"Did I just hear a dog barking? Was it my imagination...?"
Uchiha Naruto raised his head from his desk and looked thoughtfully toward the door, then dismissed it.
A huge map of Japan lay spread across his desk. Using the investigation report Yui Shiranui had submitted, Uchiha Naruto circled and marked one city after another.
"Nara, Kobe, Yokohama, Hiroshima... are these dozen or so cities the ones with the most natural energy in Japan?" Uchiha Naruto put down his pen and rubbed his chin as he studied the map.
Japan was an island nation with a long, narrow landmass stretching from northeast to southwest. It spanned twenty-five degrees of latitude, with enormous climatic differences between north and south.
Uchiha Naruto had instructed the organization to investigate the concentration of natural energy in the earth veins beneath cities nationwide, and naturally, he had a specific purpose in mind.
The first reason was to prepare for a rainy day.
After the fifteenth year of Heisei, Uchiha Naruto had been born into this world, and monsters and evil spirits unlike anything seen before had appeared along with him. Yet until 2022, throughout those fifteen full years, an abnormal celestial phenomenon like the crimson moon had never occurred.
During the two months in which Uchiha Naruto had stirred up trouble after awakening his system and gaining the power of chakra, the crimson moon had appeared three times. Yet during the three years he had lain low under the pretext of "severing the connection between earth and heaven," it had not appeared once.
The crimson moon's active periods overlapped perfectly with Uchiha Naruto's.
The implications were terrifying the more he thought about them.
Even before severing the connection between earth and heaven, Uchiha Naruto had become certain that an inseparable bond existed between him and