The 55th year of Konoha. July. Night.
Uchiha Hoshi jolted awake from a deep sleep.
Immediately, a chorus of tragic screams pierced her ears, sending a chill through her spine.
"Why? Why regain my memories today? Even a few years earlier would have..."
Fine. In Konoha—specifically within the Uchiha clan—unless you had the power to overturn everything or the strength to escape this quagmire, you were destined for the slaughterhouse.
Uchiha Hoshi had neither.
In fact, she didn't even possess the Uchiha bloodline.
The reason was simple: she was a stray picked up by her parents.
She didn't know what her parents were feeling when they adopted her, but being raised without being their own was a debt of kindness she feared she could never repay in a lifetime.
But the greatest tragedy isn't being unable to repay a debt; it's finally wanting to repay it only to find the recipients long gone.
"Back then, I was ignorant. I thought dying on a mission was just a normal occurrence. But looking at it now..."
"Heh... Konoha!"
Indeed, her parents were Uchiha. Survivors of the battlefield, both had awakened the Two-Tomoe Sharingan. Combined with their mastery of Taijutsu and Fire Style, they were easily Elite Jonin.
How could ninjas of that caliber suffer a random "accident"? And both of them simultaneously?
It wasn't that Uchiha Hoshi harbored innate malice toward Konoha, but if one didn't look at these events through the lens of a conspiracy, they simply didn't make sense!
(In reality, it was because Naruto was originally intended to be a short-run manga. The Third Hokage was meant to be the final villain, but as the series' popularity soared, Kishimoto was forced to revise his plans into a long-running epic. This led to numerous logical inconsistencies in both the anime and the manga. One could say this was all Kishimoto's fault.)
But now was not the time for resentment.
Uchiha Hoshi suddenly realized that the timing was disastrous.
The waves of screams drifting from outside her room served as grim confirmation of her suspicions.
"The Night of the Clan Extermination..." she muttered.
Had she known nothing, she might have died in her sleep. But with her memories awakened, she refused to be slaughtered like cattle!
At the very least... at least let her have her revenge!
Not for the Uchiha clan, but for her parents!
The Uchiha meant nothing to her; she only cared for the parents who had raised her for ten years.
Those parents, who had poured all their love into her, hadn't even lived to celebrate her tenth birthday. They had died under mysterious circumstances half a year ago!
At this moment, Uchiha Hoshi had never hated her lack of Uchiha blood more. She loathed her inability to refine Chakra.
If she were a true Uchiha, with her current level of resentment, a Three-Tomoe Sharingan would be a certainty—if not the Mangekyo. Perhaps at the moment of her death, that massive surge of negative emotion would trigger the Mangekyo and let her deal Konoha a devastating blow.
If she had to die, she'd take down Konoha with her!
But now...
"I can't do anything!"
As those words left her lips, Uchiha Hoshi saw a blur of light.
In that instant, her consciousness was pulled into the radiance. It was then that she finally understood: her "Golden Finger" had arrived.
To put it simply, it was a surge of energy she had carried with her during transmigration.
It represented the most fundamental power of the universe. If she utilized this power, she could achieve anything.
However, the energy was limited. She had to figure out how to use it to maximize her gains.
Wait!
If she could do anything, then...
Before she could think further, her bedroom door was blown inward by a violent force, shattering against the wall.
Under the dim moonlight, she saw him.
A figure with crimson eyes, holding a long blade.
"A pity," Uchiha Itachi said coldly. "You were supposed to die without pain."
Without mercy, he raised his right hand and swung the blade.
Uchiha Hoshi saw only a flash of cold light. In the next heartbeat, a searing pain erupted in her chest. Warm blood sprayed from a wound that ran from her left shoulder to her right flank, nearly slicing her in half!
"Am I... dying?"
"I'm... going to die?"
"No! I can't die like this! I haven't had my revenge yet! I haven't made those people pay! How can I die?!"
Amidst the intense emotions, a surge of adrenaline masked the pain, but it didn't mean she was out of danger.
However, the brink of death brought an unprecedented clarity to her mind. Concepts that were once blurry snapped into focus.
By using the willpower of the entire Ninja World to turn falsehood into reality, I will bring calamity to this world. This isn't just about converting innate energy—it's a feast!
"Since you want a disaster, then I choose you!"
In her past life, Uchiha Hoshi—then a mundane man—was a typical otaku who loved games and anime. Due to being broke and busy, he had drifted away from many games, eventually only logging into Honkai: Star Rail and the occasional match of League of Legends.
But the game she thought of now was another: Honkai Impact 3rd.
"If you want destruction, then I shall give you Destruction!"
Originally, she wanted to consume the energy to manifest the Cocoon of Finality directly. But as she began, she realized the energy was far too scarce. At most, it was enough to construct a projection of the Cocoon—a Herrscher Core.
The remaining energy would be exhausted after solidifying the "Turning Falsehood into Reality" ability and creating the catalyst she needed.
Because this energy did not belong to this world—it was a higher-dimensional power—it could not be replenished. Once used, it was gone.
However, she could use the solidified "Reality" ability and the Sky Screen created with the last of her power to continue growing stronger!
Come then. I'm ready to start the broadcast!
Rumble!
A deafening roar echoed throughout the entire Ninja World, reaching even the other side of the planet.
At this moment, whether it was day or night, whether they were sleeping or working, everyone was startled by a sound like the world itself shattering.
Civilians had no idea what was happening, while ninjas assumed an enemy invasion.
But when they followed the roar and the golden light falling from the heavens to step outside, they saw it: the Sky Screen, raining down countless golden rays across the firmament!
"Not now! Not at a time like this!"
Outside the Uchiha ancestral lands, the Third Hokage, fully armed, looked up with a pale face.
Though he didn't know what this sudden Sky Screen was, the massive commotion had awakened everyone in Konoha.
If someone were to look toward the Uchiha district now...
"We have to speed this up!"
On the other side, Danzo—who was also waiting for the results from his Root agents—wore an even darker expression.
He loathed it when his plans doesn't go as planned.