~NRK~

The day came quickly and, as they did their last preparations in the main hub, Naruto nodded in his Prinny form.

"Let's do this!" Laharl commanded with a grin as the group walked towards the Dimensional Transporter Prinny. "Take us to Blair Forest!"

"Gotcha, Prince Laharl, dood!" Came the Prinny as he held up a green crystal ball to an oval frame made of stone. "And, open!" He declared, a swirling green portal coming into existence as his item glowed. "All ready, dood!"

The prince nodded with a hum. "... Am I the only one who noticed there are fewer Prinnies around?" He asked the group as the penguin demon before the group flinched and began to sweat. "It's kind of weird… I think even the guy who tells us our inventory is also gone along with a few other demons who ran the Training Rooms."

"Hehehe~ Getting those back is gonna be a big boon, dood!" Naruto said with a chuckled before humming. "And, yeah, I've noticed that there are fewer Prinnies around."

"The Archers are less in number as well," Clarissa said with a slight pout as Naruto chuckled. "A few of them didn't show up for their morning practice."

"Hmph, sounds ominous," Etna said but a grin was plastered on her face as Laharl chuckled darkly. "I think we've got minions to reign in!"

"Heh, irony aside, they're probably the only ones who know we're setting up those traps… if they heard us. What's the likelihood that they'll tell the other demons?"

"Mmmm, low," Naruto said with a sweatdrop. "I know the Prinny guys, they're well aware they're not strong enough to beat us normally… Pfft! I bet they'll try and make the fight a different kind," he said with a snicker. "Oh, God, that's definitely what they'll do!"

"Hm, hm, hm, hm… MWAHAHAHAHA!" Laharl's chuckles turned into full-on laughter as he crossed his arms. "That so?! I'll just break 'em down and slash their salaries! That'll teach 'em to never turn against the Prince!"

Kana and Nakano sweatdropped.

Yup, those guys were in for it.

~NRK~

Stepping out of the portal into Blair Forest, Naruto hummed as he looked at the forested sector they were in.

"It's a good thing we moved the location, last second," Kirke said with a hum, three large satchels on her person. "It'd be bad to just step in front of all the enemies and traps."

Clarissa nodded with a hum, as the tallest of the group by half afoot, she peered further into the area and tapped her cane softly against the wood around them.

"It's so quiet," she said as her pointed ears twitched, Clarissa turned her head and repeated this action only to come away with a hum. "... Naruto?"

The Prinny closed his eyes and let out a long hum, focusing on his sensory ability. "... Yeah, we were smart to move because… wow that's a lot of demons," Naruto said with a sweatdrop. "Dude, there's, like, a thousand of them!"

The group of six grimaced. "H-How strong?" Flonne asked with a nervous tremble.

"... Well, good news and bad news? Probably half of them are only half as strong as we are," Naruto answered, getting relieved looks from everyone. "Continuing from that, the other fourth is close to our own levels… but the problem begins with the last fourth," the white Prinny said with a grimace. "Hell, I'll even say the last tenth. Those guys are stronger than us by a good bit… like almost double Laharl's level."

"Freaking…" Big Sis grimaced as she almost cursed before groaning. "... Haaa, being honest, we should have known," she said with a grimace. "Obviously, there are more powerful demons than Laharl, Madaras does exist, after all."

The group grimaced, realizing they should have known better.

"... We can't just give in, now, though," Laharl said as he clenched his fist. "We'll simply have to play it by ear. You said only a tenth, right?"

"Yeah," Naruto hummed. "There aren't that many. If it's just a hundred… Hmm, maybe," Naruto considered something before grinning.

"You have an idea?" Flonne asked.

"Maybe, it'll depend on how close these tough guys are...?!" His eyes widened as some of the top brass… tore through the weaker signals. "Okay, not good! One of them started taking down the weaker guys!"

All eyes went wide as Clarissa grimaced.

"Then… they're trying to come straight for the Prince?"

"It seems so," Naruto said as he crossed his arms. "We have to go down there and take down as many of those demons as we can. We might be able to grab a few levels before fighting the top guys."

"Then let us make haste!" Kirke said and Naruto transformed into his Werefox state.

"Everyone get on!" He said as he breathed in before widening his demonic energy.

From around him, an astral form of a fox appeared and he leaned down, becoming a large living vehicle for the group.

"... I knew you'd become a good ride!" Laharl cheered as he jumped to the top of Naruto's 'head'. "How long have you been able to do this?"

"I've been testing my forms out," Naruto explained as everyone else got on. "This fox form seems to have the ability to expand my energy outward and use my tails as staves… sort of? It's kind of weird."

"I see…" Clarissa blushed a bit as an orb formed over Naruto's 'back' and the space beneath them grew warm. "H-Hmm, we should be off."

Naruto nodded as he crouched down and the trees holding him up cracked before he exploded forward.

"WHOA!" Laharl grinned as he felt the g-forces on his body but was held in place. "It's like a rollercoaster!"

"Y-Yes, i-it is!" Kirke stuttered as Naruto ran at incredible speeds. "I-I'm n-not good w-with these!" She squeaked as she shivered.

"Yeeeeaaaaaahhhh!" Etna cheered with a grin. "We should do this more often! Call it training!"

"Oi!" Naruto balked at her. "That's BS and you know it!"

"Nyeh!" She longed out her tongue. "Faster, horsey!"

"I hope your punishment sucks, Etna!"

"S-Shhhh! We don't talk about that!"

"I will," Laharl said with a grin as the redhead swallowed.

Flonne simply sat there, wide-eyed, as she enjoyed the pureness of Naruto's energy!

It felt like being in a cool meadow!

They tore across the landscape with ease, twenty miles taken care of in under four minutes as Naruto perched atop a huge tree to look at all the traps they'd made.

"Hmph, the flyers really aren't as smart as I thought they'd be," Kirke said with a sweatdrop at the continuous rain of falling demons.

"Hmph, where are the tough guys, Naruto?" Laharl asked as he brought his Parazonium. "Anywhere close?"

"No, but that one I told you about is on the way… give or take four miles? Man, this is a LOT of demons," the enlarged fox said as he looked out with a frown. "... I wanna say… draconic is the right feel to this one."

"So Serpent, Dragon, Zombie Dragon, Salamander, or, worst possible, a Great Wyrm," Kirke listed off with a grimace, confusing the group. "There's a reason 'Great' is in its name. It's one of the highest forms for a reptilian monster to become."

"... That doesn't sound good," Naruto said with a grimace. "And it's weird, too. It feels…. Faint for some reason, like, it's not there and yet is."

"... We'll deal with it when we get to it," Laharl said with a frown and a nod. "Come on, we need to start tearing into those demons before our big enemies get too tough."

"If we're gonna do that," Etna spoke up. "We've all got Statisticians on our stuff, a big old sneak attack is probably the best thing for us right now."

"... Hmm," Naruto considered something before bringing his hands together. "I've got an idea, it's gonna take a few seconds but I could overcharge my Wind Spiral Cannon and just… blast it from here. Actually." the large fox avatar turned to the others. "Everyone, go to the end of my tails, will ya? If I'm right, we can make this attack way bigger than any of us can do with just basic Team Attacks."

The five did as asked and watched as Naruto grew two more 'tails' to accommodate their numbers.

Standing on each tip, the group blinked as they slipped into the glowing vulpine before blinking once more as a copy of the necklace Naruto wore appeared around all their necks.

"The heck is this?" Etna asked as she lifted it up. "... Ya know-"

"Etna, for the love of God, no."

"Hey now, I'm a demon gal."

"No."

"This is rather odd," Clarissa said as she lifted the accessory. "... I'm assuming this has something to do with us being pulled into your tails?"

"I told you, didn't I? They work as mediums for spells. If you all channel your attacks into my tails-"

"We could make a powerful blast!" Kirke finished with a chuckle. "That sounds rather amazing. So, I'm assuming we'd just…" She raised her fins and focused.

A Mega Fire spell formed in front of her and she blinked as it began to condense the more power she put in.

"... I wonder if we couldn't put your fur on our weapons to give them an upgrade."

"We can try after we hit these guys, Big Sis."

The others followed through, Clarissa using Mega Star along with Flonne while Laharl and Etna used Mega Fire.

Naruto raised his hands out at his sides and the group watched as the spells shot down his tails to his arms.

"Spell-Style Rasenshuriken." Naruto established the orbs as pair of arms formed at his shoulders to help stabilize the two glowing Rasenshuriken alternates. "Yeah… Now, I pump it full of Natural Energy."

He condensed the attacks as much as he could but, even then, they made that shrill sound that spread out against the battle.

"That's loud!" Flonne shouted as she saw the attacks, the glowing white spheres surrounded by bladed air and another ring. "T-That looks dangerous."

"Exactly," Naruto said with a grin as he jumped high into the sky. "Go! Rasenshuriken!"

He threw them one after the other, the attacks breaking through the space between them and their opposition which consisted of half a mile of distance eclipsed in a single second.

Naruto brought his hands together in a hand seal.

"KAI!"

Then the area below grew brighter before exploding in a marvelous display that had a tower of energy climbing high into the sky, eclipsing many of the flying demons.

"Whoa!" Laharl's eyes shined in the explosion's light before he started cackling. "MWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Face the tyranny of Laharl the Overlord!"

"I see," Kirke hummed as the explosion rocked the landscape the moment they landed. "Your mediums also passively use Wind energy and condensation as the bases. It's ridiculously potent with Fire spells."

"It's marvelous," Clarissa said with a smile as Naruto chuckled before the group grinned at a familiar, numerous, amount of sounds that rang in the air by them.

Level-Ups.

"Hmhmhmhmhm!" Etna snickered into her hands as she grinned and watched the levels keep coming. "Damn! I wonder how many of those bastards we dealt with?!"

Naruto cringed as he realized that, yes, he might have just killed a ton of people and swallowed.

'Oh, that's not gonna weigh on my conscience or anything.'

And the worrying part was, he felt fine, mentally.

Was that the Celestia half or Netherworld half? He sweatdropped at the thought of it being both.

So, when he watched his levels go up, he nodded when he passed level 100 and looked at his Skills section. 'Yup knew it,' he thought with a grin as he saw his next Transformation.

Transformation

Celestial Prinny (Default)

Werefox

Divine Spirit (Wind)

?

?

He blinked at both the new being and the extra question-marked skill.

'What's that do?' He clearly didn't know but, hey, he got a new transformation to try out. '... Hmm, got a new one.'

Seal Tags (Max: 5, Add: 3)

Soul-Searching Tags (Max: 3)

*Kage Bunshin Tag (Max: 1)

"So, cool, I got both a new form and a new kind of tag," Naruto announced as Laharl hummed.

"No new skills but I'm past level 315 now," he said as Etna hummed.

"Same but about to be 270," the redhead said as Kirke hummed.

"I'm level 249 now."

"I have attained a new buffing skill," Clarissa said with a smile. "Stat Barrier? It's a skill to prevent stat debuffs, rather useful. Ahh, I'm level 210."

"It is and nice," Naruto said with a thumbs-up before he closed his eyes. "... Hmph, that demon stopped slaying the other demons by this point, I can feel their energy and it got to halfway, pretty good. We barely hit any of the heavy hitters in the back but they've been shaved down by a tenth."

"Hmph. With your tags, I realized, this should be easy," Laharl said as Etna blinked before grinning.

"Oh yeah, forgot about those! Yu-huh! Let's abuse 'em!"

"B-But there's only three and there are, like, 89 of those strong guys."

"Hmph, true but we won't get anywhere just waiting around as you said. We've gotta grab levels!" Laharl said as he jumped out of Naruto's tail before falling. "Come on!"

Naruto chuckled nervously before looking at the girls. "I'm gonna jump down now."

"Go ahead!" Etna.

"P-Please go slowly." Flonne.

"Let's follow Prince Laharl." Kirke.

"... please don't drop me." Clarissa.

The fox man nodded before jumping down off the trees.

~NRK~

When the group landed, they caught up to Laharl easily and snatched him out of the air, they all whistled at the sight of the battlefield.

It was basically a large crater with things being finely cut to a point that it was full of sand.

"The Rasenshuriken cuts things on a molecular level, it was one of the first jutsu I ever made," Naruto said as he released the others from his enlarged form before letting it dissipate and landed on the floor. "Hmph, that's it for all the traps, though."

"We traded them for a good result, nothing to be disappointed with," Kirke said before looking off into the distance. "Now, we have to go and handle these demons."

The group nodded and Naruto hummed as he looked at his new transformation.

"... Well, no time like the present!" He announced before slamming his hands together, the skill taking place. "Transform!"

Strong winds blew away from his location, blowing everyone's hair back before Naruto disappeared into a large ball of light green energy.

"It's different from last time!" Kirke explained to the others over the wind. "So this one is possible Wind-based!"

The winds came to an abrupt end a second later, leaving the glowing orb to slowly float above the ground before it condensed into a new form.

It was remarkably human-shaped, having a similar body and head but, atop his head, were a long pair of ears reminiscent of a fox and rabbit mix.s

His feet and hands were clawed while, from his behind, were four waving tails.

His most notable features were his entire body's state and his eyes. His body looked like a light green outline filled with turbulent windy energy while his eyes were completely white and almond-shaped.

"... Naruto?" Flonne asked and the being turned to her before throwing her a salute. "... Hmmm," she walked up to him before reaching out a hand to his own.

It was held for a moment before she blinked at the feeling of cool air beneath her hand.

"?"

"Is it a sort of spiritual state?" Clarissa asked as she came up to him, touching his shoulder and blinking at the sensation. "... I see, it's like his body is just a bunch of wind energy in the form of his being."

"Hmm, so he's some sort of wind spirit?" Laharl asked as he crossed his arms and came up to the ninja. "... Can you even speak like that?"

Naruto rubbed the back of his head before cupping his chin in thought.

Winds picked up and calmly passed them.

"Kind of like this?" The recent Celestia-native wondered. "It's so weird! I can't talk normally but I can by passing my thoughts in the shape of the wind."

"Fascinating," Kirke said as she observed him. "Hmm, well, time for a test run, as you'd say, no?" She asked with a smile before pointing at the oncoming demons. "If you're some kind of wind spirit, you might have a form of elemental control over all wind."

Naruto looked down at his claws before clenching them with a nod. "Let's do this!" He said before shooting up in an explosion of air. "Whoa! Dude, I can fly again!" Naruto cheered as he floated above the group before looking out at the horizon of demons.

He raised his hand in front of him before gathering wind energy and being answered immediately. The energies of the world seemed to call to him and he pulled on them before they took shape.

'Hmph, a spear?' He looked at the weapon in his hand. '... No, it's more of an attack in the shape of a spear.'

That said, he twirled it around before nodding.

It was easily a seven-foot weapon, half a foot taller than his new height, and had two long, seal-looking, 'wings' on the side of it as it ended in a flat tip with a small ball floating above it.

Wind Manipulation, he guessed. Pretty cool skill!

"Alright, I'm gonna throw this thing!" He announced to those below before rearing back and then tossing his spear. "FLY!"

It did and disappeared with a shockwave as it blew past the speed of sound several times over before hitting the opposition.

The tornado that exploded on enemy lines was wide and tall, getting a chuckle out of the former blonde.

"It'll take some work."

"I think it looks awesome!" Laharl said through the wind, surprising the wind spirit. "Wait, can he even hear me?"

"I can," Naruto said with a chuckle. "I guess this has something to do with air currents?"

"Maybe, I don't know. What I do know, though," Naruto could feel the smug in the boy's voice and laughed. "Is that we now have long-range communication! This campaign is going super well!"

Naruto hummed as he reached out and felt out the forces.

'Hmm, it feels like I can accurately count them now,' which was pretty convenient. "Yo, Laharl-sama, it seems like there are 359 of these guys left. You all ready to go at 'em?"

"Let's do this!" Laharl's words spread out across the group's ears, carried by the wind.

"God, am I really about to have him in my ears the entire fight?!" Etna whined as Naruto came back down. "This is your fault!"

"Hehe~ Maybe but, hey, just look on the bright side."

"What bright side?"

"This is more fortuitous than one could imagine," Clarissa said to Kirke who nodded. "Long-Range communication is vital for war efforts."

"How in the world would you know?" Etna asked flatly only to see a proud smile on Clarissa's face. "Ugh."

"I used to read all the war journals, historic location logs, and the after-thought notebooks our Liege had in his libraries. They explain a lot of the King's planning, ideas, feelings, and strategies."

"Hm, hm, if you know enough we could have you as our strategist."

Clarissa blushed at the idea while Etna huffed and Kirke giggled a bit.

"I-I couldn't!"

"Hey, never say 'never' until you've tried," Naruto said with amused eyes. "That said, it doesn't mean we'd throw you into the deep end-"

"I would," Etna grumbled.

"Ignore that. Just know, it's not wrong to want to try out different paths, that's how we get stronger."

"... P-Perhaps, maybe, one day."

"Sure," Laharl shrugged with a hum. "Naruto's idea isn't so bad. Having a strategy is always important, even if it's only for terrains."

"Terrain always plays a part in the war," Kirke said, gesturing to the battlefield around them. "No matter how big the powers may get, they're not gonna just keep throwing big attacks at one another for a fight, that's wasteful and won't get you anywhere if you lose yourself in it."

"... I disagree but it's whatever," Laharl said as Kirke sweatdropped. "For now, we've gotta handle these guys. We can try other stuff out when we finish up!"

"Got it." The group responded.

Naruto nodded as he looked at his Skills.

{

SKILLS:

Seal Tags (Max: 5, Add: 3)

Soul-Searching Tags (Max: 3)

Kage Bunshin Tag (Max: 1)

Invigorate

Transformation

Celestial Prinny (Default)

Werefox

Divine Spirit (Wind) (Current)

Wind Manipulation

Elemental Armament (Wind)

Elemental Protection (Max:1)

}

"?" Naruto raised a brow before bringing his arms in on his sides. "Elemental Protection!"

The group blinked as a fox-shaped astral copy of the man slipped out of his energy and shifted behind Clarissa, just floating there.

"W-What's this skill do?" The Cleric asked with a slight blush as she turned to look at the floating 'phantom' behind her. "... It's kind of o-odds."

Just having him always behind her, watching her every move…!?

'I wore the good ones today, right?' She asked herself as she held her cheeks, Kirke chuckling off to the side as the others blinked at the Cleric's oddness.

"Come now, I can pretty much guess what it does," the red Prinny said with a chuckle.

"It says that it gives my allies a sort of personal 'Me' to keep an eye on them. It acts as a sort of shield for ten minutes or until its power runs out," Naruto said with a hand rubbing the back of his head. "Sorry if it feels weird to just have a copy of me watching over your shoulder, Clarissa-chan."

"W-What, no, it's fine!" Clarissa said with a squeak as Etna's eyebrow ticked and Kirke giggled a bit more. "W-What I mean to say is that, well, it's likely better for me to have extra protection, right?" The battle nun said before blushing at the wording. "T-That is, protection as in defenses! Hahahahaha…" Oh, Satan, swallow her now!

"... Gotcha," he threw her a thumbs-up that settled her heartbeat.

Kirke just giggled more as Flonne wore an oblivious smile and Laharl raised a brow.

"For the love of, let's go already!" Etna said with a growl as she stomped off. 'God, that's so…'

Annoying was the right word. Seriously, you're really going to get all flubbed up over the word 'protection'?!

She rolled her red eyes as she looked down at the crater with a reluctant look of being impressed.

Naruto was strong, she was willing to admit it, she realized. And when they were all 'connected' by his tails… that'd felt so…

She blushed a bit before grimacing and shaking her head.

"So, how should we go over there-?!" Etna began to say only to nearly screech when Naruto lifted her up in his arms. "W-What?!" She burned bright red as he chuckled.

"Everyone get onto my tails," he said as Laharl and Flonne hopped on easily before being wrapped up in balls of wind. "I can get us over there pretty easily."

Kirke did as asked and hummed as she was encased by calm, swirling, air. "Very calming, Naruto-kun."

"Y-Yes, it is," Clarissa said as she and her 'protection' were encased by an orb as well. "I-I'm ready!"

"Alright, hold on, Etna!" Naruto announced as the demon girl grimaced with red cheeks before they took off at insane speeds.

'S-Stupid Prinny!' Etna thought with another grumble as the air around them formed a thin barrier to prevent the wind from battering her eyes. 'Dammit!'

She and that Heal bitch were NOT the same!

Naruto, meanwhile, tore across the land and, once they were high above more unharmed land past the crater, he brought them down to look at their opposition of terrified demons who balked at them.

"I-It's the Prince!"

"D-Did he really do all that with just six people?!"

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!"

"We're all gonna die!"

The demons' fright shined through and many of them hobbled, limped, or scrambled away in droves.

"... That went… Well," Laharl realized with a flat expression, hair antennae flopping against his head. "... You've gotta be kidding me! Where's my challenge, you cowards!?"

They didn't care, the stampede of demons wailed as they ran for their collective lives.

When all was said and done, Naruto chuckled.

"There's about two hundred of 'em left."

"That worked out way too well," Etna realized with a huff as Clarissa and Flonne wore looks of relief. "Way too well. I'm actually a bit disappointed."

"I'm not," Kirke said with an impressed hum. "This did us plenty of good. Naruto, where are the tougher enemies?"

"They're on their way," Naruto said with narrowed eyes. "But that weirdly tough one that comes in and out hasn't moved yet."

"O-Ominous," Flonne said with a stutter. "C-Can we ignore it?"

"Well, for now," Laharl said with a grin as he hefted his sword. "Let's bring 'em down!"

The group brandished their weapons and Naruto looked at his staff before holding his weapon in one of his tails as he brandished his knives.

"Let's get wild!" He said as he crossed his fingers. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

From the ether came hundreds of copies, each one cracking their knuckles or brandishing their weapons.

The demons facing them paled.

"ATTACK!" Laharl roared and exploded forward along with Naruto and Etna as Flonne, Kirke, and Clarissa were taken into the skies by Naruto clones. "BRING 'EM DOWN!"

Many of the clones jumped high into the sky and readied their Rasenyari, their Spiral Spears, the new name for this spear-like technique.

"Launch it!" Laharl ordered and windy destruction descended onto the opposition.

The Prince and Etna carved arcs into the enemy lines, the wind spears falling around them seeming capable of not harming them since Naruto was in control.

Etna let out three shots into a Zombie before turning to find a Rifle Demon behind her only for it to be kicked away by a Naruto clone.

He threw her a thumbs-up before slamming that large ox-like demon into the ground with a few of its brethren.

"... Hmph," she huffed a bit even as her cheeks reddened. "Stupid Prinny," she muttered before continuing her rampage, working off her thoughts.

Meanwhile, high in the sky, Clarissa released several arrows in the form of Dark Flash, a bow skill that could hit three enemies, from afar, in a line.

It came with a good bonus, as well, as it could cause the Deprave status effect. She smiled as she took several more of such shots, sweating slightly.

Her stamina was still bad when it came to physical skills but she wasn't complaining. Clarissa had numerous ways to help the others.

She was not dead weight and she knew who to thank, the most, for that. The Cleric blushed as she adjusted herself on the Naruto clone-made wind platform which acted as her perch, another clone holding onto her midsection to keep her steady.

S-She thinks! Clarissa wouldn't mind a little teasing every now and then!

Flonne, meanwhile, kept firing off her Mega Star spells. "Mmm, Naruto, are you alright?" She asked the platform below her where a pair of eyes appeared at the corner.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just keep on throwing out spells." The copy said with two hands coming out off the platform to throw her a dual thumbs-up.

"Alright!" Flonne said with a grin as she charged up a Mega Star spell. "Mega Star Beam!"

She held her staff in front of her and a blast of a sphere-contained higher-tier Star spell blasted through a hole in the sphere, tearing into the enemy lines as she felt another Level-Up hit. "Hm, hm, hm! I'm level 256 now!"

Kirke threw the angel trainee a smile and chuckle as she raised her Crystal Skull and Emerald Staff high into the air, fire, and lightning coming off of both weapon's tips, respectively.

"Dual-Element: Plasma Rain!"

The powers shot into the air and formed a large thunder cloud that, once large enough, rained down purple energy and heat that tore into the opposition's flanks.

The group's power, versatility, range, and numbers overtook enough of the demons in little time, leaving the six with only fifty enemies left.

"Hm, hm, hm, MWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laharl's laughter reached over the battlefield. "Yes! Face the terror of Overlord Laharl!"

"Overlord Laharl, dood!" Came a series of calls from the side as Prinnies scrambled to his feet, falling into an organized group facefault and slide. "Please don't kill us, dood!"

"Haa?" Laharl made a confused, aggressive, sound as the group looked at the Prinny squad before them. "... Ah, so it was you guys trying to take my title, huh?" He asked with a wide, vicious, grin.

"W-We just wanted to get out of slavery, dood!"

"Yeah, we had a whole baseball game set up and everything!"

Naruto snorted. "I knew it."

"So you go off, try to betray me, and then, the moment you fail, where did that lead you?" Laharl said as he looked down on the trembling sinners. "Back to me."

"W-We're sorry, dood! Don't kill us, Prince Laharl, dood!"

"... Hmph, you know, I should really just throw you all into a ravine," Laharl said slyly as the Prinnies began sweating. "But, since I've literally just cut my opposition down by 950 demons, I'm in a good mood. You try this shit again and I'm cutting your salary down to a FOURTH."

"Eeeiiiiyyyyyeeee! Don't do that, dood! Please, the moon's coming next month! We'll never make it!"

Kirke's eyes widened and she looked off to the side while Naruto looked at her.

'... Oh, right, that's on its way, isn't it?'

"Hmph, I don't give a damn about your moon! Remember who you serve!"

"Lord Laharl, dood!" They all replied with salutes as one of them rubbed the back of his head before rushing up to the group.

"Actually, dood, there's information we can give you," Laharl raised a brow at the Prinny. "There are, like, two super tough demons! One's an Overlord from another Netherworld, dood!"

The group's eyes widened in shock. "Seriously!?"

"Yu-huh! And the other one is-"

"Thou art the Overlord Laharl, yes? I've waiteth a long time," Came a feminine voice, from ahead of the group who turned to see a woman.

She was buxom, having a large chest that matched Clarissa's. She had peach skin, violet eyes, and short lime green hair that parted at the left part of her forehead and gave her two long bangs.

She was dressed… Well, 'dressed' was certainly a way of describing her class.

Wearing a long-sleeved dark yellow tunic with a white collar that reached up to her neck with a black gemstone clasping it together with a ruffle at the neck. Over her bountiful chest was a fitting breastplate.

Her lower half was… well, Naruto wanted to say 'covered' but it was a crazy mix of a sash that clasped around her front and had long breechcloths coming down over her crotch and rear that was colored white and had two lines coming down the middle before coming around to the sides. Her legs were covered by thigh-high dark blue socks and her feet were covered by small white boots with a dark blue line through them.

She seemed… well, interesting was certainly it with how she spoke.

'Hah, got it,' Naruto thought with a fist-pumped. 'And no time wasted!'

He'd have to thank Bellona for that.

"H-Hmph, who are you?" Laharl asked with a slight stutter, eye moving away from this woman's chest. "... Stay away from me."

"She doesn't seem all that tough-" Etna made to say only for Naruto to step forward. "?"

"She's one of the tough ones," he said on the wind, only his group, plus the Prinnies, hearing it. "We're talking, good God, she's 2.5 times Laharl's level."

"?!" Laharl choked before grunting.

"What do you want?" Etna asked plainly, Bugle 13's trigger softly pressed. "The Prince? You see, he's what everyone wants to knock down a peg."

"My name Sardia the Demonslayer, I hath slayeth 2000 demons," she said as she held out her hand and a sword appeared.

The group balked at the feeling in it.

"What the hell is that?!" Laharl uttered with a shiver. "Why's it so angry?!"

"Ah, this," the swordswoman said as she caressed her blade. "This is a weapon that I found one day while going diving in the Blazing Core lava! A Carnage weapon!"

The group's eyes widened. "A what?"

"No… t-that shouldn't be possible!" Kirke said with a pointed flipper. "There's no way any demon would just let go of a Carnage weapon!"

"Sis?"

"Naruto, you don't understand," Kirke said as Sardia held her blade aloft, the aura coming off it burning bright. "... there are weapons even beyond even the highest of weapons one can find in the item world," she grimaced. "Weapons found in the Land of Carnage. Powerful items filled with the energy, and negativity, of that land. Even a Carnage Thimble could beat a normal God Hand. And their power grows exponentially with each rank."

"W-What should we do?" Flonne asked nervously as Sardia pointed her weapon at them.

"Hmph! So thou knoweth the truth behind mine blade, little consequence!" She stated with it raised in the air. "Each swing could split the land beneath in twain!"

"Don't swing such a dangerous thing around!" Etna said with a grimace.

"... Or could it?" Sardia wondered with a hum as the group facefaulted. "No matter, this could cut the very mountains of Jotennheim in several strokes!"

"R-Really?!" Flonne swallowed.

"... Possibly."

"For the love of-Make up your mind!" Laharl growled at her, getting an oblivious hum from the woman. "What is wrong with her?!"

"What dost thou group thinketh of my entrance?"

"... I hate to break it to you," Naruto began with a hand rubbing the back of his head. "But… it'd kind of long-winded."

"I-It is?!" Sardia bit her lips as she looked down. "I-I was of the opinion it worked with the words!"

"Wait, that's not even your own accent!?" Clarissa asked in shock. "I-I was to assume."

"U-Umm, t-thoust know better… wench?"

"You're not even trying, are you?"

"..." The woman looked horribly embarrassed.

"... Look, you can work on your bit somewhere else, yeah? It's not like you're here to-"

"Oh, no, if I can become the Overlord I'd get all kinds of subjects to practice on!"

"Goddammit!" Naruto balked at her. "C-Come on, there's no need to fight for that… right?"

"What other way would I do it?" Sardia asked with a tilt of the head as Naruto held his face in his hands. "I need my live practice audience, that's what they tell you in drama school!"

"W-Wait, I thought you were supposed to be a swordsman!"

"U-Um!"

"Look, this is all stupid. Why not just become Laharl's vassal?" Naruto asked, shocking the group, the Prinnies, and Sardia herself who… considered it? "I mean, not only would you be a good vassal, you could practice on me and my clones if y-"

"You have a deal!" She said with stars in her eyes. "Imagine all the critiques! Why I'd be able to become a drama star in no time!"

"... Naruto, why'd you just invite this crazy, sexy-bodied, woman into my home?" Laharl asked with a twitching brow at the cheering Sardia. "I-I… What happened?!"

"Look, she's a better bit of help, she's a master swordswoman-"

"Oh, I'm not," she said with a nervous chuckle and tongue out, hand rubbing the back of her head. "I just kind of… found this thing."

"... Why'd I invite you again?"

"Good performances!" She said with a thumbs-up as the wind spirit groaned into his hands.

"... I mean," Clarissa spoke up with a shaky smile. "It's still more firepower… yes?"

"... We'll make it work, somehow," Kirke said as she hummed before blinking. "W-Wait, how are you so high level?!"

"Hmm? Oh, that, this thing fakes my level!" Sardia said with a grin as the group began to sweat. "It's barely a Carnage weapon."

"Stop hurting my feelings, dammit!" Naruto wailed. "I-I thought you were supposed to be strong! Why are you doing this?! You'd die!"

"Don't you know? You've gotta die for your art, sometimes."

"Give back my kindness, dammit!"

"MWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Came a voice out of thin air, confusing the group and the other, patiently waiting, demons. "So there was nothing to worry about? Well, let me make my entrance."

The air in front of them rumbled before, within the crowd of their opposition, the group balked as a large… being came into existence, tossing up the forty-nine demons in disarray.

"Ah!"

"What's happening?!"

"God, he's fucking big!"

"D-Don't step on-GUH!"

The group trembled as they saw this opponent's sheer size, being before them beyond lots of demons' sizes most of the group had ever seen with only Naruto seeing something bigger.

"Hmm, it's been a while since I've been on this Netherworld," the large dragon-like being said as its eyes shifted in the clouds above to look down. "... Hm, hm, hm, and you, boy. You'd be King Krichevskoy's son, aren't you?"

"And if I am?!" Laharl shouted to the large being even if he grimaced at his size again. "Who are you?!"

"Hmph, I am an Overlord from an alternate Netherworld!"

"T-That's him, dood! But he was way smaller when he was in the crowd, dood!" One of the Prinnies shouted in panic as they scrambled about. "Game over, dood! We can't handle this guy!"

"T-That is certainly a big… glp, d-dragon," Sardia said with a trembling voice as she peeked out from behind Naruto who balked at her. "Y-You guys said you were gonna fight him, weren't you?!"

"... Yeah, we will," Naruto said but he felt this guy's power was off the charts!

He was, like, eight Laharls at the moment! Even if they applied all the tags with Laharl, that'd still leave them with close to a level 1500 enemy! This was about the same as fight Maderas but not even Laharl was close to this guy!

"Hm, hm, hm, I see. My form is magnificent, isn't it? So big, so thick, so grand. Truly, a form fit for an Overlord."

"... It's not like I can even see all of you! You're way too big!"

"Yu-huh, kind of hard to get all that… grandeur," Etna said with a neutral expression but, on the inside, she was trembling. 'Oh Satan, oh fuck,' they were so SCREWED!

"... Ah, of course, my majesty should be enjoyed piecemeal, hm?" The big guy said before his form glowed bright red. "Even Krichevskoy marveled at my unparalleled SIZE and couldn't see all of me. Just know, even so, a horrible death awaits you!"

"BEHOLD! Doppelganger!"

"Wait, what-?"

The large demon's form shrunk before it began to separate into ten powerful individuals whose forms glowed before dimming for them to see the tiny versions of this guy.

"A Great Wyrm," Kirke said with a grimace. "Fuck."

He was salmon-colored and had two large horns at the sides of his head and two LARGER horns pointing back behind the original two that were black in color.

His underbelly was cream-colored and well-muscled. Last but not least was his flaming mane that came down to the floor and floated above it in its fiery glory as two jets of fire came out of his forearms.

"Behold, my glorious form in ten different beings, all with stats far greater than our levels would show!"

Naruto considered them before grinning, his mouth beginning to show in the shape of a pumpkin smile that had sharp edges for teeth.

"Ohhhh, this looks doable," he said with a chuckled as Laharl blinked at the demons before grinning. "Take them down before he realizes what's up, guys. That's our way to win."

The group nodded as the Overlords spoke.

"Are you not amazed?! This is the famous Doppelganger spell mages made for only powerful individuals!"

"... Kage Bunshin Tag," was all Naruto said as he pulled the tag in question out of thin air. "One second, Laharl-sama."

Plastering it on the boy's arm, his form was captured in smoke before it cleared away to reveal an additional Laharl.

"... Heheheheheh," the blue-haired boys grinned viciously at one another before turning to face the shocked Great Wyrms. "Not so famous, huh?"

"... I will have you, spirit! With your powers and mine, I will rule the cosmos!"

"Go eat a dick! We're not losing to you! This is OUR world!" Naruto called out with a pointed finger before crossing them into his most famous sign. "And you wanna see a REAL set of clones!? Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

A large set of puffing smoke sprouted about before filling the Overlord's vision.

"W-What?! What happened-!?"

"TAKE THEM DOWN!"

The Overlords barely saw them before being slammed into by tidal waves of Naruto copies, easily outstripping their numbers 100-fold.

"A hundred clones to one of his! Don't let him get a chance!" The original Naruto ordered as he slammed into one of the Overlord's clones with his Shadow Clones.

He flipped overhead before kicking the dragon in the skull and sending him flying down as he floated in the air with clones.

"You puny imp!" The Overlord said in his squeaky tone as he got out of a pile of broken trees. "When I rule this world, you'll be a slave to my people!"

Naruto rushed down with his clones only for his eyes to widen as the Great Wyrm's mouth opened and filled with fire.

They scattered away as the blast tore apart the clouds and got a grimace from the former blonde.

'Okay, he's no joke!' He realized and shot off to the side as the dragon Overlord trailed flames behind him, flying behind him. 'He can fly, huh?' Naruto then turned in the air, flying backward as he aimed his hands at the intruder.

The Overlord grunted as he was pelted by Naruto's wind projectiles before he began to dodge around them. "Your little attacks won't-" His head snapped up as a Naruto clone slammed his foot into the dragon's jaws. "Puwah!"

The others flowed into a series of combos that sent the Overlord-mini crashing down through a set of trees.

He hoped the others were doing well.


The twin Laharls slammed their Parazoniums into the Overlord's burning forearms, the dragon demon's feet crushing the ground before digging up moats as he was pushed back.

"Not bad!" He said in a squeaky voice before swinging his arms out, knocking both Laharls off. "But not good enough!" His mouth glowed before a surging gout of flames tore past the barely-dodging Laharls.

"WHOA!" They shouted in unison as the air ruptured. "Hot, hot, hot!" The boys lunged to the ground before their swords glowed as they charged the Alternate Overlord. "Take this!"

Green wind tore up around the two and the dragon demon crossed his arms as they slammed their weapons into his flaming arms, pushing him back.

"Hurricane Slash!" They slashed at his arms and the bigger demon shot back like he was shot from a cannon.

The Overlord grunted as he was sent back, grunting one last time before throwing his arms out, body spread.

"ARYAA!" He dispersed the wind from the twin attacks, scratches on his forearms. "They're not as weak as I expected. I was of the opinion they couldn't power up so quickly from the information I received."

Little matter, he was still strong enough as he was to deal with them!


Etna grimaced as she ducked in and out of Naruto's clones, red eyes on the dragon demon before she was lifted high in the sky by a copy to dodge a flamethrower.

"Tsk!" She blushed a bit as Naruto's hold corrected into a princess carry. "D-Dammit!" Focus, focus, focus! "What's he all about?!"

"It's some sort of high-powered fire laser!"

They looked and the air was far hotter than Etna expected before Naruto raised his hand at her face and she sighed in relief at cool winds.

"It's also pretty hot."

"Then we need to give him a shower," Etna said with a thought before turning her head in the direction of Kirke. "Get me to the Red Prinny! I've got an idea!"


Kirke had had… better days than fighting an Overlord.

Yeah, this wasn't even in her top thousand days.

"Flonne!" She shouted out before raising her staff weapon and lightning rained down on the Overlord-Mini who'd tried to blast the angel away.

"T-Thanks!" Flonne stuttered before raising her staff. "MEGA STAR BEAM!" She swung it down and a ray of white tore towards the Overlord-Mini who crossed his arms.

The attack slammed into him and sent him flying into a large assortment of trees but he shot back with ease… but Kirke's eyes narrowed as she activated a skill.

"Target Lock!" Kirke cast it on herself and her eyes glowed as she looked at the Great Wyrm. "... Flonne-chan!" The trainee looked at her. "We're going to use some combo attacks! Your angelic energy works the best!"

Flonne's eyes widened before she grew determined! "I gotcha!"

The Naruto Platforms shifted back to their original forms before the two and Clarissa were brought together.

The Cleric was gasping a bit, sweating a lot, and skin reddening from exhaustion.

"D-Do you all have an i-idea?" Clarissa asked with a stutter as the Naruto clone holding her sighed.

"She's been trying to snipe down all the ones she could see and kept using skill after skill. She needs to relax," the clone said as Clarissa frowned.

"I-If I can just lower the weight on the others-"

"That's enough, Clarissa," Kirke said with a frown as the Cleric kissed her teeth. "You working yourself to death isn't going to help any of us. We've gotta work smarter, not harder."

"And your plan is…"

"Combo attacks with Flonne as the finisher," the Prinny said, confusing the group before they were joined by Etna and her Naruto clone. "?"

"Anyone know any high-tier Ice spells?" Etna asked.

"I do," Kirke said.

"I-I know the basic and Mega Ice spells!" Flonne said. "What do we need to do?"

"We're gonna douse these flames!"


Naruto slammed down on the draconic being, sending them both into a crater before he reared back and unleashed punch after punch.

The dent in the dirt grew with each impact and, on the tenth, the Overlord got enough of his bearings to grab onto the spirit's side and Naruto screamed as heat tore up that part of his body.

"Arrrrhhhgh!" This hurt way worse than he expected!

"Oh, surprised?" The Overlord said as he stood up, bruised somewhat but overall fine. "I've fought elementals like you before, each of them has an inherent weakness to an element," he punctuated this with a tighter grip on the former human.

"Gaaahhgggg," he needed to get out of this.

The Overlord's eyes narrowed before he was tackled to the side by three Naruto clones, the original hitting his knees as he landed on the floor. "Useless!" The dragon Overlord declared as he let out a burst of his demonic energy, sending the copies crashing into craters of their own before they were dispelled. "I've conquered numerous Netherworlds! Sure, yours might have been one of the tougher ones but I'm dominating without Krichevskoy around!"

The wind spirit hated to agree with him but he kind of had this thing down pat… like this, anyway.

A clone helped him up and he gave it a quick apology before explaining his next move to it and dispelling it.

The hundred or so leftover Naruto clones froze for a moment before four of them scattered to the winds… pun not intended.

"Hmph," the Overlord's eyes narrowed at that before floating to the floor and walking over to the wind spirit, each of his steps crushing the ground beneath him. "You've been rather amusing-"

His foot sunk into the floor and both Overlord and wind spirit blinked at that.

"... Ah, excuse," the dragon took his foot out of the hole before tapping around. "Aaannndddd, ah, here's some steady ground," he said, pleased with himself before he continued his terrifying walk!

Naruto sweatdropped. "Dude, seriously, why are you so obsessed with trying to conquer Netherworlds? Just go back and lead your people!"

"Hmph, you think I haven't tried?" The Overlord said in his squeaky voice. "I was known as my world's greatest dragon ruler! I united my people under my banners and took them to great heights… they got to laze around in the sun and NO ONE could say a thing! I was a genius."

'And, just like that, he lost me,' Naruto realized with a nervous chuckle and a deeper sweatdrop. 'What's with all these weirdos?!'

First was Kana then there was Sardia and now it was this bastard! Who was next?!

… 'Nope, never asking that question again… Oh my God, is he still talking?!'

"I, obviously, got the greatest mound with just the right amount of sun to warm my back even with all the shapes!"

'... h-he's seriously still going,' Naruto wanted to bless his lucky stars but this was ridiculous!

"But alas, they never recovered his bones," what the hell had he missed?! "Hmph, listening to my soliloquy with rapt attention, you're doing well to gain my respect," he was!? "But, alas, lest you wish to become my servant."

"I really don't."

"A shame, now, I've finished powering up-"

"Wait, you what-?!"

"TASTE MY POWER!" The world rumbled as a towering explosion of flames, and the color red, erupted around the dragon Overlord. "ARE YOU NOT IMPRESSED?!"

"Fucking-!?" Naruto cursed before flying high into the sky, looking down at the Overlord who was basically recreating what the former blonde thought the entrance to hell looked like. "Dammit-!"

A memory appeared in his mind and his eyes widened as he looked up to see a blackening sky.

"..." His eyes narrowed in resolve before a clone popped and his eyes widened.

They closed and the Overlord's mouth opened towards the blonde, a surging red light coming from within.

"Take this, Nova-"

"Don't do that!"

"Plasma Blast!"

What exited the demon's mouth wasn't an attack but nature itself formed into an angry blast that wanted to destroy the former shinobi where he stood… floated.

His arm raised as three towers of yellow shot into the sky before zoning in on him right as the Overlord's attack hit.

The Alternate Netherworld Overlord locked his body to the floor on all fours before the blast intensified. This was only acceptable, after all.

To have amused him this much meant this demon deserved his respect-!

His blast was held back by a barrier of gold as the clouds above were entered by a tower of a similar color.

'WHAT?!' The Overlord choked as he stopped his attack to see what the hell had happened. 'What has he become?!'

What stood before him wasn't the spirit from before, no, this more than a normal spirit.

Nine tails flared out, gold rings around each tail's tip, while a long furred vest hung off the demon's shoulders.

His body was riddled with lines and his arms by 'gauntlets' while his forehead, and the center of his chest, bore large glowing spheres on them that looked so much like drawn renditions of the sun.

"Hmph," the dragon's mouth set in a grin that was followed by his body's flexing. "I see… You were hiding from me, weren't you, High Elemental?"

Naruto looked down at the Overlord and crossed his arms before throwing his body out, a pulse of wind energy shooting all around him.

The Overlord's eyes widened as he was thrown away, high into the sky, before using a burst of flames to stop his-

His eyes barely widened in time to see Naruto's fist coming around for his face. A loud 'THWACK!' rang out before an explosion of wind sent the Overlord sailing off into the horizon.

Naruto blinked before looking at his hand, flexing it. "Whoa… wait, I can speak?" He looked at his body before turning his head to see nine, long, tails. "Man, I'm a regular old-"

He popped and, soon enough, returned to his Prinny form.

"...!?" His eyes widened as he flapped his flippers and wings in horror. "No, no, no!" He clenched his eyes shut as he allowed his body to stop trying. "Dammit…"

…? The Prinny blinked as he looked down to see himself still high in the air. "... Wait, I got a tail, right? That was when I got my Werefox form… if I got a Wind Spirit form…" The blonde actually turned and looked behind him to see large, about his height in length, angel wings that stayed out while his tail became fluffy!

"Dood!" He raised his flippers in satisfaction. "Sick!"

"Don't I know," came a voice from behind the now frozen, and sweating, Naruto who mechanically turned around to see a very pissed-off Overlord.

His cheek was bruised pretty badly and, on his head, the Prinny noted with a happy smile that the dragon's horns were cracked. He was layered in dust and lacerations that the penguin heard the results of in small hisses from the draconic Overlord.

He wasn't exactly looking 100% and the Prinny's eyes narrowed in resolution.

Then it began to rain hard, a torrential downpour that was followed by crackling thunder and lightning.

"What?" The Overlord looked up in confusion before hissing as the water hissed off his form, the Great Wyrm's arms quaking as he covered his head. "No! No! I hate the water!"

His eyes widened as he remembered there was a Prinny there and turned to command a towel only to find a large fox, with a raised fist, in his vision.

Naruto got his second 'THWACK' of the afternoon and sent the Overlord sailing into the floor below, destroying the earth around him. "Heh, this came at a good time," he said with a grin before taking out his dual knives. "Time to finish this!"


Etna grinned as she swung around and slammed the Overlord-Mini into a cliff wall before slipping up into him with her spear held out. "Impaler Drop!"

The plateau didn't hold and broke apart for the Overlord copy to go sailing into the sunset. His tagged form disappearing from her vision.

"Hmph," she held out her hand to feel the rain dropping against it. "It's heavier than we expected, though.'

That clone had said that Naruto enhanced this little combo-skill of theirs with 'Natural Energy'. So, even now, he was helping, huh?

She huffed with slightly red cheeks before taking off after that Overlord copy.

She had an Overlord to beat the shit out of!


The twin Laharls slammed their weapons into a pair of the Great Wyrm Overlord. The dragon demons cried out in pain before they stabbed them in the chest, the two falling silent after two more shouts of blood, seals on their abdomens glowing brightly before disappearing.

The copies faded away into motes of light before Laharl huffed as he felt a trio of level-ups hit.

"Come on, we've gotta go handle the rest and find Naruto."

"Duh."


They went at it like barbarians.

Naruto knocked aside the flaming forearm of the Overlord-Mini with his own before kicking the dragon in his gut, sending him skidding back with pathways of water cleared by his pushback.

The Werefox ran at him before the Great Wyrm opened his mouth and released numerous balls of flame that the blonde fox broke apart with his fists and tails. Once upon the Overlord, the blonde leaped forward into an ax kick that sent the Great Wyrm's head down to the ground, cratering it.

"Hmph!" The Overlord lifted his head and Naruto crossed his arms before being sent flying by a blast of Fire. "I know spells as well!" His hands filled with Fire before he clapped his hands together, the 'point' of the prayer-like act being pointed at the fox demon. "Fiery Convergence!"

A flaming bullet that almost pierced him slammed past his ear, the heat searing his hearing appendage and getting a yelp from the blonde.

He dashed around the dragon as more of these attacks were shot, each one barely missing him but the heat alone dried his clothes and singed his fur.

'He's way too experienced,' Naruto thought.

This was something he was always worried about, demons who'd lived past thousands of years with high levels had to have a crazy battle sense. Not only that, this guy was probably reincarnated a few times at that and so he was tougher than tough.

"Dammit!" The blonde flipped up into the air before his tails burned bright green, mouth filling with light. "Wind Spiral Cannon!" The attack formed into a familiar-looking orb before shooting towards the dragon Overlord who shot another condensed flame shot.

The attacks met in the middle before spiraling together into an expanding explosion of white energy.

They both flew back as they were overtaken by light, the two riding out the shockwaves as even the weather halted in the wake of pure heat, a hole in the dark clouds above denoting its existence.

Naruto grunted as everything stopped trying to throw him to the ether before looking up to lock gaze with that Overlord across from a 'field' of dryness.

They got up, breaths heavy, eyes focused, and bodies at their limits.

This was their final bout!

Naruto looked down as he approached the circle, the Overlord doing the same.

"This has been marvelous," he said with a high amount of respect. "Even now, you fight me to such a standstill. Me! The Great Wyrm reincarnated three times over!"

Well, that explained his ludicrous power. "You're a tough bastard to take down… It has been fun, though."

"Hmph, likewise," they were inches from the edge of the 'circle'. "..."

"..."

Their gazes stayed locked as they took that final step-

"I love it!" Both facefaulted into the dry earth as Sardia came running, soaked to the bone but eyes full of excitement! "Drama, action, a bout between bitter rivals! This is the kind of stuff I LIVE for!"

"W-We're in the middle of something!" The dragon Overlord shouted at her and she squeaked a bit before nervously chuckling while rubbing the back of her head.

"I know, I know! Don't mind me!" She said with excitement, running behind a nearby rock and peeking over its edge before throwing the two a thumbs-up. "You guys have got this!"

"... I barely know her but I'm sorry," Naruto said as he dragged his hands down his face, the Great Wyrm huffing. "Let's just redo this."

They did, approaching the dry circle one more time, eyes alight with courage and visions of victory.

Sardia wiggled from behind her seeing place.

They took that final step.

"ARGGGHHHYAYYA!"

"ORRYYUYAAA!"

Fists met faces as the two charged into the middle of the dry circle, blood flying, visions flashing, souls BLAZING!

Sardia narrated from her seat.

The Overlord's vision returned first, his fist swinging around for the blonde's face only for a tail to grab it and pull him down into a knee to the face.

Naruto's body turned before a kick found the Overlord's side, getting a wet grunt out of him.

He gripped the offending limb and turned before slamming Naruto down into the dirt, cracking the earth below.

Blue eyes flashed and the blonde was back on his feet, tackling the Overlord.


When they flew over after defeating the rest of the Overlord-Minis, the group had expected explosions across the landscape, the rumbling of the earth, maybe a few windy explosions.

What they got was a magnificent fistfight between two powerful creatures.

The Laharls' eyes lit up with extreme satisfaction as the group landed behind Sardia who was watching the proceedings with stars in her eyes.

"W-Where's Naruto?" Clarissa asked worriedly before looking over the rock in front of them. "... S-Shouldn't we do something?"

"And ruin this?!" Sardia hissed with fire in her eyes and her fist clenched at her bountiful chest! "This is a fight of men! They're baring their souls to one another with each exchange of a fist!"

Etna looked markedly interested and leaned around the rock to look on before nodding. "Yup, that sounds about right."

"A-Are you sure?" Clarissa asked with a grimace at the Magic Swordswoman before looking as well and grimacing at some of the blows traded. "N-Naruto almost looks dead on his feet!"

"No, no, she has a point," one of the Laharls said as they grinned at an uppercut. "I live for this shit!"

"Same!"

Flonne's eyes went blank in confusion. "H-Huh?" She walked over and looked past the rock. "... I LIVE FOR THIS STUFF!" She declared, eyes burning as Sardia grinned, the two hi-5ing! "You're right, this is how men FIGHT!"

"I know, right?!"

Clarissa paled as she saw Flonne's love for what was happening to Naruto right then and there.

There was a pat on her thigh and she turned her head to see Kirke shaking hers.

"Trust me, nothing's going to happen to Naruto-kun should he even lose. We'll probably just jump the Great Wyrm if he does."

"... That's… reassuring?"

"I try."


This was it, Naruto didn't have much stamina left, especially after burning through Sage Mode like he had.

'It speeds up the timer.' he concluded a bit back.

Naruto grunted as an uppercut barely missed his chin but a shoulder charge sent him to the floor. He rolled to the side but was kicked to the edge of this 'battlefield'.

If he stepped out, he knew he'd lose in an important manner… if he had stepped out.

"This has been splendid," the Overlord said as he kicked the blonde on his back and placed his foot against his chest. "Give in, this is a chance to not only serve me but also save your Netherworld!"

"... He… hehehehe," Naruto chuckled with a bloody grin. "Nope."

"... A shame but I'll remember you, warrior."

"Heh, the name's 'Naruto'. Dattebayo."

"A fine name. And I am Draconis, leader of the Burning World," the Overlord said with a chuckle as he raised a hand and flames gathered even if only barely. "Your death shall be grand!"

"H-Hey, Draconis, let me get one question in, yeah?" Naruto asked with a simple grin as the dragon hummed before nodding.

"Go on…"

"It's real simple, really," Naruto grinned wide and viciously, making the Overlord realize that something was wrong. "Did you ever wonder why my clones just disappeared?"

The Overlord's foot on the ground was grabbed by a pair of furry hands before he was brought down, his foot on Naruto coming off as the Great Wyrm was held to the floor by numerous clawed hands.

A Naruto clone, in Prinny form, came out of the ground before casting Invigorate on the blonde who then got up.

The Overlord was shocked. "When…"

"It was after I sent you into the earth before the rain came. I could only conjure up two but they did their jobs," the Prinny clone saluted his creator before puffing away. "That said, you're a REAL tough bastard, you know that?" The Werefox said as he held up a hand.

His demonic power coiled together as golden strings of light before a ball formed and grew to the size of the fox's hand.

"... Hmph, this is your win," the Overlord said and Naruto chuckled at his smirk.

"I'm not stupid, I literally just did the same thing myself," Naruto said as another of his clones shot out the ground before tackling the Overlord's clone, slapping a Seal Tag on it and they fought into the distance.

"Your Doppelganger, how is it so different? Thousands of soldiers in my own liking sound ridiculously useful."

"Well, it's called the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. I can cut my energy in half and create a copy."

"... You're rather ridiculous."

"Oh please," Naruto said as his Rasengan grew in size before he held a basketball-sized thing. "Here I go," he said as he jumped up high before coming down. "Rasengan!"

"Truly…" The Overlord chuckled as he overlaid the image of a man with a raised ax weapon in his hand, his violet antennae flapping in the wind as his grin reached his ears. "How annoying."

The explosion tore apart the surrounding area.


"T-Thank you, Naruto!" Clarissa said with a blush as the clone held her in his arms, Kirke, Flonne, Etna, and Laharl in the same boats, as they were taken away from the explosion. "I-I'm surprised you thought that far ahead."

"I've made tons of clones for most of my life. I'm also a ninja so it just comes naturally," the clone explained as she nodded before Clarissa blushed and laid her head on his broad chest.

This was very nice.

Kirke giggled from within a little 'cave' of Naruto's tails. 'It's precious.'

"Hehehehe! We just beat an Overlord!" Laharl's lips trembled in excitement as the Naruto clone he was riding the shoulders of chuckled. "HELL YES!"

Etna, meanwhile, was left realizing that, yes, they had just beaten an Overlord, not unlike King Kirchevskoy.

They beat an Overlord, holy shit.

She gaped as the Naruto holding her chuckled, bringing her back to the present and having her blush like a stupid schoolgirl.

'D-Dammit!' She crossed her arms and adjusted in her 'seat'. 'Get a hold of yourself, woman!' Etna shouted at herself, mentally.

Flonne, meanwhile, looked behind her, riding on Naruto's tails as it were.

"Are you going to be alright?" She asked the clone who nodded.

"The boss is way tougher than that, trust me."

"I do, Naruto… i-it was so COOL!" Flonne said with flames of passion in her eyes as Naruto's last 'passenger' giggled like a lunatic, grin wide and trembling with more satisfaction than was appropriate… and he meant appropriate.

Sardia looked on the verge of… ahem, well, release seemed apt enough.

She held her cheeks and giggled some more. "Yes! Yes! Yes! You're officially my muse!" She announced as the Narutos came to a stop, looking back at the shrinking explosion or, in this clone's case, looking at Sardia like she was insane. "The flames within me have been stoked and I won't be quenched for a long time!"

"O-Oi! What the hell?!" Etna shouted in both embarrassment and anger that she didn't understand, Clarissa also looked annoyed but understood more of her feelings than Etna did.

Kirke simply giggled.

~NRK~

"You're… healing me?"

"Well, healing's a strong word. I'm just restoring your stamina."

When the group came back, it was to the sight of a cross-legged Werefox and Great Wyrm.

Seeing them, Draconis lowered his head as his hands rested on his knees, a Naruto clone finished with its buffing. "It was my loss, completely and fully."

"Heh," Laharl grinned before rubbing the back of his head. "We did… but I can't just accept this like this," he said with a grimace as the Great Wyrm raised a brow along with the rest of the boy's comrades sans Naruto who grinned.

"You literally split yourself up to ten ways, had it been just your original form from the offset, we'd have a hell of a worse battle," the fox explained to the Alternate World Overlord.

"... Then what would you have me do? This is my loss."

"... You've conquered Netherworlds before, right?" Laharl asked and the dragon nodded. "Do you know about Baal?"

"Supreme Overlord of OVERLORDS, Ball?" The dragon asked with a snort. "Yes, he's a pest."

"We're trying to help my old man," Laharl explained. "Is there anything you can tell us about Baal? You've conquered Netherworlds, surely there's, like, trade secrets or something."

"Hmm… Of those who conquer Netherworlds as I do, there isn't much solidarity. If anything, the best I can say is, Baal uses the legendary Doppelganger skill, that's how he has so many copies everywhere. He even sent one to my Netherworld."

"Wait, did you beat him?!" Etna asked but the Overlord shook his head. "Huh?"

"... As I told this one earlier," Draconis began, gesturing to a now sweating Naruto. "When we fought him, it was all of my kind versus his clone… we were partially wiped out. Over 88% of my people, gone. That's one of the reasons I need to conquer more Netherworlds," he clenched his fist as Naruto cringed in sympathy. "The more of them I conquer, the more skills I can learn, the more methods to the Dark Assembly, the more my own world updates."

"Wait, what?" Laharl blinked as the dragon raised a brow. "Netherworlds update?"

"Yes. Once a fundamental part of a Netherworld has been found, diverse changes take quick effect, it's rather disgusting when I think about it," the Overlord said with a huff. "I learned of for example, when I learned of 'Overloads' from Kirchevskoy, many of the higher-class nobles began getting some, those with great power, the possible Main Character ability."

"So, wait," Laharl turned to Naruto who rubbed the back of his head before turning to the girls.

"Hey, girls, can you all check if you've got these Overload skills?" The fox asked and the others checked and balked.

"W-Wait, it's only been a WEEK! It's this fast?!" Etna said in horror as she turned to the nodded Overlord.

"In under a year, your entire world will become aware of these new assets."

"... Wait, was this what that damn flavor text meant?!" Naruto realized in horror. "This is the downside?! What the hell, our lives just became a million times harder!"

"Hmph, I know of your plight, I've met past enemies who made use of their newest Personal Evilities to great effect, never mind the ones they added from other subclasses."

"W-What?" Naruto began only to freeze along with the others, their screens coming up to reveal… "We've literally just shaped the Netherworld, haven't we?"

"Yup."

"Wait, so, how does this affect the Dark Assembly?" Kirke asked as she looked over her classes before her eyes widened a bit and she shut it away immediately.

"There will be a new bill that appears out of the ether," Draconis said. "That is going to be the start of the biggest changes. Right now, this effect will naturally occur but once that bill is passed, many will be simply able to do it from their Dark Assemblies."

"What s-should we do?" Flonne asked as she swallowed, looking at ALL the subclasses. "T-There are this many types of angels… Wait, Naruto, do you have demons or angel subclasses?"

Naruto blinked before checking, Draconis looking confused. "For the sake of simplicity, I reincarnated weirdly, trust me… Uh, Flonne, I think I've got more than just both those classes… I've got ones that even come from my world," he said, sending everyone, Draconis and Sardia included, his screen. "This… Wait, Draconis-"

"Got 'em," the Overlord said, looking at his own screen. "Yes, it is that easy, Naruto."

"Is that why people don't send screen invites often?" Clarissa asked in worry as Laharl grimaced.

"I… I didn't know," he said in total confusion. "This, I never even knew this kind of stuff was possible… but if it's true… where did all the normal settings come from?"

"Typically, normal Netherworlds all come preset with the 'base' of the world's at large but most come with special attributes… that said," the dragon frowned. "I knew it but I was still curious, I've never had some of these subclasses. Werefox, Divine Spirit (Wind), Celestial Prinny?!"

"... I think we're all going to need to go back to the castle and talk," Naruto said with a grimace as Etna frowned.

"If everyone figures out how to use these new systems before us-"

"It'll mean bad news," Kirke finished with a frown. "... Wait, hold on, Draconis, didn't you say Personal Evilities? You said you could add others?!"

"Yes, with mastery in the classes, that's the empty stars next to their names," the group balked. "As you gain experience in each, you get a minor buff for each level, in each category, but you also get an Evility for the class once you complete it fully. I've always had mostly dragon traits mastered, I've never delved into other races or humans' subclasses."

"This is way too big," Etna said as Flonne rapidly nodded, Sardia's eyes swirling in total confusion. "You're saying this is what makes an Overlord so different?"

"... Wait, could this mean Baal has mastered all the classes?" Naruto asked the group who froze, Draconis included. "... We need to figure out this guy. I think, the more we learn about his history, we could get strong enough to beat his ass ourselves!"

"... Hmph, I like the idea," Laharl said as he looked at the Werefox Subclass before secretly selecting it and shivering at something shifting into place. "O-Oookay, that's weird."

The others followed suit, Flonne sharing her screen with everyone so they could gain the extra subclasses with Draconis doing the same.

"It should be noted that you'll also earn Class EXP at a differing rate depending on the class's affinity to you."

"Talk about an info exchange," Kirke said. "This… we need to share this information with everyone at the castle. Laharl, I think it's time we call for a Castle Emergency Meeting."

Laharl's eyes widened before they narrowed in determination.

"It is."

~NRK~

And that's a WRAP!

I've been looking for a way to make sense of the change between the Disgaea games and, I figured, this can fly. The world of Disgaea knows they're in a game so having other aspects of their lives follow that same rule is super possible.

So, yeah, we got a total info dump at the end there and I'm sorry but not. I think it helps to explain how things are going to change from here on out.

We also get a call back to Naruto's flavor text which, probably unknown to you all, has more effects to it because of his sage abilities. It's more 'connected' with the 'game' mechanics than most other screens and, by proxy, can help Naruto discover new branches of power. Now, I need to look over all the Disgaea game mechanics to see what's coming when.

Yeah, we got super meta this chapter and yet it's still only just as meta as Disgaea can be at times.

Ciao.

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~NRK Out~