Reincarnator Minato Namikaze

"My life, it truly was a failure!"

As Minato Namikaze's consciousness began to fade, he found himself immersed in the memories of his life. Suddenly, a cold, emotionless voice echoed in his mind: "System initializing. Initialization complete!"

"Auditory hallucinations of the dead? No matter."

Minato's thoughts grew increasingly ethereal. At that moment, a white light enveloped his soul, pulling him away from the paradise of the Grim Reaper.

As the light dissipated, Minato found himself lying in a vast, white space, as empty as the end of the world. The surroundings were filled with a faint, pale glow. Looking toward the source, he saw a massive sphere of light hovering overhead, emitting a soft radiance.

At this moment, another voice resonated in his mind:

"Welcome to the Main God Space, Reincarnator: Minato Namikaze."

Minato stood up calmly. He felt that this place did not resemble the afterlife that everyone spoke of in legends.

"Who are you? Where is this?"

[You may call me "Main God." This is the Main God Space. You have been selected as a Reincarnator. Here, you will complete missions for the Main God Space to earn rewards, which you can exchange for anything you desire: strength, power, wealth, immortality, or even resurrection...]

Minato did not fully believe what the voice said, but he sensed his current state and realized he was not in a soul form; his physical body was intact. The Yin Nine-Tails was also present within him, though no matter how he called out, it offered no response.

Minato naturally did not know that Zhu Shen had transported his soul into the Main God Space and had generously spent thousands of points to repair his physical body—all so that he could more conveniently serve (work for) the Main God Space.

A soul state would not have been impossible; there was at least one world Zhu Shen could have sent him to. However, considering that the souls of people from the Ninja World were not significantly different from ordinary people, and the points a weakling could earn were limited, he decided to invest in him first by resurrecting him.

On the other side, Minato remained skeptical of Zhu Shen's words, but Zhu Shen offered no further explanation. He directly activated the world-travel function and tossed Minato into a different world to start working.

On a deserted island in the One Piece World, Minato's figure appeared abruptly. Gazing at the boundless ocean, the unfamiliar scenery, and the protective barrier overhead that looked like an inverted bowl, Minato stood guard in shock.

"Where is this now?" At this moment, several lines of text appeared before Minato's eyes:

[Reincarnation World: One Piece World, Year 1512 of the Sea Circle Calendar.

Background: 800 years ago, 20 kings jointly established the World Government. They call themselves the "Descendants of the Creators," the Celestial Dragons. The Celestial Dragons enjoy supreme power in this world and reside in the Holy Land of the world, "Mary Geoise."

The Fish-Man Fisher Tiger liberated the Celestial Dragon slaves at the Holy Land of Mary Geoise and founded the Sun Pirates, only to die later due to human betrayal. Arlong the Fish-Man, a member of the Sun Pirates, is preparing to take revenge on the Navy in his rage!

Mission 1: "The Tragedy of Bell-mère." Mission Requirement: Kill Arlong the Fish-Man.

Mission 2: Pending.

Mission Countdown: 09:59.

Mission 1 Reward: 2000 points, C-rank side-story plot *2. Mission Failure Penalty: Erasure!

Note: Revealing information about the Main God Space to those outside of it will result in erasure!]

As the mission screen vanished, Minato felt the strong, steady heartbeat in his chest and the restless Yin Nine-Tails within him. Only then did he become somewhat certain that this was not a genjutsu, nor was it a fantasy—it was real!

But what did "One Piece World" mean? Could it be another world? Setting aside the mission rewards, the penalty for failure was actually erasure!

Minato's expression turned grave. The most important thing right now was to gather intelligence and figure out the current situation!

Just as Minato was thinking, he saw the mission countdown begin to tick: 59, 58...

Outside the protective barrier, several warships could be seen appearing on the island's shore. The ships were docked for repairs, and soldiers were busy unloading supplies.

Not far from the warships, beneath the water, a figure was moving rapidly toward them.

A short while later, taking advantage of the Navy's lack of vigilance, the figure leaped out of the water and onto the deck, attacking the surrounding soldiers frantically with his bare hands.

"Prepare yourselves, you damned humans!" The one attacking the naval soldiers was the saw-toothed shark Fish-Man—Arlong.

"You bastard, it's a Fish-Man!" one of the sailors shouted, opening fire on Arlong.

However, as a Fish-Man, Arlong's physique and strength far exceeded those of an ordinary human. He easily dodged the attacks as the surrounding soldiers swarmed him. Arlong laughed maniacally as he engaged in a chaotic brawl with the troops.

"So noisy."

A lazy voice rang out, followed by a yellow laser that instantly pierced through Arlong's chest. The speed was so great that Arlong was sent flying before he could even react, landing on the shore.

The golden laser particles converged in front of Arlong to form a human shape. A figure wearing a gray-striped suit, a black hat, and a naval cloak appeared before him.

Watching this scene from behind the protective barrier, Minato saw that Arlong had landed not far in front of him. The people around seemed unable to see him while he was inside the "barrier," yet he could see them clearly through it.

Just then, the mechanical voice of the Main God echoed in Minato's mind:

[Hidden mission activated. Optional mission, no penalty for failure. The mission is as follows:

Mission 1: Kill the Navy Admiral candidate Kizaru. Reward: Points, B-rank side-story plot *3.

Mission 2: Persuade the Navy Admiral candidate Kizaru to leave the Navy. Reward: Points, B-rank side-story plot *3.]

Navy Admiral candidate—Kizaru? Minato pondered. It seemed this was the officer who used lasers. The rewards were much higher than the main mission, which likely meant Kizaru was extremely powerful. Side-story plots—what were those? Minato had many questions.

In reality, the additional side-story plots were a type of reward added by Zhu Shen, functioning like a voucher for mission completion. They were divided into seven levels: D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS, corresponding to the strength rankings of tiers one through seven.

Four low-level side-story plots could be merged upward into one high-level side-story plot, but only by one tier.

For example, 16 B-rank side-story plots could only be exchanged for 4 A-ranks and could not be converted into a single S-rank. This was to prevent people from farming points to create excessive imbalances in power, and because high-level exchanges of S-rank and above consumed a significant amount of system energy.

Zhu Shen planned to add side-story requirements to the more powerful bloodlines and skills available for exchange to the reincarnators, using this to incentivize them to complete missions.

This hidden mission was set by Zhu Shen after observing Kizaru through the Main God Sub-System. As one of the three admirals of the Navy, the greatest violent apparatus in the One Piece World, Kizaru held the reputation of being the Navy's supreme combat power.

At this moment, Kizaru was an admiral candidate, and his strength was evaluated by the system as Tier 3 Intermediate. At his peak, he should be Tier 3 Advanced, only a step away from the Tier 4 lifeforms that the system evaluated as involving laws.

Minato Namikaze's current strength was evaluated by the system as Tier 3 Beginner, which was the level of an ordinary Kage, one grade lower than Kizaru at this time.

Of course, the strength evaluation was only a simulation calculated by the system based on supernatural energy intensity, character skills, and other aspects; actual combat depended on the performance of both sides and various other factors.

For instance, Minato, whose energy intensity was only at the ordinary Kage level, had achieved results surpassing that level thanks to his genius combat intelligence and the bug-like Flying Thunder God.

If Minato could kill Kizaru or change his stance, it would be equivalent to directly plundering the luck of Kizaru and the Navy, naturally yielding a large amount of points. However, it was too difficult for a newcomer reincarnator like Minato, so Zhu Shen set it as a hidden mission without mandatory requirements.

In fact, Zhu Shen had struggled a bit when issuing the mission. Although the system's world-travel function could traverse time, the points spent were rarely proportional to the gains, so it could only be positioned randomly.

However, after the first positioning of the One Piece World, subsequent deployments would use the initial timeline as a coordinate unless extra points were spent to adjust the timeline.

Considering the challenge and the rewards, Zhu Shen set the mission to kill Arlong the Fish-Man, the fish-man who had influenced the fate of Nami, a member of the One Piece protagonist group. Although his strength was average, his connection to the luck of the major supporting character Nami meant that killing him would net a profit of a few thousand points after subtracting the rewards, which was passable and enough for a first test run.

As for the mission difficulty, it was mainly concentrated on Kizaru. However, although Minato was not as strong as Kizaru, he figured that with his space-time ninjutsu, completing the mission shouldn't be a problem.

Returning to Minato, who had already gained a preliminary understanding of the situation.

Inside the protective barrier, Minato secretly took out a kunai, watching the countdown while observing the situation, ready to strike.

Outside the barrier, Kizaru took light, relaxed steps toward the downed Arlong.

"You must be Arlong, right?" Kizaru put down his cigarette and casually stepped on Arlong's chest. "What are you doing coming back here with such thick skin?"

"I'll slaughter every human who betrayed Brother Tiger!" Humiliated by a human, Arlong's face was a blood-streaked, tear-filled mask of demonic rage. "I'm going to track down that informant and wipe out everyone in that village!"

"So it's revenge, then."

"That's right! Brother Fisher Tiger is dead! Killed by you low-life scum!"

"Is that so? So he's dead." Kizaru remained unmoved, his eyes calm and devoid of any ripples. "But I'm still going to have to trouble you to come with me." He withdrew his foot, preparing to drag Arlong back to the ship.

Just then, a kunai seemed to appear out of thin air, flying rapidly toward Kizaru's head. Kizaru didn't react, letting the kunai strike his head.

But strangely, the kunai fell to the ground nearby as if passing through an illusion. Kizaru's head had been pierced through, yet there was not a drop of blood! Looking closely, golden light flickered and flowed around the hole, and in the span of a breath, the hole had restored itself to its original state!

"How scary, I almost died there," Kizaru said, pouting. Facing the figure that had suddenly appeared before him, he was inwardly contemplating how his Observation Haki had failed to detect when this person had arrived!