:After hearing the system’s introduction, Hirofumi Ito finally understood what he was dealing with.
The system had five tiers of summoning in total.
Using those five tiers, he could perform the Summoning Technique and call forth spirits from the Netherworld!
Put plainly: he could summon the dead and use them as his own summoned beasts.
For now, though, the spirits he could summon were limited to those who had once belonged to the Hidden Leaf Village.
If he could summon hashirama senju and madara uchiha…
wouldn’t that be absolutely insane?!
Just imagining those two as his summoned beasts was enough to make Hirofumi Ito tremble with excitement!
After all, who wouldn’t want to watch Susanoo and the Great Buddha raze four nations together, the Flame Release and the Forest of a Thousand Arms turning the entire world into Hidden Leaf territory!
And most importantly, if those two became his summoned beasts, wouldn’t he be completely unstoppable?!
Forget the Three Great Sage Regions.
Forget the nine Tailed Beasts.
In front of these two, everyone else was a little brother!
And here was the best part: weren’t these two exactly the kind of spirits that had belonged to the Hidden Leaf Village?!
Which meant he actually had a shot at summoning them!
“System, if there are five tiers of summoning, there must be prerequisites, right?! What do I need to do before I can summon?! Do I have to complete system missions?!”
[This system does not issue missions!
Nor does it compel the host to complete any tasks!
The host may top up with ryo to obtain Wealth Value!
Spending Wealth Value allows the host to exchange for summoning attempts!
White Summon requires 10,000 Wealth Value.
Green Summon requires 100,000 Wealth Value.
Blue Summon requires 1,000,000 Wealth Value.
Purple Summon requires 10,000,000 Wealth Value.
Gold Summon requires 100,000,000 Wealth Value.
Wealth Value is pegged to the ryo of the ninja world at a one-to-one exchange rate!
Furthermore, each time the host summons a person, one of that individual’s abilities will be randomly extracted and loaded onto the host!]
Hirofumi Ito, whose heart had been burning white-hot with the desire to summon both hashirama senju and madara uchiha and make them his summoned beasts, felt as though a bucket of ice water had been dumped straight over his head.
His entire mind snapped sober.
No need to even think about it.
For powerhouses like madara uchiha and hashirama senju, a Gold Summon was the only tier with any chance of pulling them out.
And a Gold Summon required one hundred million Wealth Value.
One hundred million ryo.
Damn it.
Even selling off the entire Ito Clan wouldn’t get him a hundred million ryo!
Ryo in the world of Naruto was actually worth quite a lot.
Take the original story, Asuma Sarutobi carried a bounty of thirty-five million ryo.
Asuma Sarutobi was no pushover; elite jonin strength, easily.
But that wasn’t even the key point.
The key point was the identity.
Asuma Sarutobi was the own flesh-and-blood child of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi!
And even with an identity like that, the bounty was only thirty-five million.
Ryo in the world of Naruto had clearly not gone through any inflation.
So getting his hands on a hundred million ryo was not going to be simple.
Still, thinking it through more carefully, he was actually coming out ahead.
Asuma Sarutobi’s head was worth thirty-five million, yet summoning an elite jonin only cost ten million!
To say nothing of Hokage-level powerhouses, who couldn’t even be measured in ryo to begin with.
And honestly, once his strength grew, making money might not be that hard.
Just within the Hidden Leaf Village, the minimum payout for an S-rank mission was one million ryo, and the harder the mission, the bigger the reward.
But missions weren’t the only way to make money.
Look at Jiraiya, sold books and became one of the most famously wealthy people in the entire Shinobi World!
Personally, he had zero interest in selling books.
But he could always rob people.
The world of Naruto was a world where the strong preyed on the weak.
Find a few rich targets, take their money, and just like that, he’d be the rich one.
That thought made the weight in Hirofumi Ito’s chest ease up considerably.
“System, no matter how you look at it, this is our first meeting. And on top of that, some unknown error on your end caused me to bind with you years later than I should have. All those blessings I was supposed to have — gone! Shouldn’t you at least give me some compensation?! Every other system out there has a beginner’s gift pack! Don’t tell me you don’t have one?!”
[Issuing beginner’s gift pack! Congratulations, host, you have received one Gold Summon!]
“What the — you actually came through?! Thank you, system! I love you!”
He genuinely hadn’t expected the system to just hand him a Gold Summon outright.
That was the equivalent of a hundred million ryo, dropped right in his lap!
And this was a Gold Summon.
Whatever it brought out would be a Hokage-level powerhouse without question.
The number of Hokage-level individuals who had died within the Hidden Leaf Village was finite, which meant the odds of pulling hashirama senju or madara uchiha were very, very good.
Hirofumi Ito’s heart blazed all over again.
He didn’t hesitate for even a second.
“System! Use the Gold Summon!”
[Please have the host complete the Summoning Technique seal!]
“I already have a summoning attempt lined up and I still have to do the hand seals?!”
He didn’t dwell on it.
Hirofumi Ito ran through the Summoning Technique he’d just learned from Iruka, completed the hand seals, and drove his palm hard into the ground.
“Summoning Technique!”
Golden runes erupted across the ground, blazing with a brilliantly dazzling golden light.
A flame of a soul rose slowly from within the summoning array.
Hirofumi Ito forced his eyes open against the glare and saw a figure gradually taking shape inside the golden light.
Red armor!
That outlandish hairstyle!
That was madara uchiha?!
He hadn’t expected his luck to run this deep, he’d actually pulled madara uchiha on the first try.
GOLD SUMMON LEGEND!
“Where in the blazes is this old man?!
Revived?
Rinne Rebirth?
Has this old man’s plan already succeeded?
That fellow Obito Uchiha came through after all.
No — wait!
This is not the Shinobi World!
And this is not Rinne Rebirth!
A Summoning Technique mark?
How is that possible!
This old man is still in the Netherworld?
What in the world is going on here?!”
As the golden light faded, Hirofumi Ito finally got a clear look at the figure standing before him.
madara uchiha.
No question about it.
Thick, wild, gravity-defying hair.
Red armor.
Arms crossed over his chest.
Simply standing there, doing nothing, he radiated a pressure that was on a completely different level.
madara uchiha’s gaze swept to Hirofumi Ito.
“Brat. Care to tell this old man exactly what is going on here?!”
➤ Next: I, the Great Madara Uchiha, Would Become a Summoned Beast?
Chapter 4 – I, the Great Madara Uchiha, Would Become a Summoned Beast?
Hirofumi Ito swallowed involuntarily.
The pressure radiating off Madara Uchiha was simply too much.
He wasn’t even a Genin yet, and just the aura the man put out was already almost more than he could bear.
When he’d first summoned Madara Uchiha, Hirofumi had been pretty thrilled, but then the thought hit him like a bucket of cold water: how could someone like Madara Uchiha ever willingly become his summoned beast?!
If Madara found out the truth, would he just slap him dead on the spot?!
“System!”
[I’m here!]
“Madara Uchiha is my summoned beast now, right?!”
[Correct!]
“So will this guy attack me?! Like — accidentally crush me or something?!”
[A summoned beast formed from the Netherworld follows the same relationship as that between a normal summoner and their summoned being. The System can guarantee that a summoned beast cannot harm the host, but it cannot control the summoned beast’s thoughts or actions. Due to the special nature of Netherworld souls, a Summoning Space will form inside the host’s body. The summoned soul will reside temporarily within the Summoning Space. Furthermore, because the host carries the System, should the host die, the summoned beast will return to the Netherworld!]
“A Summoning Space? Is it something like Naruto Uzumaki’s Sealing Space?”
[Correct!]
Hirofumi finally let out a long breath.
As long as it couldn’t attack him, that was all he needed.
At least he didn’t have to worry about Madara Uchiha getting annoyed and slapping him dead on a whim.
Better yet, Madara couldn’t let him die either, because if Hirofumi died, the System would vanish, and if the System vanished, Madara Uchiha would be shipped straight back to the Netherworld as a wandering soul.
Right now, even though Madara had technically become his summoned beast, from Madara’s perspective this still counted as a kind of resurrection.
Unconventional, sure, but a resurrection.
After all, wasn’t coming back to life the whole point of Madara Uchiha’s greatest plan?!
In this current state, you could probably call it half-accomplished…
“Hey! Kid. I’m talking to you.”
By now, Madara Uchiha had already sized up his own condition.
Unusual, but he had undeniably come back to life.
His body was entirely flesh and blood.
And not just any state.
His peak state.
The only strange thing was that his Chakra felt slightly off, especially in relation to the kid standing in front of him.
There was some faint connection between their Chakra that he couldn’t shake.
It felt exactly like the time he had once signed a summoning contract with a summoned beast.
Just who was this kid?
And in what form had he been revived?!
He’d already sensed the kid’s Chakra.
Pitifully, laughably weak.
He could probably snuff the kid out with barely any effort.
“Madara Uchiha!” Hirofumi took a deep breath and looked the man dead in the eye.
“You know my name?!”
Madara’s eyebrow lifted slightly.
The kid had actually called out his name.
Could he be a descendant of the Uchiha Clan?
He was admittedly quite handsome, carried himself with the bearing of an Uchiha.
It was just that his strength was far too weak.
Had the Uchiha Clan really sunk to this level?!
“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Hirofumi Ito!”
“Ito?!”
Madara’s brow furrowed harder.
He hadn’t expected the kid to have no connection to the Uchiha Clan at all.
That actually made sense.
Because how could any Uchiha ever be this weak?!
“That’s right! Hirofumi Ito! From the Hidden Leaf Village in the Land of Fire!”
“The Hidden Leaf Village?!”
At those words, an extremely complicated expression crossed Madara Uchiha’s face, a trace of anger, a trace of reminiscence, and a trace of something softer.
A longing for something beautiful, now long gone.
“Kid from the Hidden Leaf Village. Tell me what exactly is going on here. Unless I’m sensing this wrong, this place should still be the Netherworld. Why would a kid like you be here? And why have I been revived in this particular form?!”
Hirofumi turned the problem over in his head.
How to explain this to Madara Uchiha.
The System was completely off the table.
He would never breathe a word about it to another living soul.
But then, how was he supposed to explain the fact that Madara Uchiha had become his summoned beast?!
He thought it through for a moment, then opened his mouth.
“I know you have questions, but hold on. I was Reverse Summoned here by the Netherworld!”
“Reverse Summoning?!” Madara knew perfectly well what Reverse Summoning was, but he had never heard of the Netherworld being able to drag a living person across.
And what did this kid getting Reverse Summoned have to do with his own revival?!
Madara was certain of one thing now: his revival was absolutely tied to the kid standing in front of him.
He could sense that faint, ghostly thread linking their Chakra with perfect clarity.
But how could a kid like this possibly have the means to revive him?!
“That’s right — Reverse Summoning. I signed a contract with the Netherworld. By paying a certain price, I can contract summoned beasts from the Netherworld. And you, Madara Uchiha — you are the first summoned beast I contracted. You were originally in the state of a soul flame, but after I contracted and summoned you, you were revived!”
Madara Uchiha, who hadn’t heard a human voice in who knew how long, had actually been listening with genuine interest.
Then he heard it.
He had apparently become something called a summoned beast.
And this kid had summoned him.
Ridiculous!
Absolutely preposterous!
I, the great Madara Uchiha!
The Demon of the Shinobi World!
One of the pillars of the Hidden Leaf Village!
Best friend of Hashirama Senju himself!
The man hailed as one of the Twin Heroes of the Shinobi World!
Had become a…
summoned beast?!?!
Madara Uchiha could not accept it.
Not for one second.
BOOM!
WHOOSH!
A terrifying surge of Chakra erupted from his body and shot skyward like a pillar of light.
Hirofumi would be lying if he said he wasn’t scared.
But the moment he remembered that Madara Uchiha had no way to actually attack him, his heart settled, just slightly.
“Kid! Do you know what you’re saying?!”
Madara stepped slowly forward, one hand reaching out, going straight for Hirofumi’s throat.
How dare he call me a summoned beast.
Absolutely unforgivable!
But in the very next moment, Madara froze.
His entire body had locked up.
No matter what he tried, he simply could not close that last distance.
Could not reach the kid’s throat.
His own body was no longer obeying him.
“Ugh… Kid! What did you do?! What is going on with my body?!”
➤ Next: You Two Were Going on Night Dates?!
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