Naruto's perception wove between his Chakra pathways and organs, screening them layer by layer. Soon, he found the location of Kāma deep within his body.
It was suspended at the intersection of his Chakra pathways, with dark red patterns flowing across its surface.
Naruto's consciousness, carrying Kurama, moved toward the Kāma. The moment they touched the Kāma, a powerful repulsive force slammed into them, attempting to shut their consciousness out.
"Setting up a barrier inside my body, did you ask me, the landlord?" Naruto snorted.
This repulsive force was as fragile as a thin layer of ice before the will of Absolute Control, stripped away completely in a flash.
Naruto's consciousness drove straight in, even dragging Kurama's consciousness along with it.
The interior of the Kāma was a completely static space. Urashiki's consciousness was floating in the center of the space, eyes tightly closed.
The slumbering Urashiki seemed to sense something. His eyelids twitched, then he slowly opened them.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a man and a fox standing in front of him.
Naruto raised his right hand and waved at him. "Hello."
"Naruto? Why are you here? How could you possibly get in!"
Urashiki's body floated backward. He looked around in a panic, confirming that he was indeed still inside the Kāma space.
This was the Ōtsutsuki Clan's most core life-saving method, an absolute domain that only the person who carved the Kāma could enter. Theoretically, no vessel could actively intrude into the interior of Kāma.
But now, Naruto was standing in front of him, wearing a smile that sent chills down his spine, with a fox crouching beside him.
"Urashiki-rama, don't get excited, calm down." Naruto said.
"Calm down? I can't calm down!" Urashiki's voice pitched up.
Calm down?
His Kāma was being treated like a park that anyone could enter and leave as they pleased, and he even brought a fox. There had never been such an absurd thing in the entire history of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
"Urashiki-rama, didn't you say yourself before that we would meet again? How come now that we've met, you have this expression instead?" Naruto spread his hands.
"Meet? Is this what I meant by meeting?" Urashiki felt his blood pressure rising.
When he said they would meet again, he meant after he resurrected and crushed Naruto with a brand new form, not being cornered inside Kāma.
"Naruto, why are you here!"
"A tenant has moved into my body, isn't it normal for the landlord to come and take a look?" Naruto spread his hands, looking innocent.
"It is not normal! I'm asking what kind of power you used to break in here! This is my Kāma, not your house!" Urashiki finally recovered a bit from his initial shock, his face filled with vigilance.
Naruto said, "The place you're staying is inside my body. My body is mine to visit whenever I want, do I need to file an application with you?"
"You are the tenant, and I am the landlord. Get the relationship between host and guest straight."
"Damn it, what on earth is going on?"
Seeing that he wouldn't get the answer he wanted, Urashiki gritted his teeth and glared at Naruto, then at Nine-Tails, which was squatting beside Naruto.
Urashiki took a deep breath, suppressing the unease in his heart, and put on his usual arrogant face.
"Naruto, what exactly do you want?"
Naruto seriously said, "As your landlord, I naturally have to come and ask how you are settling in, offer some warmth, and talk about the rent."
"Offer warmth? Talk about rent?" Urashiki chewed on these two terms.
Although these terms were somewhat unfamiliar to him, he understood the meaning. Naruto had come to demand benefits from him.
Urashiki immediately sneered, a look of contempt appearing on his pale face.
"Lower lifeform, you really do covet everything that belongs to a god. Do you think you can threaten me just by entering the Kāma space? This is my domain, you..."
"Lower lifeform?" Naruto's eyes narrowed upon hearing this.
The next instant, an absolute will crashed down upon the entire Kāma space. Before Urashiki could finish his sentence, his whole body felt as if it were being pressed down by an invisible mountain, and he slammed onto the ground.
"Damn it! What is this power!"
Urashiki struggled desperately but he couldn't even lift a finger.
He realized with horror that this was not simple Chakra suppression. This was pure will, and an even more advanced will than his, an Ōtsutsuki with thousands of years of life.
Naruto walked to Urashiki and looked down at him from above.
"Get clear on what your current status is. You are my prisoner. Living inside my body, you have no qualification to bargain with me."
"Remember, I really don't like the term 'lower lifeform'. Call me Master from now on. Do you understand?"
Urashiki was pressed so hard he could barely breathe. His consciousness body began to tremble under this intensity of pressure.
Death!
He had lived for thousands of years and experienced countless battles, but he had never been this close to death.
He was an Ōtsutsuki, a god, a visitor from the heavens high above. He had never even imagined dying at the hands of an enemy, let alone dying in this crushed manner inside the Kāma he had planted with his own hands.
Urashiki lay on the ground, his heart in turmoil.
Why was Naruto able to enter the interior of the Kāma?
Why did he possess this power that even an Ōtsutsuki could not understand?
He recalled every detail on the battlefield, thinking of the meaningful smile Naruto had when he voluntarily let him carve the Kāma.
From beginning to end, it was as if Naruto had been waiting for him to do so.
"Urashiki, I will give you two choices."
"First, obediently offer up everything you have and acknowledge me as your Master. I can preserve your consciousness body and let you continue to exist in another form."
"Second, refuse me, and I will erase your consciousness and take what I want."
"No matter which one you choose, I will get everything you have. Everything you have will become mine. The only difference is whether you yourself can live to see that day."
"Damn it, why did it turn out like this? What on earth is this power?" Urashiki lowered his head, his voice so hoarse it was almost inaudible.
He had never believed such a day would come for him. He had once thought he might be defeated in battle, might be devoured by some powerful member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, or might be ambushed.
But he had never thought he would be trampled under the feet of an inferior creature, inside his own Kāma, forced to make such a choice.
But he had no bargaining chips left. Kāma's defense mechanism was effectively non-existent in front of Naruto, he couldn't even buy himself time.
"Not answering? Then I will assume that you have refused."
Naruto raised his right hand. In an instant, Urashiki's consciousness body was once again enveloped by this absolute will, and the pressure from all directions began to squeeze inward simultaneously.
"Ahhhh! Stop it immediately!"
Urashiki let out a shrill scream, his consciousness body beginning to disintegrate at a visible speed under the pressure, the edges of his silhouette beginning to blur and melt.
He felt his thoughts being forcibly torn apart, fragments of memory flying around in his mind.
"I agree! Stop it quickly! I agree to acknowledge you as my Master."
At the very last moment before his consciousness was about to completely collapse, Urashiki finally set aside the pride of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, using his last ounce of strength to roar.
Naruto's lips curled slightly upon hearing this, and with a thought, the absolute will shrouding Urashiki dissipated.
Urashiki lay on the ground, gasping for breath. The silhouette of his consciousness body was still trembling slightly, and the cracks at the edges were slowly healing.
He never wanted to experience the feeling of being on the verge of complete annihilation again in his life.
"Urashiki, you will be glad you made this decision in the future." Naruto returned to his previous relaxed tone.
Urashiki raised his head. "Yes... Master."
Naruto nodded in satisfaction.
"Very well. Since that's the case, I will receive all the data inside the Kāma."
"Master, wait a moment." Urashiki lifted his head upon hearing this.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at Urashiki. "You had better have a very reasonable explanation."
Urashiki's heart skipped a beat under that stare, and he hurriedly explained, biting the bullet, "Master, although the Kāma is inside your body, the Kāma right now hasn't fully formed yet. The data inside, my genetic information, is still in the early stages of decompression."
"If you forcibly fuse with Kāma's data now, it would be like opening a compressed file that hasn't finished decompressing, which will cause a massive loss of data. The power you inherit from me might be incomplete."
Naruto stared at Urashiki for a few seconds.
In the original story, after Boruto was branded with Kāma by Momoshiki, it took nearly two years for the Kāma to begin awakening. The Kāma on Kawaki also went through a long decompression process under Isshiki's control.
Therefore, what Urashiki said was naturally true. He only said that to gauge his attitude.