"Uncle Soji, long time no see!"
After coming over to Soji's side, Naruto greeted him with a completely unguarded smile.
Soji had not expected things to unfold this way.
"Na—Naruto Uzumaki, you know me?"
Overwhelmed by his confusion, Soji had no time to pay attention to Momoshiki and Kinshiki anymore.
Originally, Soji had wanted to call him "Naruto" outright, but considering that he was not familiar with the Naruto of this spacetime, he simply chose to call him by his full name instead!
At first, Soji had assumed Naruto's overly friendly nature was acting up again.
"Ah! Of course, Uncle Soji. Our last meeting was sixteen years ago!"
"Sixteen years ago?"
Naruto's explanation made Soji freeze once more, memories involuntarily beginning to surface in his mind.
Yet after a long while, Soji was still completely baffled.
In his own spacetime, Naruto had not even been born sixteen years ago!
And he could not possibly have met the Naruto of this spacetime sixteen years ago either!
Seeing that Soji still showed no sign of remembering, Naruto could only fret anxiously at the side.
Then, Naruto seemed to recall something and hurriedly continued, "Uncle Soji, we met in the Ancient Kingdom of Roran sixteen years ago! We defeated a ninja named Mukade together, and we even sealed the Dragon Vein with my dad!"
Hearing Naruto say that, Sasuke, Toneri, and the other Four Kage behind him all stared at him in utter confusion.
Sixteen years ago, Naruto had sealed the Dragon Vein with his father, the Fourth Hokage?
What was that even supposed to mean?
Why could they not understand a single word of it?
If they remembered correctly, Naruto's father, the Fourth Hokage, had died more than thirty years ago while sealing the Nine-Tails, had he not?
Yet Naruto could actually