I, Kakashi, Have No Dreams

Two lines of text appeared in his field of vision.

[You are invited to join the Spend the Rest of Life Chat Group]

[Do you accept the invitation?]

Five days had already passed, and Kakashi was deep in thought.

Should he accept this invitation?

Could this be the effect of some unknown, powerful genjutsu?

Five days ago, when Kakashi was whispering to his deceased friend in front of the Memorial Stone, the chat group invitation had appeared before his eyes.

The moment the invitation appeared, Kakashi disrupted his own chakra, as that was the standard procedure for breaking a genjutsu.

However, disrupting his chakra failed to make the invitation disappear, so Kakashi began searching for other ways to break a powerful genjutsu.

Five days had passed, and the news that Kakashi had been caught in a powerful genjutsu had reached some people; it seemed that even today, he had still failed to break it.

"Accept it."

Kakashi braced himself and challenged this "genjutsu."

A loading bar appeared in his vision; the chat group was installing...

[100%]

Information from the chat group flooded into Kakashi's consciousness, telling him that the group's ability was to allow him to communicate with people from other worlds...

"This is interesting."

Lu Bian: [Welcome, newcomer~!!]

Shi Tianwu: [Welcome, newcomer.]

Edward Newgate: [Welcome, newcomer, gurarara~~!!]

Kakashi Hatake: [Hello everyone.]

Lu Bian: [Right, another friend I know, yet don't know.]

Kakashi Hatake: [Friend? Do you know me?]

Lu Bian: [Copy Ninja Kakashi. In this group, only Shi Tianwu and I should know you, but you're quite famous in your own world, aren't you?]

Kakashi Hatake: [The chat group information says you are all from other worlds. Can you prove it?]

Lu Bian: [Then let's have a video chat. Remember to accept.]

[Lu Bian initiated a multi-person video chat...]

Kakashi used his consciousness to select "Accept."

The four people online in the chat group displayed images of their surroundings.

Shi Tianwu was standing on an endless plain, accompanied by many strange animals.

Edward Newgate was on his ship, hooked up to an IV drip while admiring the view of the sea and the sky.

Lu Bian had been walking on a desolate road for five days and had finally reached an inhabited area, a town called Gao Family Town. At this moment, he was looking for a place to stay outside the town.

As for the new member, Kakashi, he was in a secret room within the Konoha Anbu, a room he had specifically requested to deal with this "genjutsu."

Outside the secret room were several friends he trusted.

If he were to be controlled by the "genjutsu," he would have to trouble his friends to resolve the problem for him.

His silver hair stood up with "vigor" toward the sky, a Konoha forehead protector was tied around his brow, a black mask covered half his face, and he wore a tight-fitting black combat suit with a green jonin tactical vest over it.

"A very unique outfit. What do you do?" Edward Newgate, the Whitebeard, asked.

"And what do you do?" Kakashi asked Whitebeard in return.

"I'm a pirate, gurarara~~!" Whitebeard laughed. He tilted his head so Kakashi could see the Jolly Roger of the Whitebeard Pirates.

"He is a ninja from Konoha, a jonin at that," Lu Bian said.

"Kakashi is very cautious; you won't be able to get any useful information out of him."

"Hmm?" Kakashi shifted his attention to the group leader, Lu Bian.

This person is the group leader of the chat group; he is an important figure worth noting.

I remember he just said he knew me.

"A pirate..."

"I can't tell at all," Kakashi said to Old Man Whitebeard.

"Hey~! Brother Edward is no ordinary pirate," Lu Bian interjected.

"He is one of the Four Emperors of the sea in his world, a great pirate with a bounty of five billion berries placed on his head by the World Government, and he is known as the strongest man in the world."

"..."

"I understand. He is a very strong person."

Kakashi silently equated Edward Newgate with the "Kage" of the various ninja villages.

"Are you also a big shot?" Kakashi asked Lu Bian.

Even with clothes on in the Chat Group interface, one could tell at a glance that Lu Bian had a gaunt, skeletal frame.

The work of a ninja prevented Kakashi from underestimating anyone, let alone the "Chat Group Leader."

"I am the most useless person in this group."

"Not everyone possesses the power, authority, and status of Brother Edward," Lu Bian said.

"You have also joined our Chat Group; does that mean you are also incredibly powerful?"

"That's true."

"You must be curious about Brother Shi Tianwu right now, right? I'll take over the job of introducing him."

"Group Admin Shi Tianwu is the prince of a great nation. There are six large countries in his world, and he is the second heir to one of them."

"He is very humble; he says his personal strength doesn't even rank in his world."

Shi Tianwu listened to Lu Bian introducing him, a smile appearing on his face.

That's right.

Not a single word was wrong.

Everything Lu Bian said was the absolute truth.

This was the genuine past of Shi Tianwu.

"There are two other members in the group; what about them?" Kakashi asked.

"Bruce Wayne is the oldest member of this group at seventy years old. He's a billionaire; you can't expect an old man to always be online chatting with others, right?"

"The other is the youngest member of the group, Son Gohan. He is seven years old this year and is obsessed with studying every day. Ever since he obtained the design blueprints for the [Home-use Self-learning Intelligent Assistant Computer] uploaded by Shi Tianwu, the time he spends online each day has decreased even further."

After downloading the blueprints, Son Gohan went to West City and asked Bulma to manufacture the intelligent computer.

The Magnetic Field Technology shared by Shi Tianwu left Bulma and her father full of admiration.

The learning assistance capabilities it displayed also made Gohan's mother, Chi-Chi, very satisfied.

In essence, the design blueprints for this [Home-use Self-learning Intelligent Assistant Computer] shared by Shi Tianwu were a weakened version of the external [Dream Creator] super-intelligent computer.

If this model of the Dream Creator computer were to be implanted into a person's brain to receive information rapidly through brainwaves and the nervous system, the learning ability would be two hundred times stronger than that of the external version.

"I am Kakashi, a Konoha Jonin."

"As for things I like and dislike... I'm afraid I cannot say."

"My dream... it's also too embarrassing to speak aloud."

"My interests are quite broad; I've tried most hobbies that people have."

"..." Lu Bian was somewhat speechless.

"Kakashi Hatake, Virgo," Lu Bian began to supplement for Kakashi.

"Your interest is reading Icha Icha Paradise, a long-running serialized novel."

"Your favorite foods are grilled saury with salt and eggplant miso soup; you dislike tempura."

"What you hate most are those who do not know how to cherish their comrades."

"As for your dream... all Konoha ninjas hope to become Hokage, don't they?" Lu Bian laughed.