Probing

An extremely bizarre, grand, and seemingly deep-seated "malice" from the very depths of the world instantly locked onto Yue Uchiha in the high sky!

This was not the killing intent of any living person, but a form of intangible "rule-based oppression."

It was as if the script's operating system had detected a virus and was initiating an antivirus mechanism to completely eradicate Yue.

One of the Nine-Tails' tails, moving at a distorted angle that defied all logic, crossed space itself and lashed out at Yue in mid-air with impossible speed!

No escape, no blocking, certain death.

Probability of survival: Impossible event.

The passive ability of Yue's left eye warned him that if he continued, he would die instantly.

"Is this... the backlash of the World Correction Force?!"

Without hesitation, he quickly used his thoughts to destroy a scroll in his hand; the Nine-Tails' chakra surged out and returned to the Nine-Tails' main body.

The malice lessened, but it remained terrifyingly intense.

Probability of survival: 5%.

Yue's heart pounded wildly.

There was a chance, but he shouldn't waste his ocular power here.

The amount of ocular power required to raise this to 100% was too great.

Since this hypothesis was confirmed, he needed to verify something else; he couldn't spend all his ocular power here.

Yue destroyed another scroll in his hand, and more of the Nine-Tails' chakra returned.

The malice had now faded to almost nothing.

Probability of survival: 99%.

"Yagokoro Omoikane! Raise the survival rate to 100%."

"BOOM!"

Accompanied by a massive summoning explosion.

A giant toad, no smaller in size than the Nine-Tails, holding a pipe and a short blade, descended from the sky like a falling mountain, and by sheer "coincidence," landed squarely on top of the Nine-Tails.

It also forced that unreasonable tail to retract.

Gamabunta!

And atop Gamabunta's head, the blonde man wearing the "Fourth Hokage" Hokage Cloak finally descended onto the battlefield, covered in the smoke of battle and looking resolute.

Minato Namikaze had repelled Obito and arrived!

"Well done, Minato! The timing is perfect!"

Yue let out a long breath in mid-air. Using the shockwave generated by Gamabunta pinning down the Nine-Tails, he performed an elegant roll and landed steadily in the shadow of a giant tree in the distance.

Hikari followed like a shadow, instantly returning to his side.

"Cough, cough..."

Yue clutched his chest, coughing violently.

Even though he had landed safely, his heart was still drumming against his ribs like a war drum.

Only those who have faced that power directly understand how desperate it feels.

That tail from the Nine-Tails just now ignored the laws of physics and the fluid dynamics of chakra.

It was like a line of absolute death forcibly drawn into a three-dimensional world, ignoring spatial distance and reaction time, with only one goal: to execute him.

"Yue! Are you hurt?!"

Uchiha Hikari held his arm nervously, her usually calm eyes revealing a rare trace of anxiety.

Even she, standing to the side, had felt a tremor in the depths of her soul from the malice of the world that erupted just a moment ago.

"I'm fine..."

Yue took a deep breath of the cold night air, forcing his chaotic heartbeat to steady. He looked at the Nine-Tails, which was struggling frantically while being pinned down by Gamabunta, and then looked at the remaining scroll in his hand with a smile.

"In tonight's script, the Nine-Tails' chakra is the absolute 'core prop' that drives the plot forward. If I take a tiny bit, it might be fine, but if I take enough to affect the subsequent plot, the 'World Correction Force'—that antivirus software—will trigger its highest-level erasure program."

"This confirms my hypothesis."

Yue turned his head to look at Hikari. "When I gave up the chakra and returned the 'prop,' the malice dissipated. This proves that the Correction Force has no self-awareness. It doesn't hold a grudge because I 'offended' it; it is just a rigid program that looks only at results, not the process!"

Hikari looked at him, half-understanding. "Then what do we do now? Should we continue?"

"With this, we have other events we can continue to study."

Although Yue's left eye throbbed with pain from the forced activation of "Yagokoro Omoikane," his eyes were brilliantly bright.

"I want to see how the Correction Force treats 'discarded files' that are about to be deleted."

The death of the White Fang occurred because he would have continuously influenced the "plot," but what if Minato and Kushina were prevented from affecting the subsequent plot?

Would there still be an inexplicable rule-based erasure targeting them?

Yue looked up toward a sudden, extremely intense spatial fluctuation in the distant forest.

That was Minato Namikaze using the Flying Thunder God technique, preparing to teleport the massive Nine-Tails out of the village!

"Let's go! To the final sealing site! The main event is about to begin!"

Outside Konoha, in a desolate clearing.

"BOOM--!!"

The colossal Nine-Tails appeared out of thin air, crushing swathes of forest as it landed.

Standing before it, Minato Namikaze held the newborn Naruto, standing side-by-side with the utterly exhausted Kushina Uzumaki.

"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"

Exerting the last of her strength, Kushina unleashed several brilliant golden chakra chains from her back, pinning the Nine-Tails' massive body firmly to the ground.

Hundreds of meters away, perched atop a canopy, Yue Uchiha and Hikari lay in wait like ghosts, watching in silence.

"What... is that barrier?" Hikari frowned as she watched Minato erect a barrier around the area.

"It is a cage designed to ensure no one interrupts his path to death."

Yue's gaze pierced through the night, locked intently on Minato's hands as he began to weave signs.

Snake-Boar-Ram-Rabbit-Dog-Rat-Bird-Horse-Snake!

The drain from maintaining the childbirth seal, the life-or-death gamble against the Masked Man, and the final battle with the Nine-Tails had long since pushed this young Hokage's chakra and stamina to their absolute limit.

Yet, at this moment, his hands did not tremble in the slightest.

As the final seal clicked into place, Minato lowered his eyes.

His gaze, filled with deep attachment, swept tenderly over the dying Kushina and the wailing Naruto resting within the ritual center.

This was the best future he could carve out for the village and for his son.

Besides.

If the years to come were to be devoid of Kushina's smile, what kind of agony would that long remainder of his life be?

Since fate had decreed this, he would be the one to bear the heavy price.

"Dead Demon Consuming Seal!"

As Minato let out a low shout, an incredibly cold, bone-chilling aura suddenly descended.

Within the vision of Yue's Mangekyō Sharingan, he clearly saw a hideous phantom of the Death God, draped in white robes and clutching a short blade in its mouth, slowly manifesting behind Minato.

"What... is that monster?"

Though Hikari had not activated her Mangekyō, her intuition as a powerhouse still felt the tremors emanating from the underworld.

"The Death God. One of the manifestations of this world's laws."

Yue held his breath, his Mangekyō observing the creation with unreserved intensity.

A conceptual existence constructed from countless sealing formulas layered over hundreds of souls?

The Uzumaki clan truly is remarkable.

However, with his mastery of Yin Release, there was a chance he could sever it.

Yue sighed, a look of confidence appearing on his face.

His left eye, Yagokoro Omoikane, told him he had a 20% chance of cutting through it.

"Minato intends to use his own soul as the price, forcing the Death God to sever the Nine-Tails' Yin and Yang chakra. The moment he completes the seal is the 'death node' dictated by the script!"

In the center of the battlefield, the situation shifted in an instant.

The Death God's hand pierced through Minato's chest, seized the Nine-Tails' Yin-attribute chakra, and forcibly tore it out, sealing it within Minato's body.

Immediately following, Minato summoned the sealing altar, preparing to use the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style to seal the remaining Yang-attribute Nine-Tails into the infant Naruto.

The Nine-Tails sensed Minato's intent—it was a humiliation it could never tolerate!

"ROAR!!!"

Ferocity flared in the Nine-Tails' eyes; its massive fox claw surged upward, its sharp nails striking like spears with thunderous force toward the infant Naruto on the altar!

"Squelch!"

Blood splattered.

Minato and Kushina did not hesitate for a second, both using their own flesh and blood to block that lethal claw.

The massive fox claw pierced through the chests of the young parents, and crimson blood dripped down onto Naruto's face.