Prologue

Looking at the blazing sun overhead, coupled with W City's geographical location, Ling Yu felt as though his body was tightly wrapped in sweat-soaked clothes.

It was unbearably uncomfortable!

As laughter drifted from the surrounding crowd, Ling Yu's gaze was exceptionally gentle and calm. Holding the Naruto figurine he had just bought online, he eagerly headed home under the sun's rays.

The moment he reached his front door, a tightly sealed yellow box sat quietly outside.

"Who sent this box?"

Ling Yu walked over and looked at the sender's name on the delivery slip. Seeing his grandfather's name written there, a puzzled expression appeared on his face once more.

"Grandpa? Wasn't he living in seclusion in the mountains? Why did he suddenly think of sending me something?"

Though utterly confused, Ling Yu still carried the box inside.

With a muffled thud beneath him, Ling Yu sat on the sofa and looked at the two boxes in front of him. Unable to wait any longer, he opened the figurine he had spent nearly ten thousand yuan on online first.

As the box opened, it revealed a figure clad in red armor, with long black hair floating messily behind him. He held a weapon in each hand—a scythe and an Uchiha Gunbai—and his Red Mangekyo Sharingan looked as though it had been dyed with blood.

Uchiha Madara!

Ling Yu's favorite character. In all of Naruto, no one could make Ling Yu feel the same overwhelming dominance, the same spine-tingling thrill, as Uchiha Madara.

Even though his plan had ultimately failed completely, his glorious life, countless honors, and strength that looked down upon the entire Ninja World meant that merely standing there, he exuded the greatest pressure imaginable!

Ling Yu looked at the Naruto figurine, which was as tall as he was, and could not suppress the smile on his face at all.

He had bought this with an entire month's salary. For it, he had eaten instant noodles for a whole month—and they had all been pickled cabbage flavored!

There was no helping it. One of his friends had been willing to sell him a whole box for five yuan, so he could only endure it in bitter indignation.

After admiring the Uchiha Madara figurine for another half hour, Ling Yu finally turned his attention to the package his grandfather had sent.

Speaking of Ling Yu's grandfather, he was quite an eccentric!

Ever since Ling Yu could remember, the old man had raised him single-handedly. He had never met his parents. According to the old man, they had died unexpectedly in an accident, leaving the grandfather who lived in seclusion in the mountains to raise him.

For some unknown reason, the old man had always lived alone in the mountains, keeping company with wild beasts year-round, drinking dew in the morning, and living like some reclusive master.

Ling Yu had been very withdrawn as a child. After all, he had only wild beasts for company on the entire mountain and no peers to interact with. It was not until he was ten that his grandfather gave him some money and sent him to a school at the foot of the mountain to live an ordinary life.

From then on, Ling Yu never saw his grandfather again. The old man seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth. No matter how Ling Yu searched, he could not find even the slightest trace of him.

Apart from exchanging letters every year, Ling Yu had no idea where he was. Even when he searched the mountains, he never found him.

Who would have thought that he would send Ling Yu a box of things now?

Let's see what it is. The old man was always so mysterious and never showed himself. What could he possibly have sent me?

Ling Yu yanked hard on the box. With a tearing sound, the contents inside were immediately revealed before him.

A blue fruit, an earthy yellow scale, and a book!

Aside from the book, the moment Ling Yu saw the fruit and scale, his mind exploded.

"A Devil Fruit?"

Ling Yu picked up the blue fruit covered in spiral patterns from the box, and a tingling sensation immediately spread from his palm.

"Isn't this the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from One Piece? There are even electric arcs on its surface. Are figurines this realistic now?"

Ling Yu stared at the blue, spiral-patterned fruit in his hand, which was the size of a pineapple, his eyes filled with confusion and uncertainty.

Did Grandpa watch One Piece too?

Feeling the continuous electric shocks in his palm, Ling Yu could not help frowning at the numb sensation.

No!

How could a figurine feel like this? The softness in his hand clearly felt like a real fruit. How could it be a figurine?

Unable to figure it out, Ling Yu set the fruit aside and looked at the other items in the box.

An earthy yellow scale!

This scale was even larger than the fruit just now. Its shape was no different from the scales of the fish he usually ate, aside from its unusual color!

Ling Yu reached out and grasped the earthy yellow scale resting quietly in the box. The instant his hand touched it, space seemed to distort and freeze. A strange fluctuation instantly enveloped the space around Ling Yu.

As astonishment and disbelief filled Ling Yu's eyes,

Whoosh!

With a soft sound, the hall instantly fell silent. Ling Yu and the items in both boxes vanished at the same time, as though they had never existed at all!