"You bastard! If you've got something to say, say it to me!"
Mui's voice brimmed with fury and hatred. His usually expressionless, ice-cold face had twisted as well, because he had seen Ryuzetsu on the ground, along with... his son, Muku.
If not for the restraints still on him, he would have attacked already.
Naruto stood nearby as well, calm-faced, with a struggling prisoner whose mouth had been gagged in his hand.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to feed your son to that thing. It's just that things might get a little loud later, and you may be safer here."
Naruto waved his hand and released Mui's restraints, allowing him to move freely again.
"What exactly are you trying to do?"
Feeling his Chakra return to normal, Mui immediately rushed to Muku's side and checked their conditions. Once he found that both were merely unconscious, he was relieved, though he understood Naruto's intentions even less.
Naruto smiled. "City Lord Mui, you're a highly capable talent, and I happen to be short on people like you. So, I hope you'll make the right choice."
Mui looked complicatedly at his still-unconscious child and said bitterly, "If I refuse, you won't let us go, will you?"
"City Lord Mui, it seems you still haven't seen my sincerity."
Naruto's regretful expression left Mui somewhat confused. He truly had not seen any sincerity, but Naruto gave him no chance to speak before continuing, "So, to demonstrate my sincerity, let me show you the Box of Paradise's true form."
Letting Mui witness the Box of Paradise's true form was not Naruto's real objective. What he truly wanted was to personally test the true strength of the monster inside it. Only by understanding that could he better decide how to use the Box of Paradise and see