Compared to the impoverished little countries around it, the Land of Fire's fertile land and free education for children were the real draws.
After all, seventy percent of ordinary children in this world had never been to school.
Their values came entirely from the families they grew up in. It was hardly an exaggeration to say their outlook depended on the faces around them.
The bottom rungs of this world were filled with poverty and pain. Most families were broken, and the children who grew up in them tended to develop warped, extreme views.
Every parent wanted their children to grow up to be better off than they were.
Even without the houses and fields offered to newcomers to the Land of Shadow, free compulsory education alone was something they could not refuse.
The atmosphere grew heavy, and everyone stared at Naruto.
Yet no matter how they looked, they could find no hint of deception in his dark eyes.
"I've said my piece. If you think I'm joking, go home and keep developing under your old systems."
Naruto spoke frankly. "In this world, I am the master. Killing you would take nothing more than a thought. But I won't. I don't like slaughter. I want peace."
Then Naruto took Sasuke's hand and strolled out of the woods.
"I can open my heart and embrace this world because I have not only the generosity, but the strength to make my word absolute."
"Believe me. In the future, most of the Shinobi World's territory will become part of the Land of Shadow."
"You can leave."
Holding Sasuke's hand, Naruto walked ten paces away.
As Naruto activated his phantom Mangekyo, the world began to shatter.
In a daze, they blinked.
The twenty thousand members of the Allied Shinobi Forces trapped there returned to