"Damn Konoha, I will definitely destroy you!" Nine Tails, is there really no way to remove the seal on my body?
Naruto was lost in himself. He had already lost count of the number of times he had asked the Nine-Tails this question.
…
However, there was only silence in response.
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— Oh, great Uchiha Yue, supreme god of destruction, I pray, destroy this polluted world!
At the edge of the Area of Dead Silence, several figures were kneeling, bowing to this dark, lifeless void.
In their eyes, Uchiha Yue was a god, a destructive demon who had come to destroy this sinful world. The world is polluted, and therefore a demon has appeared who will destroy everything in order to purify it.
Yes, they were madmen, sectarians. While others were terrified, they began to worship Uchiha Yue in this desperation, creating their own explanation, separating him from people and turning him into a deity of destruction.
It was normal in this world. After all, the worship of powerful and destructive phenomena had been in their blood since ancient times. In the era before the coming of Ootsutsuki Kaguya, this world was literally overrun with deities. Even a roadside stone could become an object of worship and turn into a deity.
These madmen wanted the destruction of the world, so that Uchiha Yue would completely destroy it, including themselves. They were crazy to the core.
In the old days, such madmen with their self-destructive and apocalyptic tendencies would not have been given a chance. Even if they had appeared, they would have been destroyed immediately. But now everything was different!
— Did you hear that Konoha's jinchuuriki has gone over to the dark side!
"Perhaps this jinchuuriki can be lured to our side."…
— But it won't be easy to get into Konoha and get him out. Even weakened, Konoha is still one of the strongest Shinobi villages.…
Konoha has been very busy lately. After the final creation of the Shinobi Alliance, a large number of ninjas were sent to collect refugees from the Land of Fire. They were brought to the border so that Ootsutsuki Isshiki could identify the Child of Prophecy among them.
Since Konoha took matters into her own hands, the crime and death rates among refugees have begun to decline. Konoha's ninjas couldn't let them kill each other—what if a Child of Prophecy was among the dead?
Mr. Jigen said that saving the world of the Child of Prophecy is not an absolute given. Only through mentoring and education can he become a true savior. In this process, the Child of Prophecy could have died. He saw a future in which the Child of Prophecy saved the world, but he also saw one in which it never appeared.
Now, in search of the Child of Prophecy, not a single Shinobi village dared to grab random people for experiments, for fear of accidentally killing him. Only those groups that Jigen had already tested, confirming the absence of the Child of Prophecy in them, became targets for kidnappings and experiments.
In doing so, Konoha cleared out many bandits and criminals who oppressed ordinary people during this chaotic time. They no longer behaved like before, when they didn't care about the lives of civilians in the Land of Fire, and they even abducted them for experiments themselves.
And so, in the process of once again transporting civilians, Konoha's ninja finally…
— Hee-hee, ha-ha-ha! Come here, come here! Ha ha ha, let's merge together, become one, ha ha ha!
Mad laughter rang out, and the huge head, floating in the air, began to mercilessly kill and devour souls.
Civilians were rapidly dying in front of our eyes. Screams, screams, attempts to escape — nothing could save them from their destined fate.
—What... what is this?" One of the Shinobi whispered.
"No, wait, why does this monster look so much like Mr. Third?" "What is it?" the other exclaimed.
"It can't be, really…
"Is that thing really Mr. Three?" No, that's impossible! Mr. Third was not a monster! And he didn't look so terrible and weird! This is actually something abnormal!
Konoha's ninja stared in shock at the floating head that sowed death and devoured souls. Her face was, if not an exact replica of Sarutobi Hiruzen, then it looked very much like him.
Then someone remembered how Mr. Three's head had disappeared. She completely evaporated after Naruto's punch, and even repeated use of Edo Tensei failed to resurrect him. At that time, it was assumed in the village that Mr. Third was already on his last legs, and that blow was the last straw, causing Sarutobi Hiruzen's soul to finally dissipate. After all, then they were able to summon other ninjas killed by the Tailed Beast's Bomb, which meant that the technique itself did not have the ability to destroy souls. No one could say with certainty whether the soul, of which only the head remained, was capable of continuing to exist in such an incomplete form.
Everyone had thought that their Lord Third's soul had completely disappeared, but now it seemed that wasn't the case.
—Hee-hee, food, souls..." the head croaked.
At that moment, Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly looked at them. His eyes reflected incredible greed and hunger. The souls of the strong attracted him more than the souls of ordinary people.
— Mr. Third, it's us! We are Konoha ninjas! What happened to you?
The hearts of the ninja that Hiruzen was looking at shrank. They no longer thought about the civilians who had been eaten by this head, but only wanted to understand what was happening to the monster, which looked exactly like the Third Hokage. And if it really is him, then why did he turn into such an ugly, distorted monster?
"What happened?" Konoha? I... I…
After hearing the key words, Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly stopped, as if he had fallen into a stupor. Fragments of past memories began to surface in his mind. It worked!
Is this really their Third Hokage?
What the hell happened to him that he turned into this?
Seeing Hiruzen's reaction, the ninja exchanged glances.
— Mr. Third, how did you come to this?
"Stop it, please!" One of them pleaded. "You can't kill anymore!" Everyone you kill may turn out to be a Child of the Prophecy that will save the world! Come back to Konoha with us, Mr. Two has already been resurrected! No matter what happens to you, he will definitely find a solution.