Next to Go Chessboard.
Naruto Uzumaki and Sage of Six Paths originally focused on the chess game itself and the fierce battles in the distance.
However, a voice that was incompatible with the solemn, majestic, and epic battle atmosphere around him suddenly broke this concentration like a pebble thrown into a calm lake.
"Hmm--!!! Jin-Ku Ya!"
A strange scream full of extreme excitement, ecstasy, and even some broken sounds came from a completely unexpected Corner.
"Being able to capture so many scenes of strong men fighting...
Even if I die right now, it's still worth the price of admission!"
This voice was rough and exciting, with a kind of desperate enthusiasm, like an explorer who discovered a rare treasure, or like a gambler who bet all his wealth.
Naruto and Sage of Six Paths are played simultaneously.
Not too far away from them, but just on the edge of some kind of rule protection, they saw an old man with gray hair wearing a wrinkled and dusty vest, carrying a camera. He was dancing with excitement and salivating as if he had been shot.
His eyes were as wide as bells, staring at the viewfinder on the camera, almost popping out of their sockets. His face was a mixture of incredible shock, ecstasy as if he had found a treasure, and an almost martyrdom-like sense of satisfaction.
He was completely immersed in his own "shooting" world, and seemed completely unaware of, or not concerned about, the devastating energy fluctuations around him, or the Sage of Six Paths and Naruto that were so close at hand.
All his mind was attracted by the earth-shattering battlefields in the distance, especially the scenes of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, which were like gods and demons fighting against each other, causing the earth to collapse and the earth to fall apart!
"This angle! This light! This explosion effect! Perfect! Perfect!!!"
The old man frantically adjusted the camera angle while muttering incoherently, "Wood Release! Susanoo! Oh my God! This is 10,000 times better than any movie special effects! No! 100 million times! This is the real art! The art of fighting! The art of strength!"
Naruto looked at this old man who looked like a performance artist. He was stunned for a moment and then recognized him.
That Director vest, that fanatical and desperate look, that familiar attitude of risking one's life for a "good shot"...
It was Director from that crew during the Land of Snow mission!
Naruto still remembers that when he escorted Kazahana Koyuki back to Land of Snow to seize power, there was such a Director in the crew.
He has an eccentric temper and an almost paranoid love for movies. In order to capture ideal images, he often makes some jaw-dropping risky moves.
It was he who ultimately helped Kazahana Koyuki make that inspiring film.
"How did he get in?"
Naruto frowned slightly, doubts rising in his heart.
This "Six Paths·Life-and-Death Shogi" is the battlefield that determines the future of Shinobi World. The participants are either the souls of strong men who have passed away, or representatives of the living who were chosen like him.
How could an old Director, an ordinary person with little fighting ability, appear here?
Still carrying a camera?
His eyes turned to Sage of Six Paths opposite, with an inquiring intention.
Sage of Six Paths naturally noticed this "uninvited guest".
His face showed a rare expression of helplessness and dumbfounding, and he sighed softly, as if he was lamenting the impermanence of fate and the "persistence" of certain existences.
"He's dead."
Sage of Six Paths's voice calmly entered Naruto's consciousness, answering his doubts, "Maybe it was death, or an accident..."
In short, his soul should have passed through Iwaya Slope and entered Pure Land to rest normally."
"However," Sage of Six Paths said with a hint of subtlety in his tone.
"During the process of entering, I don't know whether it was a coincidence or some other reason, but his soul fluctuated and had some kind of... resonance or interference with the rules that escaped at Life-and-Death Shogi."
"The result is that he mistakenly entered the scope of the chess game and was defaulted by the rules to a... well...
Special observers? Or unexpected variables that don't matter."
Sage of Six Paths glanced at the old Director who was still taking pictures feverishly, "After I noticed it, I applied a little protection. Otherwise, with his fragile soul and unprotected state, just the aftermath of the battle in the distance would be enough to make him faint several times."
So that's it.
Naruto suddenly realized.
This Director was when the soul after death entered Pure Land, it happened to bump into Sage of Six Paths and opened Life-and-Death Shogi, and was sucked in. Sage of Six Paths managed to save him.
At this moment, Director was completely immersed in the "fairy fight" between Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju. His mouth was almost drooling, and he kept mumbling words such as "lens", "composition", and "epic feeling".
If it weren't for Sage of Six Paths's invisible protective shield, he would have been shocked to pieces by a random "epic feeling" that escaped.
"Well..."
Naruto looked at the old man's enthusiastic and funny look and was silent for two seconds.
He remembered that at Land of Snow, this Director was the same.
In order to shoot a shot of Nadare, I almost buried myself; in order to capture the truest emotions of the actors, I would stay up for days and nights; in order to achieve the final effect of the movie, I would slap the table and stare at the investors...
This is a pure person, a person who can give everything for the cause he loves.
"Alas..."
Naruto finally sighed softly, with a trace of complicated emotions in his heart.
Director is a good person, at least in his perception, a person who is pursuing, passionate and not bad.
The movies he made brought joy and hope to many people.
Unfortunately, as we get older, death is inevitable.
Naruto still remembers that Director once said that his biggest dream in this life is to make a real documentary that records the most realistic and shocking battles.
Unexpectedly, after death, I would get my wish in this way.
Although the subjects and scenes of this documentary are a bit beyond imagination.
Unfortunately, until now, Naruto does not know the name of Director.
When Land of Snow was around, everyone just called him Director, and he didn't seem to care.
A nameless mortal Director who loves records and accidentally falls into the battle of gods.
In this grand chess game that determines the fate of Shinobi World, he is like an unexpected and insignificant footnote, but he witnesses and records this epic in a unique way.
Naruto withdrew his gaze and looked again at Sage of Six Paths and Chessboard in front of him.
The appearance of Director was like a small episode, reminding him that this war was not only about the ideas and victory of the strong, but also about the destiny and future of countless ordinary people like Director.
He clenched his fists and his eyes became firmer.
In the distance, Director was still "photographing" selflessly, making strange screams of excitement from time to time. He had no idea how many times he had just walked in front of Gates of Death, nor did he know that he was being silently watched and... to some extent "connived" by two big guys who decided the fate of the world.