Chapter 370: Just Leaving Like That?
Hagoromo Gengetsu lowered his head to inspect his own body. The once dim white light that had surrounded him now flared up again, even more intensely than before.
He wasn’t the only one affected.
At the sa mont, bright light also erupted from Otsutsuki Kaguya, Naruto, and the Sage of Six Paths.
Hagoromo Gengetsu turned to glance at the violently raging Dragon Vein, imdiately understanding the cause.
"The control token has beco ineffective. It looks like we’re about to experience another ti-space traversal."
After failing to control the Dragon Vein with the token, Hagoromo Gengetsu quickly grasped the reality of the situation.
If this traversal could return him directly to his original world, that would be ideal. However, with the Dragon Vein in its current frenzied state, there was no telling what it might do.
In the last monts, Hagoromo Gengetsu, without fully extracting all of the Sage of Six Paths’ chakra, quickly withdrew his hand and eradicated the portion of chakra he had already absorbed.
During the previous incident with Toneri, he had only managed to extract the Sage’s chakra, but by the ti the white light completely enveloped him, there wasn’t enough ti to destroy it. He wouldn’t make that mistake again.
In an instant, Hagoromo Gengetsu completed his task.
The Dragon Vein let out one final roar.
Then, an endless white light burst forth from the Dragon Vein, similar to the event with the Sage of Six Paths before.
Hagoromo Gengetsu took one last look at this world.
Then, turning back, he joined his old companions in embracing the white light that filled his entire vision, until it engulfed them completely.
At the sa ti, as Naruto was rendered immobile by Rinnegan’s technique, he was swiftly carried away from the battlefield by Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God, distancing him from the Six Paths level battleground.
As the mbers of Konoha anxiously awaited the outco, Naruto noticed the white light emitting from his body.
At the sa ti, Kushina, who also saw this, hurriedly expressed her concern:
“Naruto, why is your body glowing? Could it be so kind of jutsu? Lady Tsunade, can you take a look?”
Tsunade withdrew her gaze from the distant battlefield and was about to step forward.
But Naruto retreated away from the group on his own.
Having experienced this once before, Naruto understood what the appearance of the white light ant.
Fearing that the light might affect others, he intentionally distanced himself from everyone.
Seeing Naruto’s actions, Minato seed to understand sothing.
“Naruto, you…”
Naruto flashed a bright smile at his father from another world, then turned to deeply etch the faces of his mother Kushina, who had shown him a love both awkward and intense, into his mory.
Finally, after glancing at the still-alive Third Hokage, Naruto, with tears in his eyes, sincerely thanked them:
“Dad, Mom, Third Hokage, thank you so much for taking care of during this ti! And thanks to Pervy Sage and Granny Tsunade too. I’ll keep these mories with forever.”
“I have to go now. But it’s good news! Not only will I be leaving this world, but the others who ca with should be leaving too.”
“Goodbye, everyone! I really liked this world, and I hope it remains peaceful from now on!”
Naruto waved goodbye one last ti.
“Naruto!!”
Kushina, her eyes red, rushed forward, but Minato held her back.
“Good luck, Naruto! I’m proud of you!” Minato smiled brightly as he called out to his son.
Naruto nodded firmly, and before Jiraiya, Hiruzen, and the others could respond, the white light fully enveloped him.
In the blink of an eye, Naruto disappeared when the Konoha group looked back.
“He’s really gone, huh?”
Jiraiya remarked with so sentint.
It wasn’t just because Naruto, who had been so likable to him, had suddenly left; it was also because the threat to the ninja world seed to have vanished without them having done anything, or even knowing much about it.
It all felt so abrupt!
Beside him, Hiruzen Sarutobi finally relaxed.
Although he didn’t understand why, this was the best possible ti for Hagoromo Gengetsu’s group to leave. The ninja world had experienced only a minor scare, rather than the devastation that could have ensued.
If the battle had continued, with a decisive outco, the ninja world would have suffered massive casualties, and the order that had persisted for decades would have been shattered.
“I’ll go check,” Tsunade said at this mont.
With that, she headed toward the battlefield.
Everything had happened too suddenly. In an instant, Hagoromo Gengetsu was gone?
Tsunade needed to confirm it herself.
Soon, she reached the spot where Hagoromo Gengetsu and the others had been.
As Naruto had said, there was no trace of Hagoromo Gengetsu and the others left here.
All that remained was the terrifying aftermath of the battle, which inspired both awe and dread.
Oh, and a corpse.
It was Uchiha Madara.
Tsunade approached him.
It appeared that Madara, who had once been on par with her grandfather, had died at the hands of Hagoromo Gengetsu just monts ago.
“So, they really just left like that?”
Tsunade glanced around, shaking her head.
Like a teor streaking across the sky, Hagoromo Gengetsu had co suddenly and departed just as abruptly.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that mont, Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others also arrived, personally inspecting the scene. After confirming the situation, Hiruzen gave the final order.
“Lift the alert and allow the villagers to return.”
The orders were promptly carried out.
Among those who remained on the battlefield, Orochimaru and Danzo turned their attention away from Madara’s corpse, then exchanged a aningful glance, their lips curling into ambiguous smiles.
The obstacles had been removed.
Now, the stage was set for them.
Having experienced ti-space travel before, Hagoromo Gengetsu didn’t let curiosity lead him to explore the chaotic space as he had last ti, avoiding any unnecessary trouble.
This ti, Hagoromo Gengetsu quietly allowed the Dragon Vein’s power, which enveloped his entire body, to carry him toward its intended destination.
After an indeterminate amount of ti, Hagoromo Gengetsu faintly sensed the presence of a world.
Sure enough, when he looked ahead, he saw the brilliant white light that connected heaven and earth, the sa as what he had seen before entering the last world.
Hagoromo Gengetsu let out a slight sigh of relief.
He had worried along the way that the berserk Dragon Vein might transport him to so obscure, eternally dark corner of existence.
It seed now that there was a certain pattern to the Dragon Vein’s spatial transfers.
The worlds it transported to all seed to possess their own Dragon Vein.
Or perhaps the true Dragon Vein was a network that spanned space-ti and connected different worlds?
With this speculation in mind, and with the Dragon Vein’s power guiding him, Hagoromo Gengetsu plunged headlong into the brilliant white light that also emitted the Dragon Vein’s aura.
When Hagoromo Gengetsu regained consciousness, before he even opened his eyes, the scent of alcohol, flowers, birdsong, and the voices of people all flooded his senses.
“It seems this world isn’t much different from the last one.”
With this thought, Hagoromo Gengetsu opened his eyes.
In the next mont, his pupils suddenly contracted.
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