Chapter 599: Naruto Saves Himself
No one had expected that such a bizarre country had once existed in the world.
Thinking about it that way, Konoha's Will of Bullying suddenly seemed to have a reasonable explanation. It no longer felt like some bizarre "urban legend rule."
Instead, it resembled the "Dark Forest Law."
You had to bully others to prove your own superiority. If you treated others kindly, it meant you were lowly and could be bullied without restraint.
If we only talked about darkness, Obito believed the ninja world was too dark, which was why he wanted the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
In reality, the ninja world was far too bright.
Whether politicians or merchants, even when they harbored evil intentions, they were pitifully simple.
Even the so-called masterminds and scapegoats like Danzo and Black Zetsu had only gone so far.
On top of that, although every nation in the ninja world had different customs, everyone spoke the same language, and even their currency was unified, so there weren't that many barriers between them.
Compared to the world Shiromo had lived in during his previous life, the darkness of the ninja world wasn't even close.
Even during the chaotic Warring States Era, Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara's dream had simply been: "To create a world where children don't have to die on the battlefield."
Notice something?
In their minds, as long as children didn't go to war, they wouldn't die. They could grow up happily.
In other words, if you stayed off the battlefield and didn't become someone's enemy, you weren't in danger.
You'd never see Deidara riding a clay bird over a village and dropping explosive clay onto the Ninja Academy, the hospital, or the orphanage.
It was precisely because the ninja world was so innocent and kind that Senju Hashirama believed peace could be achieved through mutual understanding instead of conquering everyone by force and eliminating all hidden threats.
In many ways, the ninja world was remarkably "kind."
The only exception was the Will of Bullying.
In that regard, Konoha's Will of Bullying had surpassed even the Masala Country.
Masala's Will of Bullying was terrifying because of its numbers. More than a billion people possessed it simultaneously.
But theirs was simply a case of bullying the weak while fearing the strong. Like a spring, if you didn't bully them, they would bully you instead.
Konoha's Will of Bullying had transcended such low-level thinking.
Who said they would accept defeat just because someone was stronger?
Bullying the strong was the true embodiment of the Will of Bullying!
If you were stronger than them and threatened their lives, they would still bully you.
If you were stronger than them but didn't threaten their lives, then they'd bully you even harder.
Naruto had become the victim of exactly that situation.
The people of Konoha who possessed the Will of Bullying wouldn't fear someone because they were powerful, nor would they spare someone because they were weak in order to preserve their reputation. They treated everyone equally. It was simply practical.
Faced with the Hyuga Clan's overwhelming Will of Bullying, Naruto had no idea what to do. He turned around, intending to get away from them first.
"Naruto, stop! If you try to leave, you're looking down on us!"
"You think saving us gives you the right to despise us?"
"Naruto! If you want to hit someone, then take this kunai and stab me through the heart! Do it!"
The Hyuga Clan members immediately surrounded Naruto.
They weren't even afraid of death anymore, so what else was there to fear?
Faced with this situation, Naruto was completely helpless.
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[GG Time. Be right back.]
A little Chinese language lesson begins~
The internet slang "怂" (sǒng) means cowardly or timid.
However, the original ancient Chinese character is "㞞."
The meaning of "㞞" refers to the first two characters in the famous line:
"Tonight the bright moon shines upon everyone..."
In many classic novels, such as The Plum in the Golden Vase, there are also many insults involving the phrase "吃㞞."
"吃㞞" originally implied being dominated, controlled, and manipulated by someone else. Over time, it gradually evolved into the meaning of being cowardly and timid, eventually becoming the modern slang "怂."
Likewise, through the natural evolution of language, even if the ninja world didn't undergo the exact same character changes, similar linguistic developments could still occur.
So...
The Hyuga Clan members, all eager to bully Naruto, silently untied the belts around their waists as they surrounded the fox-demon femboy Uzumaki Naruto, who currently had no ability to resist.
"Hokage-sama, get out of the way and let me kill them! They don't deserve to be members of my clan!"
High in the sky, Hinata noticed what was happening below while fighting Kushina, and immediately panicked.
"Impossible! Hinata, stop already! I won't allow you to harm even a single lowly commoner. Every single lowly commoner in Konoha is my personal property. You dare destroy my property without permission? Your crime is beyond forgiveness!"
Kushina rejected her without the slightest hesitation.
"That's right, Nee-sama! At least leave a few for me to kill!"
Hanabi stood on a rooftop, crying with tears and snot running down her face as she shouted toward the sky.
Uh...
She accidentally blurted out what she was really thinking.
Fortunately, the battle overhead was too intense. The golden and cyan streaks of light kept crashing into each other, so neither of them heard her.
The situation below was equally intense.
If no one stopped them soon, Naruto was about to personally give birth to Uzumaki Boruto and Uzumaki Himawari, children carrying both the Uzumaki and Hyuga bloodlines.
Naruto panicked.
The moment he tried to struggle free, one of the Hyuga Clan members immediately raised a kunai and prepared to slit his own throat.
Under this kind of moral blackmail, Naruto couldn't do anything at all.
At that moment, Naruto had completely forgotten that he was inside the engraved Tsukuyomi illusion world. Even if people died here, nothing would actually happen.
His indiscriminate kindness had become the shackles restraining him.
Just as the situation reached its most critical moment, Naruto suddenly remembered a crucial piece of information he had figured out earlier.
The greatest counter to space-time ninjutsu was poop.
That's it!
The inheritors of the Will of Bullying weren't afraid of death...but were they afraid of shit?
"Stop!"
Naruto suddenly shouted.
"Naruto! Are you still planning to resist? We're about to commit mass suicide! Let's see how you'll explain that to Hokage-sama!"
"No. What I mean is... there are so many of you, but only one of me. How are we supposed to divide things fairly? And if everyone lines up, what if the people in the back are germaphobes?"
"So I'm going to use the Multi Shadow Clone Technique."
"...Naruto, you're surprisingly considerate."
Naruto cast the Multi Shadow Clone Technique.
In reality, he secretly dispatched a large number of shadow clones toward Konoha's sewage pit in search of his lifesaving straw.
"Naruto?"
Seeing the familiar figure flash past outside the window, Namikaze Minato immediately jumped out through the window of his house, intercepted Naruto, and stopped him.
"Dad! I was wrong! Please save me!"
The moment Naruto saw his father, he burst into tears and told him everything that was about to happen.
"What? There's actually something this wonderful... I mean, I'll help you."
Minato was actually quite envious of Naruto's situation.
But after remembering that Naruto wasn't a chaotic battle enthusiast like himself, he gave up on that thought.
"Naruto, I've already left a Flying Thunder God mark on this shadow clone of yours. Go back now and leave the rest to me. Trust me."
"Mm!"
Naruto's shadow clone nodded vigorously.
At last, he had finally felt a father's love in this world.
Even though his father in this world was one of those "naturally should" people, he still trusted and helped him unconditionally.
It was truly moving.
With a Flying Thunder God teleport, Namikaze Minato arrived at the village's sewage pit.
Standing inside it, he spread both hands wide and assumed the stance of a jutsu.
"Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder!"
That's right.
It was the Flying Thunder God derivative technique capable of transferring away even the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb.
(End of this chapter)