Chapter 1: I Loaded the Naruto World
“It is with deep sorrow that we inform the public...”
“The world-renowned mathematician Mr. Ye Feng, who successfully proved the Riemann Hypothesis, Goldbach’s Conjecture, and Six-Space Theory, has passed away unexpectedly from sudden cardiac arrest.”
“He was so young, yet he has left us—”
Following his departure from the living world, Ye Feng’s soul stood listening to the common people’s eulogies.
Yes.
He had died, yet he would not stay dead.
At the age of twelve, he had been struck by lightning. Ever since then, he would die of sudden cardiac arrest every time he reached twenty.
However, each time he died, he would be systematically reset back to the age of twelve.
No matter how many times he reset, he would inevitably become a top-tier elite in whatever industry he chose. Although it sounded like a luxury, he was truly sick of the elite lifestyle.
He only wished that this next reset would allow him to be a bit more ordinary.
...
Beep!
Just as he reached his hundredth reset, a mechanical voice suddenly echoed within his soul.
[Detecting specific host... identification in progress... absorbing... comparison complete... standards met.]
[Mechanical reset completed 100 times. Reset qualified. Reset System activated.]
Beep!
[I am the Reset System. I can provide the host with the experience of resetting time once every eight years.]
[Due to the activation of this system, the worlds available for reset have changed. They may now be selected freely!]
Beep!
Accompanying the system prompts, a series of screens appeared before Ye Feng’s ethereal form. Each screen displayed a small world.
[Naruto], [Boruto: Naruto Next Generations], [One Piece], [Ultraman Tiga], [Classroom of the Elite].
There were quite a few options.
“I can choose any of them?” Ye Feng asked.
[Yes. Any of the displayed options are available. The system can even construct worlds based on the host’s thoughts, provided the necessary materials are available.]
“Then I choose Naruto,” Ye Feng said. “I’ve spent too much time on math, physics, and chemistry. It’s time to play in a fantasy setting.”
...
Naruto.
It was a work full of imagination.
The Hidden Leaf Village was a very interesting place where everything revolved around shinobi, and the Ninja Academy taught nothing but the arts of the ninja.
As long as Chakra followed the sequence of Hand Seals, one could create fire out of thin air, conjure seawater, or even sign a contract with the ocean itself.
To a man from the three-dimensional world, Ye Feng found it quite fascinating.
...
[Acknowledged. Target world: Naruto.]
[Reset time requires three minutes. During this period, the host may select a ‘cheat.’]
The system notification rang out, and several powerful cheats appeared before Ye Feng.
A: Rinnegan
B: Sharingan
C: Hatake Style Kenjutsu
D: Average Level Chakra
“...”
“First of all,” Ye Feng stated, “For this reset, I only want to be an ordinary person.”
“I am tired of living a life of transcendence.”
[...]
That was a truly extravagant thought.
Beep!
[In that case, the host shall be granted an ‘average’ amount of Chakra. Is that acceptable?]
“That works.” Ye Feng didn’t need a high-spec configuration.
Ordinary was enough.
Beep!
[This system will only appear when the host dies or needs another reset. Usually, it will only provide common sense explanations.]
[The system has arranged the identity of an ordinary Hidden Leaf Genin for the host.]
[The ordinary amount of Chakra will be granted upon the host’s arrival in the Naruto world.]
[Do you accept?]
“Okay!” Ye Feng agreed.
The three-minute countdown ended, and a bright light erupted before him. Ye Feng’s soul stepped directly into the radiance.
So then.
Let it begin.
His finally ordinary ninja life!
At this moment, Ye Feng felt a slight surge of joy in his heart.
...
At least, that was the plan.
But right now, Ye Feng was staring up at a white ceiling.
Memory fragments of his identity as an ordinary Genin, transmitted by the system, were surfacing in his mind.
In the settings prepared by the system, he was the child of ninja from a commoner background. His parents had perished twelve years ago during the Nine-Tails’ attack on the village.
It followed the standard procedure for a war orphan: the orphanage, talent confirmation, the Ninja Academy, studying, graduation...
Ye Feng had no complaints about this. Such a background was the standard for almost every ordinary ninja.
The current year was Year 60 of Konoha, the same year the original protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki, was due to graduate from the Ninja Academy.
Ye Feng’s designated role was simply an ordinary boy sitting in the corner of the classroom.
Wasn’t that very ordinary?
So, what was there to be dissatisfied about?
There was a lot to be dissatisfied about!
...
When Ye Feng opened his eyes, he found half a Chakra Fruit floating in front of him.
The system prompt told him that eating it would grant him the “ordinary” amount of Chakra. Since he was an outsider, he had no Chakra of his own in this world and had to do this.
Before he could even process it, Ye Feng ate it.
Then... problems arose.
He suddenly realized that the system’s fourth option during the reset was “Average Level Chakra.”
[Average Level Chakra: Calculated as the sum of the strongest and weakest, divided by two.]
“...”
After clicking on the explanatory note, Ye Feng fell into a state of total despair. If you were talking about the weakest, that was easy—commoners with almost zero Chakra. They were practically negligible.
But the strongest person? In the Naruto world, that was none other than the progenitor, Kaguya Otsutsuki!
Kaguya had consumed the Chakra Fruit borne by the God Tree to obtain the highest power level in the world. What Ye Feng had just received was half of that.
That was half a God Tree’s fruit!
He was essentially a “Half-Step Kaguya”!
...
At this moment, although Ye Feng was lying on the bed, he was nothing like a normal human.
Because of the reset, his body had shrunk back to the age of twelve. Every inch of his skin had turned a golden hue, brimming with absolute power. Even his eyes had taken the form of the Byakugan. On his forehead, a third eye had opened—the same eye Kaguya Otsutsuki possessed: the Rinne Sharingan.
With half of Kaguya’s Chakra, was it really so hard to activate a Six Paths Sage Mode?
The moment this state manifested, the ground began to tremble. An earthquake of roughly magnitude 4 occurred, lasting only 0.001 seconds.
This was only because he had hurriedly deactivated the Sage Mode. Otherwise, according to the future prediction of his special Dōjutsu, the village he was in would have been reduced to scrap metal in three seconds.
And with all this going on, the system had the nerve to call him ordinary?
...
Just then, a knocking sound came from the door.
