Chapter 220: 'Lies' and 'Gifts'

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"What are you talking about? Seiichi..."

How to understand this sentence?

Which side is it?

Is it what you think?

Obito had never felt so uncomfortable in his body wrapped in Bai Jue, as if he had been gnawed by insects.

He scratched at his back as if he were in a bit of a frenzy.

"Seiichi! What the hell do you mean! ”

But the teenager he questioned did not reply.

After a long silence, the boy leaned slightly under the rising sun.

He lifted the large bowl wrapped in oiled paper.

Inside, there are not many oil stars in the pancake.

It's much worse than the ones sold in the streets of Konoha Uchiha, and the fragrance... It's also very tangy.

Picking up a pancake from the bowl, he gently bit it down.

The first time, I didn't even bite it.

He chewed carefully...

There is no filling in the pancakes, and the texture is extremely rough.

Maybe I didn't even use clean enough flour...

It's even rougher than the usual marching rations used by ninjas.

"It's cold... It's not tasty. ”

"Winter !!"

The missing corner of the baked cake flew out of his hand.

It was like a wheel rolling down into the valley where the glimmer of light had faded under the sun.

The boy with a distorted face pinned the insensitive creature to the ground.

He grabbed the corner of the other indifferent young man's clothes with one hand, and clenched his fist like a stone with the other, but he couldn't help but tremble.

A hint of blush trickled down the cheeks of the young man below.

“...”

"I was the one who was beaten and hurt..."

“...”

"What are you crying about?"

The boy who threw his fist seemed to be trembling and weeping.

The boy who was bleeding seemed to be fearless and insensitive.

...

"Why would you do such a thing..."

“...”

"Why are you so indifferent! What do you mean by that!! ”

The words of the teenager covered by the twisted mask are like a heart.

He cried... It's because the guy he trusts the most doesn't seem to have repentance at all.

"Are you... Won't it hurt? ”

His numbness is the real reason why the boy who started beating people was sad.

What he knows as Seiichi... By no means such a guy.

At least it shouldn't be...

...

"Of course it hurts..."

The boy who was put to the ground did not resist in the slightest, and let the red blood slide down his cheeks.

"And then?"

However, his expression remained the same.

"Do you want me to cry?"

"Would you feel better if I cried?"

...

After a moment of silence, he asked again.

"Or would it be better for me to apologize?"

"Not !!"

Obito roared at him, but there was nothing he could do.

Just ask for help, like the old man... Questioning and praying.

"Why are you..."

"Don't save her?"

"I can't save !!"

The numb teenager's voice accentuated the intensity.

But the anger quickly subsided... His face became insensitive again.

"I've told her..."

"This area... There are no more villages, and there are no more... Other living people. ”

“...”

"I can't save her."

There is no point in saving her mutilated body.

All she had, all she hoped for... They are all long gone.

Maybe... Only in dreams can she be satisfied.

Just as everyone knows that there has never been a god or Buddha in this world.

But he will believe in gods and Buddhas.

...

There was silence again for a long time, and the voice of Obitu became more and more muffled.

"Why are you... I'm going to make a move on them..."

"They... Isn't it innocent? ”

It's clearly a question, but it's more like a plea.

He couldn't understand that a guy who only looked more and more perfect in his eyes could become like this.

"Of course innocent... Of course, I didn't shoot at them. ”

The corners of his mouth under the mask became more and more bitter, and he couldn't bear to look around at the tragedy around him anymore, so he just closed his eyes and shook his head: "Do you know what you're talking about?!" ”

“...”

"I didn't shoot at them... But they didn't stop because of them. ”

Inexplicably, Obito once again remembered the gloom on Seiichi's body when the two of them were in the training ground, as if he had never faked at all.

It's like being obsessed... It's hard to talk about 'regret'.

"Aren't those lies you said before to deceive me in order to motivate and improve my mental power!"

"I never said it was a lie, Obito."

"I'm actually... Lose your marbles. ”

"Everything you see is proof of it."

...

After a long period of sluggishness.

"Why are you... It's going to be like this..."

...

“... Oh, yes. ”

"Why am I like this..."

The eyes are facing each other, numbness and confusion collide.

"Do you still think that I will save you now?"

"All of this is a reason."

All this...

Obito finally looked around again, at the glimmer of light under the sun's shadow, at the white bones, at the old man in the pool of blood...

For no reason...

He remembered the red-soaked soil beneath another blood moon, the bloody truth...

I... And who is to blame you...

There is a phrase of 'slander' that keeps echoing in my head.

That sentence made him sad, and was spurned by him, and then made him suffer from the vicious 'slander' of cold eyes.

...

'The Uchiha are inherently evil. ’

He was a little dazed.

Suddenly I didn't know why I was angry at Seiichi.

Some of them don't understand why they weep bitterly because of his 'evil deeds'.

Looking back... It is a broken mountain forest, as if trampled and destroyed by countless wild beasts, like a blank space in the mountain forest that has been brutally smashed out by tailed beasts...

He finally understood where Seiichi's so-called 'other idea' came from.

...

This valley... It was his 'end' at that time.

Just follow the 'road' that was destroyed and carved out by the gods in the old man's mouth.

They were enough to find the 'way out' at that time.

The thoughts in Obito's mind are like a cloud of exploded cobwebs, random and sticky...

I can't figure anything out, I can't figure out anything.

Be... Disappointed?

... I don't think I'm qualified to say such things to my benefactor.

Eventually, Obito spreads his hands.

"Enough... I don't want to worry about you anymore..."

He stood up from Seiichi's body and released the protection of Shiraku's own head.

Obito wiped his face fiercely, completely erasing the traces of tears from above.

With a hard slap on the cheek, he seemed to regain his strength in a short period of time.

"And after that? Let's go along this line? ”

"No—" Seiichi slowly propped himself up from the ground, as if this body was making him feel tired.

"No need."

"Let's go straight to the country of Kawano."

“... Why? ”

If you had planned to enter the country of Kawanokuni for a long time... What was the purpose of everything that was done before?

Seiichi doesn't want to take 'them' home?

"Don't you think that the sinners who caused all this... Shouldn't there be such a happy ending? ”

"Seiichi... I didn't mean that..."

"I know..."

The corners of Seiichi's mouth seemed to be smiling, laughing at the fact that a guy like himself still wanted to pursue his own 'perfection'.

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"I just... I didn't expect it to end like this. ”

He had never thought of harming these innocent creatures... But they died because of him, there can be no doubt.

"Give me some time to calm down... We, continue the mission. ”

...

For him, carrying out a task with a set goal was more than the entanglement that made his stomach cramp.

On the contrary, it only made him feel calm.

Don't think about right and wrong, just think about the feeling of success and failure... It's actually quite easy.

He even has some envy of Madara's unrepentant death... A strong spirit that even needs to die twice to repent.

Being such a simple-minded guy is not a kind of happiness.

Before leaving, Seiichi looked back at the valley where 'miracles' were recorded and his sins were recounted.

He seemed to be looking for the piece of baked cake that he had bitten into in his sight.

But he couldn't find it...

Without the help of the Sharingan, and without the words of the Platinum Star...

How much better can his eyes be than ordinary people?

Seiichi Uchiha stood in front of the 'sacrifice' and pointed at his sword as if it were lightly tapping at his eyebrows.

He also seemed to be praying, like the people who prayed to the gods.

...

That's not a god.

That's me.

I'm not a god...

I am powerless to save, nor to make amends, nor to give you gifts...

...

But your wishes, your sacrifices...

I do, I have received it.

...

This is not a gift from God.

It's just...

My confession.

It is I who will go to the path of atonement.

I'll make this world free of strife...

Give me some time.

I assure you.

...

In the valley, there was a slight breeze.

The glimmer of the sun covered by the sun... Just like the sun in the sky, it also exudes bursts of warmth.

The missing corner of the pancake seems to have been attracted in some way...

It stumbled and rolled into the pool of blood...

It's missing a corner and sees...

There seemed to be a slight smile on the old man's face.

What kind of gift did her 'god-sama' give her?

What did she see before she fell asleep?

Her lips seemed to squirm slightly, as if in a dream...

It's like saying...

'It's so warm...'