Another year had passed.
Konoha First Junior High School, graduation ceremony.
Ten-year-old Kabuto Yakushi stood at the podium as the graduate representative, a gold medal denoting an all-around outstanding student pinned to his chest.
He adjusted the round-framed glasses on his nose—replaced with a new pair, though the style remained unchanged—and looked down at the classmates gazing at him with envy, jealousy, and admiration.
Smiling, he read from the impassioned speech in his hands: "—We must inherit the Will of Fire, carry on the Fourth Hokage's philosophy of combining ninjutsu and science, connect the Shinobi World through technology, and weave peace with code—"
The Shinobi War had ended.
Just two years after it began, it had ended without a sound.
Kabuto Yakushi did not know how it had ended, nor did he need to.
Konoha had the best system, the strongest strength, and the strongest Fourth Hokage, Sawada Hiroki, overseeing it. There was no way it could lose. And countless programmers of the new generation had clearly begun to support Konoha's great tree.
Konoha's victory, then, had merely been a matter of time.
This was something Kabuto had seen clearly long after defecting to Konoha.
Thunderous applause erupted below the stage.
But—
Connecting the Shinobi World with technology, weaving peace with code?
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What a laughable theory!
What a laughable notion!
Ever since becoming a programmer, Kabuto had realized for the first time just how much a programmer could accomplish!
The instant a programmer came into contact with an enemy, they could easily inject all kinds of viruses into them—of course, such things were never taught in school.
But just because the school did not teach it, did that mean he could not learn it?
Once one realized that the fundamental principle of programmers was