67 The Most Dangerous Place in the World

Yet again, Naruto found himself surrounded by a bunch of Visored, but this time, Ichigo was one of the people glaring at him as well.

"Oh well, it seems like knocking out Shinji before he could explain the situation properly wasn't a great idea, huh? Hey, can one of you go over to Shinji and give him a few crisp smacks to wake him up?"

"Okay~ Mashiro's on it~"

As soon as Naruto asked if someone could wake up Shinji, Mashiro, Visored with smooth blond hair wearing goggles on her head, ran over to Shinji and started slapping him.

"What the hell, Naruto!? Since when could you control your Hollow, and why haven't you told anyone about it!?"

Hearing Ichigo's questions, Naruto shrugged his shoulders and answered him leisurely.

"Isn't it obvious why I didn't tell you? You didn't ask~"

Ichigo's face fell while the remaining Visored face palmed, causing Naruto to chuckle in amusement.

"Hehe, jokes aside, there is actually another reason why I didn't tell you about it up until now, which simultaneously answered your question about controlling my Hollow."

As soon as Naruto resumed speaking, everyone's attention was back on him. While Ichigo was interested in both the reason why Naruto didn't tell him and how he controlled his Hollow, the Visored didn't really care about the first but really wanted to know about the second.

After all, it took them years of arduous trial and error to finally get a somewhat reliable method to deal with their inner Hollow.

"Well, the reason why I didn't tell you is that if I were to do that, you would want to know the method, which I knew you wouldn't be happy with. Now that another option exists, it doesn't really matter anymore."

"Please wait a moment. How do you know about our method."

While Naruto was talking, Shinji managed to wake up and walked over with two red handprints on his cheeks while scratching his nose with a frown on his face.

'Damn, why is my nose so itchy?'

Anyway, as he was walking over, he heard Naruto talking about how they controlled their Hollow, so he couldn't help but ask him how he knew about that.

However, as soon as Naruto heard his question, he looked at Shinji like he was an idiot.

"What's with all these obvious questions today? I already saw you and that little girl putting your masks on. Seeing that makes the method pretty obvious."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A LITTLE GIRL!?"

While Naruto tilted his head to the side, allowing the sandal that was just thrown at him to harmlessly pass by his head just to smack into Shinji's face, everyone else could only stare at Naruto, utterly dumbfounded.

However, before anyone could issue any doubt, Naruto simply continued talking.

"That's right. While you are suppressing it and controlling it with your will, I did something different. I..."

As Naruto continued talking, the smirk on his face widened while the white of his left eye became black and his irises turned yellow, and, as he continued speaking, his voice became higher and more distorted.

"... decided to accept him and even became friends with him~"

"""""""""WHAT!?"""""""""

Naturally, everyone was outraged when they heard Naruto's claim of being friends with his Hollow, but before anyone could comment on it, Naruto's demeanor shifted as he arrogantly raised his head and looked down on anyone around him.

"This young master isn't your friend."

As quickly as the weird change happened, it disappeared again, returning Naruto to his more laid-back presence. While everyone was looking at him in utter confusion, Naruto simply rolled his.

"Geez, so feisty."

After hearing Naruto's dismissive words, Shinji quickly approached him, grabbed Naruto's shoulders, and started shaking him.

"Are you insane!? Friends!? That's NONSENSE!!! DIDN'T HE HIMSELF DENY IT!?"

"Mah, he's just a tsundere, don't worry about it."

[TSUNDERE!? THIS YOUNG MASTER IS GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS!!!]

'Yes, yes~'

"T-TSUNDERE!? ARE JOK..."

*Grumble*

As Shinji was shaking Naruto like a madman, a loud grumbling sound suddenly came from Shinji's stomach, causing him to pause.

"What in the wo..."

*GRUMBLE*

"OH SHIT!!!"

Yet again, a similar sound came from Shinji's stomach, but this time it was much louder, causing his eyes to widen while he held his stomach.

"ShitshitSHIT!!!"

While Shinji suddenly started cursing while holding his stomach, he turned around from Naruto and ran away, vanishing in one of the rooms in the back of the building.

Silence reigned the room for a few seconds, and before anyone could ask what in the world happened to Shinji, a roaring fart echoed through the building and almost shook the walls, dumbfounding everyone except for Naruto, who did his best not to start laughing out loud.

'*Sigh* Fart pranks~ They truly are never not funny.'

[*Sigh* An ancient man, in the body of a seventeen-year-old with the humor of a five-year-old.]

'Pretty sure seventeen-year-old people still laugh about fart jokes.'

[That doesn't make your situation much better, does it?]

As another mind-numbingly loud fart ripped through the building, all eyes landed on Naruto, who only looked back with an innocent expression on his face.

Seeing Naruto's expression, everyone in the room shared the same thought.

' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'Suspicious.' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

A few minutes later, Ichigo was preparing to gain control over his Hollow, as the matter with Naruto's Hollow was temporarily dropped. Well, it's not like anyone could change anything about how things were, so it didn't even matter, anyway.

While Ichigo was walking on some kind of training device that apparently had something to do with controlling his Hollow, Naruto had something else to do, so he temporarily returned home to fetch something.

Currently, he was standing in one of the country, or maybe even the world's most dangerous rooms, while taking deep calming breaths.

That room was Yuna's room.

Naruto took a few more deep breaths before he steeled his expression and strode forward with confidence in his steps, knowing that Yuna would do the same for him if the situation arose.

[This is stupid.]

'Shut up; I need to concentrate.'

So, without further delay, he grabbed the door handle and pushed some of his Spiritual Pressure into it. If Yuna were present, the door would simply open at this point, but since she wasn't, it, unfortunately, wasn't that easy as a small terminal appeared next to the door that had a small screen on it that read: Access denied.

Knowing that multiple prank mechanisms were about to get activated, Naruto quickly made his next move and took a small microphone that was part of the terminal and spoke into it as clearly as possible.

"Emergency Protocol: Harem."

With a small ding, the words on the screen changed, and when Naruto saw that, it now displayed the words "Error. Protocol not found" Naruto sighed deeply as he yet again spoke into the microphone.

'*Sigh* Why are you doing this to me, nee-san?'

"Supreme Emergency Protocol: Sister's Heavenly Unlimited Expanding Harem Accident Code"

Now reading the words "Access Granted," as he felt most of the prank mechanism deactivating, Naruto rolled his eyes so hard he himself almost got dizzy from it.

'Seriously, why does it have to be like this?'

[Do I really need to answer that?]

'Nah, that question was rhetoric.'

After Naruto finished his brief conversation with Kurama, he started typing away at the terminal in front of him while occasionally issuing a spoken command or two, and after another two minutes of work, he had what he wanted: A few early versions from Yuna's book, and a few sample parts of her potential next one.

'Well, that should be more than enough to convince her~'

[Why even bother doing this?]

'Well, because nee-san obviously would do the same for me.'

[Doesn't she just gobble up every woman she lays her eyes on?]

'Well, that's not entirely wrong, but let's not forget that she has not once made an attempt on any of the women I fancy. Clearly, going after your sibling's women is a big nono. Additionally, let's not forget that she had actively helped me as well, so why not do her a little favor?'

[Fine, fine, do whatever you want.]

Meanwhile, within Las Noches, Harribel was inside the room assigned to her and was currently lying down on a small bed, holding a book a short distance away from her face while occasionally rubbing her thighs together.

'No way. Is something like that really possible?'

She rolled around the bed, finally resting on her belly as she continued reading with an excited expression on her face.

'No way, is that really a thing? I really want to try that out, however...'

She continued moving around, ending with her lower body lying on the bed while the upper half was dangling upside down on the bed, with her head almost touching the ground.

'... no matter how I look at it, I would need at least five people to try out this kind of thing.'

As those thoughts past through her mind, Yuna's perverted smile briefly passed through her mind, causing her to blush furiously.

'N-No way, d-did she expect this? T-There is no way... right?'

As all kinds of thoughts passed through Harribel's mind, she couldn't help but smile wryly as she realized that this might have been a trap set by Yuna from the very beginning, but at the same time, she also realized that Yuna clearly showed all of her cards from the beginning.

'*Sigh* What's even the point of getting angry about this when she made her desires clear from the start while hiding nothing from me. Can I really consider getting gifted a book that interests me as being tricked?'

Finalizing her thoughts, Harribel chuckled in amusement due to all the things she thought about while turning the page to find out what happened next.

'Damnit, if this continues getting better, I might actually jump one of my girls before I'm done reading.'

As Harribel's thoughts sunk further into depravity, someone knocked at her door, resulting in her closing the book she was holding so fast that it almost resulted in a sonic book before quickly hiding it underneath her mattress.

"Harribel-sama, it's me, Apacci."

Hearing Apacci's voice on the other side of the door, Harribel took a few calming breaths while simultaneously trying to suppress the blush that was currently coating her cheeks, and after around five seconds, she allowed Apacci to enter her room just after she got into a more presentable position.

"Apacci, what's wrong?"

The moment Apacci entered the room, she felt like something was off, as Harribel was currently looking like a little school girl that was caught with her fingers in the cooky jar, but due to Apacci's high loyalty to her, she decided not to question the situation any further and tell Harribel the reason she was here instead.

"Aizen-sama ordered for all the Espada to gather. Apparently, there will be another raid on the world of the living. I'm not entirely sure what is going on, but apparently, there is a human individual he desires to bring to Hueco Mundo."

Hearing Apacci's report, Harribel nodded in acknowledgment as she got up from her bed and approached Apacci.

"When exactly does Aizen...sama want the meeting to take place."

"It's scheduled to happen in two hours."

Hearing Apacci's answer, Harribel nodded in agreement as she got closer and closer to Apacci, liking her lips in anticipation.

"I see; in that case, stay with me for a while. There are a few things I would like to try."

Initially, Apacci had no idea what Harribel was talking about, but after seeing the hungry expression on her face, Apacci's cheeks flushed crimson as she meekly nodded her head, causing Harribel's smile to widen.

'Oh yeah, there are a lot of fun things to try~'

Meanwhile, back in the world of the living, Naruto yet again reached the base of the Visored, just in time to see Ichigo snap due to whatever boring exercise he was doing, resulting in him tossing the equipment he was using away, which unfortunately ended with Shinji getting hit by it, due to Hiyori pulling him into its flight path.

Following that, Ichigo, Hiyori, and Shinji kept arguing with each other, and while Ichigo was claiming that he understood that this exercise was supposed to test how much Spiritual Power he had and that he could easily keep going for days, Shinji only sneered at him with disdain, claiming that he had no idea what was actually going on with Aizen and the Arrancar, shocking him greatly.

Meanwhile, Naruto was approaching Lisa, who, unlike the first time he did so, was actually paying attention to him as he got closer.

"What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy?"

Despite her dismissive words, Lisa put away the book she was reading as soon as Naruto got closer to her while simultaneously looking at him with sparkling eyes. Obviously, she had guessed by now why Naruto decided to leave this place, significantly increasing her expectation of what was about to happen.

"Hee~ So you are busy? Guess you won't have time to read through the initial drafts of my sister's book..."

The moment Naruto stopped speaking, Lisa's face was already flushed red with excitement as she looked at the package Naruto was carrying with greed shining in her eyes.

"I-I g-guess I could spare some time to..."

While Lisa was trying to make Naruto hand over what he was carrying while simultaneously keeping her own pride, Naruto continued speaking with a huge grin on his face.

"... nor, through a bunch of snippets, she has written about her next work~"

The moment those words left Naruto's mouth, and Lisa realized that Naruto not only had initial drafts, which she assumed to be not as good as the finished product, but previews of what was to come next; she couldn't help but start breathing heavily, as droll started slowly flowing down the corner of her mouth.

Her pride, which initially prevented her from being too thirsty for what Naruto wanted to give her, was shattered into a million pieces as she realized what Naruto had actually brought here, resulting in her bowing her head without a moment of hesitation.

"I'm sorry for acting all arrogant; please grant me permission to read what Rose-sensei... No, what Yuna-sama has written."

Seeing the crystalized excitement in Lisa's eyes, Naruto nodded in approval as she handed over the pieces of paper he got from Yuna's room with a smile on his face, resulting in Lisa snatching them out of his hands like a starved man getting the chance to drink some water for the first time in weeks.

'Hehe, nee-san better be grateful for this~'

[Does it even matter? Considering Hinata is going to assassinate you soon, I really get the point of doing this.]

'Geez, there is no way she will actually do that, Kurama... probably... maybe... surely...I-I'm sure it will work out somehow...'