Chapter 13 – The Girl Named Light, and the Door Home
The gap in power plus a high-level Bakudō rendered the girl's explosive awakening completely harmless.
Six glowing rods pinned her mid-air; she couldn't even twitch.
"Calm down."
"We're the ones who freed you. Gratitude is a good habit, y'know."
Aike strolled over casually.
"The Uchiha never showed me kindness—only endless torment. You didn't release me out of charity. You want my power."
Her pretty face twisted into pure hatred, thicker and more venomous than even Sasuke's.
Classic Mangekyō user mental state.
Aike cut her off before she could work herself up further.
"The Uchiha clan is gone."
Silence.
"...What?"
The girl froze.
"Five days ago, two traitors wiped out the entire clan. Only a handful survived—Izumi here is one of them."
The words hit like a meteor.
"No… you're lying!"
"The strongest clan in Konoha… how could it just disappear?!"
"Two Mangekyō plus an entire village worth of ninja. Extinction isn't exactly surprising."
Aike's calm certainty shattered her worldview.
The clan that had ruined her life—gone.
The pillar of hatred that had kept her alive for over a century crumbled.
All the fight drained out of her. Centuries of sealed exhaustion crashed down at once.
She swayed, then collapsed.
When she woke again, it was midnight.
Izumi had taken care of her; color had returned to her cheeks.
"Eat first. We'll talk after."
Aike handed her food and water, then gave her a quick history lesson—Rikudō Sennin to the Fourth Shinobi War threat level.
Ten minutes later.
"…And that's the current state of the world."
"The proud Uchiha, one of Konoha's founding clans, betrayed by their own and massacred top to bottom.
Only three of you are left, including you and Izumi."
Itachi the kin-slayer, Obito the teacher-butcher—Aike didn't even count them as human anymore.
The girl sat in stunned silence.
She had slept for over a hundred years.
The clan she hated—gone.
The enemies she was forged to kill—gone.
An entirely new era.
"Come with us?"
"…Huh?"
"We're leaving tomorrow morning. Want to come?"
Aike offered with a gentle smile.
"No rush. You have until sunrise to decide."
He said that, but he'd already decided she was joining—one way or another.
…
Next morning, outside the cave.
"You sure?"
"Once the contract is signed, there's no backing out."
The girl hesitated, then nodded firmly.
Compared to a terrifying, unfamiliar world, the two people who had freed and cared for her felt… safe.
Even if they'd only known each other a day, they treated her like a person, not a weapon.
"…I'll go with you."
"Contract established!"
"From this moment on, Uchiha Hikari belongs to me completely."
Aike flicked the golden scale. Light flashed between them.
The moment the contract sealed, every ability Hikari possessed synced perfectly to Aike.
Tsukuyomi… Amaterasu… Kagu-tsuchi… Yachihoko…
Four god-tier Mangekyō techniques poured into his eyes at once.
His chakra reserves exploded upward.
Even without reiatsu, purely within the ninja system, Aike had just hit the ceiling.
In the entire world, only the Rinnegan in Xia's hands could realistically threaten him now.
"Not bad at all."
"Why work hard when the employees can do it for me?"
With Hikari recruited, the Naruto-world shopping spree was officially complete.
Time to count the loot.
Authority Level: 1 (Upgradable)
Transaction Points: 285,000
Dimensional Trade: Active
285,000 points in five days.
Naruto alone had been worth 100k, Sasuke 80k, Kakashi (plus Kamui) 20k.
Izumi 2k, Hikari 9k.
"Hikari's only 9k? Guess she's a late-game boss then."
9k was already final-villain tier.
Izumi's low score was just because she awakened a bit early.
Rich, Aike immediately spent big.
"System, upgrade Authority!"
"Level 2 requires 100,000 points. Confirm?"
"Confirm."
Upgrade successful.
Authority Level: 2
Transaction Points: 185,000
New perks:
Dimensional stay extended to 7 days (starts next month)
World Locking (lock current world so next month returns here)
Spacetime Anchor (pay points to jump to any timeline in locked worlds—cost doubles each use, once per month)
World Locking solved his biggest headache—no more losing juicy worlds to RNG.
He could milk Naruto all the way to Boruto if he wanted.
Spacetime Anchor was even more broken—go back and recruit Hashirama? Save someone's waifu? Easy.
Level 2 still had limits, but it was insane value.
Aike closed the panel, stretched under the dim pre-dawn sky.
"One last thing to wrap up, then home."
Five days here = five hours in One Piece.
Any longer and Nami would think he'd ditched her the morning after.
He turned back to the two confused Uchiha girls.
"We're not going back to Kono
ha."
"We're going somewhere new. Another world, actually."
Under their stunned gazes, Aike tore open a rift back to the One Piece universe.
"Time you learned where I really come from."
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