Little Schemes

Anbu intelligence worked by piecing together fragments of information into something useful, then reasoning and speculating from it.

Li Yu arrived at a rough guess: Shinra Continent existed within an enormous alternate-dimensional space. The humans on the continent were being kept by the Otsutsuki. Their original planet had long since been destroyed by the Otsutsuki, and their hatred had faded away over the thousand-year passage of time. Generation after generation, the new humans had begun worshipping the Otsutsuki as gods.

Li Yu still needed to verify all of this one by one. Ideally, he needed to visit the scene itself—Shinra Continent—in order to fully confirm his conjecture.

The two girls did not need to know such a cruel reality. Li Yu was more concerned about Earth in the Naruto World, where his lovers, family, and friends still lived. How could he allow them to become a race enslaved generation after generation?

"Wow, what a beautiful flower!" Alice's cry snapped Li Yu out of his thoughts.

Alice was standing before the Doroman Flower he had just bought at a high price, staring intently at it.

"Mm, I call it the Seven-Colored Snow Lotus." To save himself trouble, Li Yu directly renamed it a snow lotus. It sounded more familiar to him. Doroman Flower? What was so romantic about that?

"Seven colors... It's so much prettier than the flowers I grew."

"There's even mist around the flower. It's like it has intelligence and is hiding itself." Drawn over by Alice's words, Jessie stepped forward and examined it closely.

From afar, the Seven-Colored Snow Lotus appeared shrouded in a layer of mist. Only when one came within a meter could it be seen clearly. It was truly miraculous.

"Alice, do you like growing flowers? If you do, then help me take care of