Soji truly couldn't understand it. Over the past three years, he had done nothing but wait for the God Tree to bear fruit.
Yet now, with the Chakra Fruit on the verge of ripening, he had suddenly become a world-ending final boss reviled by the entire Ninja World. How could he not be dumbfounded?
"What exactly is going on? Who spread the claim that once I eat the Chakra Fruit, I'll destroy the world? Could someone be secretly stirring up the Ninja World against me?
But a small group of people, including the Five Kage, should already know who I am.
And with Naruto explaining things for me, it shouldn't have turned into this situation, should it?"
Even with Soji's intellect, his mind was struggling to keep up at this moment.
What puzzled Soji even more was that among those who believed he wanted to destroy the world were actually ninjas from Konoha!
Ninjas from other villages were one thing. They did not know Soji.
But Konoha was different!
Naruto was Konoha's Seventh Hokage. No matter what, he should not have allowed something like this to happen.
Yet it had happened anyway!
That was why Soji was so confused.
"My Ice Clone returned to Konoha not long ago, and there were no signs of this then. How did such a huge change suddenly happen today?
Is someone pulling strings behind the scenes?"
Soji began to harbor suspicions.
However, Soji had spent the past three years beneath the God Tree, only occasionally sending an Ice Clone back to Konoha to inform Naruto of his situation.
During that time, Naruto had not mentioned anything particularly unusual happening in the Ninja World.
Thus, Soji had not specifically looked into what was happening in the Ninja World.
This situation had clearly gone far beyond