"Have you ever considered that if you died, Naruto Uzumaki in this world might still repeat what I went through?"
"Demon Fox, monster, damned beast—hated by everyone, rejected by everyone. Every single person wanted to pin every sin in their hearts' ugliest darkness on a child who had done nothing at all."
"Rice mixed with sand, expired milk and instant noodles, food with no nutrition, being surrounded and bullied by a group of children—those were merely an insignificant part of it."
"If not for the influence of Asura's Chakra and his own kind nature, he should have been the person who hated Konoha most in the world."
"And I merely released that darkness."
Minato Namikaze remained silent for a long time. He did not want to fight over power right now. To him, ensuring Kushina and Naruto's safety was what mattered most. He was willing to deal with everything else later.
Still, he did not refute Naruto Uzumaki, because what Naruto Uzumaki had said was indeed the most straightforward solution. But he could never choose that method.
He would choose another way, but definitely not the one Naruto Uzumaki had suggested.
"In your world, you destroyed Konoha. Were Hinata, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Jiraiya-sensei among them as well?"
"At least they were sincere toward you."
"Are you telling me a joke?"
A scoff came from Naruto Uzumaki's direction as he spoke dismissively to Minato Namikaze:
"Have you still not woken up from the plot of the anime? Besides, this so-called sincerity was merely the product of all kinds of later circumstances."
"Setting aside the bond between Asura and Indra, Sasuke Uchiha and I had no relationship whatsoever. So-called sincerity requires both sides to give something. I destroyed Asura's Chakra, so that so-called bond naturally broke."
"I helped him grow stronger, killed