GA: Chapter 204: Uzumaki Naruto's Contempt — You Should Have Been Able to Change Everything
Child of Nature: "Aleister has probably pieced together the chat group's existence through observing Misaka's behavior."
Child of Nature: "With his level of intelligence, reading between the lines of her actions wouldn't be difficult."
Electromaster: "I had a suspicion that might be the case."
Electromaster: "So he's got his eye on me."
Electromaster: "Headache .jpg"
Electromaster: "Nothing bad will happen though, right?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Probably not — if something was going to happen, it would have by now."
Ordinary Group Leader: "He even sent you a pretty substantial gift."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Envious .jpg"
Since this mission involved Uzumaki Naruto and Namikaze Minato, and since the task wouldn't move forward until Minato made up his mind, the conversation naturally drifted elsewhere.
In the Naruto world, Namikaze Minato leaned back in his chair, his expression caught somewhere between bewilderment and conflict.
This mission involved Naruto — but it wasn't his Naruto. It was a version whose soul had merged with a transmigrator's, producing an entirely new personality.
He didn't feel he had any right to ask the chat group to abandon the mission. The most he could do was control whether he participated. So he genuinely appreciated that they were willing to consider his feelings and let him handle things first.
If he chose not to pursue it, they wouldn't force the issue.
But what was he supposed to do with this?
A parallel-dimension Naruto had come to his world. He had no idea where that person was, or what purpose they had. He'd known nothing about it until the chat group's mission template appeared.
"If we could speak... perhaps—"
"Even if we could speak — what would you be able to change about me?"
A calm voice settled through the Hokage office. Minato's gaze sharpened, fixing on the space before him.
A figure was emerging from the air.
Black robes. Silver dragon embroidery. Features carved sharp and cold as stone. A pair of deep, unfathomable black eyes where inscrutable light moved and shifted. Striking beyond measure — and yet carrying a thread of ice through it.
"Naruto... no, I suppose I should call you Liu Yun."
Namikaze Minato looked at the figure — familiar and unfamiliar at once. Unlike the Naruto from the anime, this person had no whisker marks, no sky-blue eyes, no golden hair.
Black eyes. Black hair. If not for the face being almost identical to Naruto's own, he would have questioned the identity entirely.
"Liu Yun. I haven't heard that name in a long time."
"Long enough that I'd nearly forgotten it."
"So the people behind you told you that as well."
Uzumaki Naruto spoke without particular inflection. A chair materialized behind him. He settled into it casually.
"There is no Liu Yun left in this world. Only Uzumaki Naruto."
"Though — if calling me Liu Yun helps ease whatever guilt you feel about the idea of killing me, feel free. I don't care."
"I won't—"
Minato had barely started to say he wouldn't move against Naruto when Naruto cut him off.
"Don't make absolute statements before the fact. They don't mean anything."
"What you call 'won't' is conditional. For example — won't harm Konoha, won't endanger civilians, won't damage this world. If I did those things, could you still say those words? Not with the same certainty."
"No. You couldn't."
He paused, then continued in the same even tone.
"I didn't expect the system to transmigrate me into a parallel timeline of the Naruto world."
"Naruto's setting isn't weak across the myriad worlds, but it isn't remarkable either."
"I assumed I'd be sent somewhere like One Piece, Bleach, or Hunter × Hunter. A parallel timeline wasn't what I anticipated."
"Still — since I've arrived, I intended to simply do what I've done before."
"Then this complication appeared. You — one step away from Six Paths level."
"I asked the system. Your soul hasn't been overwritten. Which means you clearly obtained something similar to what I have — a system of some kind."
"Universal Shop. Ten-Thousand-Worlds Mercenaries. Ten-Thousand-Worlds Tower. Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion. Chat group. What surprises me is that your people only just now detected my presence."
"The organization behind you has issued you a mission. What — not ready to accept?"
"Your current strength is genuinely below what it should be. But other world's members would presumably be joining. I wonder when they'll arrive."
Minato let out a quiet sigh.
"They're willing to let me handle this. If I choose not to pursue it, they won't accept the mission."
"Ah — the chat group. No other organization would say something so absurd."
Uzumaki Naruto's tone remained flat.
Other factions cared only about their own interests. They wouldn't give Minato's feelings a second thought.
By comparison, the chat group was gentler.
The key was that the chat group's Group Leader was a gentle person.
"No wonder Danzō, Hiruzen, and the Elder Council are still breathing. A gentle chat group hasn't shown you that simple truth — power can only be truly held by one hand."
"Even now, you, the so-called Fourth Hokage, remain Hokage in name alone."
"You possess strength no less than Hashirama and Madara. You have the ability to suppress everything. And yet you continue tolerating this situation. You really are pathetic."
"Kill Hiruzen. Kill Danzō. Kill the Elder Council. Take the ANBU and Root by force."
"Anyone who objects — kill them too."
"Yes, it damages your reputation in the short term — but through public narrative, let the things Danzō and Hiruzen have actually done be exposed through the people's own voices. Frame everything you do as being for Konoha's sake."
"Human experimentation. Using war and missions to gradually dismantling the Senju clan. Deliberately inflaming the conflict between the Uchiha and Konoha. Whether there's evidence that Konoha's geniuses died at their hands doesn't matter. Whether they actually did it doesn't matter either."
"Dead men can't deny anything."
"Be decisive. You don't even need to do anything dramatic — just maintain your rule. Sustain it long enough, and people will stop caring about any of it on their own."
"Does the death of those people matter to anyone? It becomes a topic of conversation and nothing more."
He paused, and looked at Minato with quiet, calm eyes.
"And yet you chose to do nothing."
"How laughable."
"Are you waiting for Sarutobi Hiruzen to voluntarily relinquish his grip on power and hand it to you? Or for Danzō to one day understand that everything he's done is wrong — that you, the Fourth Hokage, are what's best for Konoha — and then genuinely accept you?"
"Heh."
"Is that even possible?"
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