Sending My Past Self a Darkening System (And Unbinding It Now!)

(This chapter closes the time loop!)

He saw the boy's fist strike the floor. He saw his clenched teeth. He saw the moment just before despair swallowed him whole.

Across countless years, Naruto, the Supreme World Lord, whispered to the boy.

"Heh... buddy, I've got a gift for you."

Back then, Naruto was kneeling on the floor of a shabby apartment at the edge of Konoha, driving his fist into the boards.

Thud...

The board didn't break. The skin on his knuckles did.

Blood seeped out and dripped between the floorboards.

"Damn it. There are only two and a half months until the graduation exam."

He gritted his teeth so hard his gums nearly bled.

The body's original owner, Naruto Uzumaki—the boy the whole village treated like a monster—couldn't even learn the most basic ninjutsu.

And he, an ordinary man who had crossed over from Blue Star into this body, couldn't even perform the Clone Technique.

"Forget the Rasengan. I can't even use the Clone Technique. Did I come all this way just to follow that idiot's path?"

The Nine-Tails inside him weighed on him like a mountain. He could feel the fox there, heavy with malice and hatred.

Every time he tried to gather chakra, the Nine-Tails' chakra surged out and wreaked havoc on his chakra pathways.

He had tried talking to the Nine-Tails. The fox ignored him.

He had tried cursing at the Nine-Tails. The fox knocked him unconscious with its chakra.

He had tried begging the Nine-Tails. The fox knocked him unconscious twice.

"I can't accept this..." His voice echoed through the empty room. "I really can't..."

His spirits sank to their lowest point. Just as despair was about to swallow him whole—

A cold, emotionless mechanical voice exploded in his mind without warning.

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