Restarting the Night of the Nine-Tails with a Max-Level Account!

The last thing he remembered was a light that tore heaven and earth apart.

Uchiha Yoru could feel his life being rapidly devoured by Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's black rods, his body temperature gradually turning cold.

With all his strength, he turned his head.

Not far away, Naruto Uzumaki—the former dead last who had become the Seventh Hokage—had also exhausted the last of his Baryon Mode's power. The flame of his life was flickering on the verge of extinction.

"Yoru... it looks like we're going to lose..."

Naruto forced a smile uglier than a cry, his eyes filled with regret.

Regret for his parents, regret for his master, and... regret for the world he had failed to protect.

The next second, Naruto's final chakra turned into a cluster of supremely warm golden light. Like a sun flowing upstream, it forcibly surged into Yoru's body.

"Live well... for my sake too..."

Boom—!

Pain.

It felt as though his soul had been stuffed into an old blender, torn apart, pulverized, and reassembled over and over again.

Uchiha Yoru abruptly opened his eyes.

"Roar—!!!"

The deafening beastly roar nearly ruptured his eardrums.

The air was thick with the stench of blood and burning flesh. The ground beneath his feet trembled violently, as if it could collapse at any moment.

Yoru was somewhat dazed and instinctively looked around.

What met his eyes was not the hopeless scorched earth that had followed the descent of the Ōtsutsuki.

Instead, it was the outline of a village—damaged, yet incomparably familiar.

Towering flames dyed half the night sky orange-red. A terrifying demon fox as massive as a mountain, with nine tails, was rampaging through everything at the center of the village.

The iconic Hokage Rock had already been shattered by the Nine-Tails' claws.

"This is..."

Yoru's pupils abruptly contracted, his brain freezing for a tenth of a second.

The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.

The devastated Leaf Village.

And that iconic Four Red Yang Formation barrier rising into the sky in the distance.

Wasn't this the night of the Nine-Tails' Attack, the beginning of Leaf Village's destruction plan, more than a decade ago?!

Had he... actually been reborn?

Before he could process this absurd reality, an unimaginably vast torrent of chakra suddenly erupted from every corner of his body!

Warm, majestic, like an eternal sun hidden within him.

"This feeling... Naruto's chakra?"

Yoru instinctively sank into his senses.

Good lord!

This was far more than just Naruto's chakra!

It was as if Naruto's max-level account from the peak of the Boruto era—along with every divine piece of equipment and cheat—had been bundled up and directly shoved into the body of his own level-one character!

Vast amounts of chakra surged through his meridians, while perfect insights into Sage Mode were branded deep into his soul as though he had been born with them.

Even Naruto's lifelong understanding of Wind Style, the Rasengan, sealing techniques, and Talk-no-Jutsu played through Yoru's mind page by page, as clearly as a PowerPoint presentation.

This feeling was simply incredible!

It was like a miserable veteran gamer who had spent half his life grinding, only to get slapped to death by the boss—then opened his eyes to find himself back in the starter village, having inherited the GM account of the biggest spender on the entire server!

"A max-level account restarting in the starter village?"

The corners of Yoru's lips curled upward.

He slowly closed his eyes, and the "full-map vision" of his max-level account instantly activated.

Perfect Sage Mode allowed him to clearly sense every trace of chakra flow within dozens of kilometers without even forming hand seals.

The chaotic battlefield instantly became crystal clear.

He could "see" Leaf Village's shinobi fearlessly using ninjutsu to hold back the Nine-Tails throughout the village, but their attacks were little more than scratches. One person after another was blasted into ash by the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bombs.

He could "see" Hiruzen Sarutobi, that old bastard, leisurely putting on his combat gear beneath the ruins of the Hokage Building. He was surrounded by Anbu, yet had still not rushed to the main battlefield.

"Heh. Same old bastard as ever."

Yoru snorted disdainfully and extended his senses further.

Soon, within the barrier at the very edge of the village, he sensed two life forces rapidly weakening.

One was like a candle guttering in the wind, yet still incomparably sharp. It belonged to the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

The other possessed the Uzumaki clan's unique, tenacious vitality, but it too had reached the brink of exhaustion. It belonged to Naruto's mother, Kushina Uzumaki.

They were preparing to use the Reaper Death Seal with the last of their life force.

"So... the inertia of history still made everything happen."

Yoru's expression turned complicated.

He was originally an Uchiha. In that future, Danzō's schemes had led to the extermination of his entire clan. He had barely escaped with his life, and he no longer had the slightest sense of belonging toward Leaf Village's upper ranks.

By all rights, what did Leaf Village's survival have to do with him?

With this power, he could quietly leave right now and find somewhere to live freely and happily.

"Waa—waaah—"

Just then, the loud cries of a baby pierced through the clamorous battlefield and entered his Sage Mode perception with perfect clarity.

It was the cry of the newborn Naruto Uzumaki within the barrier.

Yoru's body shuddered.

In his mind appeared the regretful gaze of that blond young man as he entrusted everything to him before his death.

"This time..."

Yoru slowly clenched his fist, his knuckles cracking.

"I will never let this tragedy repeat itself!"

He suddenly raised his head. Deep within those black pupils, it was as though stars were burning, their sharpness like an unsheathed sword.

The next second, the ground beneath his feet explosively cracked apart.

His entire body transformed into a golden bolt of lightning even more brilliant than Minato Namikaze's, tearing through the night as he shot toward the distant barrier!

"Fourth Hokage, you owe me a huge favor now!"