Konoha: Prepare to defect, the system is coming.

"Huh? Where's Grandpa Ban?"

The bird scratched its head, looking around the battlefield with a blank expression.

Just now, when he was looking for Nagato, he saw Old Master Madara standing there watching the show. How could Old Master Madara have disappeared in the blink of an eye?

"It's weird."

After searching around for a while without finding anyone, Asuka clicked her tongue and turned to look at Nagato at her feet, muttering to herself, "Nagato is really pitiful. Before he died, he was a tool, and after he died, he was resurrected to continue being a tool."

As he spoke, he picked up Nagato's corpse and went to the very edge of the battlefield.

After laying the body flat, Asuka placed her palms together above Nagato's lower abdomen, and emerald-like halos burst forth from her palms. Countless chakra, carrying life energy, began to rapidly enter Nagato's body.

"Reincarnation!"

The "Self-Resurrection Technique" developed by Granny Chiyo is a forbidden technique that uses the life of the caster to bring another person back to life, a true "life for life" exchange.

However, things become complicated when this technique encounters the Uchiha clan's "Izanagi," a forbidden eye technique that can rewrite reality and bring the caster "back to life."

Thinking of this, Asuka suddenly sighed, "Compared to forbidden techniques that can revive the dead, the Uchiha clan's eye techniques are even more heaven-defying, as they can ignore the cost of forbidden techniques."

"Oh, that's not right either!"

Asuka suddenly felt a violent dizziness, and her chakra was drained from her body like a receding tide.

He looked down at Nagato, whose pale face was visibly regaining color, while his own vision began to blur. "It's not without a price," he thought, "the Uchiha clan has permanently lost one of their three-tomoe Sharingan."

Before he could finish speaking, his body fell heavily to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut, kicking up a cloud of dust.

At the same time, Nagato suddenly sat up, taking deep breaths of fresh air.

"Is this the Pure Land where the dead are?" He breathed heavily as he looked around and found that all he could see was darkness, with no light source whatsoever.

"Or is it because I lost my eyes that my soul is incomplete? Hmm?"

Just as Nagato was analyzing his own situation, he suddenly turned his head to look at the battlefield in the distance and asked in surprise, "Is it my imagination? Why do I hear someone shouting 'Will of Fire'?"

"These cancerous cells from Konoha, they won't even settle down in the Pure Land?"

The next second, a large hand suddenly landed on Nagato's shoulder.

"Hey, Nagato, what Pure Land, Will of Fire?" Asuka stretched and continued, "You got beaten up by Konoha people in the Pure Land?"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Nagato froze for a moment, then immediately assumed a defensive stance and said in a deep voice.

"Uchiha Asuka, are you dead too?"

“I’m still alive and well, and so are you.” Asuka explained as she removed the blinded three-tomoe jutsu, “I saved you with a forbidden medical ninjutsu.”

After a moment's thought, Nagato instantly understood his predicament.

No wonder he saw only darkness around him; it was because his eyes had been gouged out. No wonder he felt something was chaotic in the distance; it was because this was the battlefield of the Fourth Shinobi World War.

Uchiha Asuka must have had another purpose in reviving herself.
When he thought of the opponent's terrifying strength, and how he was not afraid of him at his peak, Nagato simply gave up resisting and directly asked the question that had been bothering him.

"Uchiha Asuka, why did you revive me?"

"I want to make a deal with you!"

Asuka sat cross-legged opposite Nagato, looking at his gaunt face, and continued, "You used the Rinne Rebirth Technique to revive Uchiha Madara, of course..."

Nagato made a "stop" gesture and said coldly, "Before I died, Obito Uchiha told me the whole truth. I was used as a pawn by Madara Uchiha from a young age. My whole life was manipulated by Madara Uchiha. I—" Before he could finish, Asuka Uchiha interrupted him, "I can revive Yahiko!"

Nagato paused, his expression turning cold again. "The Akatsuki's corruption, Yahiko's death, are all related to Uchiha Madara."

"I can revive Yahiko!" Uchiha Asuka repeated.

Nagato:
Seeing Nagato's stunned expression, Asuka clicked her tongue and continued, "Do you want to eat with him? Konoha's dumplings and ramen are pretty good, don't you really want to try some?"

These words once again plunged Nagato into silence.

"Actually, the Uchiha fried chicken is pretty good too."

Then, Asuka snapped her fingers and produced a bucket of honey mustard fried chicken, handing it to the other person. "Try it, this is Uchiha fried chicken, it's quite sweet."

The aroma of fried chicken overpowered the stench of blood from the battlefield, drifting through the air to Nagato's vicinity.

Nagato did not move.

But the aroma of fried chicken was like a gentle knife, prying open his numb senses and making him feel the reality of being "alive" again. It also reminded him of the first time Konan and Yahiko treated him to a meal.

He sniffed the aroma of the food, but instead of taking the bucket of fried chicken, he stared intently at Uchiha Asuka with his dark, hollow eyes. "What is your purpose in doing all this?"

"Old Master Ban's life was too bitter," Asuka replied earnestly.

He then stuffed the fried chicken into Nagato's arms, stood up and continued, "I've always known that Infinite Tsukuyomi is a fraud, but it has become Madara's obsession, and he needs to see the results."

He was deceived his whole life, obsessed his whole life, and schemed his whole life, unaware that he himself was merely a tool in the eyes of others.

"If we can win this war, I hope that Madara can spend the rest of his life eating dumplings, bickering with the First Hokage, and witnessing the prosperity of the Uchiha clan."

"It's time for the old man to have a little sweeter life."

After listening, Nagato remained silent for a long time, seemingly lost in thought.

After a while.

He took a chicken leg covered in sauce from the bucket, took a bite without expression, and said, "No wonder your stance is so ambiguous. Even if you stand by Madara Uchiha's side, you still didn't kill the ninjas of the five great nations who were hindering the plan."

"No wonder you joined the Akatsuki organization, but chose to stand on the side of the Allied Shinobi Forces when the Akatsuki attacked them."

"Everyone thought you had mental problems, but it turns out your purpose has never changed from beginning to end."

Click!

Nagato took another bite of the chicken leg, slowly savoring the honey mustard flavor, and smiled, "Although I hope for world peace, after dying once and failing once, I've become quite indifferent to many things."

If I had the chance, I'd like to make things a little sweeter for Minami and Yahiko.

Seeing the smile on Nagato's face, Asuka couldn't help but gasp and subconsciously said, "My persuasive skills are that strong?? You were convinced by me?"

"That doesn't count as persuasion!"

Nagato smiled and shook his head, explaining, "Madara Uchiha is very important to you, you're not lying to me. I have no interest in knowing about the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan or the upcoming enemy."

"But I am very interested in the postwar world, and I imagine Yahiko is as interested as well."

"This war changed a lot and gave me the opportunity to realize my dream."

"An opportunity to change a nation, to build bridges of hope to world peace through interpersonal communication." (End of Chapter)