Minato stood a little further away, concentrating on the spiritual world belonging to Naruto. He forced himself to ignore the huge movements that could be called "tragic" coming from the other side.
Kurama and his offended mother are ruthlessly and violently "abusing" Urashiki's consciousness, which has lost all power and has become a mere "sandbag".
His attention is completely focused on perceiving changes in the world itself.
That huge alien chakra, or the breath of Otsutsuki chakra, is now "smooth" at an unnerving speed, accelerating and permeating the air, penetrating into every corner of the spiritual world, and becoming more deeply entangled with Naruto's own chakra and life breath.
"Sure enough..." Minato felt heavy in his heart. Urashiki's consciousness was successfully sealed, which meant that the 'soul' and 'personality' that controlled this power were temporarily isolated.
But the power itself has not disappeared, but because it has lost the resistance and consumption of the master, it is being forcibly 'fused' with Naruto's body at a faster speed.
He didn't know whether this accelerated fusion was a good thing or a bad thing. He could only pray silently, hoping that the forced infusion of this external force would not cause irreversible damage or distortion to Naruto's own consciousness, personality, and even the essence of life.
On the other side, Otsutsuki Urashiki, who was undergoing a violent storm of attacks, was now tasting a taste of humiliation and despair that was even more severe than physical annihilation.
It cannot be destroyed. This is the characteristic of the conscious body relying on [Wedge] data, but at this moment it has become the source of endless torture. No matter how violently Kurama and Kushina are beaten above, the tearing, burning, crushing pain felt by the conscious body is extremely real, but it can never usher in the relief of "death".
However, compared to this continuous physical pain that is enough to collapse any mind, there is a deeper fear, just like the soul that haunts Urashiki - the fear of the unknown ending.
In the records of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, there has never been a similar situation recorded.
The essence of all the power of the caster has been forcibly integrated with the "instrument", but the soul, personality, and consciousness of the caster have been completely isolated, imprisoned, and completely cut off from the source of power by a strange technology called "Sealing Jutsu" in the target world!
After a while, the fusion will probably be completely completed. What will happen to me by then?
The power is attributed to "Qi", but the soul of "Qi" may not become Otsutsuki as a result. Where should my sealed "original personality" go?
Will it completely dissipate when the fusion is completed? Or will it always be a piece of sealed, useless data, imprisoned deep in this body?
In less than a day, the thawing and fusion process of [Wedge] will be completed. This in itself is an extremely abnormal phenomenon.
The normal [wedge] is that the caster highly compresses his own data, refines it and puts it into the "vessel", and then through a long period of running-in, or under the stimulation of fierce battles, the power of Otsutsuki is "thawed" little by little, gently transformed, and adapted to the body of the "vessel".
As for the Urashiki [wedge]... to say it is a "semi-finished product" is an exaggeration. It is completely a shoddy and violent "inferior product"!
To use a crude metaphor, other Otsutsuki's use of [Wedge] is like feeding carefully cooked, easy-to-digest food to the "vessel" patiently one bite at a time, slowly completing the transformation.
And what about Urashiki? He shoved a whole, uncut, hard watermelon roughly into the throat of "Qi"! No, I'm afraid it's not that gentle.
More specifically, he seemed to have directly cut open the "stomach" of the "qi" with brute force, and then stuffed all the unprocessed and violent "ingredients" into it without any order!
Thanks to Naruto's "weird" physique, which has extremely strong vitality and even possesses the weird property of independently replenishing Life Energy, he could barely "sustain" this extremely rough indoctrination.
"Get out of the way! Kushina, it's my turn!!"
After Kushina vented his anger and backed away slightly, Kurama was still furious and roared with unquenchable hatred. The giant tail was raised high, and then it hit the ground where Urashiki's limp consciousness was!
"Boom!!!" "Boom!!!" "Boom!!!"
Every slap caused the entire spiritual world to tremble violently and make a dull loud noise.
Although Kushina also wishes to crush Urashiki to ashes, she is more concerned about the true condition of her son in the outside world. Since this scourge cannot be completely eliminated here, she must turn her energy to a more practical direction.
"Minato," she walked towards her husband, "The fluctuation of the foreign chakra... is getting stronger and closer, getting closer and closer. About... how long will it take for the complete fusion to end?"
Minato, who was unable to directly stop the fusion process, could only speculate based on the perceived speed and replied in a low voice. "It's very soon... Because without the intervention and use of Urashiki's consciousness, the fusion process has lost its biggest 'consumption point' and 'instability factor', and the speed is accelerating... It should be... soon."
"... Then let me remove this chakra body first." Kushina made a prompt decision and made the calmest decision. She took a deep look at Urashiki, who was repeatedly "ravaged" by Kurama, and then looked at Minato, "Synchronically transmit all the memories and situations here back to the real body. See outside... if I can do anything for Naruto."
After the words fell, Kushina Uzumaki's chakra body began to slowly become transparent, carrying all the information experienced here, flowing towards the connection between the spiritual world and reality, and returning to the original body.
Minato watched his wife's chakra dissipate, and then turned his solemn gaze again to the depths of the spiritual world where the fusion was accelerating and the aura became increasingly weird and unclear, as well as Kurama, who was still madly venting his anger, and the group of "prisoners" on the ground that symbolized failure and the unknown.
When Otsutsuki's soul, personality, and consciousness are completely sealed and isolated...
After the power of [Wedge] is completely and forcibly integrated into Naruto's body and life origin... what exactly... will happen?
"... You are saying that the enemy this time is a race named 'Otsutsuki' from outer space? The target is Tailed Beast, and the target of this attack is Kurama in Naruto's body?"
In the temporary conference room outside Konoha Hospital, Jiraiya listened to Uchiha Sasuke's concise but informative explanation. He couldn't help but rub his swollen temples with his fingers, his face full of disbelief and absurdity.
"If there is still that battlefield outside, I'm afraid I will say... even if you have to make up an explanation, there is no need to make it up so...'outrageous'."
"Hmm."
Uchiha Sasuke's voice was low. "I understand that this is difficult to accept immediately. But I have no reason to fabricate lies to deceive you at this time. Please... believe this fact. Their threat is real."
"... Okay." Jiraiya took a long breath and suppressed further exploration of their identities for the time being. "We can talk about your specific origins later. The most important thing now is-what can we do to save Naruto?"
He asked eagerly, his eyes fixed on Sasuke and the equally worried Boruto beside him.
However--"Bang!"
The inquiry was interrupted by the sudden sound of a chair moving.
I saw Kushina Uzumaki, who was sitting quietly aside with his hands clasped, suddenly stood up from his seat!
"Kushina?!" Jiraiya was startled and called out in surprise.
Kushina did not respond immediately. She closed her eyes and the expression on her face quickly changed from worry to shock.
The next second, she spoke very fast. "It's over! No, it's almost over! Naruto... He's about to wake up!"
Her words instantly caused waves in the room!
Kushina took a deep breath and tried to keep his voice steady, "It was me... it was the chakra I left in Naruto's body that worked! The 'battle' over there... temporarily controlled the situation."
Uchiha Satsuki reacted the fastest. Almost as soon as Kushina finished speaking, he immediately rushed out of the conference room and rushed towards Naruto's ward!
Jiraiya also stood up suddenly, his solemn face replaced by eagerness. "Let's go! Go see Naruto first!" As long as Naruto can wake up safely, other doubts, including the identities of these two mysterious people, can be postponed for the time being.
The group of people hurriedly left the conference room and returned to the depressing special care ward as quickly as possible.
On the hospital bed, the violent shaking of Naruto's body has completely stopped, and the painful and tense posture that was fighting against something invisible has also relaxed.
His breathing became steady, his chest rose and fell regularly, and although his face was still a little pale, it no longer looked lifeless and had regained some color.
"Naruto..." Satsuki was the first to rush to the bed, almost subconsciously. He wanted to hold Naruto's hand on his side, as if he wanted to gain a sense of security through this real touch and confirm that he was really getting better.
Just when her fingertips were about to touch the back of Naruto's hand - on the hospital bed, Naruto's eyes, which had been closed for a long time, suddenly opened!
The pupils were a little dilated at first, full of confusion as if they were suddenly in another world, and they were obviously confused about their own situation.
"Naruto! You..." Satsuki felt happy and immediately called out, with uncontrollable excitement in his voice.
However, her calls and movements suddenly stopped at this moment, and she stared at Naruto's opened eyes in surprise.
Uzumaki Boruto, who rushed to the bedside shortly after, also saw the scene of Naruto waking up. He was relieved at first, but then, when his eyes fell on Naruto's eyes, he was stunned for a moment.
Naruto's open eyes, his left eye, are still the familiar clear blue like the clearest sky, just like usual.
But...
The right eye, which was supposed to be the white part of the eye, turned into a darkness as deep as the night! And the pupil in the center of this darkness was no longer blue, but turned into a bright golden color like molten gold, exuding an inhuman light!