"It doesn't matter if I can bear it or not." Terumi Mei collapsed powerlessly on the sofa, turned her head and looked out the window, her eyes seemed to look through the scenery at the dilapidated past that was far away.
"To be honest, I came back this time with the determination to put an end to this. If I can't solve this matter, I don't seem to have anything to cling to. If the villagers still need me, I will do my best. I will be a responsible Mizukage and burn everything I have for the village, if they don't need me, then someone can replace me, I will go to the underworld and apologize to Yamada without any hesitation."
Until this moment, she was like a withered onion, trying her best to peel off her crusted shell, revealing a weak and inaccessible heart.
Satoru didn't seem to have much sympathy for her feelings, but as if joking, he said with a smile, "You are a bit ungrateful, I came all the way to help you and you still want to throw this mess at me?"
"Kirigakure is no longer what it used to be, at least now it is an organized and disciplined place. Even if it is in some kind of trouble, the Land of Water can be entrusted to you and might be added to Konoha…"
Before Terumi Mei finished speaking, Satoru raised his hand and stopped her impatiently, "Stop, stop, I don't have such lofty ambitions. Although I know I'm strong, I don't dream of unifying the world and rule it, I just want to help the people I want to help and live the life I want to live."
Terumi smiled bitterly, she no longer insisted, closed her eyes and began to wait for Satoru to use the jutsu again.
But not long after, Satoru suddenly opened his eyes and woke up Terumi Mei.
"When you woke up, what happened to your memory?"
Satoru's expression was very serious, he usually doesn't show such an expression unless something big was going to happen.
Terumi Mei was also a little nervous infected by his expression.
"What's wrong with me?"
"Your memory has become blank. From the time I entered your memory, everything I saw will disappear within a very short time... so, how do you feel?
Terumi Mei is still unknown so: "I feel fine…"
The voice stopped abruptly at this moment.
Her originally puzzled expression suddenly turned into shock, and then into doubt.
Yes, she was just wondering.
Terumi Mei was wondering why she suddenly seemed to have forgotten something.
But no matter how hard she tried to get rid of the fog in her memory, she still couldn't see anything.
"What's wrong with me?
Before she could speak again, she closed her eyes completely and passed out.
On the other hand, there was a flash of red light on her forehead, it had become dim after many years, but it could still blend into her blood.
Terumi Mei was trapped in that blank memory by an unknown curse.
Sometimes forgetting was also a kind of gift. Although the wounds on the body would still scab from time to time, and release pus and smell, but when you look at those things that made you feel miserable, you will wonder when you were hurt.
These doubts would be in heart for many years, and the things that troubled you will change from those painful memories to why I was injured.
It's a subtle shift in emphasis.
Of course, if this kind of subtle influence was intentional, it would not be so wonderful.
Treating other people's memories and even fate as playthings in his own hands was what Satoru looks down on most in life.
In the middle of the night, after Satoru left a formation in the office that would protect Terumi Mei's physical safety, he came to the cliff alone.
More than ten years had passed, and no one knows how many people have died here, and Yamada might be just one of the many.
The places where the corpse had been lying did not wither because of this, and the vigorous green grass grew out one after another. The one who struggled to break his head seemed to want to live for something.
Nothing had changed here, yet everything seemed to have changed.
"Are you still planning on not coming out? You have been following for so long."
For a long time after Satoru said this, only the sound of the wind blowing through the grass could be heard.
It was already late at night, and those green grasses with extremely vigorous vitality tried their best to curl up their leaves and hang them on the ground, so as to resist the huge temperature difference between day and night in the sea area.
A person stepped across the grass mercilessly and walked behind Satoru.
"I didn't expect that what I did back then would still be disclosed. Just a glimpse, and you noticed the piece of fabric."
Satoru turned his head and saw a person who surprised him but was still within his expectations.
"I'm not surprised by the fact that it was done by a ninja who had already defected from Konoha, but according to the time of events, the Akatsuki organization should not have shown its prominence more than ten years ago. Why did you wear that kind of clothes at that time? Also why kill an innocent child? Can you tell me the reason?"
"If you want answers then fight, I will tell you if you win."
Hearing this, Satoru immediately showed a ferocious expression as if his teeth had been frozen by cold water.
"No, we are no longer the age of hot-blooded teenagers like Naruto and Sasuke. We have to fight for everything, and we know the result without even any fight, this is obviously a scam. Why should I throw myself into the trap? You want to fight with me to delay time but this isn't quite your style, is it?
Obito, after blackening, sees people as dispensable as objects.
He thinks that all people are just mere organisms living in this world. There is no difference between a human and a worm just born from the grass. They were both treasures of this world and both rubbish of this cursed land. All the lives were equal in his eyes.
"I want to clean up this world. That child was the first person I killed for that cause. At that time, I was not very skilled in business. The clothes I was wearing were just bought from the side of the road, it was just a windproof cloak. Knowing that the sea breeze was too strong here I bought it, I don't like the feeling of being swept by nature."
'Just because of this?'
'So many coincidences brought together a murder case that has been going on for almost twelve years?'
Satoru had no reason to suspect that Obito was lying, 'This guy won't be lying about this matter because he considers himself holy.'
'Well now there was only one problem.'
'Why did he killed that child?'
'Obito took the lead in putting himself in the role of judge, so what did that kid do wrong? How old was he at that time…?'
"He destroyed an ant nest, maybe you can't understand it, but what if I compare it to him slaughtering the entire Konoha village by himself? Don't you think he deserved to die?"
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