"The sun... is so close... I never thought that one day, I'd witness a sight like this with my own eyes."
Naruto floated in the void, staring at the blazing white giant that filled his entire field of vision and radiated light and heat. His heart was filled with shock and awe.
Before this, he had just "visited" a planet with an extremely harsh environment—a planet that seemed to be made up of violent cyclones and liquid matter.
To humans, that environment was practically hell. Terrifying gravity, lethal radiation, magnetic storms that tore everything apart... Any ordinary life-form would likely have been reduced to dust the instant it arrived.
Yet Naruto had barely felt any tangible discomfort or harm. It was not that he felt nothing at all; when those violent energy surges struck his "body," he could still sense a faint, unusual pressure and the flow of energy.
But they had been greatly weakened, ultimately failing to inflict any effective damage on Naruto's body. Gravity, radiation, magnetic fields... to an Otsutsuki, they seemed to be nothing more than environmental factors that required a little caution.
His original first stop had been the moon, the closest celestial body to Earth. But a vague memory surfaced—something about the descendants of the Sage of Six Paths and his brother living there—and he abandoned the idea.
Charging in rashly would likely make him seem like an invader and trigger an unnecessary conflict. So, he chose other planets that were "less friendly" to humans as testing grounds.
"Naruto, the environment here is too unstable, too unknown! Hurry back!" In their inner world, Minato Namikaze looked upon the cosmic scenery far beyond his comprehension through Naruto's senses and urged him anxiously.
"Yeah, I know, Dad. I'll head back soon." Naruto agreed, but his gaze remained