[Comprehensive] Life Mentor

"I remember, Sasuke-kun, you seem to have had contact with Itachi before?"

Dazai Osamu was sitting on the second floor of a tavern in the country of the rain, chewing octopus balls while asking the man sitting opposite him who had been silent.

"So, how does it feel to be a brother again?"

He held his chin and asked with a smile.

Because the Land of Rain is Akatsuki's base camp, and Payne's eyeliner is everywhere, so Sasuke Uchiha has never taken off his mask since he came here.Even for eating, it just opened up a little gap under the mask.

His appearance is too characteristic of the Uchiha family.If the teenage Uchiha Sasuke was more like Madara's younger brother Izumi, then the 30-year-old Uchiha Sasuke is simply a replica of Uchiha Madara.

But now his temperament is more like Uchiha Itachi, reticent and quiet, tough and mature.

More than ten years after Uchiha Itachi's death, Uchiha Sasuke finally lived like his brother.

...though he doesn't know if it's good or bad.

"It's been so many years that I can feel anything." Uchiha Sasuke replied lightly, "Even if there was a lot of uneasiness at the beginning, it will be diluted by time."

He said, taking a sip of the sake in his glass slowly.

"Yeah yeah."

The curly-haired young man wearing only a vest fell limply on the table as if all the bones had been pulled out of his body.

He took off the overcoat as soon as he entered the tavern. If he hadn't been under Payne's nose, Osamu Dazai would never have touched that ugly overcoat.

The strange color scheme and old-fashioned style... are really eye-catching.

"Sasuke-kun," because Osamu Dazai's face was pressed against the table, so he seemed a little muffled, "How many years have we been here?"

"If you're talking about the actual time of the bits and pieces, it's only over a year; if you're talking about the time span we've experienced, it's probably almost 20 years." The man sitting across from him answered him .

"20 years... has it been this long?" Osamu Dazai, who was slumped on the table, turned himself over.

"So Mr. Dazai, what do you want to do next?" Sasuke Uchiha asked.

Before Osamu Dazai had time to answer, he saw a white light "swish" across the distant sky, almost in the blink of an eye, the light and shadow came to him.

He stretched out his hand, and held that phantom in his hand.

Osamu Dazai closed his eyes, and pressed the object in his hand that was still emitting a faint light on his forehead, as if he was checking some message.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The originally calm young man didn't know what he saw, but his expression became weirdly distorted in an instant.

"What's wrong?" Uchiha Sasuke asked him, frowning.

"puff……"

Osamu Dazai opened his eyes and looked at him with an expression that seemed to be suppressing a smile.

"It has something to do with you, Sasuke-kun." He said, "So what should we say about this situation... The wave behind pushes the wave ahead, and one generation is stronger than the other?"

An ominous premonition rose in Uchiha Sasuke's heart, he involuntarily put down the wine glass in his hand, and asked solemnly: "What's the matter?"

Dazai Osamu recounted to him the main content of the information just now: "A few days ago, two unidentified ninjas, a man and a woman, appeared in Muye Village. They are about 12 years old and are currently being arrested by Anbu. Close surveillance."

"..."

"Then the most interesting thing came!" Osamu Dazai laughed excitedly, and he looked at the gradually darkening face of the man in front of him with great interest, "One of them is called Boruto, and the other is called Zorana—"

"Bah!!!"

Uchiha Sasuke slapped the table hard with his face livid, even the wine glass on the table bounced.Osamu Dazai inserted it quickly with a bamboo stick and hit a small octopus ball that was about to fall to the ground, and swallowed it in one gulp.

"It's bullshit!"

Uchiha Sasuke was so angry that he stood up suddenly and hurriedly paced back and forth in the room: "How did they get here? Do these two little bastards know that the ninja war is not something they usually play around with?" Jiajia? This is fatal!"

He circled back and forth a few times in place like a spinning top.

"No, no, Zuo Liangna has always been very obedient, it must be something good done by that brat Uzumaki Boruto!"

Uchiha Sasuke's black cloak billowed in the air with his steps, looking rather fierce, but in fact...

He is just a silly father who is worried about his daughter's safety, Osamu Dazai shook his head and thought.

Alas, men with wives and children are like this.We are different, we are different.

"How did Uzumaki Naruto become Hokage?! You can't even look at anything!" Uchiha Sasuke over there seemed a little outraged, "Not only that, but my son is not good at teaching! Every day It will cause a lot of trouble, and it will bring bad Zarana, just like he used to..."

As he spoke, Uchiha Sasuke's expression suddenly became weak. He thought of Naruto and his previous "great achievements"-compared with the deviant of the two of them, Uzumaki Boruto can really be called a Good baby.

"Okay, okay, don't turn around, I'm dizzy," Osamu Dazai waved his hand at him, "It's useless to complain, people have already come, can you push them back?"

Hearing this, Uchiha Sasuke slammed on the spot and stood still. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head and asked Dazai, "What did the witch say?"

The witch refers to Yuko Ichihara, who is known as the "Dimensional Witch". Uchiha Sasuke accidentally entered a relic when he traced the Otsutsuki family who used space-time ninjutsu to falsify the timeline. Because of this, he came to Her shop is said to be able to fulfill all wishes.

And he also met Osamu Dazai there.

"She said that we can let go and do it without any scruples, because the future has already been changed."

Osamu Dazai stretched out his index finger, dipped a little of the bottomless sake in the glass, and wrote a large character "Ninja" on the table with the liquor.

He watched the word carefully for a while, then let out a chuckle, and then erased it with his hands indiscriminately.

"Ninjas are able to endure things that ordinary people can't bear," he muttered to himself, shaking his head with a smile, "human beings who tame themselves are really amazing."

He crossed his hands on his chin, raised his head, and stared at the man standing in front of him with his dark brown eyes without blinking.

"Sasuke-kun, you understand my mind. But sometimes a simple mind can't solve the problem. The ability given to me by the witch only allows me not to be hurt by the attacks of this world. I don't have any means of attack. And you, Uchiha Sasuke—”

Osamu Dazai sat cross-legged in front of the table and asked him seriously: "What level do you think your strength is in today's ninja world?"

"..."

"If I am alone, I will lose to Madara Rokudo and Kaguya," Sasuke Uchiha was silent for a moment, then replied, "But if there is Madara without Rokudo, even if he is in his heyday, I have certain confidence." able to beat him."

He stretched out his right hand, and gently stroked the position of the left eye of the mask with his slender fingers.

In the darkness under the mask, hidden is the only Goyu reincarnation eye that exists in this era.

And the moment he blinked, a hexagram pattern exuding faint blood-red light instantly bloomed in his right eye.

"In this era, I am the strongest ninja world."

He said so.

Listening to his determined tone, Osamu Dazai slowly raised a slight arc on his lips.

"Crack, snap, snap."

"very good."

He clapped his hands and praised sincerely.

"Sasuke-kun, we have been getting along for a while. When I asked you before, you always used words like 'you can't change history', 'maintain the stability of the current timeline' and so on to perfuse me. However, you and I know in our hearts that you Are you really willing? Don't you...don't want to do something for Uchiha Itachi and Uzumaki Naruto?"

Osamu Dazai lowered his voice, subtly inducing him.

"And now, we have this opportunity to change everything—"

The curly-haired young man straightened his back and sat upright at the table.The perfect smile on his face made him look like the kind of monster in mythology who wears a beautiful skin and seduces people to fall.

It makes people know that it will be beyond redemption, but they still have no hesitation.

"Are you really not tempted?" He smiled and asked one last time.

Uchiha Sasuke did not speak.

But his right hand firmly pinched the hilt of the Grass Pheasant Sword, with such force that the phalanges in his hand began to turn pale.

"Sasuke-kun, if I will be the head and you will be the sword, it means the combination of the strongest intelligence and the strongest power." The young man in front of him boasted cheekily, "In this case, I I assure you that not only will your daughter and your friend's son remain unharmed, but Uchiha Itachi and Uzumaki Naruto... will have a completely different, brighter future."

Sasuke Uchiha took a deep breath.

"It sounds very tempting." He said, "But Mr. Dazai, I have no problem cooperating with you, but you have to answer my question."

He said, staring at the young man sitting at the table without relaxing his eyes for a moment.

"I never believed in a free lunch. So, what is your purpose? What do you want?"

Today's Uchiha Sasuke is no longer the ignorant boy who lost his mind when he was provoked by words in his teens, and became arrogant when he gained a little power.

Dazai laughed.

He stretched out his hand, and for a moment, something transparent, like the glass marbles that can be seen everywhere on the street, quietly appeared between his fingers.

He squeezed it, looked up through the transparent beads and looked at the man standing in front of him.And the bead doesn't seem to be completely transparent, if you look carefully, there are wisps of red gas floating lightly inside.

Through that bead, Osamu Dazai saw a few faint red threads floating around Uchiha Sasuke's body.

"The mission given to me by the witch is to collect the 'colorful moments' of human beings."

Osamu Dazai noticed the confused eyes of the person in front of him, so he smiled and explained to him: "Actually, you can simply understand it as human happiness and joyful emotions. Of course, it must be of value, such as getting rich overnight Nothing like that.”

"The 'colorful moment' I want must be the kind of fragment that can come to mind in just a few seconds before death and condenses the value of a person's life. It must represent a person's spiritual growth— — Not everyone has such a 'colorful moment', even I have never figured out why it exists."

Uchiha Sasuke nodded, but he still didn't understand one thing.

"Why did the witch ask you to collect this?" he asked.

Osamu Dazai smiled at him, though it was fleeting.

"Actually, it's not so much a mission as it is an opportunity given to me by the witch," he lowered his eyes and said, "an... opportunity for me to find the meaning of life."

"..."

Sasuke Uchiha expressed incomprehension.

But he tactfully didn't make a sound.

The young man sitting in front of the table lowered his head, his too slender neck gave people a fragile feeling that could be broken at a pinch, and the fluffy curly hair hanging on his forehead blocked his eyes, making it difficult to distinguish his current appearance expression.

The rain outside the window was still pattering, depressing and lingering.

He seemed to be laughing.

But that expression was ugly as if he was crying.

"This journey, this attempt..."

He muttered to himself, his right hand tightly clenched the toy-like glass bead, like a drowning man desperately trying to grab the last straw on the shore.

"...It is my last courtship for human beings."