Whoosh-
Whoosh whoosh-
In the forest on the outskirts of Konoha Village, four Anbu’s members leaped and darted through the trees, gradually converging from different directions.
"No sign of the target!" An Anbu’s Ninja stopped and landed on a tree branch, using sensory techniques to scan the surroundings before reporting to his comrades through the earpiece communicator.
Honestly, the technology in the Ninja World was oddly inconsistent. Firearms development had la...
2025-07-25 04:47:07 +0000 UTC
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Hizashi, who was engaged in combat with the mysterious masked man, felt as though his proud Gentle Fist techniques were being swallowed whole, utterly failing to deal any substantial damage to his opponent.
After just a dozen or so exchanges, Hizashi was already shaken, while the enemy moved leisurely along the courtyard wall, effortlessly blocking his attacks with just one hand.
The cold moonlight reflected off the white three-eyed fox mask, and the mysterious man seemed to be lo...
2025-07-25 04:47:00 +0000 UTC
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"Hey there, young man, it seems like it's your first time here." Teuchi, the owner of Ichiraku Ramen, squinted his eyes and smiled at Menma, "Would you like me to recommend some popular signature dishes?"
"Oh, it's not my first time, Teuchi-san." Menma snapped out of his thoughts and looked at the squinting chef with his small cook's hat, casually ordering a bowl of ramen: "One miso chashu ramen, no naruto, extra menma, please."
"Huh?" Teuchi tilted his head in confusion, scrutini...
2025-07-25 04:46:53 +0000 UTC
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In the orphanage at night, when Menma opened his eyes again, he had returned from his mental space to reality.
Feeling the Chakra flowing continuously through his Chakra Pathway, Menma felt his entire body brimming with power.
Even with his Uzumaki Clan’s physical constitution, it had taken him three years to accumulate enough Chakra to form the little Nine-Tails. But now that the little Nine-Tails had been born, Menma’s Chakra was no longer being absorbed by that bottomless p...
2025-07-25 04:46:46 +0000 UTC
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"Hey! You bastard!"
"Are you really going to abandon all the years we spent together?"
Late at night, at the entrance of the orphanage, over twenty orphans and the director, Nono, watched as Kabuto walked toward a group of black-clad figures.
The one who had shouted was an orphan named Urushi, who is a few years older than Kabuto. He had some talent in Medical Ninjutsu, and had accompanied Nono to the front lines to treat Konoha’s Ninjas.
It was also during the Battl...
2025-07-25 04:46:39 +0000 UTC
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Three years later.
Konoha Orphanage.
"Menma, here's your dinner for tonight. Don't be picky, okay?" Nono was distributing food to the children one by one, assisted by a few older kids, including the bespectacled Kabuto.
"Mm." The three-year-old Menma, wearing slightly oversized clothes, accepted the plate with an expressionless face.
"You kid, remember to say thank you! You must be polite!" Nono scolded him gently, her tone still warm despite her annoyance.
"Than...
2025-07-25 04:46:31 +0000 UTC
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"Hahaha! Fake! It's all fake!"
"There’s no Uchiha Madara in this world! No Sage of Six Paths! And certainly no Otsutsuki Kaguya!"
Under a blood-red moon, in the heart of the battlefield during the Fourth Great Ninja War, Uzumaki Menma stood atop the Black Nine-Tails, laughing maniacally as he faced the combined forces of 80,000 Ninjas.
The elite Ninjas below wore grim expressions. Over the past two years, they had grown accustomed to this madman who kept ranting about how ...
2025-07-25 04:46:26 +0000 UTC
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It was strangely eerie.
Not long after ‘Fishcake’ disembarked, the sky cleared up again.
The small boat carrying Naruto and Karin gradually stabilized.
However, after the earlier storm, their course had already drifted far off track.
By the time Naruto and Karin woke up the next day and spotted land, they only realized they had gone the wrong way after hearing the locals greet them with, ‘Welcome to the Land of Hot Water’.
This is the wrong direction. The...
2025-07-25 04:35:28 +0000 UTC
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"Naruto-san... are you sure we're going the right way this time?"
"Don’t worry, Karin, we’re definitely on the right path now!"
After several corrections, Karin finally stopped addressing Naruto as ‘-sama’. The way she called him now, ‘Naruto-san’, was at least something he could accept, so he didn’t push the matter further.
Since leaving Tanzaku Quarter, the two had been traveling toward the eastern coastline of the Land of Fire based on the directions from th...
2025-07-25 04:35:09 +0000 UTC
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Naruto turned and walked straight toward the bounty-hunting Ninja, completely oblivious to the change in Tsunade's expression upon hearing his name.
Perhaps he noticed but simply didn’t care.
Come to think of it, Naruto was quite accustomed to having a bounty on his head.
In the One Piece World, he had carried a massive bounty for years, and in his early days, he was constantly harassed by bounty hunters.
No matter how many times he insisted he wasn’t a pirate, it...
2025-07-25 04:34:58 +0000 UTC
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Upon returning to the Ministry’s main atrium, Severus immediately spotted Harry sitting on a bench against the wall to the right of the famous magical fountain.
The atrium was as bustling as ever, filled with wizards coming and going.
By now, Severus had clearly achieved a level of celebrity status, as nearly every wizard who passed by smiled, nodded, or greeted him.
"Brilliant speech, Professor Snape."
"Even though you tore into me mercilessly in Ravenclaw, I still ...
2025-07-25 04:34:37 +0000 UTC
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Severus's question was actually quite subtle.
It could be interpreted in two ways.
First, if the Aurors weren’t involved and he was the one taking the risk, what kind of support could the Ministry provide him during the investigation?
Second, if he took on this task, what kind of reward, or compensation, could the Ministry, or rather, Bagnold, offer him?
When he asked this question, Severus didn’t bother to consider Dumbledore’s presence.
Or rather, he was ...
2025-07-25 04:34:22 +0000 UTC
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‘Three seconds, or five seconds?’
Fatima watched as the bandits' heads tumbled to the ground, her face filled with disbelief.
‘Law was still some distance away from the sand bandits, so how had he managed to decapitate them almost simultaneously?’
The scene was so surreal that Fatima even wondered if their deaths had anything to do with Law at all.
Those dozen or so bandits had been killed by Law's Nen Bullets. A Nen Bullet no larger than a thumbnail was enough...
2025-07-25 04:33:58 +0000 UTC
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In order to become the Great King celebrated by the whole world, Nasubi had positioned himself as the leader of this expedition to the New Continent.
Long before this, he had been meticulously preparing.
The proof of this was the massive black ocean-going ship anchored on the sea at this very moment.
The ship is named the Black Whale 1, and its overall appearance resembled that of a giant black whale.
Black Whale 1 is divided into five decks, with a staggering passenge...
2025-07-25 04:33:40 +0000 UTC
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In a certain sense, both Nanika's ability and Perception share an otherworldly, incomprehensible nature.
But from the perspective of ‘making a wish’, Nanika's ability surpasses Perception in terms of sheer power.
Conversely, the ‘cost ceiling’ it bears is also far higher than that of Perception.
Thus, in Moses's view, he doesn’t believe Perception is stronger than Nanika's wish-granting ability.
But the relationship between the two is that Perception is in a ...
2025-07-25 04:33:27 +0000 UTC
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"Cheers!”
"Cheers!"
"To life!"
"To freedom!"
Karin shivered slightly as she huddled in the corner, nibbling small bites of grilled meat while her eyes filled with worry.
She had no idea how things had escalated to this point.
Just half an hour ago, Naruto and the busty woman at the next table, who introduced herself as Tsunade, had seemed on the verge of a full-blown argument.
Yet somehow, as their debate raged on, the two seemed to reach some kind ...
2025-07-24 09:13:20 +0000 UTC
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It must be said that Naruto and Karin's luck this time wasn't bad.
Contrary to Naruto's expectation of immediately starting a wild game barbecue, just as he released his Observation Haki to search for prey, a small town appeared within his perception.
Recalling Konohamaru's state whenever they ate meat together and considering Karin's long-term malnutrition, Naruto decisively chose to take the little girl to that town for a proper meal.
It just so happened that he might also...
2025-07-24 09:13:02 +0000 UTC
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The wounds on Karin’s body had been mostly healed, but some of the older scars were not so easily treated.
This was already the limit of ordinary Medical Ninjutsu.
However, after feeling that warmth, Karin seemed to have developed a bit of trust in the uncle before her.
At the very least, Karin was finally able to respond to Naruto’s simple questions with words.
…
“So, your name is Karin?”
Nods.
“And they captured you to exploit your abili...
2025-07-24 09:12:52 +0000 UTC
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As Severus had expected, the person Dumbledore brought him to meet was none other than the Minister for Magic herself, Millicent Bagnold, who had just presided over the trial.
Severus harbored no particular ill will toward this politically astute yet seemingly disengaged Minister, who appeared to have little interest in addressing the Ministry’s deep-rooted issues.
The hardships Sanguini and Worple would have faced without his intervention were symptomatic of broader problems wi...
2025-07-24 09:12:37 +0000 UTC
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The moment Dumbledore finished speaking, the wizards on the high platform began their final vote.
The jurors clad in purple-robed uniforms did not glance at anyone's expressions. Instead, they either raised their arms or remained seated without moving.
Apart from Severus, whose expression remained calm throughout, both Sanguini and Worple couldn't help but nervously look up, scanning the raised hands of the wizards.
However, there were many arms lifted, and before they could...
2025-07-24 09:12:24 +0000 UTC
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‘Does this count as... running away with the bride?’
Seeing Fatima appear here, Law thought to himself.
William was probably angered by Fatima's actions, his gaze sharp as a blade as it swept over her, the aura of someone long accustomed to battle quietly seeping out.
However, Fatima was no ordinary woman. She showed no fear in the face of William's intimidation and threatened: "Take me with you, or you're not going anywhere. I assume there are fifty soldiers stationed a...
2025-07-24 09:12:05 +0000 UTC
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‘Leaving aside why that ‘monster’ from the darkness panicked in front of Moses…’
‘Just after fulfilling Killua’s request, in the very next moment, he starts asking Moses for request?’
‘This should be the shortest interval among the ‘known intelligence’, right?’
The faint sound of blood dripping onto the floor echoed through the basement with blue-sky-and-white-cloud wallpaper.
Alluka put the liver that Moses handed over to him aside, and then st...
2025-07-24 09:11:46 +0000 UTC
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The pitch-black, hollow eye sockets couldn’t display the emotional reactions expected of a human.
But the overly intense physical reaction fully revealed Nanika’s current state of mind.
There is fear, but more of it is panic.
This instinctive or soul-deep stress response was a scene that played out countless times every day in the natural world’s food chain.
That's right.
It was like seeing a predator...
Nanika’s feet kept shuffling backward, but th...
2025-07-24 09:11:34 +0000 UTC
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Karin was in despair.
At this time, her arms and legs were covered in bite marks, and even the skin on her neck was no exception.
The culprits were several other Ninjas from Kusagakure, the same village she belonged to.
…If she could even be considered a Ninja, that is.
This wasn’t an exaggeration.
Because in Kusagakure, Karin and her mother were treated less like people and more like medical tools.
Due to the special physique of the Uzumaki Clan, both ...
2025-07-23 05:09:01 +0000 UTC
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On this side, Konoha remained as peaceful as ever.
Danzo's death hardly caused any ripples, after all, the vast majority of ordinary Ninja and villagers in this village weren't even aware of his existence.
However, whenever the villagers saw Naruto, the atmosphere always became a little strange.
Some felt guilty but were too proud to admit it, so they simply avoided him. Naruto didn’t mind those people.
Others still harbored doubts, though they no longer glared at hi...
2025-07-23 05:08:48 +0000 UTC
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In a dimly lit cave, Uchiha Obito, hidden behind his mask, listened quietly as Zetsu, who resembled a Venus flytrap, relayed information to him.
After hearing Zetsu’s report, Obito was utterly stunned.
"The Uzumaki Naruto you’re talking about… is he the same one I know?"
Fortunately, his mask concealed his expression, preventing him from losing the imposing demeanor befitting his role as the ‘mid-game behind-the-scenes boss’.
That said, it wasn’t entirely h...
2025-07-23 05:08:31 +0000 UTC
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As more and more people gathered in front of the Hokage Building, Danzo slowly realized what Naruto was planning.
"No… no! You can’t do this!"
The old man’s earlier defiance had completely vanished. But Naruto had no intention of responding to him now.
Once the crowd had grown large enough, Naruto stepped forward and spoke in a booming voice that carried across the square.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto! The son of the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina! I’...
2025-07-23 05:08:20 +0000 UTC
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Wiltshire, England… Malfoy Manor.
The recent high-profile case in the Wizarding World had not escaped the notice of Lucius Malfoy, the current head of the Malfoy family, a member of Hogwarts Board of Governors, a staunch supporter of pure-blood supremacy, and a close personal friend of Severus Snape.
Ever since their shared master had fallen from power and most of their fellow Death Eaters had been imprisoned in Azkaban, Lucius and Snape had significantly reduced their public in...
2025-07-23 05:08:02 +0000 UTC
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"Severus Snape."
Bagnold's voice echoed through the courtroom.
"According to Patty Somerset's testimony, the charges against you under the Muggle Protection Act have been dismissed. However, regardless of the victim's willingness, you must still answer for your subjective violation of the Obstructing Auror Law Enforcement Act."
"On the day you were found by Kingsley Shacklebolt, why did you not tell him the truth about the missing potion?"
Severus turned his gaze towar...
2025-07-23 05:07:31 +0000 UTC
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The merchant caravan's armed forces were formidable, but the sand bandits had greater numbers and strength.
This was a battle for survival in the desert… there was no avoiding it.
The hundred sand bandits charged like rolling thunder, and in moments, the caravan fell beneath their assault, screams echoing as blood soaked the yellow sand.
In less than five minutes, not a single member of the merchant group remained alive, as all were killed by the sword.
On the other ...
2025-07-23 05:07:06 +0000 UTC
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