Sensei, Why Have You Returned?

The Bijudama shot forward at high speed, like a deadly missile, instantly crossing a distance of ten thousand meters and heading straight for Konoha Village.

But at that very moment, a small black rift suddenly opened in front of the Bijudama's trajectory.

*SHUA!*

The Bijudama shot into the black rift and vanished in an instant.

The event happened so quickly that the Konoha ninjas couldn't even see what had occurred.

The next second.

*BOOM!*

Ten thousand meters away, at the location where the Four-Tails was, the teleported Bijudama suddenly exploded!

The unprepared Four-Tails was sent flying.

It was clear.

Lux had taken action, using the Underworld Slope Hill to open a spatial portal, sending the Bijudama that was about to explode back to the Four-Tails.

He had saved Konoha once.

Of course, the explosion of this Bijudama wouldn't have been enough to destroy the entire Konoha Village, but it would definitely have caused many casualties, severely impacting Konoha's potential for development and the progress of unification in the future.

This was why Lux had intervened.

In truth, Lux could accept other forces that surpassed Konoha's strength temporarily binding him.

But the prerequisite was that the other side could demonstrate higher value, which would be more conducive to achieving rapid and stable unification.

Perhaps like the resurrected evil Madara originally planned in Parallel World 3. As long as his value and advantages were clear, Lux wouldn't mind handing over Konoha to support him.

But it was obvious that the two Jinchūriki from Iwagakure outside the village at this moment didn't qualify.

Even if they were allowed to destroy Konoha, could the two of them and the ruined Iwagakure replace Konoha and become a new force? Could the entire ninja world be unified quickly?

No, they couldn't.

They didn't have that capability, okay?

Even if Lux gave them full support, it might still be possible.

But why should he hand over Konoha, whose unification progress had already exceeded 50%, and instead support two wandering Jinchūriki?

Because they were ugly? Or because they didn't bathe?

Based on this, Lux wouldn't let Konoha be severely damaged by the Bijudama.

It felt like watching a good daughter you've raised with great effort being assaulted by a gangster who suddenly appeared.

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"What's happening?"

"Where's the Bijudama?"

"Why did it suddenly disappear?"

"Homura, quickly build an earth wall to seal the gap! I'll stop the other Bijuu!"

The young Koharu also had courage. While letting her teammate Homura repair the wall, she took the initiative to attack and rushed to stop the Four-Tails.

Lux stood on the Hokage Building, gazing at the chaos in the distance.

As long as Tobirama wasn't dead, his students were still talented. As long as Tobirama kept supervising and correcting them, it was unlikely that Danzo, Koharu, and the others would go astray.

Then Lux paused and suppressed the urge to continue the attack.

The two Bijuu weren't even worth mentioning to him; but if he developed the bad habit of getting everything for free, it would harm the stability after unification.

For the sake of long-term peace, it wasn't appropriate for him to reveal himself in front of too many Konoha ninjas.

It would be more fitting to let Konoha Village handle troublesome matters like this on its own.

However, for safety's sake, he still had to be cautious.

Lux's figure flashed and disappeared in an instant.

When he reappeared, there was another figure beside him—Tobirama.

Tobirama from Parallel World 1 was holding a brush in his hand, with large dark circles under his eyes, as if he had been signing something.

Beside him was a daimyo himself, resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation, assisting him in handling government affairs so he could quickly understand the operational structure and power hierarchy of the entire daimyo household.

Governing a country was no easy task.

Konoha alone was enough to exhaust several generations of Hokage, even though their talents and strength were influential.

But even for Tobirama, it wasn't an easy task to suppress the impact of the sudden deaths of high-ranking officials across the entire Daimyo Prefecture in a short time and stabilize the order and lives of millions of people.

For the past two days, he had been busy from morning till night, even using the Shadow Clone Technique for emergencies.

All just to manage the entire Daimyo Prefecture well and save face in front of Big Brother and Madara!

Fortunately, with the support of a large number of clones and the Impure World Reincarnation, Tobirama was able to avoid detection and temporarily stabilize the Daimyo Prefecture's operations.

And now, Tobirama was clearly a bit confused. How had he been brought to another Konoha by Lux in the blink of an eye?

Couldn't he have been given some time to prepare?

"Look at this building. Is this Konoha 17 years from now?"

"Sir, what's happened now?"

Tobirama immediately recognized his surroundings and sensed something was wrong.

Lux pointed at the two Bijuu outside the village, and everything became clear.

"What? How did those Bijuu get to the village entrance?"

"What has that old man been doing for food? Trash, absolute trash!"

The young Tobirama began cursing. He had long been dissatisfied with the old Tobirama.

His reputation had been completely ruined by that loser, causing him to be constantly mocked by Madara. How could the young Tobirama not be angry?

Just like how the young Danzo was angry at his past self, why had he been so useless and cowardly? It felt like nothing had been achieved.

"You can scold him later. If you wait any longer, Konoha Village will be in danger."

"Ah? Why should I clean up the mess of that useless old man?"

"Afterward, when you laugh at him, he'll smile and thank you."

"Hisss!"

Tobirama took a deep breath and immediately became alert.

Once these words were spoken, his feelings were completely different.

He had already started imagining how he would turn around and curse the old Tobirama, but the other party wouldn't dare to argue.

How cool was that? He acted immediately, and the young Tobirama was dispatched.

His Flying Thunder God Seal was as universal as the old Tobirama's, meaning he could also use the Flying Thunder God Seals left inside and outside the village, as well as on his subordinates.

*WHOOSH!*

Tobirama vanished on the spot, and the next moment he appeared beside Koharu outside the village.

Although Tobirama hadn't yet taken Hiruzen and his peers as students, he clearly already knew the identities of Koharu and the others.

Koharu, who was rushing toward the Four-Tails, was also shocked to see Tobirama suddenly appear.

"Sensei, didn't you go to the battlefield? Why—"

Tobirama didn't offer any explanation, and he wasn't entirely sure what the old Tobirama was doing here.

But for now, there was no problem temporarily replacing the old Tobirama's identity and giving orders.

"Inform the Uzumaki clan and the sealing team to come and prepare to seal. Leave the Bijuu to me!"

"Yes!"

Koharu immediately accepted the order without hesitation.

Who else could use the Flying Thunder God to teleport to her side besides Tobirama-sensei?

Seeing the characteristics of the Flying Thunder God, it wasn't impossible that Tobirama-sensei had sensed the danger in advance and rushed back from the front lines to support the village.

'Why does sensei look a bit younger? And the dark circles under his eyes are so heavy? It seems the battles on the front lines are very tough?'

However, as soon as Tobirama appeared, all the Konoha ninjas, including Koharu, immediately felt at ease. This was the morale-boosting effect of a spiritual pillar.

Just like Hashirama.

In the eyes of the current group of Konoha ninjas, Tobirama, who had led them to victory in the First Ninja World War, was also omnipotent and invincible!

As expected.

Tobirama attacked the Four-Tails alone, bombarding it with various water-style jutsu and forbidden techniques.

In just a few rounds, the Four-Tails was defeated, forced back into its Jinchūriki, and Roshi was captured alive.

*BAM!*

Tobirama brought the unconscious Roshi back to Koharu and the others, tossing the Jinchūriki to the Sealing Team for containment.

At the same time.

On the Five-Tails' side, with the cooperation of Uchiha Yashiro and Uzumaki Ashina, they also succeeded in capturing the Five-Tails' Jinchūriki alive.

"Tobirama-sensei!"

"Hokage-sama!"

"Hokage-sama has saved the village again!"

After seeing Tobirama, the Konoha ninjas became even more enthusiastic.

"Thank you, Tobirama-sama! You quickly resolved the huge threat posed by the other Bijuu. I suppose the earlier Bijudama attack was also redirected by Tobirama-sama?"

Everyone tried to imagine what had happened, but no one noticed the difference in Tobirama.

The young Tobirama felt strange hearing everyone's praise and respect. Why did it feel like he was bullying the old Tobirama? For some reason, he felt a little secretly pleased!