The Ferrari California made one final victorious charge. Its 1.6-ton body streaked through the night sky like a red meteor, soaring over the five deadly consecutive bends. But something seemed to go wrong when it landed, and the engine sounded noisier.
Uchiha Naruto decisively abandoned the luxury car that had carried him five hundred kilometers over more than two hours, setting it alight as he made his exit.
As he watched the luxury car worth sixty million yen burn down to its frame, Uchiha Naruto's expression remained calm, but his feelings were somewhat complicated.
An inexplicable pleasure filled his chest.
In the garage at Chairman Hyodo's estate, the Ferrari California was nothing special. There were plenty of sports cars more luxurious than it.
That sixty million yen was only a drop in the ocean of wealth they had amassed. Even if it went up in flames before their eyes, they could laugh it off as a grand fireworks display.
"Even though I've awakened the system and gained supernatural powers from Naruto, deep down, I still have the petty habits of an ordinary citizen from my previous life. I know perfectly well it isn't mine, but watching it burn still hurts a tiny bit." Uchiha Naruto sighed.
But he soon calmed down.
Uchiha Naruto knew very well that wealth and influence were merely byproducts of power. Sooner or later, his might would surpass the state's coercive apparatus, and then all of this would be as easy for him to obtain as picking up a blade of grass.
What Uchiha Naruto could obtain would far exceed what Chairman Hyodo of the Black Emperor Society possessed.
He stopped looking at the wreckage of the Ferrari California, turned, and flew off through the sky.
Although he had lost his means of transportation, he was