1: Chapter 1 Emotional Treasury, System ActivationIt was the eve of the graduation exam in Konoha, year 48.
At the top of Hokage Rock, the smell of paint mingled with the evening breeze, particularly pungent.Naruto Uzumaki had just finished applying two blobs of blush to the Fourth Hokage's stone-carved face, along with two exaggerated mustaches.After finishing, he didn't even rush off; he simply stood there, waiting for the paint to dry completely in the night air.
"Naruto Uzumaki!"
A loud shout exploded from below the cliff.
Three Chunin, moving in perfect unison to the rhythm of the Body Flicker Technique, appeared from three directions as afterimages and surrounded the enemy, their movements textbook precise.
Naruto didn't turn around.He wasn't even bothered to run.Just a second before the Chunin in front of him was about to grab him, he "accidentally" stepped on a pebble and stumbled to the left.
The timing was perfect.
He was like a cannonball delivered to the door, crashing precisely into the arms of the Chunin on the left.The other man clearly hadn't expected him to "mistake," and instinctively tightened his grip, locking him in place.
"We caught him!" The ninja panted, looking relieved that he had finally completed his mission.
"Tch." Naruto curled his lip in annoyance, putting on a full performance of the frustration of being captured.
Only he himself knew that the Chunin who had launched the main attack had predicted the landing point of his Body Flicker Technique with absolute accuracy.The one on the left, however, was off by 0.3 meters.
The data has become even more precise.
"Don't you get tired of playing like this every time?" Another Chunin walked over and ruffled his blond hair in annoyance."You've made me sweat, bro."
Naruto lowered his head, his hair falling down and obscuring his calm blue eyes.
In the classroom, chalk dust floated in the air.
Iruka Umino's finger almost poked Naruto's forehead, spitting as he shouted, "Why!Why do you always graffiti the Hokage Rock!That's the hero who sacrificed himself for the village!"
His voice was hoarse, filled with anger and disappointment.
"puff."
"Haha, the bottom-ranked student got scolded again."
"A monster should look like a monster; it only causes trouble."
Malicious mockery surged from all directions, mixed with disgust and contempt, like countless invisible insects crawling all over the skin.
Naruto lowered his head deeply, his shoulders twitching slightly, striking a perfect "dejected" pose.His acting was impeccable.
Only he could see a semi-transparent interface floating in his field of vision.In the center of the interface, an energy bar representing the concentration of negative emotions in the environment was being dyed a glaring blood red, changing from a steady green.
This color is so beautiful.
Suddenly, a whooshing sound came from behind.
An eraser covered in chalk dust was viciously slammed into his face from the side.
Naruto seemed to be stunned, his body making only a very slight movement—his head turned to the right by just an inch.
A bizarre scene unfolded.
The eraser hovered abruptly for a moment, less than half a centimeter from his cheek.It didn't hit anything; rather, the space in front of it became viscous and infinitely stretched, instantly swallowing up all of its kinetic energy.
The next second, it lost all its strength and fell vertically.
Snap.
"Ah!" Naruto screamed dramatically, covering his head with his hands, looking terrified.
The student who threw the eraser stood there stunned, rubbing his eyes, looking utterly bewildered as if he'd seen a ghost.
Beneath Naruto's lowered eyelids, a fleeting confirmation of a successful test crossed his mind.This nascent power was more stable than anticipated.The first foreshadowing had succeeded.
At that moment, a completely emotionless electronic voice exploded in his mind.
[Ding!The concentration of negative emotions in the environment (disgust, ridicule, contempt) has exceeded the threshold!]
The Emotional Archives System is now officially activated!
Buzz—
The interface before us is filled with the interplay of light and shadow, creating a completely new style.
At the very top, a line of black data jumps wildly before finally settling.
Shadow Points: 13580
[Points Source Analysis: This system automatically bound you when you were six years old.The massive amount of negative emotions you endured in Konoha over the past six years has been automatically converted into initial Shadow Points.]
I see.
Naruto's heart was clear.Those days and nights of isolation, those hateful gazes, those deeply etched curses.were not meaningless scars, but his most precious original capital.
A fortune so heavy it makes you want to laugh.
This is his second foreshadowing, redefining all suffering as the cornerstone of power.
[New player tutorial quest issued: Please use Shadow Points to redeem one initial ability.]
The store interface unfolds.
At the very top, there is a gray, unclickable option whose very name exudes a terrifying sense of distorted spacetime—[Domain Expansion·Boundless Void].
Naruto glanced at it and felt his soul being washed away by the endless stream of information, turning him into an idiot.He immediately looked away.
The first redeemable gold option is dazzling.
[Jujutsu Kaisen: Limitless Techniques (Beginner Level)]
[Ability Description: Brings the concept of "infinite series" into reality.An "infinity" will forever exist between you and your attacker.Any object attempting to approach you will slow down infinitely, making it forever unreachable.This is the power of "Stopping."]
[Exchange Price: 10,000 Shadow Points]
"exchange."
Naruto silently recited it in his heart without the slightest hesitation.
[Confirm spending 10,000 points to redeem [Limitless Technique (Beginner Level)]?]
"confirm."
boom!
A torrent of "concepts," rather than information, that could not be understood by mortals, poured directly into his soul.Absolute truths about space, about infinity, about convergence and divergence were completely grasped by him at this moment.
His body, no, the space around his body, underwent a qualitative change.
An invisible, absolute "distance" was born.It was not chakra, nor a barrier, but rather the very nature of space itself that had been rewritten by him.
There is an infinity separating him from the world.
He could touch the world, but from this moment on, the world could no longer be touched.Touch him.Absolute defense is absolute solitude.
Naruto slowly raised his head and met Iruka's eyes, which were filled with disappointment and weariness.
After school, the setting sun bathed the streets in a warm, golden hue.
"Stop right there!You monster!"
In the dark alley, three older students blocked his way.The one in the lead had a sinister grin on his face and was holding a fist-sized rock in his hand.
"Today I'm going to make you cry for your parents, you monster!"
Amidst the foul language, stones, mud, and garbage rained down from all directions.
Naruto stood still, without even blinking.
Swoosh—
The stone flew precisely towards his forehead.
However, just a finger's width from his brow, the tip of the stone seemed to have crashed into an infinitely viscous swamp.Its speed went from extremely fast to extremely slow, and finally, in a bizarre visual distortion, it came to a complete stop.It maintained its high-speed flight posture, but could no longer advance even a micrometer.
Next came the second piece of mud, then the third piece of fruit peel.
All the projectiles were pulled into the "infinite" swamp of time and space as they approached the invisible boundary in front of Naruto's body, and then fell helplessly to the ground.
The alley was deathly silent.
The three men's sinister smiles froze on their faces, their pupils filled with incomprehensible fear.
"A ghost.a ghost!"
One child broke down first, letting out a pig-like scream, and turned to run away.
The other two were also terrified by this completely mind-blowing sight, and fled in panic, uttering incomprehensible cries.
Naruto watched their disheveled figures, a slight, cold smile playing on his lips.
"You're messing with me?You haven't even graduated with a degree in physics yet."
[bite!]
[Gain 150 units of "fear" stemming from your goal!]
[Gain 80 points of "confusion" stemming from your goals!]
Shadow Points +230.
Current Shadow Points: 3810.
Earning points is that simple.
He turned and walked out of the alley; it was time to change out of this "disgusting work outfit."
Meanwhile, on a rooftop dozens of meters away.
An ANBU member wearing a raccoon mask was crouching in a stiff posture.
Kakashi Hatake.
Beneath the mask, the three tomoe of his left Sharingan were spinning wildly, trying to analyze everything that had just happened.
The result was.a blank page.
There is no chakra flow.
There is no barrier spell.
It's not an illusion.
Those stones simply stopped in mid-air.It was illogical; it defied all the ironclad rules of the ninja world.Kakashi's brain was teetering on the edge of overload, frantically trying to understand and replicate it with all his knowledge.
It was all in vain.
All the Sharingan could see was the concept of "infinity" itself.The instant his brain tried to comprehend this concept, a massive torrent of information nearly overwhelmed his consciousness.
"puff."
A trickle of blood oozed from the corner of his eye.
He abruptly closed his eyes, covering his throbbing left eye, a tidal wave of emotions surging within him.That wasn't any known ability.It was a… higher-dimensional "rule."
"Has the power of the Nine-Tails.completely mutated?Or is there something even more terrifying than the Nine-Tails hidden within that guy's body?"
Kakashi's figure vanished in the form of a fallen leaf.He had to immediately report this top-level intelligence, defined as "encountering an unknown rule-type phenomenon, unanalyzable, suggested threat level: S+", to the Third Hokage.
He had a premonition that the world of Konoha was about to change.
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