The Nephalem Chronicles

by Hussbek

Win a Great War, beat a stingy Goddess and knock some sense into a former emo teammate is what Naruto had in mind before looking forward to peaceful days. He wasn't expecting to bleed to death and be told that he's going to another world where crimes are a demon's daily activity in order to face an all powerful Overlord who goes around taking down other overlords...nothing new.

5. To Hunger or to Empower

The Nephalem Chronicles

Chapter 4: To Hunger or to Empower?

"Ah! Naruto and Kurama! You're back! I was beginning to think that something must've happened to you two," said Sindri, looking at the aforementioned duo with relief. It had been a few hours ever since Naruto and Kurama left after saving him to look for clues relating to the whereabouts of the Yamato. Long enough to make the merchant worry but was now looked relieved upon seeing them return.

"Sorry for the holdup, a lot of things happened during our search," said Naruto.

"It's no problem, did you have any luck in finding clues leading to the location of the sword?"

"No dice on that one, shouldn't surprise me that no one would know where it would be after all these years and has been well hidden," said Naruto with a frown.

"What about you shorty, did you learn anything interesting?" asked Kurama.

"You needn't be so rude," said Sindri, feeling offended "Anyways, while you were gone searching for the sword, I came across a group of surviving Lost soldiers that were planning on leaving Poisondise. I got a bit closer to the group and overheard them talking about being reassigned to go to another Netherworld called Demunshroom, to join another invading force to invade the realm. But that's not all, I also heard that they finally found someone who's a yellow bunny eared child whom the Demon General Majorita had ordered to capture which sounds very serious to the me. Having heard enough, I took my leave before the Lost soldiers think to look around and find me,"

Naruto went over Sindri's information about the Lost invading another NetherRealm and the bunny child with a small frown. He was curious about why Majorita is so fixated about the child. Whatever reason it is, he has no intention of letting her capture the child.

Kurama saw Naruto's determined expression and got a good idea of what he intends to do and spoke to Sindri "Looks like our next destination has been decided, we're headed for Demunshroom,"

"I thought as such," Sindri reached into his pocket and took out a gray stone with a strange symbol etched into it, he traced a finger along the etchings which made it glow with blue energy before tossing it away. The stone hovered in the air for a moment before shattering with the pieces rearranging themselves to form a door archway with a vortex swirling within it "Well, off we go,"

The group went through the portal which soon dissipated with the stone pieces clattering to the ground afterwards.

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Emerging on the other side of the portal, Naruto and Kurama took note of the area being akin to that of a swamp and the most defining feature of the NetherRealm would be the giant mushrooms all over the place.

Sindri announced "Here we are! Demunshroom,"

Naruto and Kurama looked around surveying their surroundings, the latter spoke in his sarcastic tone "Hmph, no wonder this planet is called Demunshroom, all I can see is mushrooms all around,"

"Well…that's kind of the point as this Netherworld is called Demunshroom for a reason,"

"The names of these NetherRealms seem to be on the nose," said Naruto "Now that we're here, we'll start looking around for any soldier from the Lost and see if we can find anything relating to the Yamato. In the meantime, you can either hide or do business with the people here,"

"Why of course, I can't call myself a merchant should I allow such opportunities go by," Sindri proclaimed with determination.

Splitting up and going their separate ways for the meantime, Naruto with Kurama perched on his left shoulder as always was making his way through the swampy areas by either using water-walking or jumping on top of the giant mushroom heads. Hearing voices, Naruto landed on top of a mushroom and looked over the edge to see a group of Lost soldiers and identified them to be Undead, Warriors, a Witch, Orcs and Flora Beasts.

"These guys all over the place…Spirit Interment, Blood Patch, Poisondise and now Demunshroom. The Lost wants to take over everything," said Naruto thoughtfully.

Kurama scoffed at the sight of them "Well, are we doing through the usual routine?"

"Beat em black and blue while being major pain in the necks?" Naruto smirked in response "Why not?" then they looked back down and listened in on the conversation of the Lost soldiers.

"We need to get a move and take over the place, last thing we want is to anger the master," said one of the Warriors.

"*Snort* We have nothing to fear, the demons in this realm are pushovers," said an orc.

The witch glared at the orc "Have you forgotten about what happened to the others? There's the rebel army and also that guy and fox whom I heard was able to defeat General Majorita,"

"*Snort* Bah! That has to be made up, General Majorita is too strong to lose. If that guy and his fox were here, I'd bash them to a pulp,"

"Oh yeah? Well start bashing little piggy," a voice spoke up, causing everyone to turn around and see Naruto standing amongst them with his arms crossed whilst staring at them with a quirked eyebrow "I was wondering when you guys were going to notice us,"

"Maybe never if you hadn't spoken up," said Kurama.

"It's them!" an imp proclaimed.

Naruto and Kurama grinned as the former spoke "Let's have some fun,"

Music Start: Devil May Cry OST; Public Enemy

The duo broke apart as Naruto rushed forward and positioned himself in the middle of the ground then he jumps into the air and performs a 360 spinning kick that generated a force of wind to send surrounding enemies flying. He then dashed at a warrior as his first target, ducking underneath a swing of his sword before attacking with an elbow strike to the stomach and followed up with a short uppercut to the chin before launching him away with a roundhouse kick.

"Trick!" a red demonic aura quickly flashed around his body for a second as Naruto slid away from a rock thrown at him by an Imp whilst drawing Force Edge from his back "Round Trip!" he flung the sword at the demon, slashing it multiple times before flying back to Naruto who was already moving on to another target being an orc which attacked with a swing of its mace for Naruto to block with his sword then retaliated "High Time!" he performed a rising uppercut that launched the demon and himself into the air then he formed a Rasengan with a free hand before blasting the orc away.

"Raaahh!" Naruto glanced to see Kurama having increased his size to that of a German Shepherd and was attacking some Undead rather fiercely with swipes of his claws and lashing of his tails, preventing them from biting him "Paw of the Beast King!" he enlarged one of his paws in mid-swing and smashed the Undead to the ground then he heard a Witch cast Fire Spell, launching a fireball in his direction. Kurama rapidly shrunk and dashed out of the way and retaliated "Roaring Cannon!" he opened his mouth to launch a large energy beam to knock her down.

"Dark Clutch!" an arm of demonic energy zipped past Kurama and grabbed an Imp that was about to swoop at the Bijuu from above before pulling the demon towards a waiting Naruto "Prop!" Naruto held out his hand and twirled the Force Edge like a buzzsaw, knocking the Imp into the air "Shredder!" then he twirled in the opposite direction which slashed it down to the ground "Gunslinger!" his body flashed a demonic aura once more as he switched out the Force Edge for the Anaconda and Over-Drive.

Naruto rushed at a warrior and drove an elbow into his gut, the warrior recovered and responded with multiple slashes from his sword which Naruto activated his angelic energy and was evading the incoming strikes then countered with knee strike, going into a roundhouse kick before firing a powerful shot from the Anaconda "Twosome Time!" he proceeded to fire rapidly, taking different postures to shoot at the demons until both guns ran out of ammo.

Seeing him momentarily vulnerable, some of the Orcs and Imps lunged to attack only for some of them to be blasted by a powerful swirling stream of white flames that has a red-orange flame spiraling around it courtesy of Kurama having used Crimson Blazer to intercept but some are still approaching to attack "Royalguard!" switching to a more defensive style, Naruto proceeded to block their incoming attacks and building up energy as they continued their offense until he had built up enough "Royal Release!" he unleashed all of the stored power with a spinning backhand which downed all of the surrounding enemies.

Music End

Approaching the barely conscious Lost soldiers, one of them began to plead "Please spare us, we're just following orders from the Dark Lord!"

Naruto crossed his arms with a frown "Is that so?"

"Yes, we had no other choice but to obey," another Lost soldier added.

"What do you think?" asked Kurama.

Naruto closed his eyes in thought for a moment before speaking up "Okay then, I'll let you go…," he turned around and started to walk away.

"Thank you very much…," said the Lost soldiers in gratitude but were smirking evilly, intending to attack the Nephalem with his back turned when said person suddenly spoke up much to their confusion.

"I said I'd let you guys go…but I wasn't speaking for my friend though," Naruto pointed out.

The Lost soldiers heard a humming sound and turned towards it only to be horrified upon seeing Kurama having charged up a Bijuu Bomb which he launched at them, carrying the demons far away and exploding massively afterwards. Both Naruto and Kurama had sensed that they were lying via their Negative Emotion Sensing (NES) and had prepared to finish them off as much as the former disliked doing so.

"Hmph weaklings, thinking they're so smart that they can weasel their way out by playing innocent," Kurama scoffed.

"I wonder if the Lost soldiers even regret their actions…probably not," said Naruto.

Resuming their exploration of the NetherRealm whilst keeping an eye out for anything worth of interest, Naruto suddenly stopped as he sensed something which got Kurama to look at him with confusion.

"What's the matter?" asked the fox.

"I'm sensing someone in distress and this person is not alone, I'm also picking up four additional individuals with bad intentions, probably Lost soldiers," Naruto explained with a frown.

"Well, what are we standing around for? Let's go already,"

Not wasting a second, Naruto quickly made his way towards where he was sensing the person in distress and soon reached the place, coming upon three sludge demons surrounding someone who has the appearance of a blue penguin with small black bat wings, two wooden peg legs and a brown pouch around its stomach.

"What's a pathetic Prinny like you doing here? Or rather it's a good thing…for us," one of the sludge demons sneered evilly.

"I guessing that's what they call those penguins around here," thought Naruto as he listened in on their conversation.

"How about you join the Lost and work as our butler? It's what you're supposed to do after all," said a Sludge demon.

"No way, I don't want to join dood!" the Prinny protested, suddenly one of the Sludge demons attacked the Prinny which knocked him down and the HL spilled out of his pouch only for the demons to take them much to his dismay "No, that's mine dood!"

A Sludge demon sneered at him "You should have listened to us like a good Prinny was supposed to but now we're gonna make an example out of you for defying your betters,"

Having seen enough, the duo jumped off the giant mushroom to land before them, making their presence known to the demons who sans the Prinny recognized them.

"Ah! It's those wanted demons that defeated our Demon General Majorita!"

Kurama then muttered "Seems like the Lost soldiers are starting to fear us considering we defeated Majorita,"

Naruto replied "Seems like it which they should," He then turned back to the 3 sludge demons "You three better back away from the Prinny,"

One of the Sludge demons tried to be brave and intimidating as it retorted "Why should we and why do you care about this Prinny? He's weak like all the rest. They're made to serve their masters until their usefulness is at an end. Plus he deserves it for the sins he'd committed as a human which is why he's here in the NetherRealm. If anything, you should be thanking us for disciplining him,"

The Nephalem wasn't at all pleased with that answer as what that Prinny is going through is almost similar to when the villagers always hurt him in many ways for their satisfaction when he was a child "This is your last warning, leave the Prinny alone,"

"If you want the weak Prinny so much then try to take him from us,"

"You were warned…," Naruto suddenly blurred forward and stopped with his hand holding the Force Edge as the Sludge demons plopped to the floor and disappeared afterwards much to the Prinny's shock and awe before he approached the duo.

Music Start: Kingdom Hearts 2 OST; Laughter and Merriment

"Thanks for saving me, dood," said the Prinny in gratitude.

Naruto smiled in response "It's no problem at all,"

"But why did you choose to help me? Most demons would turn a blind eye from a Prinny and wouldn't even think about rescuing the likes of a Prinny unless they are still useful, dood?"

"Is there a reason for me not to? I saw someone in trouble and chose to help. Plus, hearing those Lost soldiers explaining what a Prinny's purpose is and everything as well as treating you…it didn't sit well with me. Even if it's true what they say, surely you must've regretted your actions when you were alive correct?"

The Prinny was silent for awhile as he looked back on his actions which weren't good choices up till now which led him to becoming a Prinny. He nodded his head "Yeah, I do regret dood,"

Naruto nodded in approval "Good, as long you're trying to atone your sins then that's what it counts…although sorry for them stealing all of your HL but I'm kinda curious as to why you were so protective of your money?"

The Prinny looked at Naruto, surprised "You mean you don't know?"

"We're new to this place, birdy," Kurama retorted.

"Well, the purpose of a Prinny is to do any kind of job to earn enough HL to pay off the sins they had committed in the past, they get to be reincarnated by being cleansed by the glow of a red moon and be given a chance to be reborn as a human," the Prinny explained.

Kurama quirked an eyebrow at this "So the Prinnies are at the bottom of the food chain here as they're the lowest of the low,"

"Kurama!" Naruto scolded the fox for his insensitive statement.

"What? I'm just saying!"

"As much I don't want to admit it, that's just how things are here for a Prinny, dood," the Prinny albeit feeling a bit depressed.

"And another thing, why do you keep saying "dood" in every sentence?

"Well, all Prinnies have to as the first thing for a Prinny is always include the word 'dood' in every line they say,"

"Is that so…?"

"Well it's time for us to get a move on as we're currently on a mission right now," Naruto spoke up.

"You're leaving?" asked the Prinny.

"Yeah, I think you need to find a place to hide and lay low with the Lost roaming around. Be careful and good luck," the Nephalem turned and prepared to jump away when the Prinny suddenly called out to him.

"Let me come with you, dood!" said the Prinny.

Naruto was surprised for a moment but then frowned "I can't let you come along,"

"Please don't say that, dood! I really want to be with you guys!"

"Why do you even want to follow us?"

"When saving me from the Lost, you guys looked so cool fighting those guys and you didn't discriminate me even though I'm a Prinny. I also want you to train me to become strong enough that I wouldn't be bullied anymore and be able to reincarnate for sure this time since all of my life savings of HL which I had collected over the years of servitude has set me back to square one because of the Lost army, dood," the Prinny explained.

Naruto looked at the Prinny silently, he could sense his anxiousness but couldn't help but feel that the way the Prinny was looking at him with admiration reminded him of how Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon looked up to him the same way, wanting to be strong just like him.

After a moment of silence, Naruto sighed and finally spoke up "Alright, I'll take you in as my very first trainee. But know that if the fights we'll get into prove to be too much, then back out as soon as you can and leave the rest to us until the time comes that you're strong enough to handle things by yourself,"

The Prinny jumped up and down while waving his flippers happily "Thank you so much, dood!"

Kurama frowned "You'd better be serious about training; he may not mind babysitting you but I do. Don't drag us down,"

"I won't disappoint you, dood. I promise!" said the Prinny with a salute, making

Naruto smiled at having made a new friend since Killia and the others aren't exactly friends given their previous interactions when suddenly a holographic screen appeared in front of the Nephalem and Bijuu which read:

The Prinny, joined Naruto's party!

"What the heck was that? Did a text just appeared before us?" asked Naruto confusedly.

The Prinny explained "Oh don't worry about that, it tends to happen when someone joins your party. You'll get used to it, dood."

"I see…," Naruto simply nodded at this, knowing he'll have to get used to these kinds of things now that Kurama and him are in another world. Regardless, Naruto accepted the Prinny into his team and set off with the new member, continuing where they had left off in their task.

Music End

Along the way, Naruto learnt a few interesting things about the Prinny; apparently Prinnies explode when thrown which made the duo sweatdrop at the 'unique' trait and thought about how to get around that in the case that the Prinny gets grabbed and thrown during a fight. The pouches on their stomachs have almost infinite capacity to store anything without being weighed down. Also, the primary weapons of all Prinnies are a pair of machetes with the secondary being bombs which gave Naruto a few ideas on how to train the Prinny.

Suddenly, Naruto stopped in his tracks as he felt something and apparently Kurama felt it too as both of them frowned at what they were sensing.

"Don't think I need to ask if you're feeling what I'm feeling," said Naruto.

"Indeed you don't," said Kurama seriously.

The Prinny looked at the duo in confusion "What is it, dood?"

"Kurama and I are picking up a very dangerous energy signature but this particular one feels…rampant,"

"Rampant? What do you mean by that, dood?"

"That's what we are gonna find out,"

With that being said, Naruto grabbed the Prinny and tucked him under his arm before leaping across the giant mushrooms in direction of the destructive energy signature to find out and see who or what is letting out this much. After reaching their destination, they discovered where this energy was coming from and what they find is shocking for them.

Over at the distance, they see an appearance of a little girl with bobbed blonde hair and red eyes. She wears bunny like earmuffs which are colored black and yellow, also wearing a slightly oversized yellow jacket, a white scarf and leotard, black pantyhose and a pair of white bunny slippers. However, the most distinctive aspect about her is that she looks feral and berserk which looked eerily similar to how Naruto would look like when he uses Kurama's chakra in its impure state.

Apparently she wasn't alone as 2 imps and an orc which Naruto, Kurama and the Prinny assumed to be Lost soldiers were engaging her but they didn't last long as the bunny girl opened her mouth and fired a purple energy beam which annihilated 3 of them at once, then she started firing energy beams in different directions in her rampage.

"Like looking in a mirror, huh?" asked Kurama.

"Yeah…," Naruto recalled the times he went berserk when his emotions would tap into Kurama's chakra, hurting some of his friends in the process which made him feel guilty.

The Prinny looked terrified at what he's seeing and was being vocal about it "Gahhh! Is that where that energy signature led us? A rampaging beast that can shot out lasers out of her mouth, dood!?"

Naruto watching her said in a calm voice "Seems so, though I'm guessing that's the bunny girl Majorita has ordered to capture,"

Kurama then said "Yup, I can see why though given that she's shooting everything in sight but I do wonder why her specifically?"

"Who knows, whatever the case may be, we're not letting her or the Lost army capture her let alone kill her if she's proven to be too much for the lost soldiers to handle,"

"So we're helping her? I figured as much,"

Naruto turned towards the Prinny "I'll need you to hang back for this one,"

The Prinny nodded eagerly in agreement "I hear you loud and clear, I don't have a death wish for this one, dood!"

Naruto and Kurama stepped out into the clearing to reveal themselves which the bunny girl had noticed them, the moment she set her eyes on them and viewed them to be a threat to her so she growled at them as a warning to not get close.

Naruto held out his hands in a placating manner "Now now, calm down. We're not your enemies, so there's no need f-Whoa!" he quickly darted out of the way of a lunge from the bunny girl who turned face them while growling "Talking won't exactly work at her current state of mind, maybe I could use th-,"

"Hey Naruto, we've got company," said Kurama through their mind link. Sure enough, Naruto stated to pick up familiar energy signatures that are not far as they were making their way to their location and recognized them to belong to Killia and co.

The Nephalem groaned at this "As if I don't have enough problems right now, better send a Shadow Clone to learn what they're doing here while I try to restrain her,"

"Good call,"

Naruto readied himself and waited for the rampaging bunny girl to fire an energy beam which she did and he immediately used the resulting dust cloud to create a shadow clone to stealthily approach the Rebel Army and listen in on their conversation while the original faces the bunny girl.

As for why Killia and the others are in Demunshroom, they had just found the yellow Prinny after she stole the curry which Killia had cooked upon infiltrating Seraphina's Pocket Netherworld and escaped to Demunshroom which angered them minus Killia to pursue it then learned that the Lost are invading here as well which became another reason to be here other then avenging the curry that the Lost destroyed after finding the Yellow Prinny who was trying to protect herself and the curry from the Lost soldiers who were surrounding her to get information.

Now Killia and co are following the Yellow Prinny who was leading them to her master which was when they arrived to see her supposed master being a rampaging berserker of a bunny girl but what surprised the group was that Naruto is there along with his partner Kurama as they are trying to avoid getting hit by the energy beams she's firing around.

"Ah! That's my master over there, plip! And she seems to be fighting someone too!" said the Yellow Prinny worriedly.

Christo spoke up "Is that Naruto? What's he doing over there?"

Red Magnus crossed his arms with a frown "And that super crazy thing is your master? It's really energetic. It's shooting lasers out of its mouth,"

Seraphina said "It doesn't seem like it needs any help. It's shooting lasers out of its mouth. Not to mention Naruto and that mutt seem to have this under control,"

"No, you got it all wrong, plip! My master is a very cute and calm girl!" The Yellow Prinny became nervous, thinking that the group weren't going to help "But a Demon General cast a spell on her, so now if she runs out of curry, she turns into a beast like that, plip! We were too busy running away from the Lost, but she didn't have a chance to eat any curry, plip! She was able to handle it until now, but she exceeded her limits, plip!"

As the group thought about this information or in this case Killia was thinking about this from what they were told while unaware that a shadow clone had just overheard everything from what that Yellow Prinny had explained

"So that's the reason why she's like this, she needs curry in order to keep her from going berserk. I find it odd that curry is what's sustaining her but if I have to guess what Demon General that cast a spell on her must be Majorita due to her obsession of finding her," thought the shadow clone, it began to think of dispersing to relay the information to the original but went against it and sticking around longer too see what they'll do now after learning of this.

"A Demon General's spell…," Killia muttered thoughtfully

Seraphina crossed her arms with a small frown "Anyway, a Spell that turns her into a beast, but only when she runs out of curry…that is one weird spell,"

Christo who was unsure about this situation said "Killia, it looks like it would be best if we didn't get involved this time. I feel bad, but this is none of our business. Our objective is to defeat Void Dark. I don't think we should risk our lives over this like how both Naruto and Kurama are doing over there. We should leave this matter to them and focus on our real task at hand,"

Upon hearing this, the hidden clone frowned at Christo, clearly disliking his decision and wondered if the others are going to agree to this as well. Christo began walking away while expecting the others to follow but Killia remained where he stood while both Seraphina and Red Magnus were unsure of what to do.

Christo realizing Killia hasn't moved from his spot called out to him "…What's wrong, Killia? You're not thinking of joining them into saving her even though you may get hurt, are you?"

"…," Killia didn't say a word and just hmphed while Seraphina and Red Magnus just stood at the side-lines, wondering what Killia would do. Even the clone who was silently watching them was interested how this would play out.

Receiving no response, Christo then said "Killia, are you a hero of justice? The answer is obviously no. As a demon, you should abandon things for the sake of your own cause,"

"…," Killia still didn't say anything and started to walk in the direction where Naruto and Kurama are battling the Yellow Prinny's master which shocked Christo

"What are you doing!? You're going to help someone, even though you're a demon!? You're not thinking straight!"

At this point, the clone was really disliking Christo even more as he's trying to convince Killia to not save the girl and leave to her fate. Clearly Christo is more focused on taking down Void Dark rather than not save someone just for his own self-interest. "The boss ain't gonna like this,"

Killia was silent for a while until he faced Christo and asked "…Do you really not get it?"

Christo responded nonchalantly with a shrug "No, not at all" Killia then said "…I used to not get it ether, until my family taught me. I don't want to see anyone suffering from Void Dark," Hearing this left the clone surprised but not as much as Seraphina who wasn't expecting to hear that from Killia.

"Sir Killia…" she said as she thought back to when she and Killia first met in Blood Parch "That time when Sir Killia saved me from the Lost…in that situation, most people would have abandoned me…but Sir Killia saved me all by himself. I have been…No, I still think only about exploring you, but…Sir Killia has a strong hatred for Void Dark, yet he still tried to save someone else…Sir Killia…you carry the darkness known as hatred within you, so how can you act so dignified…?"

"Hey Sera, your imagination is starting to spill all over the place," Red Magnus spoke up, snapping Seraphina out of her thoughts as she immediately realized that everyone is staring at her as the center of attention which made her blush out of embarrassment

"What!? Hey!? N-Never mind that! It was…,"

Before she could explain herself, something grabbed their attention along with the clone over at the battle with Naruto & Kurama against the berserker Bunny girl as their fight was interrupted as Lost Soldiers started to appear around them which only further enraged the berserker Bunny girl while Naruto and Kurama got annoyed at the Lost Soldiers' sudden interruption in an attempt to capture the berserker Bunny girl as well as eliminating the duo.

Red Magnus declared "Hmhmhm, this is no time for an innocent girl to use her imagination. Look, the Lost's reinforcements have super arrived. Let's go help Naru and save the girl," hearing this made everyone assume their stance as they're about to join Naruto and Kurama in the battlefield.

The clone smiled in satisfaction at their willingness to help while Christo reluctantly joined them which made clone frown at him, mentally putting his name in the original's shit list. Seeing there's no point in sticking around, the clone dispersed itself back to the original.

Back to Naruto and Kurama, the former was preoccupied blocking attacks from one of the Lost with his Shakujo when he felt the memories his clone flow into his mind. Naruto wasn't pleased at all with Christo's attempt in not helping the bunny girl but was smiling at Killia in wanting to save her while gaining new information about the group and of the enraged bunny girl's predicament. Naruto relayed the info to Kurama through their mental link as Killia and co joined the fight.

Naruto tossed a comment their way "You guy sure took your sweet time over there, I assume you all decided to help us to get rid of the Lost while calming down the girl?"

Red Magnus nodded in response "You're super right Naru, we will get rid of the lost and save the girl,"

Naruto smiled at the big guy "That's great to hear. It's good to know that some of you guys are good people instead of just leaving her to her fate" while looking at Christo pointedly, making said person catch on to what he was saying and started to sweat nervously while thinking what does he mean by that and how does he know? Was he listening in our conversation?

"Please don't kill my master, she's not a bad girl!" the yellow Prinny pleaded worriedly.

Naruto smiled with understanding "Don't worry, I wasn't going to kill her but rather restrain her from hurting anyone including herself.

The yellow Prinny sighed in relief "Oh thank goodness,"

Naruto then walked towards Killia and said "I assume you have something to save her?"

Which made Killia raise an eyebrow at his question "Why do you ask that? What makes you think I have something to save her?"

Naruto smiled and said "Come on Killia, your friends may not know yet but I can tell that you have something with you that'll return her to normal. The only way to help her is curry right? And I know you have some on you,"

Killia was a little surprised at how Naruto knows this information as well as discovering his intention which made him wonder how "You knew?"

"Let's just say I have my ways, but I think we should focus on what's in front of us. I have a plan to subdue her but we need to deal with the Lost first. Once we clear off the Lost and subdue the girl, I'll leave the rest to you. Got it?"

"Got it" Killia nodded as he assumed his stance.

"Finally, less talking and more action!" said Kurama, having been silent for some time.

Music Start: Devil May Cry 2 OST; Assault!

Sensing a projectile heading his way, Naruto quickly somersaulted into the air to avoid a giant rock which had been thrown by an Imp and took a quick look around the battlefield to see that the Lost soldiers consist of Imps, Orcs and Minotaurs. Then he took note of strange mushrooms growing in certain places.

"I'd better watch out for the spores from those mushrooms, though I could use this to my advantage if I were to lure the enemies there," said Naruto thoughtfully whilst landing back on the ground.

"Stinger!" Naruto dashed along the ground with the Force Edge reared back before attacking with a highspeed thrust which an orc barely blocked with its mace and struggled to hold him back, that was when another orc lunged at him with its mace raised to attack. Naruto used the Substitution jutsu to have a wooden log take the attack in his place and appear a short distance away from them.

"Petite Slice!" the two orcs proceeded to spin like tops on top of their maces to attack as they approached. Seeing this, Naruto quickly created two Shadow Clones that helped him form two Rasengan on his hands before charging towards them "Rasengan Barrage!" he rammed the two spiraling spheres into the demons, blasting them away but wasn't done with his assault "Dark Clutch!" he thrusts his hands out, to launch two dark ethereal arms to grab both demons then pulled it towards him, the shadow clones rushed past him and finished the orcs with their own Force Edge.

Hearing the stomping of hooves approaching him, Naruto leapt out of the way to avoid a Minotaur that attempted to gore him with its horns and turned to face him while snorting vapor from its nostrils. The former blonde shivered a bit, recalling that stampede of bulls that chased him all the way to the stadium which he still blames Konohamaru for.

"I'm gonna split you in two!" the Minotaur bellowed.

"Instead of telling me, just do it," Naruto retorted, channeling his demonic energy which made his eyes turn red. The Minotaur lunged with a cleaving strike which Naruto dodged with a side roll, causing a crimson red aura to emit from his hands as he took out a couple of kunai which he flung at his target before forming a handsign "Shuriken Shadow Clone jutsu!" he watched as they multiplied into a thousand copies of the originals. The minotaur charged through the incoming projectiles to reach Naruto and attack with its axe.

"Royal Guard!" Naruto switched styles and performed a perfect guard against the attack with barely any damage received which angered the bull demon to attacking even more fiercely "Stolen Slice!" the minotaur channeled demonic energy into its axe before attacking with a mighty swing "Trick!" Naruto switched styles again while utilizing angelic energy this time "Air Trick!" He disappeared in a flash of white light before above the demon with his Shakujo in hand as he brought it down on the minotaur's head, slamming it to the ground hard enough to form a large crater.

Killia was swiftly moving amongst the orcs while launching an assault of punches and kicks, not giving the enemies any chance to retaliate "Hmph, Triple Strike," he performed a rolling somersault into the air and drove one of the orcs' head into the ground with an axe kick and pulled it out with a backflip kick before finishing with a powerful straight punch to the gut "Phantom Blow," turning towards the second orc, two afterimages of Killia appeared on both sides of the original as they converged to launch the orc into the air with an uppercut before moving at blurring speeds to get behind it to fuse with Killia who had a fist radiating fiery aura to punch the demon, sending it crashing down to the ground.

Several Imps were tossing large rocks and casting Wind spells towards Seraphina to evaded the incoming attacks with grace "Ohohohoho, you weaklings have no sense of perfect accuracy unlike this beautiful me! Tri-Burst!" with a twirl of her handguns, she rapidly fired a barrage of bullets that ricocheted around the confused imps before hitting them in their blindspots "Your end is now, Two-Handed Draw!" she unleashed a bulletstorm whilst alternating various postures with her guns, the wings of the imps now bore holes on them which resulted in the demons plummeting to the ground "Ohohohoho!"

"SUPER!" Red Magnus swung his axe in wide arcs, striking multiple orcs that were unfortunate enough to be within his range when he was suddenly struck by a giant block of ice and turned to see that Nether Noble was the assailant who was rushing towards him with his own axe raised to attack, Red Magnus responded in kind with both clashing in the middle and struggled for dominance over the other.

"You shall be destroyed, for the glory of Void Dark!" the Nether Noble declared.

Red Magnus laughed in response "Hahaha! Sorry to disappoint you but Red Magnus is not going to let himself lose to any of you! Here comes my Steel Arm Lariat!" Red Magnus reared an arm back which enlarged to twice his size as he attacked with it, smashing the Nether Noble to the ground just like the others "And I haven't even reached my Super Limit!"

Hearing someone land close by, he turned to see the feral bunny girl growling at him "Grrrrr!"

"Stop it, we're not your enemy," said Killia sternly.

"Hey Killia, maybe we could knock her out to quiet her down…," said Red Magnus, looking at the bunny girl with wariness.

Seraphina scoffed "A person whose only good quality is his idiotically stupid strength couldn't pull off a trick like that,"

"She's right, you're more likely to kill her instead," Christo pointed out in agreement.

"Wh-What!? You…," Red Magnus was flabbergasted by their criticisms.

"Stop it. Our enemy is Void Dark and the Lost, I don't wanna harm anyone else," said Killia, turning to face the soldiers of the latter "We need to focus on annihilating the Lost right now, okay?"

Rd Magnus sighed "…Tch, fine. If Killia says so, then Red Magnus won't lay a finger on her. But what's stopping her from attack us?"

No sooner he asked that the bunny girl pounced at him but several furry tails grabbed her while in midair, revealing to be Kurama having intervened "As much as I want to continue making these Lost fools my chew toy, I'll keep her attention on me while you deal with the rest of them," Kurama tossed the bunny girl to the side, making her angry and pursue him as he ran off.

"Thanks, now Red Magnus can give his Super all!"

Back with Naruto, he was bashing multiple orcs and imps with his Shakujo as he became more proficient with the weapon which is rather understandable considering that he had been using shuriken and kunai throughout most of his ninja career until now. Seeing that there were still more of the Lost soldiers approaching to fight him and that Kurama was acting as bait for the bunny girl to focus on, Naruto decided to finish the battle quick.

"Let's finish this," Naruto created two shadow clones and help form a pair of Rasengan with the clones darting forward and slamming the two spheres together and making burst outwards in a bright flash of light, blinding the demons for a moment before looking to see that the Nephalem was gone.

"Where did he go!?" asked one of the imps in confusion

Hearing something from above, the demons looked up only to be terrified at the sight of Naruto along with a battalion of shadow clones diving towards them, each with a Rasengan in hand.

"A chapter straight from my ninja handbook; Rasengan Super Barrage!" Naruto declared as he and the clones descended upon the demons like a literal meteor shower, resulting in a chain of explosion before reappearing a distance away, having used the Trickster style to avoid any sort of damage from the attack "Guess that takes cares of all of them…,"

Music End

"Hey, now that you're not busy, mind lending a hand here?" Kurama called out whilst avoiding the energy beam attacks from the feral bunny girl.

Naruto responded "Alright, bring her over this way and I'll handle it!"

"Heading your way then!" Kurama ran towards Naruto with the bunny girl still chasing him.

The Nephalem formed the tiger handsign as he concentrated, causing glowing spots of golden light to appear on his back which caught the attention of Killia and the others.

Red Magnus asked curiously "Whoa! What's that bright light that's coming from Naru?" just as he asked that, right on cue, Naruto sprouted gold-like chains that formed out of his back which left everyone speechless.

Seraphina who was in disbelief said "Did he just produce chains out of his back!?"

Red Magnus then said "That's super cool, I didn't know he can create chains like that!"

Even Christo was intrigued seeing this said while adjusting his glasses "I must admit, I'm very surprised and curious about those chains he summoned, I wonder if that's another holy skill of his,"

Killia who as always stoic at seeing this thought to himself "That is not holy energy, I don't sense any magic at all from those chains, it's something else…foreign but similar to magic. This energy is a completely different thing that he's using, what kind of power is he wielding? Does he possess not only magic but another different type of energy source too?"

Meanwhile, Naruto waited Kurama to get closer then he manipulated the chains to shoot towards the bunny girl and immediately bind her tightly. Try as she could, the bunny girl was unable to break free which was no surprise as these chains were capable of binding beasts as powerful as the Bijuu. The girl was displeased at being restrained and growled menacingly as she stared at them but mainly Naruto.

Seeing that things are okay for the meantime, Naruto called out to the Prinny "Hey buddy, you can come out now. Everything's under control,"

The Prinny peeked out from behind a giant "Are you sure, dood? I don't wanna be her next target,"

"It's okay, there's nothing to worry about," Naruto reassured his new friend.

"Okay boss, I'm coming over, dood," the Prinny stepped out and waddled over to the Nephalem, surprising Killia and co that Naruto has a Prinny with him now but weren't entirely interested as to the reason why.

The yellow Prinny looked at the bunny girl with worry "Ahhh, at this rate my master will… Without curry, Master Usalia will fully transform, plip! If that happens, she'll never be able to return to her normal self, plip!"

"So her name is Usalia huh…," Naruto hummed in thought.

Red Magnus who was angry at how this situation is turning out "Oh crap! Red Magnus super can't believe it! We defeated the Lost, but…,"

Christo who nodded as he said "That's correct. If we don't have any curry, then we can't save her. Killia, allow me to point this out for future reference. Your actions here were pointless,"

Seraphina turn towards Christo with angry expression "Wait, Christo! You have no right to talk to my Sir Killia-,"

"Hmph…," Everyone noticed that both Killia AND Naruto were smirking as if Christo said something amusing

"Wh-What's so funny you two?"

Naruto grinned "What's funny is that you still haven't figured it out yet,"

Kurama added with a snicker "And you're supposed to be the brains of your group, I'm amazed you haven't figured it out as the answer has been right in front of you all this time,"

A confused Christo frowned at them while asking "Figure out what? I don't quite follow?"

It was then Killia decided to answer him "I'm a busy guy. If I'm gonna do something, then I won't settle for anything but perfection,"

Christo took a step back "What do you mean? Huh!? C-Could it be…?" he began to connect the dots as he started to see what Naruto and Kurama were hinting at.

Naruto noticed this and pointed it out to Killia "Heh, looks like he's finally catching on."

Killia nodded whilst gesturing towards the yellow Prinny "If she was willing to put her life on the line to steal curry, then I figured it must be for a very important reason. So, I prepared another plate, just in case,"

He approached the bound Usalia who's still in her enraged state, then brought out a plate of curry which showed a bright light around it as if something beautiful is right in front of them while Naruto and Kurama were curious about how food would shine like that

Christo exclaimed "Th-That's curry! And it's magnificent! I can't believe even with my clairvoyance, I couldn't see this coming!" then he thought "And those two were aware that Killia had some the entire time while we didn't. How is it they know about it while we haven't?"

Seraphina whined at the revelation "You even hid the existence of this curry from your own master… You're so mean!"

Red Magnus who just now realized something until now spoke up "…Does anyone else think this is weird? We were just fighting over curry, but you had some this whole time,"

Naruto who heard this turned to ask "Wait, are you saying you guys had been fighting over curry since you all came here? And this has nothing to do with learning about the Lost activity of their invasion here!?"

As if hoping that wasn't the case. Of course none of them said a word as they all were sweating while denying about it which the duo sweatdropped at how that was exactly what their intentions were.

Kurama muttered in disbelief "I can't believe they were fighting over food in the first place,"

Naruto then looked at Killia and asked "Killia, were they seriously fighting over curry and not just about the Lost invasion?"

Killia answered "Unfortunately, it was as that was their original objective before learning about the Lost here from our encounter," Naruto couldn't believe what he was hearing while Kurama muttered "Why am I not surprised to hear this,"

Christo who was now thinking adjusted his glasses in thought as he looked at Killia "He foresaw this clearly enough to prepare more curry…What an undemonic course of action… No…Can it be that he could do that precisely because he's a demon? Killia. Your undemonic actions…Your nothing like the demons I know. You're a man of many mysteries. And the same goes to you as well Naruto, something tells me your more then just a demon and yet you would go as far as helping someone who you just met while taking the risks. You two are quite odd but interesting to say the least,"

Back to Killia who was in front of an enraged berserker bunny girl said "Naruto, could you release her?"

Naruto looked at Killia with a quirked eyebrow "You do know that the moment I let her go, nothing will stop her from attacking you. Are you sure you're willing to take those odds knowing full well you're going to get hurt in the process?"

Killia nodded his in response "Yes, if it means saving her, then I'll do whatever it takes to see this through,"

Naruto stared at him for a while before smiling at his response, clearly he was pleased with this as Killia has gained more of his respect for risking himself to save her while knowing fully well that he'll could hurt. Naruto then stated "That's what I like to hear. Alright then, I'll let her go but the moment she gets too aggressive, I'll step in if things go south. Got it?"

"Got it,"

With that, Naruto began to retracting his Chakra Chains from the enraged bunny girl as they withdrew into his back. Naruto gave Killia the OK as Killia looked towards her as he presented the curry in front of her while saying "You did well. Now eat this,"

The enraged Usalia who was looking at Killia then shifted her gaze at Naruto as she's still hostile towards them but mainly Naruto, making sure he wouldn't pull any fast ones on her and Naruto watched her critically to make sure she won't do anything that would get out of hand. Eventually, she turned back to Killia, slowly advancing towards him until she's in front and before Killia knew it, he was assaulted as she clawed at him which hurt but he held his ground.

"Sir Killia!" Seraphina saw what happened and immediately jumped in and took out her dual pistols to aim at the enraged Usalia but before she took the shot,

Killia stopped her "…I'm okay, this is nothing," Seraphina was looking unsure for moment while slightly looking at Naruto to see he looked calm while watching very closely before eventually putting away her guns with uncertainty.

Killia kept trying to show the Enraged Usalia that he means no harm but she kept whaling at Killia as he took those hits repeatedly.

Seeing that Naruto isn't doing anything to stop this, Red Magnus said "Why, Killia…? Why are you letting her…?"

Killia repeats himself saying "I didn't want anyone to suffer because of Void Dark. Didn't I tell you that?" he then turned his focus back at the enraged Usalia "Now, eat it,"

The enraged Usalia stare at him after witnessing him take those hits and hasn't retaliated, he wasn't even showing any hostility towards her after what she did. After watching him for a bit she took the curry with hesitation and took a bite and before anyone knows it, she immediately jumped up high into the air which made the Yellow Prinny worried if it didn't work.

"M-Master!?" the yellow Prinny inquired worriedly.

As everyone looked at the figure of the enraged Usalia as a bright light shone before an explosion which revealed Usalia back to her normal state as a child as she spoke

"Huh!? Aaahhh! Th-This taste…! The various spices form a complicated mix, but the fragrant the Eryngia Oil in it is giving it a luxurious aroma, plip! It has a collaboration of smells. The spices and oil heighten each other. It's mightier than a Gigantis' pounding footsteps, plip! Plip!? Just when you think the spiciness will entice your stomach, waves of sweetness spread all throughout your mouth, plip! C-Could this be…meat from the mystical fire dragon, Entei!? Ahhh, the miraculous marriage between these complicated, yet rare, spices and untrodden dragon's meat is healing my heart, plip!"

After that moment, Usalia landed back to the ground as her Yellow Prinny happily cried out "Master Usalia!"

Two more yellow Prinnies appearing next to Usalia on both sides whilst the original created a crate box in front of Usalia before joining the other two as they twirling around their master.

Killia then place a plate of curry on the crate in front of Usalia "Special Fire Dragon Curry, Giga Fire Style. I held back on the spiciness so that little kids can also eat it,"

Christo adjusted his glasses "The Violent beast that was going berserk turned out to be a little girl like this…,"

Naruto was smiling out of satisfaction "Well at least we were able to save her just in time." He gave Christo a judging look "Right Christo?"

This made Christo for some reason start sweating from the way Naruto was looking at him "Y-Yes, of course," then he thought "Why was Naruto giving me the stink eye when he gives me that look as if he's judging me for something? Does he knows something that I don't? Surely I haven't done or said anything to offend him…have I?"

Seraphina paid no mind to them as she walked forward the plate of Curry "Whew… anyway, I am finally able to eat some curry." Which she took a bite and gave a rather surprising reaction "A-Ahhh…❤️ ❤️ ❤️" as she fainted.

Red Magnus was shocked at her reaction "…Huh? Sera fainted?" he approached the curry and looked at it with suspicion "Could this curry be…super nasty?" He then took a bit of some curry as just as he did, he started jumping around while doing flips before shouting out "It's super delicious! Whoooaaa! Red Magnus is super sorry! He apologizes for doubting you for even a second!"

Killia then replied "Hmph…I had to make this a lot back of the day,"

Red Magnus stated "No, Red Magnus wasn't apologizing to you. He was apologizing to the curry," Hearing this only made Killia sweatdrop at that response. Red Magnus then turns his attention to Naruto and said "Naru, you should try the curry. It's super great,"

Naruto does feel tempted to try some. That and he hasn't eaten anything for a while ever since arriving in this new world. So he said "Well…I suppose I can stick around a bit more. Plus all this talk about curry got me hungry." Naruto then went to the curry before saying "All that trouble over curry had me wondering if it's over exaggerated or it's that good,"

Kurama then spoke up "Only one way to find out plus I'm curious to try some too,"

"Since when do you need to eat?"

"I don't need to but feel like it. Besides ever since we arrived in this world, I wanna try some things now that I'm out here,"

"Alright, fair point."

While Naruto was getting some curry for him,Kurama and the Prinny, Killia was curious about what Naruto meant about not needing to eat from the fox as well as Kurama stating about them arriving in the world but didn't question it as it could've meant a lot of things. Anyways the trio tried the food and they were in total bliss from the taste

"Whoa! This curry is amazing!" said Naruto, barely keeping his emotions in check.

"I can see why you guys were fighting over this curry, it's great," Kurama was in agreement.

Even the Prinny was in the same boat "It's so delicious, dood! I'm willing to do anything so I can be rewarded with a plate of it!"

Naruto stated "If Rock Lee were here, he would approve with this as well. Probably like in gourmet level," recalling his hardworking friend's love for curry that is equal to his love for ramen.

Killia blinked in confusion "I'm not sure about that but thanks,"

Seraphina finally woke up after fainting to ask Killia "Sir Killia, you mentioned something about you "had" to make this…who made you? And is it your-,"

At her words, Killia began having flashing images of a female blond girl for a few moments before giving a response "…I used to not get it either, until my family taught me. I don't want to see anyone to suffer from Void Dark anymore,"

Everyone stared at Killia, wondering who's his family with Seraphina being more vocal about it "Family…? Who is your family? You're not talking about me, right?"

"…That's none of your business. Anyway, we need to ask this girl some questions first," Killia stated stoically, not wanting to talk about which only made Seraphina fume at being denied from learning more about Killia which was made worse by hearing Kurama laugh at her misfortune as tick marks started to appear on her forehead.

Aside from that, Christo was in agreement with Killia's suggestion "You're right. It wouldn't hurt to obtain information about the Demon General who cast that spell on her,"

"Yeah, let's fall back for now,"

"But before that, I'm going to take a bite, too,"

Christo's curiosity had him take a bite of the curry of which he made an interesting reaction as white feathers puffed out from which he hoped no one saw but Naruto and Kurama saw yet chose to pretend not to see anything especially since it only further proves Christo is anything but a demon after that brief display.

Naruto decided that it was time to go "Well, this is great and all but I think we overstayed our welcome. Killia, thanks for the curry. It was great, hope you don't mind if I take a few with us?"

Killia nodded to him saying "I don't mind. Go ahead,"

Naruto gave him a thumbs up "Thanks, may our paths cross again," borrowing a pot from Killa, he scooped up a decent portion of curry before sealing it into a scroll "Prinny! It's time to go."

"Coming, dood," said the Prinny which startled the others since they sort of forgot that the Prinny was here aside from the Yellow Prinnies.

Before they departed, Naruto said his parting words towards Christo "Before I go… Christo?"

"Yes?" Christo replied, a bit confused as to why he was being called out specifically

"Next time, don't ever let your personal agenda affect others as how you almost cost Usalia's life after your attempt to leave her fate over a mission. That doesn't sit well with me at all,"

Christo sweated, seeing Naruto's eyes piercing at him as he looked nervous at what he said while the others were watching "W-What? H-How do you-,"

Naruto only smirked "Heh, two words…Shadow Clones. I'm sure you can figure it out," and with that said, he along with Kurama and the Prinny began to walk away as Christo just stood there after what he just said.

"Shadow Clones? Does he mean that technique he used against Majorita? So…was he listening in on our conversation with Killia as I…Oh dear," He began to realize the mistake he may have made. He must've sent a Shadow Clone to eavesdrop on their conversation while he was busy with Usalia when she was going berserk. But what he couldn't figure out was how did he know about their conversation since he was too busy fighting unless…! "Does… he have the ability to acquire information from what his clones have witnessed or learnt? That is a very useful yet broken skill he has that makes him very dangerous. Just who are you Naruto"

Red Magnus called out to Christo, seeing that his thoughts were elsewhere "Hey Li'l C'sto, you good? You looking a bit pale,"

Christo quickly played it off "Oh! I'm fine Red Magnus, it's nothing,"

"Uhhhh, okay…?

Seraphina said "Don't let that plebeian's words get to you. He's just trying to make himself look cool and mysterious like Sir Killia,"

"Y-Yes, of course," Christo's final thoughts "I fear I made our chances of Naruto joining us rather slim now,"

Killia himself was also thinking about Naruto, suspecting that the Nephalem was definitely trained by a ninja due to him mentioning his clones would be considered as an advanced version of the Doppelganger skill, that and seeing Christo looking really pale means whatever he found out had made him frightened.

Usalia was also staring at Naruto for the longest time with interest while she hadn't yet said her thanks "I wonder who he is, he and the fox helped me turn back to normal…,"

Before Naruto could get far, Kurama noticed something strange and brought Naruto's attention to it.

"Hey Naruto, there's something weird going on with the sword on your back," Kurama pointed out.

Naruto reached to his back and took out Force Edge to see that it was shaking a lot and glowing as if something nearby is making it react so strongly. Before Naruto could figure out what's making the sword react in such a way, suddenly a Spatial portal appeared behind Usalia which surprised her and everyone else. Usalia was slowly getting sucked into the portal, she tried to get away but unfortunately the gravitational pull was too strong for her plus she was too close to the portal and ended up getting sucked into it.

"Oh no, master Usalia!" the Yellow Prinnies were horrified at what just happened as they went after her by jumping into the portal as well.

"Dammit, we gotta go in after them!" Naruto who reacted faster then everyone immediately gave chase after Usalia into the Spatial portal as he, Kurama and the blue Prinny went in after her and they got in.

But before anyone else tried to go after them, the portal closed leaving everyone shocked at just happened here.

Seraphina was more vocal "Wha-What just happened?"

Even Christo was stumped "Your guess is good mine,"

"So…what do we do now?" asked Red Magnus but none of them could give an answer, they could think of was where did both Naruto and Usalia end up at.

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Somewhere in an unknown location, Naruto was sprawled out on the ground when he awoken then sat up with a groan of pain, rubbing the back of his head.

"Oh man, what happen? The last thing I remembered was that we leapt through the portal to look for…," Naruto's eyes widened upon recalling his memories, jumping to his feet and looked around before finding Kurama and the Prinny lying on the ground nearby, he ran over to check on them.

"Ugh, I'm fine, been through a lot worse," Kurama responded while rising to his feet

"I'm okay, but…," the blue Prinny was helped to his feet by Naruto before looking around "Where are we, dood?"

They took a glance around to take note that they were in some sort of giant cave but couldn't identify the kind of rocks and crystals around them to say the least (an refer to Mission 14 Diverging Point: V from Devil May Cry 5).

"Master, please wake up plip!" They all heard someone calling out to Usalia in worry as they check to see a yellow Prinny checking up on her. Naruto, Kurama and the Prinny rush over to them to see if Usalia is alright.

Naruto shook her a few times to wake her up which she did as he asked "You alright?"

Usalia replied rather groggily "Yeah I'm ok, plip,"

"Glad to hear that,"

Then the blue Prinny spoke up "So…does anyone have any idea where we are, dood?"

Thinking for a moment, Naruto came up with an answer "Well for starters, we're definitely not in Demunshroom anymore. Wherever that rift took us to, it dropped us at an unknown location that none of us are familiar with,"

"Well that's just great, so what do we suppose to do now?" Kurama asked in a sarcastic tone.

Naruto was about to answer until he heard a voice speaking in a deep echoing tone

"Are you worthy?"

This made Naruto looked around in an attempt to pinpoint the voice's location which had the others look at him weirdly while Kurama asked

"Naruto, what are you doing?" asked Kurama confusedly

"I heard a voice somewhere, didn't you guys hear it too?" Naruto answered, confusing them sans Kurama even more due to the latter having seen this before when they were led to the Force Edge because of Naruto being a Nephalem.

The blue Prinny said "I don't hear any voices, dood," Naruto was about to say something until he heard the voice speaking again

"Are you worthy to claim the power that lies here?" After saying that, a path is revealed to Naruto and co "Prove that you are worthy to reclaim the forgotten power that was lost through time,"

Naruto then said "Well…seems we all know where to go now. The voice beckons me to follow to claim something,"

"That, and your sword is reacting to something over there as well," Kurama pointed out for everyone to see the Force Edge glowing yet again

"Well, let's go and see where it'll take us," said Naruto with the rest nodding in agreement as they follow Naruto who led them to whatever path it's only showing to Naruto.

As they walked, Usalia was walked next to Naruto since she wanted to ask him something

"Um...Naruto, that's your name right, plip?" Usalia asked shyly.

"Yup, what's up?"

"I just wanted to say thank you for saving me. I have caused trouble for all of you and thank you very much for helping me, plip. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here right now, plip,"

Naruto just waved it off with a smile "I didn't do much, I just help as much as possible. Killia is the one you should be thankful to. He cured you with his curry that he prepared beforehand, I just helped him a bit,"

"Even so, you still helped regardless as you were the one who tried in helping me as best as you could which I am grateful. For that, you have my eternal gratitude, plip," As she bowed to Naruto after stopping for a minute.

"No need to bow to me, I just did what was right. I couldn't just leave you to your fate as most demons would just turn a blind eye without a care in the world. I'm not like those demons who would ignore others for help. It's just not my style,"

Usalia was shocked to hear such a response from a demon "I never expected to hear that from a demon, plip,"

Naruto spoke with confidence "I'm a rare exception as I'm one of the nicest ones you'll ever meet,"

Usalia just smiled at Naruto in admiration which he smiled back as they resumed in continuing the path while Kurama and the Prinnies(Blue & Yellow) smiled at their interaction with the latter whispering to each other.

"He's really nice, plip," said the yellow Prinny.

The blue Prinny nodded in agreement "I know, he helped me out of a jam with a couple of Lost soldiers. That's why I'm happy to have him as my new boss, dood!"

Back with Naruto and Usalia, the former wanted to ask the latter about something "I'm kinda curious as to how you were acting like a rampaging beast when we fought you. From what I learned from your yellow Prinny, a Demon General had casted a spell on you, correct?"

Usalia looked a bit uncomfortable but answered nonetheless "…Yes. The Demon General cast a spell on me to threaten my father, the Overlord. It's a spell of uncontrollable evil that will eventually kill me, but by eating curry, I can limit its effect, plip."

Naruto quirked an eyebrow at this information, same with Kurama and the blue Prinny "But why curry specifically?"

"Because the Demon General who cast it made it so that whatever I truly hate is what suppresses the spell. In my case, it's curry. I'm not good with spicy stuff… and curry is the prime representative, plip."

Naruto was now in thought as he pondered over what he just learned from this new information "So that would explain the need of curry in order to return back to normal. It's not to be cured from the curse, but to suppress it,"

Kurama decided to bring in his own opinion "Ah, that explains a lot. It's either you die from a demonic curse or keep eating what you hate the most… you can definitely feel the maliciousness from the caster,"

Naruto nodded in agreement "Tell me about it. To force yourself to constantly eat the food you hate the most, curry in this case, must be a pain for you,"

However Usalia said "Nope, I love curry, plip," this response confused the others a lot considering what she had told them before, mainly Naruto & Kurama.

"Huh? You do?" asked Naruto, receiving a nod from the bunny girl

Kurama got a bit annoyed and asked "I don't understand, you said you hate curry which was why the spell was cast on you, but now you love curry?"

Usalia smiles brightly while responding to the fox "…A lot of stuff happened, but now curry is my favourite food, plip❤️,"

Naruto rubbed the back of his head with an awkward smile "Well, at least something good came out of this for you, despite being forced to eat curry that you formerly hated, you at least like the food now,"

"That's right, plip," said Usalia happily.

After long minutes of walking, Naruto and co finally arrived at an open area where they see three demonic creatures guarding a path that leads to somewhere behind them. Whatever it is beyond them, it's making Naruto's Force Edge to glow even more in resonation.

The first of the creatures has a birdlike appearance akin to that of a hawk but with a dark blue plumage, its eyes have three pupils each, its beak comprises of many that were arranged to be like the mandibles of an insect.

The second creature appears to look like a large black jaguar with muscular forelimbs, glowing red eyes with white sclerae, and glowing red lines which pulsate faintly throughout its body.

The third and last one is a gargantuan pitch-black golem which barely humanoid in shape and lacking a head, it possesses bulbous hands looking more like tree roots. Its body seems to be comprised of demonic fluid and some solid metallic plating. The most notable feature of the creature would be its glowing purple core which is located at the base of where the neck should be.

"Heh, looks like we have guests after many centuries. Finally, any longer I'd have gone stir-crazy!" said the bird demon happily.

"Um, who are you guys, plip?" asked Usalia.

"Since you asked so nicely, allow me to be the introduce ourselves," said the bird demon "The name's Griffon, kitty-cat here is Shadow, and the big guy is Nightmare. I'm kinda impressed that you were able to locate the resting place of the Yamato,"

"The Yamato is here!?" asked Naruto in surprise.

"That would explain why the Force Edge started acting up and that portal opened up, it must have sensed the Yamato nearby," said Kurama.

Griffon glanced at Naruto and noticed the glowing Force Edge strapped to his back "Well that explains how you found your way here, you have the Force Edge,"

"Not only that, but I heard a voice talk to me then guide us here," Naruto explained.

"So the voice guided you here? Well if that's true then the sword chooses you but to us, I don't believe you're worthy of wielding such a sword but the only way to prove yourself is a trial,"

Naruto frowned "What kind of trial?

"Your trial is to defeat the three of us. If you win, you claim the sword, if you loose, we kill you and your friends," Griffon explained.

"Then I'll just have to not lose," Naruto looked back to speak to the others "You guys hang back while I take care of this,"

"Okay, please be careful, plip," said Usalia.

The blue Prinny waved a flipper in support "Do your best, dood!"

Kurama scoffed "Try not to embarrass yourself,"

Music Start: Devil May Cry 5 OST; Grilled Tandoori Smoke

As Naruto stepped forward with the Force Edge in hand, he saw that Shadow and Nightmare disappeared while Griffon behind to face him alone.

"Let's see if you got what it takes or you die!" griffon opened his beak and began firing spheres of lightning at a rapid rate towards Naruto.

"Swordmaster!" Naruto brought out his Shakujo and onehandedly twirled it like a propeller in front of him to deflect the incoming projectiles whilst holding the Force Edge in the other hand in a reverse grip and was charging it up with demonic energy "Drive!" knocking away the last of the lightning bullets, Naruto swung the Force Edge to launch a red slash wave towards Griffon who flew out of the way and nearly had a wing clipped from the attack.

"Fry little piggy!" Griffon called upon three pillars of lightning lined up in a row and sent them towards his target all at once "Trick!" Naruto switched styles and used Air Trick to dodge and at the same appear before Griffon in midair "Aerial Rave!" he attacked with a multiple sword strike combo with the last attack knocking birdlike demon away from him.

"Laying on the pressure!" Naruto flung several kunai at his target before forming a handsign "Shuriken Shadow Clone jutsu!" he watched as they multiplied into a thousand copies of the originals.

"I don't think so!" Griffon concentrated energy within himself before letting out a loud cry as he unleashed powerful electric shocks at a wide radius, blasting both the copies and original kunai away from him "Right back at ya!" he enshrouded himself in electricity and swooped at Naruto.

"Demonic Howl!" Naruto opened his mouth to unleash a powerful roar which disrupted Griffon's attack, stumbling to stabilize his flight as his SPD and DEF were temporarily debuffed but Naruto wasn't being idle at that time "Gunslinger! Honeycomb Fire!" he switched out the Force Edge for the Anaconda and Over-Drive then he took aim and rapidly launched a volley of bullets, inflicting a lot of damage.

Griffon plummeted towards the ground but managed to recover in time to pull up into the air, looking rather battered "Time out, gimme some time out! Hey kitty, you're up to bat!" he flew off just as Shadow emerged from the ground and was growling at Naruto who quirked an eyebrow.

"You don't really like it when he calls you kitty, huh?" Naruto asked, receiving a growl from the jaguarlike demon "Yeah, I thought as much,"

Shadow lunged at Naruto with claw attacks which the latter darted from side to side to evade them when black tentacles shot out of its body with a series of piercing strikes, forcing Naruto even more to the defensive "Claws of Nightmare!" he enshrouded his arms with demonic energy in the shape of feral claws which he then used to clash with Shadow own claw attacks and tentacle strikes. Suddenly, Shadow performed a spinning jump with its tail extending and an axe blade forming at the end. Naruto jumped into the air to avoid it but was taken by surprise upon seeing it shapeshift into a form resembling a Venus flytrap as it rushed towards when he was going to land to bite a large chunk out of him.

"Sky Star!" Naruto formed a temporary platform out of demonic energy which he kicked off to propel himself out of the way of the incoming attack to land elsewhere but saw that it was still trying to attack him "Divine Light!" he thrusted a hand forward to fire a ray of holy light, knocking Shadow back and forcing it to revert to its default form.

"That cat's scary, dood," said the blue Prinny fearfully.

Usalia looked at the ongoing fight with worry "I hope he'll be okay,"

Kurama snorted "The kid's got this, we've faced tougher enemies than this furball,"

Naruto moved to attack Shadow when he sensed something was heading towards him and dashed to the side right as a pillar of lightning struck where he stood and looked over his shoulder to see Griffon having returned and was the source of the attack.

"Hey! Watch the birdie, kid!" Griffon taunted.

"I can do one better, Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto created a copy of himself that focused on Griffon who squawked in shock at what he just did "How about I even the odds like this? let's go!"

"Okay boss!" the clone responded in affirmation as they dashed towards their selected with the original facing Shadow and the clone going after Griffon.

"I'd complain about this being unfair but we're demons after all," said Griffon flying backwards whilst launching lightning bullets at the clone who was using the Gunslinger style to dual wield his handguns with greater proficiency to intercept the incoming projectiles whilst returning fire with his own attacks.

Back to Naruto, he was fighting against Shadow with his Force Edge when the feline demon suddenly switched tactics by extending its neck and transforming its head into a cross-shaped hook before attacking with a flurry of lashes, forcing Naruto to back away for a moment before responding in kind "Million Stab!" he took a step forward and onehandedly unleashed a whirlwind of stabs, clashing with Shadow's attack with the final strike ending in a draw.

Shadow dived into the ground and dashed ahead, attacking with multiple tentacles above ground as it moved. Naruto rolled to the side to avoid when Shadow pounced at him while transforming into a large two-bladed buzzsaw, maintaining its offense. Naruto used the substitution jutsu to escape and set up for a counter with a Rasengan on hand which he used to blast the demon away from him.

Griffon got a chance to take a small breather once the clone's handguns ran out of ammo and looked to see that Shadow wasn't having it easy on its side either "Even with the two of us, you're still holding your own? You ain't so bad!"

Naruto smiled in response "Right back at ya, you guys are pretty good,"

"Yeah well warmup's over, time for the big boy to come out and play!"

Upon Griffon's declaration, a large fist suddenly burst out of the ground beneath the shadow clone which sent it flying before dispelling. Nightmare pulled itself out of the ground and stood amongst the guardians and looked at Naruto intently.

"Now it's all three of them at once, this might be a little tricky," Naruto muttered to himself, looking at them carefully; Griffon excels in long range attacks, Shadow is versatile in midrange and Nightmare may be slow but he could tell that it possesses both great power and defense "I might be overdoing this but then again, the stakes are as high as the previous one,"

He concentrated on accessing Kurama's chakra to transform into the first stage chakra mode as his body is coated in yellow chakra with his clothes undergoing the same thing and emanating like that of flickering flames. Two front spikes of his hair pointed upwards to resemble horns, six black magatama markings around the collar of his jacket with a prominent swirl design over the stomach, and various other archaic lines extending along his body.

"Whoa, the boss has transformed, dood!" the blue Prinny exclaimed with surprise.

"What kind of form is that?" asked Usalia curiously.

"That would be the Chakra Mode, a form attained by accessing my power," Kurama explained, finding it odd that he would do so.

"He can use your power while you're separate from him, how does that work?"

"It's kinda complicated, just know that he can do that and more,"

"Okay…,"

Griffon witnessed the transformation with interest "Nice look, guess I can call you golden boy now. So, what can that form do other than make you look pretty?"

Naruto smirked in response "You're about to find out,"

Hardly lifting a foot off the ground, Naruto appeared instantly in front of Griffon and sent him flying with a punch, multiple chakra arms shot out from Naruto's back to deflect the incoming tentacle strikes launched his way from Shadow. He saw an incoming punch from Nightmare and darted away in a yellow flash of light to appear a safe distance away from them.

Griffon recovered from the sudden attack and took flight once more "Not bad, but let's see how you can handle this!"

he started calling down multiple pillars of lightning down on Naruto who utilized his boosted speed to evade the attacks, utilizing short dashes, cartwheels and somersaults to dodge. At that moment, Shadow swooped at Naruto having transformed into its spinning blade form to attack. Naruto quickly thrust out a hand to launch a chakra arm to grab the demon, stopping it then throwing at Nightmare who stumbled from the sudden counterattack.

"Here I come, Tailed Beast Flash Bullet!" Naruto crouched slightly with Force Edge in hand as he moved around the three demons leaving behind a long trail of yellow aura at high-speed all the while unleashing a combo of punches, kicks and slashes before ending the combo with a highspeed Stinger.

Nightmare suddenly withdrew its massive body into its core then zipped over to Naruto before reverting to normal to attack with a powerful punch, Naruto responded in kind by forming a large chakra arm and striking back with a punch of his own, clashing in the middle. Shadow shifted its body and transformed its head to thrust out a long piercing needle which Naruto barely blocked by handing an additional chakra arm emerge from his body to grab it and hold in place before quickly dashing away from both demons.

Seeing Nightmare dropped to its hands and knees with the core glowing brighter with every moment, Naruto sensed that it was preparing to launch a powerful attack "If you're going for then so am I!" he held out his right hand to form a Rasengan the size of a basketball then three chakra arms appeared to form three smaller versions to orbit around the main one with all enshrouded in the red demonic aura.

Nightmare fired a large purple laser beam at Naruto who lunged towards it "Planetary Rasengan!" he rammed the jutsu against the laser beam before extending a chakra arm to push through the beam and slam into Nightmare, inflicting enough damage to force it into its core form.

Griffon was shocked to see the defeat of its fellow demon "No way…the big guy lost?"

Naruto smirked at the remaining two "And he won't the only one, right about…now,"

No sooner he said that, the ground underneath them burst open to reveal two chakra arms with each holding a Rasengan and ramming them into the two, forcing them into their core forms as well.

Music End

"Whoa, you totally beat those guys, dood!" said the blue Prinny with awe and admiration.

"He's so strong, plip," said the yellow Prinny.

"Amazing…," Usalia was also amazed at what she has witnessed just now.

"Did you really need to use the chakra mode? I know you could have beaten them without it," Kurama inquired with quirked eyebrow.

Naruto shrugged while reverting to normal "Maybe so, but I wanted to end the battle sooner than later,"

"Point taken,"

"Now let's go and look for the Yamato and hopefully a way out of here,"

Moving past the guardians, the group continued along the pathway and went up a flight of stairs to a set of large wooden doors depicting embossed images of the Nephalem race facing off both Angels and Demons. there was also a purple glowing magic circle on the doors, the group guessed that it was there to prevent unauthorized access to whatever is inside of it.

"How do we open it, dood?" asked the blue Prinny confusedly.

Kurama hummed thoughtfully "If the Nephalem made this to prevent intruders from getting in, then only a Nephalem can open it,"

"Then let's give it a try," Naruto approached to place his hands on the magic circle and channel both holy and demonic energy into the magic circle, it glowed brightly in resonance before fading away followed by a metallic click from the doors, signaling that they're unlocked now.

Going through the now unlocked doors, the group found themselves standing inside a grand hall akin to that of a cathedral with several wooden pews on each side, a big chandelier hanging overhead, large stained-glass windows at the end, and finally there was a statue depicting a woman wearing a grey robe with wings of a demon and an angel spread open from her back, in her hands is a sheathed katana.

Its handle has been braided with white and dark blue material, the ornate bronze guard is oval in shape with dragon motifs. The scabbard is black while made of lacquered wood and features several gold metallic ornaments on its far end, and it features a yellow cord which is used to tie the katana to the waist (an Devil May Cry 4 version).

Naruto slowly walked up to the statue and the voice from before spoke in his mind.

"Behold the Yamato, a legendary sword wielded by Sparda. It is said the it has the will and power to divide and wipe out the darkness. The Dark Knight Sparda split his power into three parts. One blade bore his own name, the second blade was named to embody retaliation, and the third was named to embody a god of death. There is nothing this sword cannot cut, even the very fabric of space itself is not excluded from its cuts,"

He grabbed the sword by the handle and pulled it out of the statue and like before, his mind was flooded with numerous visions. Within them, he saw three men from before but this times, most of the visions centered around the man with the blue outfit, he showed himself to be a highly dangerous master swordsman as he wielded the Yamato with unrivalled precision and versatility while even using the scabbard as a weapon for blunt strikes. The man's technique centers around quick precise draws from the sheath like a samurai which he combined with his demonic powers to create an original style of his own. Then he heard the man say something.

"Might controls everything…and without strength, you cannot protect anything; let alone yourself,"

Hearing this, Naruto couldn't help but relate to those words. Throughout his life in the Elemental Nations, Naruto had always sought to get stronger in order to be able to become Hokage and mostly to protect the ones he holds dear in his heart. It was why he took it hard when Sasuke left the village and why he fell to depression upon learning of Jiraiya's death.

Naruto snapped back into reality and noticed the Yamato in his hand which he gradually pulled out from the sheath to reveal its gleaming blade which features several intricate ornaments with one being a relief of a dragon at the endpoint of the hilt.

"You got another vision relating to the sword?" asked Kurama, having seen this before when Naruto took the Force Edge.

Naruto nodded in affirmation "Yeah, and It was just like what Sindri told us plus more,"

"That sword looks sharp, dood," said the blue Prinny, looking at the Yamato and couldn't help but felt tense around it.

"It looks pretty powerful, I've never seen a sword like it before," said Usalia, looking keenly at the katana before Naruto returned it to the sheath when a voice spoke up.

"I see that the Yamato has chosen you, just like the Force Edge,"

Everyone turned around to see that Griffon along with Shadow and Nightmare were standing at the entrance, having recovered from the battle. They felt tense but Naruto could see that they weren't planning on attacking them.

"Yeah, so what happens now?" asked Naruto.

"For you guys, you can leave and as for us…nothing," said Griffon grimly at the end.

Kurama frowned at this "What do you mean by nothing?"

Griffon explained "Our purpose was to safeguard the Yamato and ensue that it would be in the possession of someone worthy to wield it. Now that our purpose has been fulfilled, there will be nothing for us to do,"

Naruto frowned at this, these three have been here all these years for one purpose and now that he has the Yamato. They will be left here with no purpose which didn't sit right with him at all and so he called out to them.

"How about you three come with us?" Naruto suggested, surprising everyone especially Griffon.

"What are you going on about?" asked Griffon.

"Well, you guys have been here this whole time to protect the sword like you said. But since I have the Yamato now, you're now free to go anywhere so I figured that you could join us on our mission. We're going after a demon called Void Dark and the Lost army seeking to take over the NetherRealms, pretty sure there won't be a boring moment for any of you during the time,"

The three demons were silent in thought at what Naruto said, he raised a point about them no longer bound by their duty plus they could tell that he was being honest and admittedly felt lonely all these years.

"Well you raise a point and frankly I'm not exactly up for staying here and getting bored to death. I don't mind having you as our new boss since you're a Nephalem after all and a strong one at that. So yeah, we're in!" Griffon declared, right as he said that, a screen popped up in front of Naruto.

The Shadow Guardians: Griffon, Shadow & Nightmare, joined Naruto's party!

Naruto groaned a bit "There it is again,"

"Yup, better get use to it. Even if it does get annoying," said Kurama.

Nightmare transformed into a black smoky aura which over to Naruto and enter his shadow. Griffon flew over to perch on Naruto's over shoulder since Kurama was occupying the other one. Shadow approached Naruto, brushing against his hand which made him pet its head, making it purr with content.

"You know, you remind me of a tiger I got along with back home," said Naruto with a smile, recalling the adventure he had in the Crescent Moon kingdom.

"Heh, looks like a kitty likes its new master," Griffon taunted playfully, Shadow glared with a growl of annoyance.

"Keep calling him that and he'll make a chew toy out of you," said Kurama.

"Hey, I'm just kidding around," then he turned to Naruto "By the way, N…,"

Naruto quirked an eyebrow "N?"

"Yeah, used to call our previous master V. Since you're gonna be our new boss, I'm gonna call you N," Griffon pointed out.

"Oh okay,"

"Anyways, did you get something else besides the Force Edge?"

"Uh yeah, a half of the Perfect Amulet. I need to look for the other half in order to awaken Force Edge,"

"If that's the case…," Griffon concentrated for a moment, then a small portal appeared and something emerged from it while revealing to be what Naruto wasn't expecting to see "I believe you were looking for this,"

"The other half of the amulet, you have it?" asked Naruto in shock.

"Yup, kept it for safekeeping and in memory of our old master," Griffon bowed his head slightly in nostalgia.

"Thanks Griffon, I really appreciate it,"

"Sure whatever…,"

Naruto took out the other half of the amulet and brought them together as they fused into the Perfect Amulet. He then took out Force Edge that was glowing even brighter than before as he held it together with the Perfect Amulet and they fused in a bright flash of light which died down to reveal that it had changed drastically.

Whilst retaining the grip and crossguard, the spike on the skulls is split in half with the frontward half forming a small blade that curves around the main blade. The Force Edge's blade is replaced with a spinelike structure attached to two curved blades via an organic looking substance. Together the blades form one long blade. The top portion of the sword has a large glowing red gem-like object in the center, the other side has two significantly smaller gems, glowing orange and pink.

"Behold the true form of the Force Edge, once wielded by the Dark Knight Sparda, sharing his own name. the incredible demonic power dwelling within allows this blade to choose its own user. It was once used to seal away a powerful demon king in the past,"

Information about the sword flooded Naruto's mind like before and he was surprised to learn that it is capable of shifting its parts into different positions based on how he attacks with it.

"And now the sword has changed forms, I kinda like the old one better. This one looks scary, dood," the blue Prinny commented.

"True…," Naruto tried a few swings with the Sparda before attaching it to his back "But it's exactly what I'll need when I'm going up against Void Dark and the Lost army,"

"But how are we going to leave this place?" asked Usalia.

At that moment a magical circle materialized in the middle of the hall and was glowing softly for them to see.

"Ask and you shall receive," Kurama deadpanned.

"Finally, a way out of this place, dood!" said the blue Prinny happily.

"It should take us back to Demunshroom, we can meet up with Sindri and figure out where to go next," said Naruto.

"Can't wait to see the great outdoors and fry lots of little piggies while hearing them squeal!" said Griffon excitedly.

"Sounds to me that the fight with the kid stirred up something in you," Kurama guessed

The much larger group stepped into the magic circle and were warped out of the place back to Demunshroom.

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This is Hussbek online with the latest chapter, Naruto and Kurama met up with Sindri who informed them that the Lost army were sent to Demunshroom in search of someone whom Majorita with the duo deciding to intercept the search and rescue the girl. Along the way, they rescued a Prinny who was shaken down by some Lost soldiers and became his new boss.

Afterwards, they finally found the girl who turned out to be in a berserker rage and were working on suppressing her. Killia and the others soon showed but Christo made a few statements that made Naruto rather angry with him. Then the Lost soldiers threw themselves into the mix of things, leading to a fight and oddly enough they learnt that the girl was under a curse and the only way for her to suppress it would be to eat as it turns out, Killa was quite the chef and already had a plate ready for just the situation.

However, things went a bit crazy as a portal suddenly appeared in resonance to the Force Edge which pulled Usalia through it, forcing Naruto and a few others to leap through to go after her. In an alternate dimensional space, the group came across a trio of demonic creatures that were acting as guards of the Yamato and tested Naruto with a trial by combat to see if he was worthy which he proved by beating them. Afterwards, Naruto came into possession of the Yamato and with a little help from Griffon after becoming their new master, awakened the Force Edge to its true form. Now they've left the place to return to Demunshroom and meet up with Sindri in order to figure out their next destination.

In response to one of the reviews: Naruto will acquire more Devil Arms along the way and he'll do it DmC style which in other words, kill demons and convert their souls into weapons for use so be sure to look forward to it. Read and review like always

This is Hussbek from Ghana.

Signing out and staying alive