"Run!!"
Seeing enemies, everyone took off running towards Naruto.
Even the dozen or so Genin specially sent to be security were doing the same thing!
Naruto was speechless seeing this scene.
Sure enough, any strong village has to have the Will of Fire lie, or how would these ninja do missions if they ran at the sight of enemies?
Of course, failing that, it would be nice if the village had a good liar like Morino Ibiki!
Naruto remembered during the first part of the Chunin Exams, the requirement to pass when he took it was that a ninja had to have a fearless spirit!
They had to be brave enough to accept missions even when faced with terrible results, even if it meant sacrificing their lives!
Classic Will of Fire brainwashing!
It forces the idea that you have to work your tail off for Konoha!
But when his younger brother took the test, the same question had a completely different answer!
The same Question 10, the same choice that answering it would mean never becoming a Chunin, his younger brother was eliminated for choosing to answer!
The reason was—you didn't think about your teammates!
When Naruto saw this at the time, all he could think was, 'what the heck,' and he didn't know if he should say it or not!
If you give up answering, you're saying I don't have the courage to face difficulty!
If you keep answering, you're saying I don't consider my teammates' feelings!
So whether or not you pass just depends on what you say?
Naruto was curious if anyone from Morino Ibiki 's generation passed the first part of the Chunin Exams.
After all, choosing to answer is failure, giving up answering... well, you already gave up the exam, how am I supposed to pass?
Or maybe—Morino Ibiki deliberately kept his younger brother from passing the test?
On the surface, it looks like Idate Morino didn't value his teammates, but really it was that he didn't want his younger brother to stay in Konoha and be a workhorse?
"All Yukigakure Village ninja, no retreating!"
Naruto calmly said this, stopping those dozen or so timid ninja in their tracks. They hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted their teeth and turned around to face the enemies attacking them!
But that was all they did, they didn't dare take the initiative to attack.
The dozen or so people stood where they were until the opponents were right in front of them before they tried to fight back.
Some people threw shurikens, but the shurikens went way off target!
Some people were lucky enough to hit, but they didn't have any power, so they couldn't break through the opponents' armor at all!
Then, in just one exchange, the dozen or so Yukigakure ninja were either dead or maimed... wiped out!
Seeing that the armored strongmen were about to attack the researchers, countless light bullets suddenly shot out and killed them all!
"You guys are really embarrassing me!"
Naruto shook his head and walked from behind to the front, then looked at the soldiers wearing Tenzo armor.
He frowned, squatted down, and pulled open their armor.
Inside were a group of children!
"What kind of technology is this? With this camouflage, you wouldn't even get fined for hiring child labor, right?"
Naruto became interested in the technology of these uninvited guests, and looked up at the very top of the huge warship.
There, a man wearing a robe and a tall hat was staring at him.
Naruto noticed that his face had greed on it, just like Orochimaru back then!
"Heh!"
Naruto sneered, put his hands together in a circle, and turned into golden light, disappearing from where he was!
Yata no Kagami!
With the golden light reflecting, he instantly went from the ground to behind the man.
But before he could say or do anything, a group of people surrounded him.
They were each wearing different armor!
A young man wearing silver-white armor with long golden hair and red eyes.
Three women with hair like withered grass and red eyes.
They were wearing green, purple, and blue armor!
"Protect Lord Hyde!!"
"Stop, Timothy! Camilla! Ranc! Fuga!"
"Lord Hyde?"
"Don't engage in such meaningless battles."
"But Lord Hyde..."
"Timothy, no matter what, fighting is wrong!"
"Yes, Lord Hyde!"
The person named Hyde was the man on the huge warship who had looked at Naruto with greedy eyes.
But he seemed to be putting on a fake nice guy act!
Naruto could tell with just one look that this young man named Timothy had been completely fooled by this man.
As for those three women,
From their arrogant eyes, he could tell they were not good people!
He figured they had been in cahoots with this Hyde for a long time.
"Young man, what's your name?" Hyde gave Naruto a smile that he thought was very gentle, but Naruto just found it disgusting.
"Stop acting, do you think I can't see you just because we're far apart? I saw that greedy look in your eyes!"
Naruto crossed his arms and mocked, "And what you just said was pretty funny too, fighting is wrong? Then what was the meaning of you sending a bunch of people to kill my people just now without any reason?"
"Being a hypocrite, idiot!"
"You!"
Hearing Naruto put down Hyde, Timothy immediately became angry, but was stopped by Hyde.
"These are necessary sacrifices for the ideal place! Your subordinates died for the ideal place, that's a noble death!"
Hyde opened his arms, his face with a fanatical expression like a believer, "Do you want to know what the ideal place is? The ideal place is a world without war, where the strong don't bully the weak! We are working hard everywhere to create such a world!"
"Are you interested in joining us?"
Everyone in this room was looking at Naruto, expecting Naruto to give them the response they wanted.
But Naruto didn't answer, and the atmosphere was strangely silent.
After a while, Naruto suddenly looked up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle and murmured, "I finally know why some people get tricked into pyramid schemes, they even believe what they're saying, how can other people not believe it?"
Before anyone else could speak, Naruto looked at the young man named Timothy, "You're called Timothy, right?"
"What is it?" Timothy frowned.
"If one day you find out that the person you respect the most actually deceived you, that he's a complete liar, what would you do?" Naruto asked.
Timothy looked at Hyde, then turned to Naruto with an unkind expression, "Lord Hyde would never deceive me, since you can't become our comrade, then you're our enemy! Lord Hyde, I request permission to take him out!"
Hyde's expression was much more serious at this time, not as friendly as before.
He looked at Naruto, recalling the power Naruto had just shown, hesitated, and then refused Timothy, "Forget it, Timothy, we don't need meaningless battles! I believe that one day he will understand our ideal and pursuit."
After speaking to Timothy, Hyde said to Naruto again, "Young man, you're still young, when you've experienced the same pain we have, known how cruel war is, and lost important people and things, you'll understand the importance of the ideal place!"
"I believe that when that time comes, you'll be willing to sit down and talk to me!"
Looking at Hyde, who still seemed to be a man of high morals, Naruto shook his head, pointed his finger at Hyde, and lasers flashed.
"I'm too lazy to talk to you, you're not worthy to listen!"