Chapter 8

Naruto arrived silently into the palace and in the throne room without a complication, his face was grounded in concentration but he relaxed once he was in the presence of Cobra.

"I have finished the task." Naruto muttered as the bandits caged inside the wind prison could be seen behind him in rows, hundreds of them.

Cobra would have lost his cool if he was a normal man but he was a king and a king could not afford to lose face so he didn't show his shock at the scene and took it like it was a normal occurrence.

'How did he find them?

He is controlling the wind, is he a wind logia.

Is it through the wind he checked the whole island but how can he know?

It must be something else, is it that mystical power I have seen with the admirals but even they shouldn't be able to find what they have never seen.' Cobra was intrigued by Naruto's quick action and results, his powers were unknown and Cobra could not find a way to justify how he did it.

"Wonderful, we are ever grateful for your help. These beasts have made my people suffer for too long." Cobra replied in a grateful tone as he walked closer

"Will you like to dine with us or do wish to visit the royal library?" Cobra questioned, he wanted to converse more to know Naruto more. He was a ruler and one of his worries was always the fact that they didn't have a guardian, a strong army or a warrior.

"I would like to visit the library but you can have friends accompany you." Naruto replied

Cobra didn't react to Naruto's casual talk as he had lived long enough in this world of the strong to know that strength defined everything.

"If that is your wish then so be it. Would you join us for Dinner?"

"Yes" Naruto said as he looked at the man and the silent Vivi who had been observing him

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"Vivi, what is your analysis?" Cobra asked after had been escorted to his destination

"Not a threat and most likely will leave as he said after his work is finished." Vivi responded calmly, she could see urgency in his demeanor and she saw no dėsɨrė for this land from him.

"I thought as much, will you try befriending him?" Cobra said as he turned to Vivi. Naruto was young and energetic so he ȧssumed a beautiful girl would have an easier opening him up

"I will try."

"That is good enough." Cobra said with a smile, his daughter had grown since the last adventure and he was confident that she wouldn't push too far in the wrong direction.

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It had been 4 hours since Naruto disappeared and Vivi had taken it upon herself to accompany Conis and Konan while Enel was still following Naruto inside a cage.

Vivi was very much intrigued by the unusual appearance of Conis and finding out about the Sky Island was a pleasant surprise that she hadn't expected.

"This place is really beautiful but what happened to those buildings." Conis said as she walked across the streets along with Konan and Vivi

"We had some trouble with pirates and the battle caused damage to the city. Thankfully it was taken care of or it would have been worse than just some buildings getting destroyed."

"Oh, we also experienced something similar but it was taken care of by Naruto before more people died. Who helped you take care of the problem?" Conis asked, she wouldn't have been curious about such things before but now she wanted to help Naruto.

"Friends and some Marines helped, and the villain is behind bars." Vivi replied and didn't elaborate as it was a secret which could bring trouble to them

"No, I am just wondering what happened to the bandits."

"The citizens have been informed and the decision will be made by the victims or their families. The blood debt is the right of the people involved and since this the killers are not someone with any good background they likely won't be forgiven or be put in prison." Vivi replied in a natural manner, in her eyes evil that brings harm needs to die as even putting them in prison just brings cost to the nation.

Konan nodded while her lips stretched into a smirk, 'I wonder how he will feel about this. He never really saw these things before so now is a good time.'

"That's something new, on our island the Sky lord judges the criminals. Though we usually don't have such problems and it's a rare case." Conis muttered after hearing about the blood debt from Vivi

Vivi just nodded and didn't go into this topic deeper while she disagreed with the system Conis just described as the ruler himself really wasn't involved so he cannot understand the implications of the act. The parties involved should be allowed to choose while the ruler may give advice.

"A fair system indeed." Konan muttered quietly

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So many hours gone by but Naruto had bȧrėly skimmed though 5 books as he found that with clones his head would almost burst when transferring whole lot of text when he wasn't even used to reading. So he was limited to just reading alone with Enel as company.

It was a tiring a job and his comprehension skills weren't above average when it came to reading so his speed was slow but luckily or unluckily there weren't many books on the topic so he had discarded many.

"A mortal trying to unravel the secrets of time and space, how laughably inane." Enel sneered but looked away when he saw Naruto's blood shot eyes and shivered in fright as he felt the blood ŀust waiting to be unleashed

Naruto took a breath to calm his nerves and massaged his head, time was unknown in this place and he didn't care for now.

"Can you read this?" Naruto showed Enel one of the short books that he couldn't understand

Enel looked at the script, "I can"

"Then read it to me"

Enel stared at him hatefully and almost ripped the book that was offered to him but he could see Naruto was mentally fatigued and might actually lose control over his inner demons.

'This Mortal is truly a monster, separating the killer side and making it into another persona. I wish it doesn't come out, when just its gaze is this scary.' Enel hoped as he had seen those dark eyes that stared into his soul when Naruto had slapped him

"I will"

"Good"

"What do you want?"

"I am here to inform you about the trial of the bandits that you captured, don't you want to see. It seems that they allow the people to judge."

Naruto was about to ignore her but those words caught his attention. People most of the time made the wrong decisions, majority doesn't mean right.

"Let's go" Naruto said as he walked behind Konan along with Enel

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The scene was different then what he expected; it was not a majority decision but the victims deciding the punishment.

Cobra wouldn't have held this so early but he needed this to increase the moral of his people after the calamity.

The area was lit with torches as it was dark and a line of the criminal could be seen leading to a platform where a large man stood with a sharp sword.

It was an execution for most of them as none if the victims or the families gave their forgiveness; the only saving grace was the ban of torture so all of them will receive a quick and painless death.

"No, I will not force my laws on others. These people have suffered and they deserve justice, and if this is what they want then so be it." Naruto responded in an emotionless tone

'Not everyone can be merciful.

Not everyone wants to give others second chances.

Am I really weird to try doing this? Wouldn't be easier to just kill them all as they can't hide from me?' Naruto thought as he looked at the scene silently

The cry for mercy, the glint of the sword, the wind resistance and the neck rolling on the ground while the blood poured endlessly and the crowd cheered.

He did not move until the last one was executed and was frozen in place, lost in his thoughts.

"Are you alright? I am sorry if this disgusted you." Vivi said as she knew some people didn't like to see the act happen in public

Naruto looked at her and saw no sign of anything on her face, to her it was just normal and he was abnormal like always to feel pain for others even criminals.

"Why not try to reform them? Use them for mining and other acts, killing them brings nothing but hate as these people also had families."

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