Chapter 296

But when it came to using the Rinnegan, he was not even as good as the future Sasuke!!!

Even though he himself was sitting in a wheelchair,

his body growing worse day by day,

using the Rinnegan was never as strenuous as it was for the future Sasuke!!

But upon seeing the Rinnegan in the future Sasuke's eyes,

Nagato of the Whirlpool grew all the more curious about the origins of his own Rinnegan!!!

Hashirama Senju possessed the Rinnegan,

and the future Sasuke also seemed to possess the Rinnegan.

The birth of the Rinnegan — did it only ever occur between the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan?

Then how on earth had his own pair of Rinnegan appeared?

Although the Land of Whirlpools had long since been destroyed,

Nagato of the Whirlpool knew his own origins,

he was precisely a descendant of the Whirlpool clan,

his red hair and his own constitution were the very best proof!!!

Before this, Nagato of the Whirlpool had not even given much thought to the origins of his own pair of eyes,

but when he carefully calmed himself down,

he discovered that the conditions for using the Rinnegan were extremely demanding!!

An ordinary person could not even meet the basic conditions for using these eyes,

the physical demands it placed on its user were extraordinarily high!!

Throughout the entire shinobi world,

only a very small number of constitutions could meet its conditions of use.

Yet his own pair of eyes had come about in a most peculiar fashion, without any warning at all!!

It looked more as though someone had done it deliberately,

placing these eyes onto him on purpose!!!

Nagato narrowed his eyes as many thoughts came to mind.

From the looks of it now, ever since he had awakened the Rinnegan,

his entire life seemed to have been deliberately arranged.

However, he did not share these guesses in his heart with Konan,

because he was not entirely certain,

and besides, telling Konan would only

cause Konan to worry all the more,

and could not actually resolve anything!!!

……

Hashirama Senju lowered his gaze to look at Madara Uchiha in his left hand and the future Sasuke in his right hand.

Fortunately, at the very last moment he had stepped in,

otherwise those two fellows really would have perished together!!!

At this moment Madara Uchiha was also gasping for breath in great gulps,

yet his face was utterly thrilled!!!

As if the one who had just nearly died was not him at all!!

"Hahaha! Thrilling! Thrilling!"

"Aside from Hashirama, you are the second opponent worthy of my acknowledgment!!"

That feeling of brushing past death,

apart from striking fear into Madara Uchiha, had also deeply captivated him!!

It was precisely this feeling of life hanging by a thread

that allowed him to keep breaking through.

Such a thoroughly exhilarating battle

was worth more than countless sessions of closed-door bitter training within the Uchiha clan!!

Yet the future Sasuke, at this moment, wore an expression of lingering dread!!

After this battle had ended,

he only then came back to his senses,

he had come to this time with a mission,

and he was not alone,

he now had a wife and a daughter,

what would he have done if he had truly just died here?!!

Seeing the fearful and hesitant look on his face,

Madara Uchiha frowned and said, displeased.

"You fellow, haven't you noticed even now?"

"When you fight, there are far too many distracting thoughts in your heart!!"

"It has even kept you from unleashing the full measure of your own strength!!"

"If from the very start you had been like you were at the end, willing to stake your life and fight me with everything you had, perhaps the outcome of the battle would not have been like this at all!!!"

He looked at future Sasuke,

his face full of dissatisfaction.

He could not stand it—

such a promising opponent,

yet because of all the hesitation and indecision in his heart,

was unable to bring out the full measure of his strength!!!

"Hmph!! You don't need to tell me—I already know."

After future Sasuke finished listening to his words,

he turned his head aside and gave a cold snort!!

If Uchiha Madara had not insisted on fighting him,

how could things have turned out like this?

This was simply not a reasonable way to solve the problem!!!

"Alright… you two…"

Hashirama Senju shook his head and laughed helplessly.

Uchiha Madara and future Sasuke were just like two children.

"Madara… there's no need to keep pressing him about his identity and origins."

"As for this mysterious guest, I think I can roughly guess where he comes from."

After setting Uchiha Madara and future Sasuke down,

Hashirama Senju turned his head and gave future Sasuke a mysterious smile.

Hearing this,

future Sasuke's heart jolted!!!

Impossible—he actually guessed my identity and origins??

As for what Hashirama Senju had said,

future Sasuke did not know whether it was true or false.

When he had first arrived in this time-space,

there had still been some arrogance in his heart,

believing that this time-space was merely the past,

that he came from the future,

and that he knew everything about this time-space like the back of his hand!!!

So even when facing Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara, these two who stood at the very pinnacle of the Warring States era,