Step 9

I was totally freaked out, such a freebie was gone from me. My personal stingy beast, which everyone respectfully calls Hamster, is outraged!

No, I'm not just going to leave it like that, it's a sin to miss out on such a freebie. So what was needed to complete the quest, to call Hapsiel, let's do it.

My way was to a remote, abandoned training field. No one had used it in a couple of years. That's where I was going to make Hapsiel's summons.

When I got to the range, I immediately started drawing a pentagram. But when I was almost done, I remembered that Hapsiel is an angel, and pentagrams are used to summon demons, I guess.I thought for a long time, trying to remember everything I knew about the summon. It turned out I didn't know anything. I saw in the movies how demons were summoned with a pentagram and a human sacrifice. But how with angels, I don't know; praying is not an option. Shamans, too, seem to summon all sorts of spirits and other creatures. It's worth a try, but it won't be any worse.

I spent three hours hauling wood for the fire, even using the dummies that were on the field. It took me a long time to dig them out, drag them to the spot, and spend two hours doing it. Then I had to run home for more matches. I didn't finish getting ready for the summon until the evening.

He lit a fire and began to dance around it, howling something remotely resembling Native American songs. And at the end of each circle he called out "Hapsiel come". After three hours of such dancing and singing to the monotonous sounds of the tambourine, I began to go into a trance. Where did the tambourine come from? That's what the system gave me in the second hour.

At the sixth hour, or the seventh, I'm not sure. After the mushrooms that the system gave me some time after the tambourine, I got a little lost in time. But after using them, dancing became a lot more fun.

It's always more fun in company. Especially with those guys with the purple wings. I even felt some kind of power waking up inside me. The system gave me occasional messages, but I didn't read them all, concentrating on my own sensations.

And that's when it felt like I was about to summon Hapsiel. I felt a pain in my head, and then I passed out.

****

Hiruzen was in his office reading the latest Naruto surveillance report. And the more he read, the more worried he became. From the early reports, it was clear that Naruto was a bit mentally unstable. But the experts assured him that there was no threat to the integrity of the seal. And such behavior is understandable.

But he couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. Even on the day the fox was sealed, he had noticed oddities in the child's behavior. And they multiplied with each passing year. For example, the recent outbursts of inexplicable aggression toward Naruto.No, he's already reprehensible because he's a jinchuriki, but there have been some strange incidents lately. Even the participants themselves can't explain why they wanted to harm him.

However, the last incident was already much more disturbing. The report showed that Naruto was wandering around the village as usual, but stopped in the same alleyway next to an open sewer manhole. More than half an hour later he was talking to himself, mostly in foul language.

- Where did he hear such things? I should tell my subordinates not to write everything down so verbatim in their reports. Otherwise it turns out not a report, but some kind of obscenity.

And that would be all, they were used to it. Then he went to one of the abandoned fields. He danced around it with songs and played some strange musical instrument. Though from the observer's words it didn't look like songs. When I asked him to play it back, I really regretted it. Yes, indeed, as it was said in the report "really such a disgusting howl".

This went on for nine hours. Toward morning, Naruto began to show signs of the fox's chakra. His eyes began to glow red and flashes of orange chakra ran through his body. After they appeared, the ANBU, which was watching Naruto, made a decision to neutralize the subject and take him to the hospital.

As the examination revealed, the hallucinogenic mushrooms that Naruto ate were to blame. The tests showed that there was no threat to his health and that Naruto was in a state of hallucinogenic trance. Tests and analyses showed that there was no threat to his health. But the med-nins said they would monitor his condition for a few days.

- And where did he find these bijous (let that be the devil or fuc**ng, a swear word of the Naruto world? and yes, i know this word doesn't exist) mushrooms? We should order more free lunch coupons for him at Ichiraku ramen. Otherwise he'll eat some more crap and let the fox out.

****

-The ceiling is painfully familiar. - The first thing I said and thought when I woke up.

With where I am sorted out, it remains to understand how I ended up here and why. And the system should help me with this.

Yeah, the system helped a lot. According to the last logs, I was knocked out and taken to the hospital. Where they again thoroughly examined my unconscious body. Since I was securely fixed on the bed and there were no visitors asking questions at the moment, I decided to look through all the messages.

After reviewing the posts, I made several important discoveries. First of all, I am an IDIOT. How did I actually come up with this. I decided to go into the settings to set the message filter. Well, at the same time decided to see what else can be configured. In the settings found skills active, passive, and inactive - the ones that I have, but never activated. That's where the illusory barrier was.

As I then read on the forum, this category "inactive skills" serves to turn off some passive skills, and yet there are active skills, received as a reward for a quest or bought at auction or in the store.

The author of this article wrote that this is a very useful feature of the system. He got a passive skill "Fear Aura" for the quest. So because of this, not only enemies, but allies began to turn away from him. Remove the skill from the inactive can be a special voice command. Which is also set in the settings.....