[System Notification]
[Congratulations, host, you have successfully transmigrated!]
[Searching for a chosen one of this world to possess...]
[Warning! Warning!]
[Host's soul strength is too low, possession failed!]
[System intervention in progress...]
[Intervention successful!]
[Host successfully possessed the suppressed dark personality!]
[Monitoring host's condition...]
[System adaptation and modification in progress...]
In a hazy, gray void, Menma was awakened by a cold, mechanical voice.
"What happened to me...?"
He opened his eyes to an empty darkness, utterly bewildered. Wasn't he just sitting on the toilet, writing a review of the latest Naruto movie? How had he gotten so distracted that, in the blink of an eye, he was suddenly in this dark place?
And that mechanical voice mentioned time travel...
Thinking of this, Menma's spirits lifted. "Time travel? And I even managed to possess a dark personality? And that mechanical voice... could it be the standard system for transmigrators?"
With disbelief, he quickly stood up and looked around. All he could see was bottomless darkness. He had no idea where he had transmigrated to.
Just as he was about to ask the mechanical voice—which definitely sounded like a system—about his situation, a sharp pain shot through his mind. It felt like a steel needle twisting inside his brain.
Following this, countless jumbled memories flashed by rapidly: an orphan of Konoha, without parents, obstructed and isolated by the villagers. Daily, he faced countless hateful and resentful stares; he was called a monster and verbally abused. Often hungry, forced to forage for wild vegetables and fish to survive.
These flashing memories made Menma feel as if he were experiencing them firsthand—as if these experiences were his own.
A torrent of negative emotions surged through him, and his face contorted with rage and madness. It took a long time for him to calm down and regain his composure.
"I never thought I'd transmigrate into the world of Naruto," Menma muttered. "And I even managed to possess Naruto's dark personality through the system."
The mechanical voice, combined with the new memories, made the transmigrator instantly understand his current situation. He had become the dark personality deep within Naruto's consciousness, still suppressed to extreme weakness by Ashura's chakra. It was merely a dark personality, devoid of thought and filled with accumulated emotions.
This was precisely why his weak-souled host had been able to successfully possess it.
According to the original storyline, this dark personality only appeared a handful of times due to Naruto's rampages. Each time, it fought and destroyed like a wild beast, lacking any normal human thought or intelligence. It didn't possess the will to take over the body and become the primary personality, simply driven by extreme negative emotions. Add to that the dual suppression of the optimistic primary personality and Ashura's chakra, and the final result was naturally that it was suppressed to the deepest part of its consciousness, with absolutely no chance of escaping.
But now it was different. That thoughtless dark personality was gone. All that existed was a soul from the 21st century. And he came with a system.
Since Naruto dumped all those negative emotions on me, his darker personality, Menma thought, a cold smile forming on his lips, then it's perfectly reasonable for me to take over his life, you good-natured fool, right?
A chilling coldness filled Menma's eyes. He wasn't Naruto, brainwashed by Hiruzen Sarutobi and influenced by Asura's chakra from childhood. Having experienced Naruto's suffocating life from childhood to adulthood, he felt a deep disgust and disappointment in Naruto's humble attempts to please everyone.
What good is repaying evil with good? The world kisses me with sorrow, I will repay it with pain. Let them all rot. Therefore, Naruto's distorted, positive personality was unworthy of being the main one.
As if sensing the storm raging within Menma's heart, the mechanical voice sounded again.
[System adaptation complete!]
[Dark Personality System successfully activated!]
[Host: Menma]
[Corruption Points: 0]
[Trust Level: 0%]
[Mastered Jutsu: Sexy Jutsu, Clone Technique]
[System Description: This system aims to help the host become stronger and to help the host take over the body and become the primary personality.]
"Dark Personality System?" Menma muttered. "That's quite fitting for my current situation."
Looking at the panel that appeared with the mechanical voice, he wasn't too surprised. Then he looked at the two values at the bottom.
"Corruption Points?" he said. "Trust Level? System, what are these values?"
Hearing Menma's question, the system's mechanical voice sounded again.
[Corruption Points represent the intense emotions generated by the primary personality. The greater the emotional fluctuations of the primary personality, the more Corruption Points are gained.]
[Different amounts of Corruption Points can be used to unlock and learn jutsu of varying difficulty.]
[Trust Level is the sum of the primary personality's dependence on and trust in the host.]
[The higher the level, the shallower the host's consciousness and the stronger their control over their body.]
[Note: After reaching 10%, the host can communicate with the primary personality at any time without significant emotional fluctuations.]
[At 20%, external sounds can be heard within the mindscape; at 30%, external images can be seen.]
[At 50%, the host can actively switch personalities, but will encounter resistance from the primary personality, leading to a decrease in trust.]
[At 80%, the host will become the primary personality, and the primary personality will become the dark personality.]
[At 100%, the host will become the sole personality; the dark personality will completely disappear or choose to separate.]
[Note: The host does not need a dependency level to master all the abilities of the primary personality.]
"And the host's abilities cannot be shared or mastered by other personalities without the host's consent," the system added.
The system's explanation perfectly echoed the preceding main point. Menma understood the significance of these two values: one was used to become stronger, and the other was to help him become the dominant personality.
As for the final note, Menma could only say one thing: "The system is awesome."
Having received praise, the system replied in a mechanical voice: [Everything is for the host's service.]
Just as Menma was about to ask something, a tidal wave of negative emotions suddenly surged forth, igniting boundless rage and killing intent within him. At the same time, the Corruption Points on the system panel rapidly increased.
[Corruption Points +10]
[Corruption Points +5]
[Corruption Points +20]
[...]
Just as the Corruption Points reached 120, the wave of negative emotions that had swept through Menma's mind finally dissipated. He was slightly out of breath, frowning in deep thought.
"Could that have been Naruto's first rampage, the time he used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to beat up Mizuki?" he wondered. No, if that were the case, there should be an additional Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu on the ability panel...
Before Menma could finish his thought, the surrounding darkness began to rapidly brighten, as if he had emerged from the deepest, darkest sea, until a forlorn figure wearing goggles, sitting on a swing with his head in his hands, appeared before him.
"That's... Naruto!"
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