"What kind of person am I?" Naruto smiled when he heard the question. "Then remember this well—Namikaze Naruto, the man who will become Hokage!"
"Hm?" The senior samurai frowned. The other man gave him a strong sense of danger, yet he did not look like much at all.
"Go. Kill him." After thinking for a moment, he gave the order. In a situation like this, they only needed to test the other party's strength to find out.
The three samurai exchanged glances and charged at Naruto together.
Naruto did not move. The instant they drew close, he suddenly struck. Even without Sage Mode, his strength was formidable enough to reach the level of an ordinary Kage.
Though Kage Level experts were not considered particularly powerful in this era, dealing with these samurai before him was more than easy enough.
No one saw how Naruto attacked. The three men charging at him had already been sent flying, crashing heavily onto the ground with a bang. Then, the fallen samurai underwent a shocking transformation—their bodies swelled uncontrollably, turning directly into stone statues resembling humanoid frogs.
The senior samurai's eyelids twitched. His gaze narrowed at the sight. This did not look like the methods of those from the Shinobi Sect, much less those of a samurai. Just who was this person?
Naruto gave him no time to figure it out. He had already transformed into a Black Shadow and rushed forward. In the brief exchange, aside from the senior samurai holding out for a few seconds, everyone else was dealt with in a single punch.
In less than half a minute, every one of them had been knocked to the ground. Naruto smiled. "All done."
The villagers stared at the scene in disbelief. It took them several seconds to recover, and the middle-aged