Beast and Rose, an Overwhelming Aura!

With a swish, the blood-red banner unfurled, and Mitaraishi Anko landed steadily atop the podium.

Her wild, sexy, and faintly bloodthirsty aura of a crazed beauty spread like an invisible net, instantly enveloping the entire classroom.

Sasuke instinctively tensed, his crimson Two-Tomoe Sharingan spinning wildly as he analyzed every dangerous detail emanating from the woman.

Sakura's little face turned pale with fright. She wished she could curl herself into a ball and make herself as inconspicuous as possible.

Over a hundred examinees were crushed beneath the immense pressure of an elite jonin—and the captain of the Torture and Interrogation Force—until they scarcely dared breathe.

Except for one person.

Naruto Uzumaki.

He remained seated, propping his cheek up with one hand while the index finger of his other hand tapped rhythmically against the desk.

Those deep blue eyes held not the slightest trace of fear or hesitation. Instead, they were filled with an intrigued appraisal as his gaze openly roamed over the magnificent curves that even her fishnet underlayer could barely contain.

[System: High-quality female target detected—Mitaraishi Anko. Potential: A+. Extremely high conquest value.]

[New mission issued: Lustful Moment! Completely conquer this thorny purple rose in the Forest of Death!]

A teasing curve slowly formed at the corner of Naruto's lips.

Another interesting prey had entered the stage.

His unabashed appraisal, overflowing with masculine desire, would have been an offense to an ordinary woman. But to someone as wild as Anko, who had spent her life walking the line between life and death, it was a far more direct provocation.

Anko noticed it at once.

Her brows rose sharply, and her brown eyes instantly locked onto Naruto.

What an interesting brat.

After she had released such intense killing intent, someone still dared look at her like that.

This was not courage. This was someone who had never truly faced death.

She let out a cold laugh, lightly tapped the edge of the podium with the tip of her foot, and nimbly landed in the aisle before Naruto.

Her high-heeled boots clicked against the floor. Each crisp tap sounded like it struck directly against the hearts of every examinee.

At last, she stopped before Naruto's desk and looked down at him from above, her tall figure casting a heavy shadow over him.

"Hey, blondie."

Anko spoke in a hoarse, teasing voice that carried a bone-chilling coldness. "Your eyes are awfully arrogant."

She slowly bent down, bringing her heavily made-up yet still stunning face close to Naruto's. Less than a fist's distance remained between them.

The scent of perfume, sweat, and faint blood rushed toward him.

"Do you believe that once we enter the Forest of Death, I'll be the first to chop you up and feed you to the snakes?"

A strand of almost tangible killing intent burst from her body and shot straight at Naruto's face!

She wanted to see this brat, who did not know the immensity of heaven and earth, piss himself in terror and beg for mercy through tears.

"Naruto!"

Sakura cried out nervously, both hands clamped tightly over her mouth.

Sasuke sprang to his feet, his right hand already resting on the ninja tool pouch at his waist. His Sharingan stared fixedly at Anko as chakra began surging through his entire body.

Yet Naruto did not move in the slightest.

Facing killing intent strong enough to make an ordinary genin burst into tears, he instead slowly raised his head to meet Anko's gaze. A faint smile of absolute confidence curled across his lips.

"Feed me to snakes?"

Naruto finally spoke, his voice casual and slightly frivolous. "Examiner Anko, if someone built like me goes in there..."

As he spoke, he slowly rose to his feet.

Standing over six feet tall, with the powerful, explosive physique of a Perfect Sage Body, he instantly went from being looked down upon to looking down on her!

The shadow that had originally fallen over him reversed in an instant, completely enveloping the hot-bodied yet comparatively petite Anko!

"I'm afraid your snakes would burst from trying to swallow me."

Boom!

The instant those words fell, a terrifying aura more primal and domineering than Anko's killing intent erupted explosively from Naruto's body!

It was neither chakra nor mere killing intent. It was the pure pressure of life itself, born from his Perfect Uzumaki Sage Body, like an ancient ferocious beast!

If Anko's aura was a bloodstained blade drawn from its sheath—

Then Naruto's aura was an erupting volcano, capable of incinerating everything!

The two were not even on the same level!

Though formless and invisible, that power was as heavy as a mountain. In an instant, it crushed Anko's proud jonin aura into nothing!

The savage smile on her face froze instantly. It was as though she had been struck by lightning, leaving her mind completely blank!

An absolute sense of suppression from a higher level of life nearly suffocated her!

Before a mere genin, she felt a terrifying pressure that she had never even experienced when facing the Hokage!

How was that possible?!

What kind of monster was this brat...?!

At several concealed observation points outside the examination room, the masks on the faces of the ANBU assigned to monitor Naruto nearly slipped off.

"What is this?!"

"The instruments show no chakra response! But... this pressure... Quickly! Record it and report it to the Hokage immediately! This has already exceeded the normal scope of A-rank surveillance!"

Inside the examination room, Anko swallowed with difficulty, her legs beginning to weaken.

The dignity of an elite jonin and the pride of the Torture and Interrogation Force's captain forced her to suppress the urge to turn around and flee.

She suddenly raised a hand, and the kunai concealed in her sleeve shot out at once. Its cold glint slashed fiercely toward Naruto's cheek!

She wanted to teach him a lesson!

She would defend her dignity with blood!

Swish—!

The kunai's edge swept past Naruto's cheek, leaving behind a thin streak of blood.

Naruto had deliberately chosen not to dodge.

He merely wanted to see how this interesting woman would react after being enraged into humiliation.

At the sight of blood, Anko's spirits lifted, as if she had regained her confidence.

That sickly, wild smile appeared on her face once more. She extended her tongue, about to lick the blood from Naruto's cheek.

"Hehe, I love seeing arrogant brats like you bleed in despair—"

However, before she could finish speaking, before the tip of her tongue could even touch the warm blood—

It happened with extreme speed!

A large hand had already clamped around her wrist like iron pincers!

"!"

Anko's expression changed drastically!

She had not even seen how he moved!

Instinctively, she tried to pull her hand back, but the hand gripping her did not budge in the slightest. Its strength was terrifying!

A piercing pain shot through her wrist. Anko felt as though the bones in her wrist were about to be crushed alive by that unreasonable, terrifying force!