After 7 PM, the Izakaya owner decided to close up shop regardless of anything else.
Although Obito controlled Yagura Karatachi using Dojutsu, he actually had no interest in managing Kirigakure.
He adopted the simplest, one-size-fits-all method.
Anyone who showed even a sliver of wavering loyalty to his rule was dispatched by the Assassination Unit.
This bloody rule meant that after the sun went down, the villagers didn't dare to go out at all.
Even the ninja rarely walked outside, afraid that they would be the next ones to be eliminated.
"Go and create a real world?"
Walking to a crossroads, the two were about to part ways.
Kisame stopped in his tracks and muttered to himself:
"How do I create it?"
"This world is neither black nor white; it is a chaotic gray. There is no truth or peace that is eternal. But at least while you are alive, you can use the most suitable method to create it."
Mingyue patted Kisame on the shoulder one last time and strode forward.
In the original story, Kisame became accustomed to the deception and betrayal among ninja, eventually lamenting that everything was a lie.
Subsequently, he placed his hope in the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
But wasn't that just shifting his hope from one falsehood to another, larger falsehood?
Mingyue didn't rush to extend an olive branch to Kisame today. He merely gave him a preventive shot first—
Fantasizing in a fake world is useless. No matter what you do, truth is only found within reality.
"Create it? But can that be done in the current Kirigakure?"
Kisame pondered Mingyue's words, looking at the street that was as dead as a graveyard, then turned and walked toward the left intersection.
In his view, at least in the current Kirigakure, it couldn't be done.
Although the current Kirigakure hadn't yet reached the most tragic period of the "Village of the Bloody Mist," it wasn't far off.
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The characters in the original story all acted for the concept of "peace."
They were mainly divided into three types.
The first was the Infinite Tsukuyomi pursued by Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito.
Leaving aside the dirty trick played by the thousand-year-old mother-complex sufferer, Black Zetsu.
This method of trapping the whole world in a genjutsu world was ultimately just giving up on oneself.
Humanity moves forward through constant pain, confusion, and failure.
If people just lay down and quit because they fell, then humans would still be cavemen.
The second type was "mutual understanding between people," advocated by Naruto and Jiraiya.
Mingyue felt this method was even more nonsensical than the previous one.
If people could really understand each other, then why didn't the ninja world welcome eternal peace after the end of the Warring States Period?
Why did the First Great Ninja War break out right after Hashirama Senju died?
In the end, after the Fourth Great Ninja War, peace seemed to be achieved on the surface.
But that was because too many ninja had died in that war, leaving insufficient numbers to start a new one.
And there were two cheat-like forces, Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, in Konoha.
Who would dare to cause trouble?
Mingyue was one hundred percent certain that once those two died, war would break out immediately.
The third type was advocated by Nagato: using the Tailed Beasts to create an ultimate weapon and using absolute power to threaten all countries so they wouldn't dare to go to war.
In Mingyue's opinion, this was a relatively reliable method.
To be honest, the peace after the Fourth Great Ninja War was also brought about by the cheat-like power of Naruto and Sasuke.
It coincided with Nagato's idea.
However, Mingyue had no interest in peace.
What he wanted was absolute control.
Just like Imu, the King of the Celestial Dragons in the world of One Piece, that kind of control over the entire world.
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After separating from Terumi Mei and then Kisame, Mingyue did not return to the Kaguya clan mansion where he lived.
He went to the Mizukage Administration Building.
Moments later, inside the Mizukage's office.
"What is it?"
Yagura Karatachi, standing by the window like a puppet, spoke in a mechanical, cold voice when he saw Mingyue.
"Come on, Obito. It's rare for old friends to meet after so long. Can't you show your true self?"
Mingyue didn't care about the puppet Yagura at all; he sat carelessly on the sofa to the side and smiled.
"Hmph~"
A cold snort sounded from behind Yagura Karatachi.
In the swirling, distorted space, Obito's figure gradually became clear.
"Do you have business?"
Obito asked in an unfriendly tone.
He couldn't muster a good attitude toward this former classmate who was the only person in the world, besides Zetsu, who knew his true identity.
"Business? I should be asking you that, right?"
Mingyue said with an even wider smile.
Behind the mask, Obito's brows furrowed tight. "What do you mean?"
Mingyue raised his hand and gestured:
"Obito, although I don't know what you're planning with your fake death, your frequency of returning to Kirigakure lately is really too high. Do you think I'm an idiot? Can't I see that something has gone wrong in Kirigakure?"
Obito remained silent.
Although separated by a mask, one could imagine his expression.
"It doesn't matter if you tell him, right? Obito. After all, he is part of the reason for this matter," came a raspy voice as the Yin-Yang person wrapped in pitcher plant-like extensions emerged from the ceiling; it was Black Zetsu speaking.
"Call me 'Madara'!"
Obito was very repulsed by others calling him by his real name. He then said coldly to Mingyue:
"You too. You can address me as 'Madara' or 'Tobi'."
Mingyue laughed internally.
With this kind of behavior of escaping even his own name, it was no wonder he didn't dare to face reality and only wanted to escape into a dream.
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