Chapter 57: Naraku's Treatment, the New Forest, and Bounty King Return
Naraku walked to Nawaki's bedside and sensed the situation inside Nawaki's body up close. He discovered that things inside Nawaki were truly lively right now.
Wood Release, Tyrant, pure natural energy, Nawaki's own life force, and impurity energy—five different powers were entangled, clashing, and fusing inside Nawaki's body.
Naraku once again felt that Nawaki had an incredibly strong life force. He began thinking about how to resolve Nawaki's current condition. His usual curse seals on Teigu could directly extract these five powers, but doing so would refine Nawaki himself into essence.
Naraku wickedly thought: if he refined Nawaki and fused him directly into "Incursio," would it evolve "Incursio" into a true S-grade weapon? Of course, Naraku wasn't a demon. Moreover, his own life wasn't under threat right now, and Nawaki was his beloved comrade—plus his future brother-in-law.
He and Nawaki had already formed a huge bond.
But such a good method couldn't be wasted. Right now, Nawaki simply had too much and too mixed energy inside, which he couldn't control.
As long as the extraction was slow and steady, it should solve the problem. Of course, during this process the balance had to be carefully controlled—and only Naraku could grasp that balance well.
As for the tool to extract the power, the "Incursio" beside him—who seemed full of desire—was the best tool. Similarly, only Naraku's Weapon Sovereignty passive could make "Incursio" obediently cooperate.
If anyone else did this—even Nawaki himself—"Incursio" wouldn't obey 100%. Other people's relationships with Naraku's weapons were more like partners, while Naraku's relationship with his weapons was master and slave.
So Naraku turned to Tsunade and said: "Nawaki has too much mixed power inside him. I can use curse seals to temporarily control 'Incursio' and extract those powers. I feel once a week should be enough—until Nawaki's own life force can control those powers, he should wake up.
Additionally, I need to forge a tool to temporarily suppress the energy inside Nawaki, ensuring no accidents happen during the buffer period after extraction.
But once this tool is put on, it absolutely cannot be removed—otherwise Nawaki could die instantly. Even if not immediately, he might never wake up again!"
After hearing Naraku's words, everyone present relaxed a little. But Tsunade still confirmed repeatedly. After getting Naraku's firm yes multiple times, she excitedly hugged Naraku—giving him an on-the-spot face-washing (motorboating).
Naraku originally wanted to refuse this kind of face-washing—mainly because it caused breathing issues. But considering Tsunade was releasing huge psychological pressure from her little brother being saved, and her joy couldn't be shared with anyone else, she was doing this to him.
Naraku could only sacrifice himself to the tiger and endure this "pain" alone. Beside him, Jiraiya's eyes nearly popped out of his head.
After a full minute, Tsunade felt the masculine scent at the tip of her nose and Naraku's warm breath on her chest. Her face suddenly turned red.
Only then did Tsunade let go of Naraku. Naraku felt a little unsatisfied inside, but his face was full of righteousness!
No one could see any flaw—after all, he was just a 9-year-old child right now!
Afterward, Naraku pretended to go find a place to forge the small tool. From his system space he took out a sensor—this was a small item he had won from a lottery draw before.
If Naraku hadn't asked the system earlier, he wouldn't have known he even had this thing. With this sensor, whether the small tool moved or was damaged later, Naraku would know.
Actually, this small tool was Naraku indulging in a bit of evil fun. He wanted to see if anyone would secretly harm Nawaki while he was bedridden—this was just to satisfy Naraku's curiosity.
In the original Naruto story, Nawaki's death felt a bit suspicious, but it was never clarified if someone secretly caused it. Naraku decided to run an experiment.
After forging the small tool, Naraku returned to the ward and shooed everyone out. He placed the small tool on Nawaki's head, then directly picked up "Incursio" in his hand. This was the second time Naraku had held this weapon since sending it away.
Right now "Incursio" could be said to have undergone a complete transformation. Naraku placed "Incursio" on Nawaki, then controlled it to devour the powers inside Nawaki's body.
"Incursio" mainly devoured the impurity energy inside Nawaki—because that power was generally the most chaotic. But while devouring the impurities, the balance inside Nawaki's body also began to shift.
Naraku then let "Incursio" devour a bit of the other powers too.
Half an hour later, Naraku nodded in satisfaction. Because through his control, Nawaki could now hold on for at least a month—but Naraku wouldn't tell Tsunade that.
Mainly for his future brother-in-law's safety… while also allowing more contact with Tsunade from time to time.
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After hearing about the abnormal forest caused by Nawaki's dragon transformation earlier, Naraku was also curious and went to take a look at this forest.
As soon as he arrived at the forest, Naraku sensed massive amounts of Tyrant's power inside.
Naraku understood now—it must have been that when Nawaki transformed into a dragon, Tyrant's power had also activated simultaneously, causing the forest to become strange. Or rather, the creatures inside this forest had become strange. According to Naraku's guess, this forest might even produce some dangerous species in the future.
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As soon as Naraku returned to the logistics unit, he was told that his bounty on the black market had been massively increased—he had to hurry back.
And so Naraku's first trip outside the village ended. Only at this moment did Naraku realize he had become the man with the highest bounty in the entire ninja world.
Afterward, Naraku returned to Konoha together with Tsunade, Jiraiya, Nawaki, and Miya. This was only possible thanks to Naraku controlling "Incursio" to devour a portion of the energy and stabilize it.
Tsunade treated some of Nawaki's internal injuries again, which finally made it possible to transport Nawaki back to Konoha.
While running back on the road, Naraku suddenly stumbled and nearly fell off the tree.
Tsunade immediately came over to support him: "You okay?"
Naraku shook his head to indicate he was fine.
Just now, his two shadow clones had disappeared because their chakra ran out. After Clone No. 2 and No. 3 arrived at the so-called edge of the world, at first they excitedly wanted to explore the space.
Then they discovered this space was like a gravity-less, temperature-comfortable, light-comfortable, air-filled outer space. The two clones quickly lost interest, and then spent two days playing cards in space.
Just now Naraku had been bombarded with a massive amount of useless information to his brain—that's why he stumbled. Especially since Naraku discovered both of his clones were cheating at cards! Truly trash! Naraku was almost ashamed to be associated with them!
But this also proved that short-term biological placement in the alternate space was safe for at least two and a half days.
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