Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: Detecting the Spy
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Night had fallen over the orphanage when Uzumaki Menma opened his eyes again, returning from the mental world to reality.
Sensing the chakra flowing endlessly through his meridians, Uzumaki Menma felt power surging through his entire body.
Even with his Uzumaki clan physique, it had taken him three years to accumulate enough chakra for Little Nine-Tails. But now that she had been born, his chakra was no longer being sucked into that bottomless pit.
He could even draw chakra from Little Nine-Tails herself.
"Little Nine, give me some chakra," Menma communed with her inwardly.
"Here's enough chakra for one Tailed Beast Ball to start with. I don't have much," Little Nine-Tails replied reluctantly, sharing a portion of her limited reserves.
The chakra for a single Tailed Beast Ball was a drop in the bucket for a tailed beast in normal condition—but for Little Nine-Tails right now, it was nearly half her total.
Even so, that amount already surpassed the total chakra reserves of most jonin.
Shadow Clone Technique!
[Multiple seals formed]
Bang!
A puff of smoke later, a shadow clone of Menma appeared beside the bed.
Exchanging a nod with his clone, Menma carefully slipped out of bed while the clone took his place, lying down in his stead.
Menma then moved to the window, opened it, but didn't leap out right away.
Instead, he channeled Little Nine-Tails' chakra to activate Malice Perception.
Little Nine-Tails, born from the Tsukuyomi of Limited Duration world, was regarded by its people as the embodiment of hatred, loathing, and betrayal. Her sensitivity to good and evil was extraordinarily keen.
With her chakra coursing through him, Menma had grown equally proficient in Malice Perception.
Known fact: During the Fourth Great Ninja War, the Nine-Tails could sense malicious chakra across the entire main battlefield. Query: What is the range of Malice Perception?
"Found it!" Without time for further thought, Menma pinpointed the malicious chakra in a large tree less than ten meters from the orphanage.
A White Zetsu was spying on the place.
To avoid waking the children in the orphanage—or his foster mother, Yakushi Nono—Menma climbed out the window, closed it behind him, and shunshin'd forward in a blur.
Purple lightning-attribute chakra gathered in his palm, enveloping his right hand in a technique resembling a chakra scalpel.
This was one of the many jutsu Menma had developed during his time in the Tsukuyomi of Limited Duration world.
To escape that world, Uzumaki Menma had captured tailed beast jinchuriki from every nation, amassing a vast array of secret techniques and ninjutsu. His knowledge of jutsu was now incredibly extensive.
ZZZzt—
His right hand's purple lightning chirped softly as it punched straight through the tree.
"Ah!!!" A scream erupted from the massive trunk, which would take three people to encircle.
"You..." Menma dragged a pale white figure out from within the tree. The face was frozen in terror.
This White Zetsu couldn't comprehend it. The kid he'd been watching for over two years had somehow detected him—and wielded such a horrifying jutsu.
White Zetsu's combat prowess was feeble. Pierced through in one strike, it died on the spot, leaving only a white corpse behind.
"Too bad there's no storage scroll." Hoisting the White Zetsu corpse over his shoulder, Menma sped toward the Hidden Leaf Village.
Leaping between trees, Menma balanced the corpse with one hand while forming seals with the other, casting a Transformation Technique on himself to revert to his Tsukuyomi of Limited Duration appearance.
Under his black medium-length hair, a white three-eyed fox mask concealed his handsome features. He wore a black robe with white fur trim on the shoulders, red bandages wrapped around his arms and legs, and open-fingered gauntlets on his hands.
The overall dark palette stood in stark contrast to Uzumaki Naruto's bright orange, sunny outfit.