Gojo Yoru—six years old this year, a transmigrator.
A sudden death dropped him from a twenty-five-year-old adult into a newborn baby.
Thanks to the Japanese elective he took in high school, plus the fan-translation work he did part-time in college, Yoru knew what kind of world he'd landed in almost the moment he was born.
It wasn't some unfamiliar fantasy realm—it was an anime world where everyone spoke Japanese… and not just any anime world, but Naruto, one of the "Big Three" shōnen series.
The moment he realized he'd reincarnated into the Naruto world—and into a family with no bloodline limit—Yoru felt like the sky had caved in.
Because the so-called Big Three are basically "bloodline manga": the protagonists all start out ordinary, then end up as the universe's chosen children.
A thousand-plus chapters of a "superhuman-type" Rubber Fruit suddenly turning into a "zoan-type Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Model: Nika"—who would believe that?
And before the Rubber Fruit became the Nika Fruit, Naruto was the one that got flamed the hardest for being a "bloodline manga."
This world was all about pedigree. A brutal world whose entire story ultimately revolved around the Ōtsutsuki clan's family drama.
No matter how brilliant you were as a ninjutsu prodigy, the absolute ceiling was the likes of the Second Tsuchikage, Mū, or the Third Raikage, A—peaks among the Five Kage.
Only by tying yourself to the Ōtsutsuki line, or becoming the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki and earning the full Nine-Tails' recognition, did you even have a shot at becoming a truly transcendent, "beyond-Kage" monster.
Being born a commoner with no bloodline was already a doomed start. Then, when he was three, his father—an all-round jōnin—his mother—a tokubetsu jōnin—and even their comrades all died together on a major mission, and Yoru's vision went black.
His backing. His connections. All gone.
By rights, that kind of cursed "orphan star" opening should've been reserved for the main character.
But even after the classic "parents sacrificed for the plot," Yoru still hadn't found his cheat ability.
If there weren't even a sliver of hope left for a comeback, he would've considered ending it himself—just to see if he could transmigrate again.
He opened a locked chest and pulled out a palm-sized red scroll from beneath a pile of other scrolls.
He fed chakra into the scroll's seal, and the sealing characters slowly faded away, revealing a blank surface when he unrolled it.
Yoru bit his thumb, smeared blood across the scroll, formed hand seals, pressed his palms onto it, and barked, "Release!"
With a poof, white smoke filled the dim basement.
When it cleared, the blood on the scroll was gone—replaced by several stacked notebooks and a box of writing tools.
As usual, Yoru sat cross-legged in front of the scroll, picked up the top notebook, and flipped it open.
It was filled with memos written in pinyin and Cantonese. Even in a world where Japanese, English, and Chinese characters existed, no one could decipher it—unless they could read the memories inside Yoru's brain.
He flipped through quickly, reinforcing his memory so he wouldn't lose the greatest advantage a transmigrator had.
"Main Plot Outline," "Key Characters: Personality and History," "Complete Akatsuki Member List," "A Blurry Chronology," "Estimating the Year Where Remembered Events Happen"…
After finishing notebook after notebook, Yoru picked up the last one. With his other hand, he took out a pencil from the box.
He read the notes again—but this time slowly, gaze deep, like he was thinking… or reorganizing something in his head.
And the title on the first page of that final notebook was glaringly clear:
"On the Possibility of Defying Fate!"
What followed was a "game guide" Yoru had written specifically for himself—using his advantage of knowing the plot and understanding the original characters.
"Shortcuts to Status and Resources!"
"Balancing the Sharingan and Hashirama Cells = A Wood Release Test Subject Guaranteed to Survive!"
"Become a Jinchūriki and Build the 'Child of Prophecy' Persona—Can I Win the Favor of the Nine Tailed Beasts?"
"The Best Timing to Snatch the Rinnegan!"
…
Whenever inspiration struck, Yoru would refine or revise this guide. This time was no different.
So as he read, he frequently erased the pinyin and words and wrote new content over them.
When he reached blank pages, he repeatedly wrote and erased fresh strategies.
After multiple rounds of revisions—until he couldn't think of anything better—he closed the notebook, put the pencil back, and stored both inside the storage scroll again.
When he climbed out of the basement, night had already fallen. The clock on the living-room wall read 7:52 p.m.
Instead of just stuffing something in his mouth to quiet his hunger, Yoru took ingredients from the fridge and cooked himself a dinner that wasn't lavish, but was nutritionally complete.
After eating, he went out for a walk—so his loner personality wouldn't draw the village's attention.
His "cold" and "school boss" persona at school was already anti-social enough. If he overdid it, it would backfire.
After the walk, he came home, tidied up a bit, took a quick shower, and went to bed.
It was almost 9:00 p.m.
Early to bed, early to rise. Three meals a day. Balanced nutrition…
After experiencing sudden death once, Gojo Yoru treasured his body in this life—and he knew how to take care of it.
That was also the main reason he was taller than Namikaze Minato and had more stamina.
The next morning at 6:00 a.m., the alarm clock yanked him out of sleep right on time.
After washing up and getting dressed, Yoru started his first day of vacation with a morning run, returning home drenched in sweat at 8:00 a.m.
Cook, shower, read…
Once the routine was done, he began refining chakra.
Yoru's physical quality was top-tier among his peers. With two jōnin-level parents, his talent could be called "a small genius," even if it was nowhere near those cheating monsters.
In terms of chakra reserves, he far exceeded ordinary kids his age.
And with the inheritance his parents left behind—if he didn't die young—Yoru would definitely become an all-round jōnin in the future.
But that would be all.
If he wanted to become an elite jōnin or a Kage-level powerhouse, he needed to master at least one S-rank ultimate technique.
And in front of true "beyond-Kage" monsters, the Five Kage were just slightly bigger cannon fodder.
To "Six Paths"-tier beings, they were downright inferior lifeforms.
Yoru refused to settle for that, so he would defy fate.
But to defy fate, he had to have the strength to seize and steal the opportunities when they came.
The bigger the goal, the stronger his drive.
The first-term vacation was long—more than a month.
For the next month, Yoru lived the same way every day: early to bed, early to rise; morning workouts, reading, and chakra refinement; afternoons drilling ninja fundamentals; nights in the basement organizing his guide; asleep before 9:00 p.m.—disciplined like a robot running a program.
During that time, Yoru even celebrated his own birthday.
In this life, he was born on August 18, Konoha Year 24.
On that day, Gojo Yoru turned six.
And on that same day, his body underwent a dramatic change.
"Th-this… what's going on?!"
Yoru, who still got into bed before 9:00 p.m. as usual, couldn't fall asleep for some reason tonight.
He had plenty of vitality. He was still growing—sleep should've come easily.
But tonight, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and his brain only grew more alert.
After midnight, he noticed his body temperature rising—but it wasn't a fever.
His heartbeat sped up, pounding like a drum.
That strange yet familiar sensation made Yoru's eyes widen. In disbelief, he muttered, "Arrhythmia… how is that possible? I'm this young, and I sleep early and wake early every day—how could I be showing signs of sudden death?!"