Inside the Sealing Space.
Kurama, who was picking at his skin, and Grey Wolf, who was watching a werewolf tutorial, also looked towards the cage.
"Who is this? Grey Wolf, do you know him? It's not your wife, is it?"
Kurama asked, laughing at the cage.
"Get lost! This is clearly a human male! You stupid fox!"
"Who are you calling a stupid fox?!"
"Whoever answers me!"
Ignoring the bickering Kurama and Grey Wolf, Naruto approached the cage and carefully examined the person inside.
The person in the cage also looked at Naruto, and the bickering fox and what might be a wolf behind him, with a mix of confusion and wariness.
The man in the cage was powerfully built, with short, purple hair like steel needles.
Besides that, the most striking thing about him was his right arm—it was a mechanical arm.
The mechanical arm had no delicate aesthetic beauty; instead, it exuded a sense of violence.
Naruto recognized this person; it was Zephyr, the former Admiral from the Pirate World.
Zephyr was a tragic figure throughout the entire Pirate King series.
In his youth, Zephyr was known as the "Non-Killing Admiral"; pirates who fell into his hands were never killed but instead captured and imprisoned.
But in his middle age, his wife and child were killed by pirates. After his family's murder, he began to hate pirates and submitted his resignation. However, due to his superior's persuasion and a lingering hope for the humanity of pirates, he chose to retain his Admiral rank and stay at Marineford to teach new recruits.
Choosing to be an instructor, Zephyr helped the Marine corps train a large number of Marine officers.
Almost every Vice Admiral of renown was a disciple of Zephyr.
Not only Vice Admirals, but even the three Admirals of the Marine corps came from his tutelage.
Yet, fate still did not spare such a man.
During a training exercise with his students, their ship was attacked by pirates. Only two students survived, and Zephyr himself lost an arm.
It wasn't until he learned that the World Government had appointed the pirate who killed his students as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea that Zephyr completely despaired of the World Government and the Marine corps.
The despairing Zephyr underwent a drastic change in personality. He formed his own NEO Marine, vowing to mercilessly kill every pirate he encountered.
This continued until Zephyr encountered the protagonist, Luffy.
First, he fiercely fought Luffy, then his former student Kizaru, and was ultimately killed at the age of seventy-four.
After recalling Zephyr's life, Naruto introduced himself to Zephyr, "Hello, Mr. Zephyr, my name is Uzumaki Naruto."
"The wolf and fox over there are Grey Wolf and Kurama, respectively!"
"You know me?" Zephyr's somewhat deep voice echoed from the cage.
"Not exactly know, but I've heard of you!"
Zephyr looked at Naruto and asked, "Is this the world after death?"
Hearing Zephyr ask this, Naruto knew that the Zephyr in front of him had likely already fought Kizaru.
In other words, in his perception, he was already dead.
Knowing this, Naruto felt that Zephyr would be much easier to handle than Grey Wolf, after all, Zephyr had already died in the Pirate World.
Being here was like living again—in another sense, it was transmigration.
Naruto then explained Zephyr's current situation.
"So, I died in my own world and then transmigrated here?"
Hearing Naruto's explanation, Grey Wolf became displeased.
"Hey, hey… I haven't died!"
"I know you haven't! I was talking about Mr. Zephyr!"
"Heh heh heh… So I've already died once!" Zephyr muttered to himself.
"Yes! Mr. Zephyr, I'll let you out first!"
As he spoke, Naruto tiptoed, intending to tear off the seal on the cage.
As for whether Zephyr was dangerous?
In Naruto's opinion, Zephyr was even more harmless than Grey Wolf.
Firstly, he wasn't a vicious pirate, and secondly, he was just a child.
Opening the cage, just as Naruto expected, Zephyr made no erratic moves. Instead, he began to survey the entire Sealing Space.
For some unknown reason, after Zephyr appeared, the Sealing Space expanded by an entire circle again.
Just as Naruto was feeling curious, Zephyr spoke.
"Naruto, right? Is there any alcohol here?"
Naruto hadn't expected that the first thing Zephyr would want after stepping out of the cage was alcohol.
One could only say, truly a person from the Pirate World, wasn't he?
Wanting alcohol was just a thought for Naruto in the Sealing Space.
Immediately, various types of liquor, red wine, sake, beer, fruit wine… appeared before Zephyr.
Zephyr showed surprise at the sudden appearance of the various fine wines, but he didn't question anything. He casually picked up a bottle that looked appealing and began to drink.
He continued to murmur while drinking.
"Sigh, I'm old, I'm old. Before I died, I changed my mind again. I said I would kill all pirates, so why… why did I let that Straw Hat boy go again?!"
Listening to Zephyr's murmuring, Naruto thought to himself, "Of course, it's because Straw Hat Luffy is the protagonist."
Naturally, while he thought this, Naruto certainly wouldn't say it out loud.
Just then, the small Kurama and Grey Wolf came to Naruto's side.
Kurama poked Naruto and said, "Who is this?! I sense a very dangerous aura from him!"
For Kurama to feel a dangerous aura, Zephyr's power was clearly immense.
Zephyr was different from Grey Wolf. Grey Wolf himself didn't possess any extraordinary powers like Chakra or Haki, so in Kurama's eyes, this upright-walking wolf who used a hammer to invent various magical items was very weak.
But Zephyr? Zephyr's Haki was among the top tier in the entire Pirate World, so it naturally gave Kurama a sense of danger.
Seeing that both Grey Wolf and Kurama wanted to understand Zephyr, Naruto nodded, then glanced at Zephyr, who was still drinking, and led Grey Wolf and Kurama to the computer on the other side.
Naruto played the Pirate King movie [Strong World Z].
In just over an hour, the three of them finished watching the movie.
Grey Wolf and Kurama were watching it for the first time, while Naruto, counting his previous life and this one, had already rewatched it countless times.
"By the way… is this also that Zephyr's future?"
Kurama asked with a frown.
The small Kurama's frowning expression was very cute, which made Naruto instinctively pinch its face.
Kurama glared at Naruto, baring its teeth and stepping back two paces.
"Heh heh…" Naruto chuckled awkwardly, saying, "I couldn't help it, I couldn't help it!"
After laughing, Naruto's expression became serious again.
"Actually, I not only know the past and future of the Naruto World, but I also know some information about many parallel worlds."
"For example, Mr. Zephyr, he comes from a world full of oceans, and he was once one of the strongest people in that ocean."
"Tch," Kurama pouted, "One of the strongest, yet he still got defeated!"
"Look at me, the strongest Tailed Beast, Kurama. Did I get defeated?!"
Naruto: …
"You're quite arrogant for someone who's sealed!"
Naruto felt that over the past month, Kurama's personality had changed quite a bit.
Although still tsundere, it sometimes said provocative things, and its trash-talking skills were becoming increasingly proficient!
"Indeed, no matter who it is, they will be changed by competitive games!"
It's estimated that now, if Kurama were to encounter the seemingly annoying Ichibi Shukaku, it wouldn't even need to bring up the number of tails. It would just unleash its trash-talking, leaving Shukaku utterly speechless.