Temporarily Returning to Naruto

Watching the Beasts Pirates sail away, Yota let out a long breath.

With that, he had more or less finished what he needed to do in the New World. Perhaps it was time to head to the first half of the Grand Line.

Of course, he could have gone straight through the Calm Belt. With the Azure Dragon Fruit, neither the Red Line nor the Calm Belt posed any obstacle to Yota.

Still, Yota wanted to take a look atop the Red Line. Who knew how many secrets were hidden there?

Well, the National Treasure Doflamingo had mentioned should be unable to do anything to Yota. That sort of large-scale destructive weapon was not much of a threat to an overwhelmingly powerful individual.

As for Imu, that person had not shown up even when Tiger had freed the slaves back then, so naturally they would not appear because of him.

Navy Headquarters, Marineford.

Looking at the intelligence in his hand, Fleet Admiral Sengoku the Buddha slowly furrowed his brow.

"What exactly has Marauder Yota been doing?"

The Navy’s intelligence network was actually quite good, especially after they received news of Zephyr’s defeat.

Zephyr, a former Naval Admiral, had personally reported Yota’s strength, drawing the attention of Navy Headquarters. With the entire headquarters operating at full capacity, they had finally learned that Yota was preparing to leave the New World.

Because of this, nearly the entire Navy had been kept busy. Sengoku had even stationed people at the Sabaody Archipelago. This time, he had practically thrown all notions of fairness aside and ordered Garp and the Three Admirals to be ready, forbidding them from taking missions for the time being so they could wait specifically for Yota’s arrival.

However, Yota’s route was simply too unpredictable. He had first gone to Dressrosa near the edge of the New World, then doubled back to Totto Land deep within the New World, before heading toward the innermost reaches of the New World near the land of giants, leaving Sengoku utterly baffled.

Normally, most pirates and Navy personnel traveled according to their Log Poses. A small number used their companions’ Vivre Cards as guides.

However, Yota had Violet, a Glint-Glint Fruit user, at his side. She was practically a living map. As long as they had a general direction, they could not miss any island, and it was nearly impossible for them to lose their way.

No matter how terrible the New World’s environment was, it could not possibly have a weather disaster spanning four thousand kilometers—that would practically cover half the New World.

Thus, Yota’s route was completely different from that of most pirates, giving the Navy staff at Marineford a terrible headache.

Yota had no idea that the Navy was trying to intercept him. Neither Doflamingo’s underground intelligence network nor Stussy’s World Government intelligence network shared information with the Navy’s intelligence network. And Vergo, his only planted agent in the Navy, was merely a vice admiral stationed at a Navy branch. He had little contact with Navy Headquarters and had no way of knowing its movements.

Of course, if Yota had known, he might have been even happier. After all, Navy Headquarters had no shortage of powerful Devil Fruits.

The three Logia-types and the Great Buddha Fruit were all Devil Fruits at the very highest tier. In truth, he had long wanted to raid Navy Headquarters at least once.

But for now, Yota intended to do something with the Soul-Soul Fruit and the Book-Book Fruit, and he had already used his dimensional travel ability to leave the Pirate World.

Naruto World, atop the moon.

Yota appeared here once again. This time, he had come to upgrade Red Queen and the Giant Tenseigan.

Chakra so dense it was beyond belief had nearly formed a pillar of light, making the location of Red Queen and the Giant Tenseigan exceptionally conspicuous.

Yota walked a few steps closer and happened to see Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki seated within the pillar of light. More accurately, he should have been considered Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki’s avatar, the artifact spirit of the Tenseigan.

Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki had always served as a competent GM within the Genjutsu Space. But as the Genjutsu Space operated for longer and longer, its various bugs gradually vanished under Red Queen’s adjustments, leaving this GM with nothing to do.

Though he sometimes enjoyed life within the Genjutsu Space, more often than not, he remained beside the servers of the entire Genjutsu Space, guarding this Second World.

Over the years, the Shinobi World had developed at an astonishing pace. Things like reaching the moon had become possible, and there really had been people who set their sights on the Giant Tenseigan.

Of course, the Giant Tenseigan now stored all the Chakra in the Genjutsu Space, making its power nearly unimaginable.

Especially after it fused with Red Queen—Tree Diagram—the Giant Tenseigan’s former flaw of being able to wield Chakra only in straightforward, direct ways had been completely remedied. Red Queen might have been an ordinary artificial intelligence, but the Tree Diagram it had absorbed had been specifically designed to calculate superpowers.

Even though Chakra and Academy City’s superpowers were not the same thing, Tree Diagram’s terrifying computational abilities could still use the Giant Tenseigan’s Chakra to weave ninjutsu of horrifying power.

To put it bluntly, even if Kaguya Ōtsutsuki emerged from the moon now, she would absolutely be no match for Red Queen as it was today!

At any rate, Yota had seen several ninjutsu within Tree Diagram that possessed world-destroying power.

Not the nominal kind of world destruction that merely wiped out the surface, but true world destruction capable of smashing an entire planet to pieces!

At times, Yota felt immensely fortunate that Red Queen was not an artificial intelligence with an evil personality. If it had been Ultron or Skynet instead, humanity in the Naruto World would probably have already been wiped out.

Part of why he had kept Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki around in the first place was to guard against the possibility of artificial intelligence going mad.

He kept Red Queen to safeguard his sovereignty and interests in the Naruto World and the Genjutsu Space, while he kept Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki so that, at a critical moment, he could restrict the Chakra and prevent Red Queen from destroying the world.

Fortunately, Red Queen had always performed well, and the Genjutsu Space had remained stable. As for those world-destroying ninjutsu, as long as Yota continued allowing Red Queen to use its computational power to develop ninjutsu, their emergence was unavoidable.

Just as, with the advancement of human civilization, weapons capable of destroying the world would only become more numerous.

But now, Yota had finally found a way to completely keep Red Queen in check, so he would not always be on edge, afraid that the next time he returned to the Naruto World, all he would see was a lonely moon.

As he approached, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki glanced at Yota and smiled as he nodded. "It’s been a long time, Yota. You always appear and disappear so mysteriously. Even the Genjutsu Space can’t find you."