"You want me to join you?" Naruto asked.
"I want you to see the truth, then choose for yourself," Liuyu said. "You can choose to believe in Konoha, in Jiraiya, in the Great Toad Sage's prophecy, and follow the hero's path they've laid out for you.
You can also choose to believe in me and follow the other path I've shown you. Or you can believe in neither of us and forge a path entirely your own."
He held out his hand, and a small crystal appeared in his palm, glowing softly.
"This is a fragment of the Hōgyoku. It holds the power to change the world. I won't give it to you, because you can't withstand it yet.
But I'll let you see what this power can do, and what the future Las Noches is building looks like. Then you can decide for yourself what kind of person you want to become, and what kind of world you want to fight for."
The crystal floated toward Naruto and hovered before him.
Through its light, Naruto saw a vision-a world without national borders, where everyone lived together as equals. There was no war, no hatred. Children ran in the sunshine, and old people smiled beneath the shade of trees.
Then the scene shifted, and he saw the other side of that world-countless people transformed into Arrancar, working, fighting, and dying without expression; dissenters crushed, thought made uniform, and freedom turned into a luxury.
"This is the future of Las Noches," Liuyu's voice came through the light. "Absolute peace, absolute order, absolute equality-at the price of absolute obedience.
There is no war, because all who resist have disappeared. There is no hatred, because everyone's thoughts have been made uniform. There is no sacrifice, because the very concept of sacrifice has been