. That is to say, if Mashiro sees the true self, the "I" slash will attack the true self. But if he sees other things during the attack, the "I" slash will switch to attack other things.

Understanding this, Shinji easily threw out a kunai, and Shinji's gaze fell on the kunai intentionally or unintentionally, and the word "I" attacked the kunai as a result.

"You really know me well," Mashiro said softly.

"Although I can't be completely sure how many minutes you have left in your untainted state, I think it shouldn't exceed ten minutes. So, I'll have to ask you to show yourself first." As he spoke, he activated the Time Emperor technique.

The duration of Shinpaku's "Undyed State" is ten minutes, and the acceleration time of Shinso Shioh is also ten minutes, because under certain circumstances, Shinso Shioh restrains Shinpaku's Dyed Abyss Dust.

But as Itachi Uchiha said, no ninjutsu is perfect, including the eye techniques used by the Otsutsuki. The cooldown time for True Self Time Emperor is two hours.

The cooldown time for True White Dye Abyss Dust is one hour.

In other words, in just one more hour, the true self will be unable to cope with the true white's "unstained" mode.

Mashiro was unaware of these things, but the True Self, possessing the Heavenly Memory, knew them, and thus he was already preparing to kill Mashiro within the next hour. Instantly, Mashiro appeared behind Mashiro and threw a punch.

Under the power of the Byakugan, Mashiro instantly blocked, but due to the hasty response, Mashiro was still knocked away and crashed heavily into a boulder.

"Time-based eye techniques are indeed difficult to deal with."

Mashiro now somewhat understood the helplessness Madara felt when facing the "unstained" mode. But Mashiro didn't panic at all; the shadow began to spread beneath her feet.

With the acceleration of time, Mashiro was unable to detect the traces of his true self in time. However, as long as the entire Kamui space was completely covered with shadows, Mashiro could instantly detect the true self no matter where it appeared.

"Is it that strange power again? It seems you intend to encompass this entire peculiar space within your perception range."

Because the power of the Shadow Legion does not belong to this world, the True Self's Heavenly Memory Venerable cannot perceive its abilities, but this does not prevent the True Self from guessing them.

"Do you need my help?" True Self said softly. Then True Self started overclocking and running Time Emperor.

Time within the entire Kamui space began to accelerate. The duration of Mashiro's "Unstained" mode shortened continuously, and the speed at which the shadows spread increased. Shinji's method for dealing with Mashiro's shadow army was simple: since these shadows were meant to restrain his Time Emperor, he might as well directly and quickly defeat the Time Emperor.

It not only consumed the time of "untainted" state, but also rendered these shadows useless.

With the Emperor of Time operating at full power, the entire Kamui Space accelerated by ten minutes in an instant. Mashiro's "Unstained" mode disappeared, and shadows covered the entire Kamui Space.

"Now, how should you deal with this move?" True Self said softly, instantly activating the Complete Body Susanoo. This is the power of the Uchiha True Mangekyou Sharingan.

A green Susanoo conjured a katana in its hand and instantly appeared before Mashiro. This was when the Emperor of Time had only a few seconds left to accelerate.

Just as Susanoo's blade was about to strike Mashiro, Mashiro snapped his fingers. "It's getting dark."

Then the entire Divine Might Space instantly turned pitch black.

Immediately afterwards, the complete Susanoo of True Self shattered, and True Self was thrown out heavily.

The Kamui Space brightened up again, and Kaguya appeared beside Mashiro at some point, looking somewhat puzzled.

"So that's how it is. These black shadows aren't there to block my Time Emperor, but to block Heavenly Memory Venerable." The True Self struggled to its feet, drool dripping from its lips.

He looked at the blood and said.

Just as I had guessed, the main reason why Mashiro used the Shadow Legion to cover the entire Kamui Space was to stop my Heavenly Memory Lord. With this ability, I could know about almost all attacks in advance.

“You know me very well, almost completely. Even the katana wielded by your Perfect Susanoo is a real sword, not made of chakra. But unfortunately, there are some things that even your eye can’t see through,” Mashiro said softly.

In the brief moment of darkness, Mashiro brought Kaguya over through the shadows, and then Kaguya used the Eighty Gods Vacuum Strike to shatter Shinga's complete Susanoo.

Kaguya looked at Shinji with some confusion. Just now, Mashiro suddenly told her that he would take her to a pitch-black place in a while, where she could just use the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack. Although she was a little puzzled, Kaguya still agreed by chance.

From the very beginning, the battle was under Mashiro's control. Shinga stood up, wanting to counterattack again.

Four golden chains appeared out of thin air, binding him tightly. Kushina appeared not far behind Shingo at some unknown time.

Looking at the golden chains on his body, Zhenwo said in an icy tone, "You don't think you can seal me with this, do you? A ninja's sealing technique can only seal me for ten seconds at most."

"Ten seconds is enough, Kaguya. Seal his movements," Mashiro said softly.

Upon hearing this, Kaguya fired her own color head, activating her Bloodline Limit "Hairless Needle," instantly rendering her True Self unable to move.

"It seems I've lost, but so what? No one can kill me. I will keep reborn until I kill you," Shinji said angrily. "That's right, Daisuke Mugoshiki won't die, but that doesn't mean Kaguya Shinji won't," Shinji said calmly.

Then Mashiro instructed Black Zetsu to send the group out of the Kamui dimension. "How is it? Have you figured out a way?" Mashiro asked softly.

"You really know how to surprise me, going to kill a Ōtsutsuki who's almost impossible to kill," Orochimaru said. "Didn't you also say 'almost'?" Mashiro said softly.

"Do you still remember the forbidden technique, Toki Seal?" Orochimaru said with a smile. "You mean..." Mashiro instantly understood what Orochimaru meant.

"The souls of the Otsutsuki clan are unaffected by the Toki Seal, but that doesn't mean the other person within their soul is unaffected," Orochimaru said with a sinister smile.

“I understand.” Mashiro smiled too. In the Hyuga clan’s underground training room.

Mashiro stared at the swirling vortex before her and murmured to herself, "Is this the Gate of Time? It can take me to the future." With that, Mashiro reached her hand inside.

In an instant, the Gate of Time expanded, sucking Shinji inside. Shinji then felt his chakra begin to drain away. "This feeling...it's like a dragon vein..."

Mashiro tried her best to stop the loss of chakra, but to no avail; the Gate of Time was more powerful than the Dragon Vein.

As his chakra was depleted, Mashiro's yang energy began to dissipate, and his size began to shrink, just like it had been during the time he was in Kumogakure.

A flash of white light.

Mashiro then fainted.

"Konohamaru-sensei, there is a girl who has fainted here."

This was the last sentence Mashiro heard. Volume 3: The Empire (End)

Chapter 222: Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki

"I've lost most of my chakra, and my yin and yang chakra are out of balance. If nothing unexpected happens, I should be back to being around 12 years old. This is really troublesome." Mashiro muttered to herself, sensing the specific condition of her body in her mental world.

Just then, a white scroll suddenly appeared in the mental world.

Sensing the aura of the system on the scroll, Mashiro reached out and caught it, and immediately a message entered her mind.

A moment later, the scroll in Mashiro's hand turned into specks of light and disappeared. "The juvenile form of the Ten-Tails?" Mashiro murmured.

The information in the scroll was left behind by the system beforehand, explaining how to restore Mashiro's power. The system was well aware of the problems that the portal would cause.

Among the recovery methods left by the system, besides letting Mashiro recover through self-cultivation, two other methods were proposed. The first method is: affection reward.

However, this method is uncontrollable. Even the system cannot determine what rewards will be given for increasing favorability. Perhaps in the future, no ninja in the world will receive any rewards related to chakra.

The second method: Absorbing ten seedlings.

The Ten-Tails hatchling brought by Isshiki Otsutsuki is still kept somewhere in the ninja world.

"It's time to wake up. I'm really curious about what they'll be like in the future." Mashiro gently opened her eyes and saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

She got up, sat on the hospital bed, and glanced around. She could clearly tell that it was a hospital, but the style was very different from what Mashiro remembered. At that moment, a nurse came over and saw that Mashiro had regained consciousness.

"You're awake, and you feel alright... Ah? Lord Konohamaru!!!" The nurse, having seen something, hurriedly ran away.

Konohamaru, the grandson of the Third Hokage? "Mashiro recognizes this name. The grandson of the Third Hokage, the future successor of the Sarutobi clan."

Shortly after, a handsome young man entered the ward with two boys and a girl. Upon seeing Mashiro, the young man froze, then blushed slightly.

Of the three boys following him, a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy walked straight up to Mashiro and looked at him intently. "What's wrong?" Looking at the boy's face, Mashiro instantly recognized him.

In the original future world, Naruto and Yu's son, Boruto Uzumaki. "It really is! Just like Mom!" Boruto said with a smile.

"By the way, miss, are you a member of the Hyuga clan? And why were you unconscious in the Forest of Death?" Konohamaru asked.