"Monster?" Uchiha Kagase's hand froze mid-air. "A yōkai monster? Then… where is that yōkai monster?"
The woman blinked and looked at him strangely. "You were the one who killed it, sir!" Seeing his furrowed brow and confused expression, she carefully described the circumstances of his appearance.
After Maki went out to check the houses damaged by the monster, Uchiha Kagase remained seated alone in the room, quite confused about the current situation.
"A yōkai monster could be some kind of extremely powerful beast, but the sacrifice for Edo Tensei can only be a human, right? Probably?"
said Uchiha Kagase, though he wasn't entirely sure. After all, what if it really was a yōkai?
Uchiha Kagase lowered his gaze to his cracked hands, his brow deeply furrowed. He confirmed that this was indeed an Edo Tensei body, but the place he was in was certainly not the Ninja World he knew.
"Have I transmigrated again?" he muttered to himself, his tone filled with surprise and confusion.
Originally, he had been just an ordinary university student on Earth. After an accident during a trip, he awakened as a newborn in the world of Naruto, in a boy named Uchiha Kagase of the Uchiha clan.
He had reincarnated in the same era as Sasuke and was nearly killed during the Night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre. Being too young, he did not possess the Sharingan and therefore was not taken away by Root.
He was saved by the ANBU, who were serving the Hokage and disposing of the corpses of the Uchiha clan members. After discovering he was still alive, he was placed under the protection of the Third Hokage, entered the Ninja Academy, and successfully graduated, becoming a ninja.
Although he did not have a system or any "golden finger," he relied on the memories of his previous life, the changes brought by transmigration, and the excellent innate talent of his original body.
Shortly after entering the Ninja Academy, he awakened the Sharingan, and four years after graduating, he successfully awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
However, he was unable to find a second pair of Mangekyō Sharingan to merge into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. To prevent blindness caused by frequent use of the Mangekyō Sharingan,
he secretly sought out Orochimaru to reach an agreement. He would help him recover the hands and arms that had been rendered unusable by Hiruzen Sarutobi. He managed to uphold the agreement and convinced him to help him merge with Hashirama's cells.
Ultimately, by using the dōjutsu ability of the Mangekyō Sharingan, he succeeded in merging with Hashirama's cells. Not only did he obtain Wood Release Ninjutsu, but he also resolved the hidden danger of Mangekyō blindness.
However, aware of how powerful the Fourth Great Ninja War would be according to the plot, he took precautions by creating many Edo Tensei scrolls and hiding them throughout the Ninja World, ensuring that he could be resurrected through Edo Tensei even after death.
His concerns were not unfounded. After the outbreak of the Fourth Great Ninja War, although he could fight on equal footing with Edo Tensei Uchiha Madara using his Mangekyō Sharingan,
it was only with the appearance of the Ten-Tails, followed by Obito and Madara in their Six Paths forms, that he understood the meaning of the phrase "when gods fight, mortals step aside."
In the end, he was killed, pierced through the heart during the battle with Six Paths Madara. Even now, recalling it, Uchiha Kagase still felt a sense of helplessness. In the face of those overwhelmingly powerful opponents who relied on absurd abilities, his efforts had seemed like a farce.
Uchiha Kagase confirmed that he was not currently in the Ninja World; the reason for his conclusion lay in the surrounding natural energy.
As a reincarnator who knew the plot, he had naturally tried every possible way to learn Sage Mode, since this type of Ninjutsu could greatly increase a person's strength and even damage a Ten-Tails Jinchūriki later on.
Just now, while trying to sense the surrounding natural energy to enter Sage Mode, he discovered an anomaly.
The natural energy now gave him a completely different feeling compared to the Ninja World.
Unlike the stillness of the Ninja World, the natural energy here was unusually active, allowing him to perceive it and enter Sage Mode with ease. Such a change in energy state on a world level was a rare occurrence.
Uchiha Kagase extended his hand and picked up the scroll in front of him, examining it carefully. "This is indeed the Edo Tensei scroll I created."
Unable to understand the situation, Uchiha Kagase unconsciously ran his finger along the surface of the scroll, frowning as he sank into thought.
"There's another way to confirm it." Uchiha Kagase formed hand seals with both hands and slammed his right hand onto the ground.
"Summoning Technique!"
A black summoning circle spread across the ground, but no summoned beast appeared at the center.
"I don't sense any contract…" Uchiha Kagase frowned, observing the summoning circle in front of him.
"If this isn't the world of Naruto, then why is the scroll I created here?"
He unrolled the scroll and observed a mark at the end. After thinking carefully, something suddenly came to mind.
In the next instant, his black pupils transformed into scarlet Sharingan. The three tomoe spun rapidly, eventually condensing into the pattern of the Mangekyō.
"Kamui!"
With a low shout, the surrounding space twisted and warped before his eyes. His body vanished along with the spatial distortion, disappearing from the room and instantly entering a gray, foggy alternate dimension.
This was the ability of Kamui, but it was not the dōjutsu of his own Mangekyō Sharingan.
The abilities of his eyes were: "Left eye: Omoikane Intuition, which allows him to instantly analyze every variable and 'intuit' the enemy's next move or the truth behind an illusion. Right eye: Ame-no-Uzume Copy, which represents the art of reflecting, replicating, and making another's technique his own." Having awakened these abilities from his desire for power, he was able to copy dōjutsu abilities.
Although there were heavy restrictions—despite being able to copy others' techniques, to truly possess the abilities he needed genetic material and had to use Intuition first and then Copy—the copied abilities could stack, and they would not overwrite the original abilities of his eyes.
The Kamui ability he had copied came from Kakashi's Sharingan, which could open a spatial barrier within his field of vision to teleport attacks or the enemy itself, or transport himself and others into an alternate dimension.
At that time, under the pretense of practicing taijutsu, he accumulated enough contact time through repeated physical clashes during battles before finally managing to copy Kakashi's Kamui.
Unfortunately, he never managed to copy the Kamui of Obito's right eye. Obito's ability to phase through objects always allowed him to avoid contact, preventing him from accumulating even a single minute of contact.
"Same old story…" Uchiha Kagase looked at the familiar Kamui dimension before him and sighed softly.
He quickly moved toward the corner of the stone platform where he remembered placing the scroll, but that spot was empty.
"It's really gone…" He immediately understood.
"Did this Edo Tensei scroll fall from Obito's Kamui dimension?"
Perhaps after Obito's death, his Kamui dimension collapsed and the scroll fell into this world; the Kamui dimension he was currently in might be a new dimension generated after his resurrection.
These were only guesses, but for Kagase, what mattered most was being alive. As for ending up in a different world, he had long since stopped caring, since it was not the first time he had found himself in another world after death.
"It's just that this Edo Tensei body is too much of a hindrance." He clenched his fist, feeling his body as if it were wrapped in a heavy shell.
"I need to find a way to truly be reborn. The Edo Tensei body, while technically immortal, prevents me from expressing my full strength."
He wasn't sure whether it was due to the difference between worlds or a problem with the Edo Tensei sacrifice, but this body greatly limited his ability to use his power.
He activated Kamui again, instantly returning to the room he had been in just a moment before.
This room contained only a simple wooden table and a wooden bed; there were no appliances or anything similar.
Through the large breach in the wall, he could see villagers outside carrying broken logs to repair houses, some tending to the wounded, and dust mixed with a faint smell of blood lingering in the air.
Judging by the villagers' clothing and the strange topknot hairstyles worn by the men, Kagase deduced that this was a world similar to ancient Japan.
This room had originally been Maki's storage room. When the main house was destroyed by the monster, one wall of this room had also been torn open, leaving a large hole. Fortunately, it remained relatively intact, so it became the place where he "awakened."