143 Naruto Mobile Game

"Match over! Pain: Deva Path wins!"

Pain: Deva Path put down his phone, took off his headphones, stood up, and walked toward the stage. Naruto on the opposite side also walked toward him.

These senior-and-junior disciples who had fought an extremely fierce battle in the storyline had just finished their duel, now standing face to face together on the stage.

"How is the pervy sage?" Naruto looked up at Pain: Deva Path, who was taller than him.

Pain: Deva Path gazed at Naruto with an indifferent look—this still very immature boy, yet the absolute main protagonist of the story known by everyone in the ninja world.

"I'll tell you something. Jiraiya-sensei has already decided to help me."

"What?!"

Naruto stared at Pain: Deva Path in shock, but this face of his rarely showed emotional fluctuations, so of course Naruto couldn't see anything.

"What do you mean? Did the pervy sage join Akatsuki? What are you planning to do!" Naruto hurriedly pressed.

"Hmph! When I win, I will announce the plan to the entire ninja world. By then, you'll naturally know!" Pain: Deva Path said coldly, then turned and left.

Naruto looked at that departing figure, completely confused, then became somewhat dejected.

I still lost… That guy is really strong, like a monster—whether it's strength or Ninja Mobile Game skill.

Naruto didn't know, and no one else would know either, that Nagato spent six times more time than an ordinary person playing Ninja Mobile Game.

Just how strong Nagato's skills are now—frankly speaking, even Nagato himself might not know.

Naruto…

Suddenly, as if sensing something, Naruto turned his head and saw a woman in the audience, looking at him with eyes full of warmth.

His heart trembled, as if he understood.

Back when the channel had just connected to the afterlife, wasn't there a family-recognition gathering? Everyone found their relatives and caught up, and Naruto was included.

So he could recognize Kushina. Although it was their first meeting, this must be his mother.

Naruto turned his head toward the commentator's stand. Kuroda was there. Noticing Naruto's gaze, Kuroda smiled and nodded.

Receiving the signal of permission, Naruto instantly became overjoyed. With a turn, he jumped off the stage, descending from the sky straight into his mother's embrace…

...

"Alright, then with this, the second round of the finals comes to an end. Truly, match after match of wonderful battles have been contributed to us."

"Not just the players—even the audience must be tired from watching, right? So let's take a short break and give the players a chance to catch their breath."

Kuroda had been commentating the entire time. It's just that the players wore headphones and couldn't hear, but the audience could.

After hearing Kuroda say this, quite a few people stood up from the audience seats. Some stretched lazily, some wandered around on site—though only within the audience area.

Suddenly, an Ultimate Scene appeared on the big screen. It showed a woman wearing glasses who looked gentle at first glance.

[Don't look at me like this—medical ninjutsu, I do know a bit.]

"Mother?!!"

Backstage, Yakushi Kabuto abruptly stood up, his face filled with shock.

There was also a large screen backstage, the same as the one on the main stage, so naturally they could see it.

But precisely because of that, everyone was puzzled—why did the Ultimate Scene of a completely unfamiliar ninja suddenly appear?

Interesting. Orochimaru licked his lips.

"An elite ninja who travels among various countries, a medical expert of Konoha, and once the mother of an orphanage."

"Yakushi Nono ninja reveal is here!"

This was absolutely unexpected, but thinking about how Kuroda had previously said that ninja reveals would be released during the matches, everyone calmed down.

Kabuto found it very hard to calm down. He looked at the familiar figure pacing back and forth on the screen, his vision seeming to blur.

Unlike others, he hadn't gone to the public channel to recognize family, because he had no relatives.

That's right.

The mother used to be a ninja too. Since Ninja Mobile Game exists, it wouldn't be strange for her to appear, right? Kabuto silently thought.

He didn't know that the mother herself was present at the venue.

"From now on, some interesting ninjas will release reveal videos. Everyone may watch them at their own discretion." Kuroda said.

The big screen continued playing.

Yakushi Nono's basic attack has a total of five A's.

1A: kunai straight thrust.

2A: turn-around lunge.

3A: backward somersault kick to launch the enemy.

4A: consecutively throws four explosive-tag kunai that explode upon landing.

5A: uses a chakra scalpel to slash forward.

Mm… the normal attacks are just so-so.

What might be more noteworthy to the audience instead is why, when this ninja enters the field, there's an animation of her interacting with a child, and then the child runs away.

Yakushi Nono's second skill, Palm Sage Technique, is the core. She generates a healing aura in place and releases a chakra thread that links to enemies within range to continuously heal them.

During the link, both sides can move freely, but the enemy is slowed, while Yakushi Nono herself gains a speed boost.

Below Yakushi Nono's health bar appears a green energy bar representing healing progress.

As time passes, when the energy bar fills, it transmits a large chakra sphere to the enemy once and knocks them airborne.

Depending on its color, this chakra sphere applies different abnormal effects to the enemy.

By default it is blue-green, sealing the enemy's first and second skills for 3 seconds.

Clicking again switches it to yellow-green, increasing subsequent damage the enemy takes by 20% for 5 seconds.

Note: If the distance between Yakushi Nono and the enemy becomes too great, the link will break. Taking damage herself, the enemy using a substitution, or the enemy falling down will also break the link.

"This skill seems kind of interesting?" Naruto scratched his head in the audience.

"Can't understand it. Not as good as Minato's godspeed." Kushina patted Naruto's head.

Beside them, watching this adorable mother-and-son pair, Rin was all smiles. She couldn't help leaning over and poking Naruto's cheek with her finger, drawing a dissatisfied look from him.

Yakushi Nono's first skill is the chakra scalpel. It has a certain Y-axis reach and can also link with the second skill to directly trigger the corresponding abnormal effect.

Finally, there's the ultimate.

"Don't bully the mother!"

As these words popped up, the duel arena's visual style instantly changed. A clock spun in the background, and a group of children suddenly rushed out, grabbing the stationary enemy and beating them up fiercely.

The visual effect was a mass of swirling smoke. In the end, Yakushi Nono pulled the children out one by one.

The enemy was already bound with explosive tags. One child blew out sparks to detonate them. Finally, Yakushi Nono stood in front of the child, while the enemy was finished by the explosion.

It wasn't over yet.

At the end of the video, the child from the opening appeared again. Yakushi Nono put away her kunai, crouched down, and placed her glasses onto the child's face.

"Kabuto…"

In a corner of the audience, Yakushi Nono was already in tears, sobbing uncontrollably.

She had long understood everything—the ending orchestrated by Danzo, and the tragedy between herself and Kabuto.

She just couldn't contact Kabuto, so she could only sit here, watching Kabuto… that child from the past, fighting fierce battles with other players on stage.

Perhaps this is what a mother should do. She is the mother of every child in the orphanage.

Not disturbing Kabuto, but sitting here, watching her child defeat all opponents under the gaze of countless eyes, and stand atop that podium symbolizing glory.

At every moment, she is proud of him.