Chapter 23: Batman: Your Village Makes No Sense - In the Group Chat: I'm Really Not a God

After school that afternoon.

Lin Xiao waved goodbye to the three club members, each lost in their own thoughts, and returned to the upscale apartment Yukino had provided under the lingering glow of the sunset.

Bang. After shutting the apartment door, Lin Xiao casually tossed his schoolbag into the entryway, changed into slippers, and flopped comfortably onto the soft leather sofa.

"Finally, I can take a break." Lin Xiao pulled an ice-cold soda from the fridge, cracked it open, took a huge gulp, then skillfully summoned the Myriad Worlds Chat Group interface in his mind.

The moment he logged in, he saw the chat messages frantically flooding the screen at an utterly insane speed.


[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "Waaahhh! I finally finished watching the memory copy Big Brother Lin Xiao sent! It's terrifying! So the village gets blown flat by that guy called Pain in the future?! And Sasuke... he really defects!"

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "And Master Jiraiya, Neji... they all die! Everyone! What am I supposed to do?! I have to change all of this, but I can't even use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique properly yet, let alone fight that Akatsuki organization!"

Seeing Naruto's anxious, helpless messages on the screen, the others in the group immediately began offering suggestions.


[Smile Under the Wisteria Flowers]: "Naruto, please calm down first. Since you already know the enemy's intelligence and abilities beforehand, that is your greatest advantage."

[The Boy Who Wants to Be a Hero]: "I think the most important thing Naruto should do right now is report this intelligence to the higher-ups."

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "Konoha's higher-ups are rotten to the core. That man called Danzo might even turn around and use you as research material, or imprison you outright."

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "Intelligence is only a weapon when it is in the hands of someone with absolute ability to act. Otherwise, it is a death warrant."

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "Then... then what am I supposed to do, mister all in black? (Crying.jpg)"

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "So, Naruto. Since you have the cheat of foreseeing the future, my advice is this: until you have built up absolute strength, try to act according to the original timeline. That way, your advantage as a 'prophet' can be maximized."

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "If you encounter mortal danger beyond your abilities, call for help in the group at any time."

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "I see! So I just pretend I don't know anything and wait for the enemy to take the bait?"

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "That is only a short-term tactic. As for long-term strategy..."

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "Through the group marketplace, I will continuously provide you with Wayne Enterprises supplies, infrastructure equipment, and technological blueprints. Use those resources to secretly build up your strength, break away from that rotten village, and slowly establish a new nation."

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "Huh?"

Not only was Naruto dumbfounded, even Lin Xiao, who was lying on the sofa drinking soda, nearly sprayed a mouthful everywhere.

Good lord! He wanted a twelve-year-old hot-blooded shonen protagonist whose head was filled with nothing but ramen to secretly carry out infrastructure projects and found a nation?! Was this bat still testing him?


[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "The five ninja villages have spent decades tearing each other apart like wild dogs over ridiculous mission fees and the so-called balance of great powers. It makes no sense. This system has no meaning whatsoever. It will only breed more tragic products like Akatsuki."

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "If you seek peace, establish a new order above the Five Great Nations. Make the villages merge—"

[The Boy Who Wants to Be a Hero]: "..."

[Smile Under the Wisteria Flowers]: "..."

[Snow Queen of the Service Club]: "..."

Faced with Batman's distinctly Gotham-style dark military strategy, everyone in the group chat completely crashed.

Watching the tone grow more and more derailed, to the point where Naruto was about to become Konoha's Great Nation-Building Enterprise, Lin Xiao, as the group owner, could no longer stand it.


[He Is Simply God]: "All right, Bruce. You're talking to a child about overturning the entire ninja world's power structure. That's too big a step."

[He Is Simply God]: "Naruto, nation-building can wait. What you need most right now is an absolute guarantee of safety in the early stages. Go talk to the big fox in your stomach."

In Konoha, Naruto had been so worried he was pulling at his hair. The moment he saw Lin Xiao speak, he immediately perked up.


[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "In my stomach? Big Brother Lin Xiao, do you mean... that sealed big fox?!"

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "But it's super fierce!!"

[He Is Simply God]: "Don't be afraid. Tonight, close your eyes and sink into the sealing space."

[He Is Simply God]: "Once you get in, don't waste time talking nonsense. Directly tell it, word for word, the story you saw in the Naruto memory copy."

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "Tell it the story of the future?"

[He Is Simply God]: "Yes. Tell it that the organization called Akatsuki wants to capture all the tailed beasts and use them as batteries to revive the Ten-Tails. And tell it that the man it hates most—Madara Uchiha—is preparing to use it as a pawn!"

[He Is Simply God]: "The big fox is tsundere, but it definitely isn't stupid. Faced with a future where it gets drained dry as a battery, it will know what choice to make."

[He Is Simply God]: "Of course, if it still refuses to be reasonable after hearing the story..."

[He Is Simply God]: "Then casually tell it that you have a big brother called Gaia behind you. Let it weigh for itself whether a little fox several hundred meters tall can take more of a beating, or whether a fifty-meter-tall, forty-two-thousand-ton Light Giant that can crush ley lines with one step can."

In Konoha.

Naruto looked at the group owner's thuggish statement of "reason first, and physical nuclear deterrence if reason fails," and tears streamed down his face in gratitude.

Meanwhile, within Naruto's sealing space.

The Nine-Tailed Fox, which had been sleeping behind the iron bars, vaguely sensed fragmented images of Naruto's memories about Naruto's future due to the fluctuations in his emotions.

Obito's schemes... the resurrection of the Ten-Tails... Madara Uchiha's ambitions...

Seeing those future scenes where it, the mightiest of all tailed beasts, was ruthlessly exploited as a "chakra battery," the Nine-Tailed Fox shot to its feet in fury. Boundless rage burned within its enormous crimson vertical pupils!

"Those bastards from the Uchiha Clan! They dare treat me as such a lowly tool?!"

Just as the Nine-Tailed Fox was about to roar in rage.

A terrifying chill of death suddenly pierced through the seal without warning and swept directly across its entire body!

That faint warning aura belonging to the Light Giant made the ears atop the head of this beast, known as the strongest tailed beast, snap upright. Its nine tails exploded in fright, turning into nine enormous feather dusters!

The Nine-Tailed Fox stumbled back two steps in horror, its huge fox eyes filled with terror.

On one side was Madara Uchiha, who would drain it dry as a battery in the future.

On the other was an unknown monster, peering through this brat's consciousness and ready to stomp it to death at any moment.

Was there even a choice to make?!

That night, when Naruto nervously entered the sealing space.

He discovered in shock that the legendary, most vicious Nine-Tailed Fox was lying extraordinarily obediently behind the iron bars. It even took the initiative to pass a mass of incomparably pure golden chakra through a gap in the bars.

"Brat, I've thought it over. Compared to that bastard Madara Uchiha, I find you more pleasing to the eye."

The Nine-Tailed Fox coughed twice, its voice gentler than ever before. "Take this power and use it. From now on, we're brothers with different bodies but one heart."

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Batman: Your Village Makes No Sense