[Group Notification: The Grand Flame Wordsmith has welcomed a new member to the group.]
[AAA City Ghost: Welcome to the group, new friend! Interested in hearing about the Seeds of Light Project?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Why are you already reaching out to the new members so fast?]
[AAA City Ghost: Ahem, keep it down.]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: Where... where is this? The Interdimensional Dead Chat Group?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Well, anyway — @Yellow Flash of the Leaf, go ahead and read the group rules first, Mr. Namikaze Minato.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Once you've finished, you should have a pretty clear idea of what this place is all about.]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: You know who I am?]
Standing in the midst of boundless, infinite void, Minato Namikaze stared at the single glowing blue panel of light hovering before him. He could feel the strange, uncanny sensation of existing as a pure soul — and for a moment, he found himself genuinely puzzled.
He remembered clearly: after activating the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, he should have surrendered his soul to the Death God. So then... what was this?
In this state, he could feel it with crystalline clarity — the Death God itself seemed almost... absent.
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Yes, of course. Go ahead and read the rules first — everything will make sense in a moment.]
Group rules?
Minato paused, and read the notification that had popped up on the chat group's glowing panel.
His eyes went wide. A flash of genuine astonishment crossed his face.
A chat group that specifically recruited the dead from across infinite dimensions — and was dedicated to bringing them back to life? Something like that actually existed?
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: So... everyone here has died at least once, just like me, and we're all trying to come back to life?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: That's right. And two people have already succeeded.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: I'm sure you have your own reasons for wanting to be revived, don't you?]
Reading Anthony's words, Minato fell silent for a long moment.
He thought of his child — still so small. Uzumaki Naruto, who had barely just been born when Minato had no choice but to seal the Yang chakra of the Nine-Tails within him.
And... the village.
If there were anything he couldn't let go of — anything that might actually make him want to come back to life — it was only those two things.
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: Indeed... as you say. I have a child. I really want to know how he's doing...]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Oh, that? That's easy — even if I don't tell you now, you'll find out eventually anyway.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: He's going to become someone extraordinary. And do you remember the Reanimation Jutsu?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: That technique will drag you back someday. When it does, you and your son will even fight together in the Fourth Great Ninja War.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Though, uh... your son Uzumaki Naruto — the early years might be a little rough for him.]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: Rough?]
Minato stared at Anthony's message, brow furrowing with unease.
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: Exactly how rough are we talking?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Well, roughly speaking — there's the whole-village bullying courtesy of Konoha's finest troublemakers, plus the mountain of nearly-expired food he scraped together because nobody was looking after him properly. Then there's the Third Hokage, who, for reasons I can't quite explain, managed to get into some kind of mutual disaster with Naruto. The end result is that he had a pretty miserable childhood, all things considered.]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: ?]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: ??]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Timing-wise, it'd be roughly the first few years after your death?]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: What? What was the Third Hokage doing?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Hmm, that's... hard to say. What he was trying to do was probably good, he just went about it in a kind of awkward way.]
Anthony thought carefully back through the Naruto storyline and tugged the corner of his mouth in a wry grimace.
Honestly, he didn't really want to dump all of this on the Third. Objectively speaking, the mess was more a case of the author not quite threading the needle — the internal logic had some holes — and the end result was that the Third ended up looking bad from every angle, pleasing no one.
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: That said, to be fair, I think the time Naruto spent travelling and training after that was actually a lot happier than his childhood.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: And there are probably a lot of things that'll surprise you. For instance — the person you crossed paths with right before you died wasn't the 'Uchiha Madara' you suspected. It was actually your own student, Uchiha Obito.]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: ?]
[Fallen Melody's Frieren Warrior: Just got here — what did I walk into? Feels like we've got a new member who's just been hit with some devastating news?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: 'Shock' is probably the more accurate word. Anyway, let me just bundle up the relevant stuff and send it to you directly — you can go through it when you have time.]
And so, with a slightly complicated expression, Anthony gathered together everything he remembered from Naruto that was related to Minato Namikaze, packaged it up, and uploaded it to the group chat.
[Lord of the White Holy Throne has uploaded: "Naruto"]
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: Thank you. I'll go through this now.]
And with that, Minato instantly vanished offline — clearly sprinting away to binge-read at top speed.
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Still, Minato's situation aside — that world really is a good place.]
[AAA City Ghost: Oh? How so?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Rich in resources. Fertile ground.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: You're all welcome to take a look at this file too — I put together a general overview of the worldview and the resource highlights in a separate document. Short version: there are things like the Tailed Beasts, which are obviously high-value assets the moment you lay eyes on them, and then there's a whole collection of nifty little gadgets and tricks besides.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Like that Reanimation Jutsu I mentioned — honestly, I've had my eye on that one for a while.]
[Fallen Melody's Frieren Warrior: What is it?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: A resurrection technique — a bit on the rougher side, but genuinely useful. All it takes is a suitable physical vessel and the jutsu itself, and you can bring someone back. There are a fair number of limitations, of course.]
[AAA City Ghost: That's still extremely high-value.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Honestly, I think a lot of our group members could make use of it.]
[AAA City Ghost: Mm, maybe. Let me read through the document first.]
The chat group fell quiet again. Anthony closed the window.
Once everyone had finished reading the file he'd uploaded, the discussions would no doubt flare back to life — and this round, he suspected, would be particularly explosive.
Because it really was that good of a find.
Even just sitting there listing out the resource highlights, Anthony had lost count of how many times he'd felt a pang of pure, undisguised envy.
All he could say was: wherever he looked in the Naruto world, resources seemed to be blooming out of every corner.
Never mind the obviously high-value stuff — the Tailed Beasts, the Kekkei Genkai, the wild assortment of eyeballs with ridiculous powers — just the Reanimation Jutsu alone was enough to make Anthony's mouth water.
Sure, it was a bit on the crude side — nowhere near as clean as the chat group's own resurrection technology — but Anthony had an instinctive sense that if he got his hands on it, there were all sorts of ways he could put it to use.
At the very least, it could nudge the group members' resurrection timelines along a little. Himmel in particular — that man would love something like this.
Thinking all this through, Anthony let his Stand — still present back in the Demon Slayer world — continue handling the remaining loose ends on its own.
There wasn't much left to wrap up in the Demon Slayer world anyway. Mostly epilogue material at this point. He'd had his avatar tie off the last few threads and then head back to his own world.
Anthony figured that beyond eventually working with Ubuyashiki Kagaya on some kind of ongoing collaboration, nothing major was likely to come up — so he went ahead and left his avatar parked there on autopilot for now.
Then, after quite a while had passed, he finally saw the first message break the chat group's long silence.
[Yellow Flash of the Leaf: What is the meaning of this?]
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