Naruto raised his hand, gently patted Yamato's back, then softly said, "Yamato, let's go out to sea together this time!"
"Out to sea?!"
Yamato's eyes lit up when she heard Naruto's words. She leaned back, staring at him with burning eyes, and excitedly asked, "Really? Can we really go out to sea?"
Not just Yamato, but even Jack, Page One, Black Maria, and Ulti, who followed Yamato, were startled by Naruto's words. Then Black Maria spoke up to advise, "Our—no, your age, you can't go out to sea yet, can you?"
"What does age matter!"
Naruto looked at Black Maria, giving her a confident smile, then loudly declared, "As long as we are strong enough, even if we are still children, we can freely go anywhere in this world, including the sea!"
Before becoming a formal Ninja, Naruto also believed that he was too young to go to sea to distant places.
But after becoming a formal Ninja, Naruto realized that Ninjas at his age could not only do missions independently but even go to the battlefield to kill enemies!
Was the sea of this world more terrifying than the battlefield of the Ninja world?
More importantly, Naruto believed that he and Yamato were strong enough to venture out to sea!
"Naruto is right!"
Yamato became even more excited when she heard Naruto's words, her eyes almost sparkling with little stars. Then she loudly said, "We are strong enough. We can go out to sea now!"
"But…"
Black Maria looked at the excited duo, hesitated for a moment, and said, "To go out to sea, you first need a ship. After you have a ship, you also need a helmsman who can steer it, and a navigator who can guide the ship in harsh environments—"
Black Maria looked at the two, whose eyes had already lost their light, stopped her discouraging words, and then weakly delivered the final blow: "You don't seem to have any of those."
"We—"
Yamato pouted for a while, then stared with stubborn eyes and said, "We'll have all those companions you mentioned after we go out to sea!"
"I'm just afraid that after you go out to sea, you won't last long enough to find those companions and will end up buried in the sea," Black Maria continued to weakly add insult to injury.
"No, we won't!"
Yamato immediately retorted loudly, "Naruto and I are very strong, and neither of us is afraid of the sea!"
"Then what will you do when you want to eat? Don't you need a chef companion to prepare food for you?"
Black Maria silently delivered a fatal blow, making the light in their eyes completely fade.
This was a question they truly had no answer for.
Especially Naruto; after hearing Black Maria's words, he recalled his ever-increasing appetite and felt that if no one prepared food for them after they went to sea, he didn't know what would happen to Yamato, but he would definitely starve to death!
As for robbing or freeloading, neither Naruto nor Yamato had such thoughts. Naruto hadn't even considered ideas like earning food through missions.
Thus, Naruto and Yamato's ambitious sea voyage plan was directly pierced by Black Maria's three stabs, dying without a trace!
"Actually—"
Black Maria looked at the two, disheartened and with lost expressions in their eyes, and couldn't help but say, "If you really want to go out to sea now, it's not impossible."
"What way?"
Naruto and Yamato immediately looked at her in unison, their eyes filled with expectation.
Black Maria looked at their expectant gazes, thought for a moment, then said, "The Beasts Pirates' expedition team goes out to the outer sea for missions every once in a while. If you can join the expedition team, you can go to the outer sea with them."
"Expedition team?"
Yamato frowned and tilted her head in thought for a while after hearing Black Maria's words. Then she said with a look of disdain, "But Naruto and I want to form our own pirate crew, and we've already agreed that when we grow up, we're going to give Kaido a good beating. How could we possibly become his subordinates!"
"… "
Black Maria was completely speechless after hearing Yamato's words and even secretly thought to herself, 'With you two wanting to beat up Lord Kaido, you probably won't be able to do it even if you try your whole lives.'
"Idiot!"
At this moment, Ulti, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke, looking at Naruto and Yamato with mocking eyes, and said, "If you just want to go out to sea and don't want to join the Beasts Pirates, then just secretly hide on their ship when the expedition team leaves."
"This—"
Naruto and Yamato first exchanged glances after hearing Ulti's words, then simultaneously showed surprised expressions, clapping their hands together. "That's right, how did we not think of something so simple!"
"Of course, because both of you are big idiots!"
Four-year-old Ulti continued to mock, thinking, 'With your IQ, you two would definitely not survive three days at sea!'
"Ulti, you're so smart!"
Naruto and Yamato didn't know what Ulti was thinking, nor did they care that she called them big idiots. Instead, they praised her in unison.
Their sincere gazes made Ulti feel a little embarrassed.
Black Maria, watching the two eager figures from the side, secretly thought, 'Looking at these two idiots, they're probably really going to try Ulti's method. I need to quietly tell Lord Kaido!'
"Oh, right!"
Naruto suddenly remembered Jack, whom he had injured, and looked at him, asking, "Jack, are you okay?"
Jack heard him, raised his hand to touch the already scabbed wound on his nose, then shook his head. "No problem, it's already fine."
It had only been a few minutes, and the wound had already scabbed over. It had to be said, the recovery ability of Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit users was truly outrageous!
"That's good."
Naruto looked at the scabbed wound on Jack's nose, nodded slightly, and was not surprised by his extraordinary recovery ability.
Because he himself possessed such recovery ability, and it would be even more outrageous after the Nine-Tailed Chakra surged.
After confirming Jack was fine, Naruto showed a mysterious smile to the others. Then he flipped his palm, taking out his new equipment, Longsword: Infinity, and proudly showed it off to them. "This is my weapon. It's super cool. Let me show you!"
After speaking, he gripped the hilt and loudly shouted, "Demon Armor – Incursio, activate!"
This line wasn't strictly necessary to shout, but in Naruto's opinion, shouting it made it not only more imposing but also cooler!
Click, click, click!~
As Naruto's voice fell, the scabbard of the Longsword: Infinity in his hand immediately transformed into mechanical-looking fragments, quickly attaching to his body and turning into a cool suit of armor.
"Wow, so cool!~"
Yamato and the others' eyes lit up with sparkling little stars when they saw this scene. They had never seen such a sci-fi transformation before!
Whether it was powerful or strong in combat didn't matter for now. Just the transformation process itself had completely captivated these children, and even the usually composed Black Maria was no exception!
And their gazes made Naruto smile even more smugly, thinking, 'Sure enough, the greatest use of new equipment is to show off to good friends!'
Such cool new equipment would be useless if it couldn't earn the envious gazes of good friends!
"Naruto, Naruto!"
Yamato even directly pounced on Naruto, excitedly caressing the armor on his body. Then she looked at him expectantly and asked, "Can I try it too?!"
"No, only I can use this!"
Naruto shook his head, rejecting Yamato's request. Then he carefully pushed her away and pointed to the sword in his hand, saying seriously, "Also, this sword of mine is very dangerous. It can release very potent cursed poisons. Even if it just scratches the skin, it will be a fatal wound. Stay away. Be careful not to get cut."
"Eh?"
Yamato heard Naruto's words. Her gaze immediately turned to the sword in his hand, and the light in her eyes grew even brighter. Then she said excitedly, "So amazing, I really want to try it!"
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