The lights in the cinema were dim, and the light and shadow on the screen flowed.
Miki Yūya crossed his legs, holding a bucket of popcorn he had swiped from next to him, watching with great relish.
As he watched, he mentally roasted the outrageous technology tree of the Shinobi World like crazy.
They could produce this kind of light and shadow special effects and dynamic cinematic visuals, and play around with genjutsu imagery with incredible skill, yet civilian technology was utterly rotten. Water and electricity infrastructure were an absolute mess, and their specialized development was completely out of whack.
As for this "Princess Gale's Great Adventure"?
The special effects were mediocre, the plot was cliché, it was as bland as plain water, entirely straightforward with a tacky heroic script.
Miki Yūya gave it a direct mental score: 7.5.
Deducting a full 2.5 points was purely because the script was too abysmal, and that was scoring it out of courtesy.
Seeing the movie advance to the final climactic showdown, with Snow Princess turning the tables against the wind for a desperate counterattack, the atmosphere had just reached the right point.
At the very instant the entire audience held their breath and watched in silence-
An extremely harsh, high-pitched, and wildly excited voice directly blasted through the entire venue!
"Snow Princess is too strong!! So cool!!"
"I'm definitely going to become a super hero like Snow Princess who saves everyone in the future!!"
It was Naruto!
The entire audience froze collectively, all turning their heads in unison.
On the ceiling, three figures hung upside down, watching the movie.
Naruto was full of passionate excitement, Sakura looked helpless and socially dead, and Sasuke wore a cold look of disgust.
The three of them had actually hung upside down from the ceiling the entire time to sneak into the movie without paying!
Miki Yūya's good mood instantly shattered into absolute pieces, flying into a rage on the spot. Opening his mouth, he unleashed standard foul-mouthed trash talk, as he hated ill-mannered brats like this in the cinema the most.
"What the hell! Naruto, are you sick in the head?!"
"What are you screaming about while watching a movie?! An orphan with no dad, no mom, and no upbringing!"
"Ah? Yūya, sorry for the trouble!"
Scolded, Naruto hurriedly apologized.
"The thing I hate most is apologizing after the fact. I spit on you!!"
[Ding! Conqueror's Haki +3]
Without the slightest courtesy, Miki Yūya grabbed a large bucket of unfinished popcorn from a passerby next to him and violently hurled his hand upward toward the ceiling!
Splash-!
The popcorn exploded across the sky, smearing directly all over Naruto's face.
The surrounding audience members who had been disturbed could no longer tolerate it. Fruit peels, beverage cans, and snack bags flew all over the sky, all pelting the three people on the ceiling.
"Have you people no manners?!"
"Must be little runts who sneaked in without tickets!"
"Are shinobi all this unruly?!"
Miki Yūya cursed the fiercely and the loudest, every single word piercing straight to the heart:
"No need to look! Sasuke Uchiha definitely led the way in sneaking in!"
"Uchiha orphans are number one at running away!"
"Only an evil Uchiha like you could pull off such a shameless stunt!"
[Ding! Conqueror's Haki +4]
The entire audience was instantly led by the rhythm, directing all their angry curses at Sasuke.
"Evil Uchihas really don't have good people!"
"As expected, that clan is rotten to the bone!"
"Naturally evil Uchiha!"
Sasuke's dark eyes instantly turned bone-chillingly cold, his entire person turning pitch-black.
Naruto felt like crying without tears, and Sakura was so socially dead she wanted to burrow into the ground on the spot.
The three of them were subjected to the wild output of the entire audience, making it completely impossible to stay. They landed in disarray and were directly and crudely driven out the doors by the cinema staff.
Outside the cinema.
The moment they were chased out, Sakura's pent-up anger completely erupted, and she began frantically chewing Naruto out.
"It's all your fault, Naruto! What are you yelling for?! You got us kicked out! It's too humiliating!"
Naruto drooped his head, looking wronged and pitiful as he didn't dare talk back.
Sasuke shot Naruto a sidelong glare-a supreme look of utter disgust-too lazy to utter a single word, overflowing with disgrace.
Right at that moment, Miki Yūya and the other audience members who had finished watching the full movie leisurely walked out of the cinema.
The moment he saw Sakura yelling at Naruto, Miki Yūya furrowed his brows. What is this? What right do you, Sakura, have to yell at Naruto?
"As expected, not a single Konoha Ninja has any manners."
"A whole group of you sneaked in without tickets, made a racket, disturbed the public on the spot, and then turned around to engage in infighting and mutual abuse, showing hostility toward your comrades?"
"Fortunately I'm not a shinobi. To live alongside a bunch of mentally abnormal oddballs like you lot, I'd rather starve to death!"
Sakura instantly bristled.
"What right do you have to lecture me?! You were yelling at Naruto just a moment ago too!"
"You chewing out Naruto is fine, but I can't? Your double standards are way too outrageous!"
Miki Yūya was not about to pamper Sakura.
"Me having double standards?"
"I scolded Naruto because he has no manners, yelling and screaming in a public place, sneaking in for a free ride!"
"I was reasoning on behalf of all the audience members and correcting bad habits!"
"You scolding Naruto? You're doing it because you lost face, failed to take advantage of freebies, and couldn't watch a free movie, leaving you feeling frustrated inside!"
"Us villagers cursing people is upholding justice, while you shinobi cursing people is dogs biting dogs in an internal squabble! Can you compare the two?!"
"Like rabid dogs grabbing your companions to bite indiscriminately, what kind of attitude is that! Bah!"
[Ding! Conqueror's Haki +5]
The surrounding civilian passersby scattering from the show heard it loud and clear, instantly empathizing completely.
One by one, they pointed and gestured at Sakura, their faces filled with disgust.
"So Konoha Ninjas are all like this."
"Mannered-less yet petty, never getting enough out of taking advantage, but miserable when they take a loss."
"No wonder the village has been getting more and more chaotic lately."
Surrounded and pointed at by the onlookers, Sakura's face turned beet red. Trembling all over with anger, she clenched her fists so tightly that her chakra was practically bursting out.
Seeing that Sakura was about to make a move, far from being scared, Miki Yūya pushed his luck even further with an arrogant provocation.
He stepped forward, thrusting his head out:
What? You're in the wrong so you want to throw fists?
"Come on! Elite female Konoha Ninja! If you've got the guts, try hitting an ordinary villager like me once!"
"If you don't dare hit me, you're a coward!"
The gazes of the whole venue instantly focused, everyone waiting to watch the upcoming farce.
Yet at the very instant Miki Yūya was acting arrogant and overbearing, pushing his posture to the max!
Rumble-!!
The cinema's heavy solid-wood doors were abruptly smashed open with brute force!
The massive door-breaking sound made the eardrums of everyone present tremble!
A tall, magnificent horse surged straight out, its speed outrageously fast!
Miki Yūya's Observation Haki hadn't had time to fully trigger yet because the target wasn't charging at him, making his reaction completely unable to keep up!
Bang!!
His entire body was violently sent flying by the warhorse, crashing heavily into the muddy ground to take a mouthful of dirt!
He struggled to climb back up, but right behind him, a troop of riders came galloping out in a wild charge!
Kazahana Koyuki wore a stunning traditional kimono, looking cold, gorgeous, and transcendent, followed by more than a dozen fully armed elite bodyguards on horseback!
A dozen fine steeds trotted in unison right over his back, waist, and legs!
Thud thud thud thud!!
Continuous heavy horse-hoof stomps!
Miki Yūya's entire body was forcefully trampled deep into the mud, pressed flat against the ground, unable to move a single bit.
The entire scene fell dead silent.
Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were all left dumbstruck in place.
Once the troop of riders galloped off into the distance and completely disappeared from sight.
Covered in mud and disheveled, his entire body aching and numb from being trampled, Miki Yūya.
Miki Yūya laboriously aimed toward the direction where the other party had fled, using every ounce of strength in his entire body to raise a tall, single middle finger.
"Damn it!! Coming to scam us! Launching a sneak attack!!"
"Out-of-town gangs, not a shred of manners! So impolite!!"
"What are you lot still standing around for? A Konoha villager is being bullied, and the three of you shinobi are just going to watch like this?"
"What a bunch of trash!!"
[Ding! Conqueror's Haki +2]
Having finished cursing Kazahana Koyuki and her group, Miki Yūya only then turned his head to look at Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke, letting out a fierce tirade.
Sakura and Sasuke both gritted their teeth, the anger in their hearts already impossible to hold back-what bastards, what absolute bastards.
Yet, they genuinely had no choice but to chase after them to demand justice for Miki Yūya.
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