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Let's turn back time to when Ueno Kei had fallen asleep.
At that time, Naruto was struggling to hold on atop Gamabunta's back.
"Hey! You big lug! I'm the one who summoned you! I'm your master! You have to listen to me!" Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs. Honestly, Naruto felt terribly wronged. He had thought that old pervert had suddenly grown a conscience—not only treating him to ramen, but even encouraging him to confess.
But who would have thought that, at the very end, he would throw Naruto straight into an abyss? Well, putting that aside, it was only thanks to this that Naruto had managed to summon this giant toad himself.
Yet what followed was completely different from what Naruto had imagined. By all rights, the giant toad he had summoned through the Summoning Technique should have obeyed his commands. He was the master! But Naruto had overlooked—or perhaps simply never known—that a summoned beast's contract partner was judged by their strength.
While a contract could not be unilaterally canceled, and no such case had ever been heard of in the ninja world, a summoned beast could still refuse to obey its contractor's orders or only pretend to comply. After all, a contract went both ways. Ninjas judged summoned beasts, but summoned beasts likewise judged whether a ninja was worthy of being their partner.
And on top of that, the toad Naruto had summoned was none other than the most ill-tempered member of Mount Myoboku's toad clan—Boss Gamabunta!
Naturally, Gamabunta initially did not believe Naruto had summoned him, instead assuming that Jiraiya