"Aaaahhh!"
With a terrified scream, Gato scrambled to flee.
"Hey, where do you think you're running?!"
But Gato had already been locked onto by Naruto.
Before he could even take a step, Naruto seized him with one hand. Unable to break free at all, Gato's legs began to tremble.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me—ah, don't kill me!"
As Menma strolled toward him,
Gato screamed at the top of his lungs, then, under Naruto's shocked and disgusted gaze, wet himself and lost control of his bladder.
"Is this guy really that timid?"
Naruto said in astonishment.
"Sometimes, so-called evil is made up of people like this, Naruto. There's nothing strange about it."
Menma replied calmly.
"Oh? Is that so? But Menma, why were you so ruthless? Those people were only hired by Gato, weren't they? Wouldn't knocking them out have been enough? Why kill them? They weren't enemy ninja."
Naruto nodded as if he understood, but in the next instant, he noticed the crimson staining Menma's body and the corpses lying in pools of blood not far away. Frowning, he spoke.
"Oh? Mm, I didn't hold back enough just now. It was indeed a little excessive. I'll be more careful in the future."
Menma nodded lightly.
This obedient attitude, completely different from the last time they had argued about this, instead left Naruto stunned.
When he said those words, Naruto had subconsciously prepared himself for Menma to refute him. He had even planned to reason things out with Menma properly.
But Menma's suddenly different attitude
truly left Naruto unable to react for a moment.
Was this a bad thing?
No, it should have been a good thing, right?
After all, Menma agreed with him. How could that not be a good thing?
But if it was a good thing,
then