Gen Takuya slept for a full day and two nights.
When he opened his eyes again, hunger hit first—
Then, finally, clarity.
He looked in the mirror and nearly didn't recognize himself.
He wasn't a neat freak, but even he couldn't tolerate that level of disarray.
After cleaning himself up, he faced the mirror again.
His skin was still pale.
But this time, he smiled.
That pallor wasn't going away.
Between research and ninjutsu training, he'd consumed far too many soldier pills and pushed his chakra too hard.
Chakra was the fusion of physical energy and spiritual energy.
And Gen Takuya had burned through his physical energy faster than he could recover.
That was why his complexion looked like a corpse.
If he continued down this path…
He would die young.
But from the moment he obtained the Chimera Technique—
His road had changed.
He pushed open the door and stepped forward into a new future.
After filling his stomach, he began arranging the next steps.
First—
He didn't know exactly when Nohara Rin would be taken by Kirigakure.
So he had to start monitoring her immediately.
That was easy enough.
He had crows.
As for everything else…
It would take time.
The next day, Gen Takuya went to the Hokage's mission board and accepted a relatively complex solo mission.
He left the village with the mission scroll in hand.
Once outside the barrier, he glanced at the assignment—
And had no intention of completing it.
Because the real client was himself.
The mission existed for one reason only—
To let him leave Konoha openly.
After confirming no one was following him, Gen Takuya bit his thumb and formed seals, then slapped his palm to the ground.
"Summoning Technique!"
But nothing appeared.
It was a deliberate failure.
He'd used far less chakra than required to summon a true ninja beast.
The summoning would fail—
But the target would still sense the call.
Just like how Uchiha Madara could force a summoning tug on the Nine-Tails inside Uzumaki Naruto—
Even without fully succeeding, the summoned being would feel it.
In a dim laboratory far away, a crow blinked.
It was Gen Takuya's summon.
It flapped its wings, rose, and opened a massive scroll according to his instructions.
A summoning formula was carved into it as well.
In the next instant, Gen Takuya vanished outside Konoha in a puff of smoke—
And reappeared inside his hidden laboratory.
He stared at the bodies preserved in containment tanks.
His gaze stopped on the final row.
They all shared one feature—
Red hair.
Uzumaki clan corpses.
He hadn't killed them.
He'd simply had his crows watch Uzushiogakure.
And when the Uzumaki clan was exterminated, he stole a handful of bodies amid the chaos.
As for the culprits…
All he could say was that none of the great villages were clean.
Why choose the Uzumaki?
Because if you wanted to fix low chakra reserves, there was no more famous solution—
A long-lived clan with monstrous vitality.
The Uzumaki.
Anyone who'd seen the original history would remember Uzumaki Naruto's terrifying chakra—
To the point people joked he had "chakra by the ton."
Of course, Gen Takuya also knew—
An ordinary Uzumaki didn't necessarily possess Naruto's absurd levels.
Naruto wasn't just Uzumaki.
He also carried the Nine-Tails.
And the chakra of Asura's reincarnation.
It was the combination that made him a monster.
But even without that, Uzumaki chakra reserves were nothing to underestimate.
Gen Takuya had even formed a crude formula in his mind:
y = x × i
y: total chakra reserves
x: physical strength gained through training
i: an innate "chakra coefficient"
Physical strength could be increased through effort.
But the coefficient was born into you—and rarely changed.
Some geniuses had naturally high coefficients—Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze.
They represented the peak of "ordinary humans."
As for the Uzumaki?
Even their worst had a high coefficient.
Which meant that even with moderate training, they could reach chakra reserves others could never match no matter how hard they worked.
Not everyone was Might Guy.
Guy's chakra was high because his physical training was absurd—
And that kind of training also required physical talent.
Gen Takuya finally stopped in front of one corpse.
He couldn't measure the chakra coefficient directly—
But it wouldn't be low.
He had, however, measured chakra nature.
Wind and Lightning.
Exactly two of the three natures he lacked—
And both were relatively rare.
It wasn't that he hadn't tried to find someone with Wind, Lightning, and Fire.
He simply couldn't.
People with three natures existed, but not with the combination he needed.
Wind itself was scarce.
Lightning was next.
Those two together were rare enough—
Three together was borderline impossible.
So the body before him was his best material.
Gen Takuya's gaze burned.
Once he fused it, his chakra problem would likely be solved—
But…
It still wasn't time.
He'd read every record, but he hadn't performed the fusion on himself yet.
He couldn't guarantee success on the first attempt.
This was his body.
He would be careful—careful to the point of obsession.
So he had to suppress the excitement.
First, he would run experiments using animal bodies.
Then, he would use higher-grade materials.
Only after absolute certainty would he take the final step.
"I hope there's enough time."
Through clairvoyance, Gen Takuya glanced at Nohara Rin—still mourning "Obito's death," visiting Kakashi at his bedside.
He narrowed his eyes.
He didn't care whether Rin lived or died.
What mattered was this—
Kirigakure would seal the Three-Tails into her.
A complete tailed beast?
He wasn't interested.
Too large a target.
Too likely to draw attention from Uchiha Madara… from Black Zetsu… from shadows that watched history itself.
But a portion of a tailed beast's chakra?
That…
That was something he wanted.
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