Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

My sister-in-law left, taking with her a large bag of fries that Uchiha Ginkai had bought with his Flying Thunder God technique as a snack for the journey.

"Tsukihime, you are truly my savior!"

Afterwards, Uchiha Gin locked himself in the research room on the basement floor of the villa.

Carefully, I took out the two small wooden boxes left by Tsukihime.

"Click~"

As the sealing technique on the wooden box shattered, two chakra pills radiating a dazzling light appeared before Uchiha Gin.

"call!"

Freed from the constraints of the sealing technique, the chaotic and terrifying chakra within the chakra core erupted instantly.

"The activity looks pretty good!"

Seeing this, Uchiha Gin raised one hand and unleashed a series of intricate sealing techniques, putting a collar on the newly emerged ferocious beast head. No matter how much it struggled, it was futile and could only watch helplessly as it slowly shrank back into its chakra core.

"Is this what they mean by 'there's no path to absolute heroism'?"

With these two chakra pills, he could finally give his younger cousin an explanation.

Just as Uchiha Gin was feeling relieved, a small head peeked out from the shadows behind him, drawn by the scent. Upon seeing the two chakra pills in his hand, a glint flashed in Mitsuaki's beautiful white eyes.

"People, eat."

As he spoke, he spread his dark little hand, looking both unreasonable and self-righteous.

"Eat my ass!"

Seeing the two creatures that had escaped, Uchiha Gin hurriedly clutched the last two chakra pills to his chest, and angrily rebuked them with a pained expression.

"These are important experimental materials, not your snacks."

"I want!"

If Kaguya could listen to Uchiha Gin, she wouldn't be his willful ancestor.

"Here, eat over there!"

Seeing the persistent nagging, Uchiha Gin had no choice but to reluctantly take out his own stash of premium candies—the kind only royalty in the Land of Honey could afford—and toss them over with a pained expression.

"Pat-pat-pat~"

Kaguya paused for a moment upon receiving the candy, pondered for a second, then swallowed the obviously high-quality candy in large gulps. Taking advantage of Gin Uchiha's momentary lapse in guard, she launched a surprise attack.

She only makes choices when the child is around; she wants it all!

"what?"

Just as Uchiha Gin breathed a sigh of relief, he felt a sudden lightness in his hand. When he looked again, the two remaining chakra cores were already in Mitsuaki's hands.

"Please be kind with your words!"

Seeing that Wangliang was about to swallow the entire chakra pill with her pink tongue, Uchiha Gin no longer cared about pretending to be weak and instead instantly used Flying Thunder God Technique.

A blinding flash of golden light, and his figure appeared behind Wang Liang. With a wave of his hand, he tightly gripped the two rabbit ears swaying on her head, eliciting a suppressed moan.

"Ah~"

"Humans! Ears, no!"

With her vital organs captured, the trembling Mang Ryo gritted her teeth and said...

"Hmph~ Give me back my things."

Uchiha Gin smugly hummed twice, then stretched out his other free hand in front of the limp, dark-skinned older woman.

"call"

When had Kaguya ever suffered such humiliation? If she hadn't designated Uchiha Gin as her future partner, she would have long ago turned this rebellious and treacherous descendant into a soft, helpless ball who could only babble.

Those who are favored are fearless.

Seeing the resentful look in Mikoto's eyes, Uchiha Gin gently applied pressure with his large hand, causing the soft rabbit ears to quickly heat up under his caresses.

"Hmm"

Sensing that her body was becoming increasingly unstable, Muron finally gave in, tossing two chakra pills into Uchiha Gin's hand and disappearing into the shadows while he was off guard, leaving only her resentful little head sticking out.

"People are annoying!"

"Lots of people hate me, who do you think you are?"

Ignoring the gluttonous older sister who was only causing trouble, Uchiha Gin changed into a white research lab coat, placed the two chakra pills into hard, transparent containers, and began to analyze them meticulously.

As the analysis deepened, the true nature of this cloned chakra dan gradually came to light.

"So that's how it is."

Uchiha Gin solemnly removed his gloves. Today's analysis had completely overturned his previous conjectures about chakra pills.

He had dealt with Hashirama's clones quite a bit. Seeing the tailed beast powers they used, Uchiha Gin naturally categorized them as Jinchuriki, like the boy named Sora from the original story.

This chakra core, which is being developed within the clone, is likely a condensation of the tailed beast's chakra.

But as it turns out, he was being superficial.

The chakra core did indeed contain tailed beast chakra that Uchiha Gin was familiar with, but the proportion was pitifully small, less than one-tenth.

The remaining 90%, a large portion of which was Hashirama chakra familiar to Uchiha Gin,

A small portion was an unfamiliar chakra he had never seen before.

The tailed beast chakra and unfamiliar chakra, which account for a very small percentage, only become powerful by consuming Hashirama's chakra.

"Aren't the tailed beasts' chakra infinite?"

Uchiha Gin stroked his chin in confusion; this discovery overturned his previous understanding.

In his memory, the tailed beast chakra was a perpetual motion machine; even a small piece could generate its own electricity. How come inside the clone, it became a bottom-of-the-food entity, needing to devour the chakra within Hashirama's cells to survive?

"Is it because of that strange chakra?"

The only explanation left was that strange chakra he had never seen before.

Driven by a spirit of inquiry, Uchiha Gin once again attempted to activate the Chakra Dan in order to observe the changes in its internal energy.

As he predicted, these three forces formed a cyclical pattern.

It's true that tailed beast chakra can reproduce on its own, but as soon as this energy was generated, it was completely absorbed by that unfamiliar chakra.

To prevent themselves from being completely consumed, the Tailed Beast chakra activated a kind of repair system, devouring Hashirama's chakra as an energy source.

And so, the unfamiliar chakra consumed the tailed beast chakra, and in order not to disappear, the tailed beast chakra began to try to devour Hashirama's chakra, thus creating a bizarre cycle.

Uchiha Gin also discovered that the unfamiliar chakra was not just simple energy, but chakra that possessed self-awareness. It would evolve by absorbing the chakra of tailed beasts, granting its robot-like clones the ability to think.

"In that case, the clone that devoured the Tailed Beast Rider's original chakra seems to have indeed awakened self-awareness."

At the same time, Uchiha Gin suddenly remembered the first clone he encountered when he went to Sunagakure to perform tumor removal surgery on Shamon.

After absorbing a significant amount of One-Tailed Chakra, that guy stopped fighting mechanically and started to resemble a human more and more.

"What exactly is that guy's goal?"

Uchiha Gin frowned deeply as he resealed the activated chakra pill, his face filled with serious contemplation.

If that Otsutsuki named Jigen was after the Ten-Tails, there was absolutely no need for this convoluted operation. He could have simply stolen the Tailed Beast and gotten his hands on the mobile toilet on the moon.

"Was it just for showing off?"

After scratching his head and thinking for a long time, Uchiha Gin could only attribute Jigen's purpose in creating clones to the peculiar perverse pleasures unique to the Otsutsuki clan.

These are the kind of experiments that waste Tailed Beast chakra, created simply to show off their superior scientific research capabilities.

This damn competitive spirit,

Is the goal to create a clone army even stronger than Kaguya's White Zetsu army?

In Uchiha Gin's view, this unfamiliar chakra should be some kind of self-evolving energy that Jigen had researched.

This would greatly enhance the combat awareness of the clones, allowing each clone to possess terrifying combat power far exceeding that of a Kage-level being, serving as a powerful tool in his hands to conquer other civilizations.

Of course, if Uchiha Gin knew that Jigen possessed another Ten-Tails, he wouldn't think so simply.

Unfortunately, he hadn't read the Boruto: The Beginning of the Manhood arc before his transmigration, and his impression of the Otsutsuki clan was still limited to arrogant little guys and the giant spinning top. He knew nothing about the mastermind behind it all, Otsutsuki Isshiki.

Jigen created the Divine Tree Humans modeled after Hashirama Senju not only to strengthen his own forces, but more importantly, to use the growth of these clones to nourish the Ten-Tails he had hidden.

During the creation of each Divine Tree Man, a wisp of the ravenous Ten-Tails' chakra is added to his body as an energy anchor.

Any clone capable of awakening self-awareness by absorbing large amounts of Tailed Beast chakra will continuously supply the Tailed Beast chakra circulating within its body to the Ten-Tails larva through the anchor point, thereby calming its growing frenzy.

Otherwise, who knows, one day, the starving Ten-Tails might use its master, Jigen, as bait to devour him.

"Unfortunately, this kind of energy is not something that ordinary people can use."

Uchiha Gin shook his head regretfully. The fact that it could absorb the chakra of a tailed beast meant that the unfamiliar energy had enormous potential.

But after research, he discovered that this energy was completely unusable by the native locals.

"In the end, I still let my older cousin down."

With a slight sigh, Uchiha Gin prepared to seal the two chakra pills and return them to his younger cousin, leaving him with a keepsake so he could occasionally boast about them and demonstrate their strategic value.

"what?"

Just as he was searching through his spatial backpack for the transparent jar that Sister Wang had casually tossed aside, something inconspicuous in the corner caught Uchiha Gin's attention.

"This is."

He stared at the grotesque belly, still covered in dried flesh and blood, and after a moment's thought, he remembered where the thing came from.

It was a transformation organ that he had forcibly torn from the waist of an awakened clone years ago.

Uchiha Gin still remembered these clones with openings on their bellies, which could gain enhanced transformation power by consuming chakra cores.

Staring intently at the slightly grotesque, monstrous belly, Uchiha Gin suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Oh~!" (□)*

He had a brilliant idea!

He lifted the belly, which still had half a piece of skin and flesh attached, and nodded with a smile.

"Now I can finally give my older cousin an explanation!"

Next up is the classic toy-making segment, a style inherited from Bandai's Namco Entertainment.

The colorful smoke rising from the beakers and vessels on the experimental table, illuminated by the blinding arc light of Uchiha Gin's handheld welding torch, created a bizarre and eerie atmosphere throughout the research lab.

After one night,

Looking haggard, Uchiha Gin pushed open the door to the basement level, glanced at the bright sunlight streaming through the skylight, and a relieved smile appeared on his lips.

Looking down at the drastically changed red belly in his hand, Uchiha Gin shoved it, along with two oddly shaped storage items, into his backpack, then stretched languidly.

"Whew, time to eat some candy to replenish my energy~"

Staying up all night to work can really deplete your sugar levels!

After replenishing his sugar levels, Uchiha Gin quickly washed up and, without even taking a nap, rushed out the door with dark circles under his eyes.

"Ha~ I'm such a responsible older cousin."

Yawning, he strolled towards the address left by Madara Uchiha, heading towards where the three of them were temporarily staying.

"Uh, this must be the place that Izuna found to stay."

Standing under the iconic red light sign on West Street, Uchiha Gin's eye twitched slightly. He'd been wondering why the address looked so familiar; it turned out to be the workstation of the girl he'd once helped, where she worked part-time to support herself.

"Isn't it inappropriate to do this in broad daylight?"

Gin glanced warily around, relieved to find the place nearly empty since it was sunrise.

"Help! Help me!"

The very next second he took a step, a faint, weak cry for help caught his attention.

Following the hoarse voice that was both unfamiliar and somewhat familiar, Uchiha Gin found a withered, ashen-faced "old man" next to a trash can in a nearby dark alley. The man's eyelids drooped, and he repeated intermittent pleas for help.

"Well?"

Uchiha Gin blinked in confusion.

"Hey bro, what's going on?"

"Help! Waaaaah!"

Upon hearing Uchiha Gin's question, the nearly burnt-out, ashen "old man" seemed to have seen a savior, and tears streamed down his face with overwhelming emotion.

A desperate glint shone in his cloudy eyes, leaving Uchiha Gin completely bewildered. He swore he didn't recognize this person his own age.

"Don't get agitated, I'll call the security team for you right away."

Out of humanitarian concern, Uchiha Gin prepared to call upon the dutiful Konoha Police Force to rescue the displaced elderly.

With the end of the year fast approaching, this is also a way to help the Uchiha clan boost their KPIs.

"Uncle Yinyin."

"ha?"

Uchiha Gin, who had just turned around, paused upon hearing this. He turned back and looked at the "old man" who called him "uncle," practically wearing a huge question mark on his face.

He frowned and carefully examined the person for a long time, vaguely finding a few key features.

For example, his still-sturdy spiky hair, his sinister triangular eyes, and the undeniable Magnet Release chakra emanating from his body, etc.

The long-standing doubts in Uchiha Gin's eyes gradually dissipated.

"Who are you."

"It's me! It's me!"

"That guy?"

"."

"it's me."

The person facing imminent death willingly accepted this title for the first time.

"Oh, so this is from my dear nephew. Quickly, drink this."

Uchiha Gin nodded in satisfaction, casually pulled out a bottle of red healing potion, and chug it down the throat of the barely breathing person.

Under the influence of the miraculous potion produced by the system, the withered "old man" who had been pale and emaciated just a moment ago regained his youth at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A few breaths later, a pale-faced, gloomy young man appeared before Uchiha Gin. Apart from still being a little weak, his life force, which had almost reached rock bottom, had basically recovered to the standard level.

Thank you.

This was a life-saving grace, so how could that person dare to act like a spoiled young master? He immediately performed a classic dogezu (a deep bow) to express his sincere gratitude.

"You're too kind, we're all family. But what kind of opponent did you run into, that you ended up in such a predicament?"

With a generous wave of his hand, Uchiha Gin asked curiously,

Could it be that he encountered a clone? Only Wood Release can absorb a person like that, right?

Upon hearing this, the man's pale face instantly turned ashen. After struggling for a few seconds, under Uchiha Gin's questioning gaze, he slowly raised his hand and made a seven-sign.

"Seven?"

Is this kid so tough? Seven clones couldn't drain him dry.

He gently shook his head, a subtle sadness, like a silent sorrow that could move even the most heartbroken woman, appearing on his face. His dejected eyes were filled with weariness of the world.

"Seven, seventy years old, seven days and seven nights!" (End of Chapter)