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Konoha Village, Naruto's house.
After Naruto opened his eyes and his consciousness returned to his body, the scenes he had experienced in the virtual simulation kept replaying in his mind. The experience had been so incredibly real that, for a moment, he found it difficult to distinguish between virtuality and reality.
Ding. The host's consciousness has successfully returned. This virtual simulation has ended. Now settling the life journey of this virtual simulation…
At that moment, the system's voice sounded, pulling Naruto's attention away from the confusion between reality and illusion.
In this virtual simulation, the host experienced 15 years, 2 months, and 24 days of life (since the host started the simulation at 15 years old, the first fifteen years of the simulated life are not included in the settlement). The brief life passed like a fleeting moment.
Life Completeness Rating: Poor.
Rating Reward: The host may choose one of the following rewards:
Real-life experience qualification.
Virtual experience life stage selection qualification.
Virtual experience life identity selection qualification.
"Poor…"
Naruto's expression darkened when he heard the system's evaluation. He had clearly lived an extremely exciting life in that world.
However, he didn't hesitate at all when choosing from the rewards. He directly selected the first option. He remembered clearly that the system had said this qualification would allow him to return to Yamato's world again.
In this virtual experience, the host played a crucial role in the era of ending evil spirits. His brief life shone with brilliant splendor.
Life Experience Rating: Excellent.
Rating Reward: Perfect Demon Bloodline, Alternate Space Castle – Infinity Castle Seed (click to view detailed reward introduction).
Hint: This reward requires fusion to be used and has been stored in the system backpack.
"There's more?"
Naruto froze slightly when he heard the system's second evaluation, then couldn't help curling his lips into a satisfied smile.
However, he really didn't want the first reward this time, and he didn't understand what the second one meant at all.
Not interested in checking the rewards, Naruto eagerly asked, "System, can I use the real-life experience qualification now?"
Because the host has just experienced a "virtual simulation" life, for physical and mental safety, you must wait thirty natural days before undergoing another life experience.
"Thirty days…"
This time, Naruto didn't complain. After this virtual simulation, he finally understood why the system required a waiting period after each life experience.
He hadn't fully emerged from the 'life' he had just lived.
Even though the actual time spent in that life was less than three months, it had been infinitely more intense than his past six years.
If he immediately entered another life without digesting it, Naruto felt he might suffer a mental breakdown.
"So… thirty days it is."
"I wonder… what kind of lives everyone over there will live."
Naruto recalled his experiences in the virtual simulation, a sense of nostalgia welling up inside him.
Although the experience had been short, in his heart, that place had already become a real world.
In that world, after eliminating Kibutsuji Muzan, the source of all demons, Master Ubuyashiki Kagaya announced the disbandment of the Demon Slayer Corps at the end of his life. Everyone went their separate ways, and the Hashira, having awakened their Marks, were all not long for this world.
After successively seeing off Gyomei Himejima and Master Ubuyashiki Kagaya, Naruto could no longer bear the looming separation of life and death, and ultimately chose to withdraw voluntarily.
"Kid, what's wrong with you?"
Suddenly, the Nine-Tails' voice sounded in his mind, interrupting Naruto's thoughts.
"Big Fox!"
Naruto's spirits immediately lifted upon hearing the familiar voice. His consciousness entered the sealing space, and he waved enthusiastically at the Nine-Tails inside the seal.
"Long time no see, Big Fox! It's great to hear your voice again!"
"Long time no see?"
The Nine-Tails looked confused and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about, kid? You just zoned out for a moment!"
Naruto didn't know that the time he experienced in the virtual simulation was merely an instant in reality.
"Ah!"
Naruto froze for a moment, then hurriedly asked the system in his mind, "System, what is Big Fox talking about? I clearly experienced so much time over there—why does it say I only zoned out for a moment?"
The virtual simulation mode is consciousness transmigration and does not affect reality. No matter how long the host spends in a virtual life, only an instant passes in the real world.
"This… is incredible!"
Naruto's expression turned to disbelief as he understood the explanation.
He had lived through so much, yet only an instant had passed in reality. It was simply unbelievable.
"What's incredible?"
The Nine-Tails, unaware of Naruto's conversation with the system, looked even more confused.
"Ah, well…"
Due to the system's restrictions, Naruto didn't know how to explain it. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I just had a dream. In the dream, I entered another world and became a member of a Demon Slayer Corps that fought demons…"
At the age where the desire to share was strongest, Naruto used the excuse of a 'dream' and excitedly recounted his experiences in the Demon Slayer world to the Nine-Tails—especially his extraordinary talent and battles against man-eating demons.
The Nine-Tails, however, picked up on something else entirely. As it listened, it silently speculated about the connection between this 'dream' and the 'other world' Naruto had mentioned before.
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Hokage Office.
A white-haired man wearing a forehead protector marked with the kanji for "oil" sat casually opposite Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"Sensei, why did you suddenly call me back?" he asked indifferently. "Did something happen in the village?"
This man was the famed Jiraiya, one of the Leaf's Sannin.
A few days earlier, while 'traveling' outside the village, Jiraiya had received a message from Konoha ANBU stating that Hiruzen Sarutobi urgently needed him to return.
Yet after coming back, Jiraiya found the village peaceful and felt as if he had been tricked.
"Nothing happened in the village. Can't I call you back if nothing happened?" Hiruzen said, shaking his head helplessly at Jiraiya's sloppy appearance.
"You and Tsunade have been away for so long. If I don't look for you, you won't even think to come back and see this old Hokage."
As if Tsunade would come back just because you called.
Jiraiya muttered internally, then pouted. "Hokage-sama, if there's nothing important, I'll be leaving. I'm very busy, you know."
He stood up, preparing to leave.
"Stop."
Hiruzen called out to him, paused for a moment, and then said, "It's about Naruto. He's met the Nine-Tails."
Jiraiya froze.
"You are Minato's teacher," Hiruzen continued, "and the one Minato entrusted with the key to the Nine-Tails' seal. I want you to stay in the village for a while and teach Naruto."