"What exactly is going on?!" He looked at Minato Namikaze. "I need an explanation, Fourth Hokage."
While the young ninjas from Team Kakashi and Team Minato were throwing money around, Minato Namikaze explained how he, Young Obito, Young Kakashi, and Rin had been transported from the Kannabi Bridge mission to the parallel world of the mission scroll.
"The Kannabi Bridge mission?!"
Fugaku Uchiha could not help glancing at Obito Uchiha.
"But..."
He looked around. The noisy casino was full of lively, human warmth.
"Isn't this the world of the dead?"
Madara Uchiha said, "I already told you. This isn't the Pure Land."
Minato Namikaze explained the mission scroll to the newly revived, utterly bewildered Fugaku Uchiha. He also told him that the real Fourth Hokage, the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, as well as Madara Uchiha, Izuna Uchiha, and Tajima Uchiha, had all been revived.
Seeing Fugaku Uchiha's surprise at the clothing of the gamblers around them, Minato explained, "This is the Warring States Period. Because we completed the missions in the mission scroll before, all of us were brought to this parallel world and given the chance to resolve the regrets this world once left behind."
Fugaku Uchiha nodded. He did not really care about that.
He looked toward Sasuke, who was pressed up against the gambling table with Naruto, then fell silent for a moment before finally asking, "How much do you know about the Uchiha Clan?"
"Pretty much everything, I suppose."
Fugaku Uchiha was somewhat surprised.
Minato Namikaze said, "It's a complicated matter."
"If you came from the Kannabi Bridge mission, then you should already know what happens during that mission, right?" Fugaku Uchiha looked at the backs of his second son, Sasuke, and Obito Uchiha. "Obito, he..."
He had wanted to tell Minato Namikaze that Obito would die during that mission.
But before the Kannabi Bridge mission was even completed, Obito had already awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. Clearly, the history he knew had already been changed because of the mission scroll Minato had mentioned.
"The Kannabi Bridge mission has already been completed, including the later incident where Rin was abducted by Kirigakure ninjas. That has been resolved too."
Minato guessed what he wanted to ask and answered directly.
Fugaku Uchiha was surprised for a moment. "So that's why he awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan? His talent really was greater than we imagined."
As for the reason Young Obito had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, Minato Namikaze chose to remain silent.
Because Obito had not awakened it during the Kannabi Bridge mission, nor when he was rushing to save Kakashi and Rin.
Rather...
He awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan in anguish after learning that he himself was the masked man who had thrown the Ninja World into chaos.
"Speaking of which, why were we revived?"
Minato said, "Completing the SSS-rank mission in the mission scroll grants the ultimate reward, which fulfills one wish deep in the holder's heart. Itachi's wish was for Sasuke's wish to come true, and Sasuke's wish was to revive the Uchiha Clan. That's why powerful Uchiha from past generations are being revived one by one, every 24 hours."
Only then did Fugaku Uchiha look toward the young man beside Madara Uchiha, who shared some resemblance with both Sasuke and Itachi.
"This is Izuna Uchiha, Madara Uchiha's younger brother. Back at our lodging, there is also Tajima Uchiha, the Clan Head of the Uchiha Clan from the Warring States Period," Minato Namikaze said. "The order of revival seems to be based on a combination of factors, including each Uchiha's strength and contributions."
Contributions...
Fugaku Uchiha felt that if contribution was part of the evaluation, then he was not worthy at all.
After all, the powerful and prosperous Uchiha Clan had ended in ruin during his generation.
"There are many things you don't know yet. I'll tell you gradually later."
Fugaku Uchiha nodded.
At the gambling table, Sasuke had been following Naruto's bets, but his mind had been elsewhere the entire time. He had been secretly listening to the conversation between Minato Namikaze and his father, Fugaku Uchiha.
Just then, another voice suddenly came through as someone lifted the gambling den's curtain.
"Seriously! We're working ourselves half to death, and you're all here gambling!!"
That voice was...
Everyone turned around, and sure enough, they saw two people walk in from outside the gambling den.
Adult Obito and Obito Ōtsutsuki!
Both of them were 1.82 meters tall, which made them quite eye-catching. Many people turned to look at them.
Especially with those identical faces. They looked like twin brothers.
"You're back, Obito."
Minato Namikaze greeted the two of them.
Fugaku Uchiha, standing beside him, froze. "Obito?" Obito Uchiha?!
At the gambling table, Naruto, Young Obito, Sasuke, Kakashi, and the others all turned around and covered their faces.
Damn it! Of all the times to come back, they had to come back now.
Young Obito was numb all over. In his heart, he was cursing nonstop, nearly driven to tears by his grown-up self.
Adult Obito belatedly looked toward Fugaku Uchiha, who had appeared from who knew where, and instantly stiffened. Out of reflex, he called him by the way he had addressed him as a child.
"Fu-Fugaku Uchiha, b-big brother?!!"
That form of address, that stupid reaction.
It was definitely Obito Uchiha.
Fugaku Uchiha carefully studied the two Obito Uchihas who had entered through the door, his brow furrowing deeply.
Once Adult Obito recovered from his stiffness, his first instinct was to flee back into Kamui's Dimension.
Obito Ōtsutsuki and Young Obito naturally did not give him the chance. Using the same space-time Dōjutsu, they scattered the vortex he was materializing and forcibly kept him in the real world.
Fugaku Uchiha instinctively sensed that something was wrong.
Obito had been strange since childhood, and he was so foolish that he was easy to read.
The way he tried to run the moment he saw Fugaku meant, nine times out of ten, that he had made some terrible mistake.
But if he came from another parallel world like Minato, connected to the Kannabi Bridge mission, then an Obito Uchiha from another parallel world should not have reacted like this.
Even with his eyes closed, Fugaku could still see the sunken eyelid where his left eye was missing.
The guess forming in Fugaku Uchiha's mind was only one step away from the truth.
And right then!
A sudden wave of chaotic questioning, discussion, and startled cries came from outside.
The noise interrupted Fugaku Uchiha's thoughts.
It also caught the curiosity of Obito Ōtsutsuki, Adult Obito, and the others.
Obito Ōtsutsuki lifted the cloth curtain marked with the word "gambling," preparing to see what was happening outside.
A civilian from the Warring States Period rushed in.
"Come outside and look! Something strange appeared in the sky!!"
"Huh?!"
The gamblers in the gambling den wondered what had happened. They put down their cards and dice and swarmed outside.
In moments, only their group remained inside the gambling den.
Minato reminded Adult Obito, "Wasn't your SS-rank mission completed?"
Adult Obito hurriedly took out his mission scroll and opened it to check.
[Mission Rank: SS-rank]
[Mission Content: Eat 600,000,000,000 red bean cakes.]
[Mission Status: Completed.]
Sure enough, the mission status was completed!
"That doesn't seem right, does it?"
Adult Kakashi raised a question.
"Obito was born in Konoha Year 32, and now we're in the Warring States Period. Even if Obito distributed the red bean cake mission to many Obitos across parallel worlds, shouldn't it still take several years before the mission could be counted as completed?"
Adult Obito raised his hand. "Before coming to find you, we went back to our parallel world once. Maybe the mission was completed then."
"All right, that explains it."
Sasuke Uchiha glanced at him. "When it comes to unpredictability, if Naruto dares to claim first place, you two dare to claim second."
"Tsk."
Adult Obito was unconvinced, but after glancing at Fugaku Uchiha beside Sasuke, he could only hold back his temper no matter how much he wanted to complain.
After all, Itachi was the one who had publicly carried out the massacre, but the person who had truly killed the entire Konoha Police Force was him! And when it came to what had forced the Uchiha to the point where they had no choice but to break with Konoha, the Konoha higher-ups accounted for thirty percent, Madara Uchiha accounted for thirty percent, and the remaining forty percent was all because of him, Obito Uchiha!
Minato Namikaze said, "In any case, let's go outside and see what happened first."
He led the way out.
Team Kakashi, Team Minato, Madara Uchiha, Izuna Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, the newly revived Fugaku Uchiha, the just-returned Adult Obito, and Obito Ōtsutsuki followed him out of the gambling den.
When they saw the familiar image in the sky...
Obito Ōtsutsuki, who had been keeping his presence as low as possible and had not said a word, felt his legs start trembling.
It was over...
Completely over.
"What the hell is that?"
Adult Obito clearly still did not know what hell-level extreme punishment meant.
Minato Namikaze and Rin Nohara noticed that Obito Ōtsutsuki was sweating so much it looked like a small waterfall.
"What's wrong, Obito?" Rin asked.
At Rin's words, all three Obitos turned around at the same time.
Then Adult Obito and Young Obito also noticed Obito Ōtsutsuki's strange state.
"Constipated?"
"Bad stomach?"
Obito Ōtsutsuki's sixth sense detected a terrible danger, and he instinctively tried to flee into Kamui's Dimension.
But heaven lets no one off.
This time, Adult Obito and Young Obito simultaneously used their space-time Dōjutsu to intercept him.
Seeing their stance, Madara Uchiha grew a little interested.
He raised an eyebrow and looked at Obito Ōtsutsuki.
"What the hell is that thing?"
Obito Ōtsutsuki swallowed.
He said, "It is the most... brutal execution in all of history."
Huh?!
Izuna Uchiha had never met Obito Ōtsutsuki before, but even he could sense the unusual power in the man's eyes.
To scare someone like that into acting like a terrified grandson...
Was that bamboo forest in the sky really the most cruel, most brutal execution in history?
Madara and Izuna...
Along with countless ninjas of the Warring States Period, looked up at the bamboo forest that had appeared in the sky.
Their muscles tensed, ready to defend or attack at any moment.
They all believed this was an enemy plot.
At any second, a massive number of enemy ninjas might rush out of that bamboo forest!
Minato Namikaze looked at Obito Ōtsutsuki and sighed.
"It seems this situation is more or less related to your world too..."
…
The BOSS behind the mission scroll actually learned how Quiz World does things?!
Is this going to be a double kill?!
Now that things are opening up, everyone must protect themselves!!
I feel like... I might be in a little danger.