The Avengers of the Uzumaki Family

Kushina looked at Menma with a happy expression and said.

A son who is both exceptionally gifted and intelligent.

Furthermore, his face bears a striking resemblance to Minato's. Looking at his face, Kushina can't help but think of Minato's teenage years; they really are exactly the same.

Minato nodded slightly, a hint of admiration in his eyes.

As a ninja, strength is naturally the most important thing, but having strength alone can easily cause a lot of unnecessary problems.

Especially for people in the facial dermatitis age group.

Thoughts and consciousness are difficult to mature in most cases.

However, this is not a problem for his own child. His perception and analysis of problems are clearly very sharp and accurate.

In the previous conversation.

In this meeting.

You can really feel this in the water gates.

After all, he was already dead, and Konoha still treated Menma that way. Minato didn't think it was anything too outrageous that his child had chosen a different path. What he cared about was whether Menma had thought things through carefully and whether he had made this decision rationally and calmly.

"Your judgment is very accurate, Menma. Your mother and I have come here with the intention you said. We are not here to stop you, Menma. You have your own choices. Your father and mother have already wronged you, and we would never do anything unnecessary now. However, our past identities are still there, and there are some things that your mother and I cannot really get involved in. We hope you can understand that. Also, regarding Konoha, if possible, please try not to hurt innocent people, Menma."

Minato looked at Menma with a gentle expression and said with a hint of apology.

Logically speaking, the child was bullied.

As a father, I definitely have to seek justice for my child.

This is a father's responsibility and obligation.

However, Minato's personality and identity destined him to not do that. He was the Fourth Hokage of Konoha, a Kage who once swore to bear everything and protect the village at the cost of his life. It was too much to ask Minato to stand on the opposite side of the village now.

He himself will find it very difficult to overcome that inner hurdle.

"I understand, Father. Please rest assured on this point. Just as I promised you back then, I will not act recklessly. Of course, I will have a desire for revenge, but more importantly, I will strive to achieve true peace. You may find this a bit absurd, but the path I take is the same as the path taken by the First Hokage. It's just that I will not give up halfway. I will walk more thoroughly, more firmly, and go further than that First Hokage, until the very end."

Mianma took a deep breath and nodded emphatically.

"You're talking nonsense! Where is the peace? Haven't you killed enough people already, Menma? How many families have you torn apart?! You're going to attack Konoha next, aren't you? You're going to attack other ninja villages too, aren't you?! How many more people will die then? How many more families will lose their loved ones? Including your Hidden Light Village, in every war, aren't the families of the Hidden Light ninjas who died grieving?! Aren't they in pain?! Why do you still want to start wars and continue to create killing?! You say it's for peace? I don't see it at all, Menma. You just want to vent your resentment, your pain, and make the whole world like you, aren't you?! Menma?"

Almost immediately after Menma finished speaking.

Naruto, who was sitting on one side, stood up abruptly before Minato and Kushina could say anything, and shouted loudly at Menma with an excited expression.

Just like the Six Paths of Pain in the original work.

After defeating Naruto and subduing him with special black rods, he said that everything he had done was for peace, and Naruto had almost the same excited expression.

"So, Naruto, without me, the world would be peaceful, right? Without me, the five great nations would be a loving family, wouldn't they? Without me, there would be no wars in the past, present, or future, and no one would die, right? It's all my fault, my responsibility, isn't it, Naruto?"

Unlike Naruto's extremely excited appearance.

Menma merely raised his eyelids slightly, a mocking look on his lips as he looked at Naruto, and spoke in a calm and gentle tone.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 521 Menma's Interrogation, Naruto's Silence

P.S.: I ran into some problems yesterday and didn't have time to write. I was thinking of sending a leave note, but then I forgot. I even thought I had sent a leave note to ask for leave. I only realized this when I was uploading the new chapter. I'm really sorry.

"Besides, I must have started all those wars in the past, right? And those guys who died at my hands, I must have gone to their ninja villages and killed them on my own initiative, right, Naruto?"

The expression on Mianma's face turned icy cold.

"This...I..."

The words that made me choke.

Naruto fell silent for a moment.

The facts before us cannot be concealed, nor can they be confused with right and wrong. Naruto is not some cunning and dirty politician; he's just a little slow-witted and a little stubborn.

It's good that the sesame seeds weren't mentioned.

Now that Menma has brought it up, Naruto thinks back carefully and realizes that none of the past conflicts were actually started by Menma.

It seems they've only been passively responding to the attacks?

The thought of this made Naruto feel as if his throat was blocked, just like when Nagato questioned the Five Great Nations about peace in the original story with a cold and sarcastic tone.

I couldn't say anything.

Minato and Kushina, positioned on either side, exchanged a glance and sighed softly to themselves. Although in this world, there was no such thing as right or wrong in battles between nations or ninja villages, justice was practically a joke.

But to be honest...

The side that is forced to fight back can still gain a moral advantage to some extent.

Menma and Hidden Village currently hold this position.

It may not have much significance or effect, but it's more than enough to shut people up. For example, right now, Naruto, who prides himself on mutual understanding and using words to move others, has clearly been silenced.

In the original story, Naruto was initially rendered speechless, but he was later able to persuade Nagato again. That can only be described in two words—outrageous!

The most important point is that Naruto didn't directly answer the question Nagato asked earlier; he just used some empty and grandiose words, lines from the novel written by Jiraiya.

Some of them sound very exciting.

Such empty and grandiose statements as "You should give up the idea of ​​making me give up" and "I firmly believe that the day when people understand each other will come."

No determined, normal person can be persuaded.

Nagato, however, seemed completely shaken and was utterly convinced by Naruto.

When Menma saw this scene when he was very young in his previous life, he was quite shocked because he had little life experience. He really thought Naruto had great perseverance and endurance. However, as he grew older and gained more experience, Menma found Naruto's words to be ridiculous.

Nagato was really too naive.

No wonder they were fooled.

It should be said.

In essence, Naruto, Jiraiya, Obito, and even Madara and Hashirama are pure idealists.

Their minds are filled with all sorts of naive ideas.

Mianma is not Changmen.

The path he firmly believed in, the path he wanted to take.

As the great man said, political power grows out of the barrel of a gun; peace is won through fighting, not negotiation.

Not to mention that this would also allow him to achieve his initial strong desire for revenge.

Why not kill two birds with one stone?

"What? Or do you think that facing those enemies who come to capture me, to kill me, to destroy Hidden Light Village, I, Menma Uzumaki, should just surrender? That I deserve to be killed? Is that what you mean, Naruto? When others bully you, your attitude is that we can't fight back, that if someone slaps us, we have to offer the other half of our face and smile as they slap us again? Is that what you call mutual understanding? That's truly laughable, Naruto Namikaze!"

Menma's eyes were full of mockery as he looked at Naruto.

"Me? This? Then?"

A scene where one is speechless.

This was clearly a conversation that Naruto hadn't initially anticipated.

Before this, Naruto genuinely believed that his older brother was completely immersed in the thrill of revenge and wanted to kill everyone he disliked. He thought that the attack on Konoha was his way of retaliating for what he had experienced over the past twelve years.

Naruto always felt that it was right and just to stop his brother.

It is to maintain world peace.

However, now that I hear it and see it, I realize that...

It seems that everything is not as I imagined.

"Hey? Naruto? Can you tell me? Is this how you get your so-called justice, peace, and mutual understanding?"

Menma stared straight at Naruto.

The mockery was not concealed at all.

Naruto opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say anything. Even someone as naive as Naruto couldn't possibly say that he was just going to be beaten passively.

Even if it's just to make others understand you.

The prerequisite is that you have to win against the other side first.

In the original work, Nagato is like this.

The same goes for Obito.

The same applies to Sasuke in the end.

Naruto himself didn't really realize this; he genuinely believed that he was winning people over with his sincerity.

They completely forgot that without strength...

So-called sincerity is a joke.

"But at least it can't be like that... like that..."

Naruto struggled for a long time, wanting to say something, but he always felt that his words were inadequate, as if no matter what words he chose, they were not enough to express his true thoughts. He just thought that he was bad at speaking, and never thought that it was because he had no room for rebuttal at all.

The scene where they persuade Nagato.

That's already outrageous enough.

This is a mission that Nagato must complete by indulging in self-pity and self-strategy, and now he is facing Menma, who embodies ultimate realism.

What will Naruto use to persuade them?!

The answer is obvious.

no way.

"What do you mean by 'that'? Naruto, you're not suggesting that after I defeat the enemy, I should show mercy and let them live, right? And then wait for them to get ready so they can come back to capture and kill me again? You're stupid, don't drag me into it. This won't bring peace, it will only embolden the enemy. It will only make them think you're weak and easy to bully, that you don't dare to kill at all. They'll just take advantage of you. Aren't you a living example? I've let you go time and time again, but you just won't let me go at all." "You've taken it to heart? And you keep coming to bother your own brother, Naruto. Whether you admit it or not, we're brothers, and you're acting like this? What about outsiders?! If it weren't for our parents, I would have killed you long ago. Naruto, stop with your ridiculous and pathetic thoughts. Open your eyes and take a good look at this world. Before we were born, were the Three Shinobi World Wars faked?! Did the countless shinobi and civilians who died not count?! Peace, understanding?! This world has never had them."

With a pockmarked face and icy eyes, he spoke in a stern voice.

"No, the First Hokage did achieve true peace. In the past few decades, as you said, there has indeed been no true peace. That's because the world lacks a great man like the First Hokage. The First Hokage truly brought the five great nations together and maintained peace for a very long time. That's a fact, isn't it? You have to acknowledge that peace, right? And now, you can completely do the same as the First Hokage and create true peace in the same way, just like decades ago, Menma!"

It was as if they had grasped at the last straw of hope for survival in a desperate situation.