Chapter 27: New "Believer" of [Absolute Justice]
Inuzuka Maki vaguely recalled the young boy from years ago who had turned Orochimaru-sama's research base into a sea of magma.
Back then… many of his colleagues had died at that boy's hands.
If the Hokage hadn't appeared in time to stop that Uchiha boy, who possessed Lava Release and the Sharingan.
He, Inuzuka Maki, would likely have died that night too!
Inuzuka Maki had thought he would never meet that terrifying, demon-like Lava Release ninja in his lifetime.
But he never expected…
That the person would be standing right in front of him tonight!
He had met the other party again!
Inuzuka Maki could swear he wouldn't mistake that face for anyone else.
Even though the other party had grown several years older; even though his face was more mature than before, lacking much of its youthful immaturity… the basic outline hadn't changed.
Inuzuka Maki quickly snapped back to reality, not even having time to consider how the other party had managed to sneak in silently. He quickly reached out to the wall on his left, trying to trigger the alarm.
"Huh?"
But suddenly, as his vision blurred, he saw an arm thrown high up, occupying his sight and blocking the alarm.
That seemed to be…
His own hand!
As splashing blood splattered across his horrified face, a clear gash appeared on Inuzuka Maki's neck simultaneously, blood gushing out like an unpluggable pipe, soaking his neck red.
A head with a frozen expression rolled off his neck.
Uchiha Chisen had crossed the headless corpse at some point.
He said indifferently to Uchiha Izumi, whose pupils trembled behind him, "Newcomer, this is the iron-blooded method one must possess to uphold Absolute Justice. You need to harbor a killing intent more thorough than 'evil' to eliminate the 'evil' of the ninja world, one by one."
"And… you must show no mercy!"
As Uchiha Chisen finished speaking, he flicked a sharp kunai to his left.
The kunai flew through the air, hitting a ninja who had sensed the disturbance and came to check the situation, with pinpoint accuracy in an instant.
"Nngh!!!"
The ninja, struck in the neck by the kunai, frantically clutched his throat, the intense suffocation filling him with endless fear.
He couldn't even understand why there were "enemies" attacking today.
Why hadn't the Anbu on watch outside sent a warning?
Uchiha Chisen paused his steps and said to Izumi behind him, "Newcomer, finish him off quickly. Let me see if your resolve for justice is as firm as you claim. I can remind you that this person participated in inhumane human experiments and has the lives of war orphans on his hands."
Izumi's small, sweaty hands tightly gripped the kunai.
She walked towards the struggling ninja on the ground, gritting her teeth and saying, "Senpai… at first, I was very afraid of you, because there were many bad rumors about you in the Konoha Military Police Force. The first time I met you, I had many misunderstandings about you."
Izumi reached the ninja covering his neck, her clear, beautiful eyes gazing into a pair of eyes filled with terror and pleading.
"But after these few days of contact, I know that you are completely different from the rumors. You are not the 'murderous demon' they speak of; everything you do is for justice."
She held the kunai with both hands and raised it high.
Her arm trembled slightly.
"The [Absolute Justice] that you believe in has allowed me to see the true 'light' of kindness in this world. Your justice is also the justice I, Uchiha Izumi, want to follow."
Izumi's arm stopped trembling, and her pupils regained their stability.
Senpai had said that this person had the lives of war orphans on his hands, and that he had participated in inhumane human experiments.
Then…
In the face of [Absolute Justice].
He…
Must be purged!!!
Izumi forcefully drove the kunai in her hand into the forehead of the ninja, the force so great that it even pierced the thin iron plate of the Konoha forehead protector, embedding itself into his skull with a "thud."
[Ding! The [Absolute Justice] believer you cultivated has successfully killed a "Red Name" villain! Your Chakra has gained a small boost! Congratulations, you have successfully dropped: New Skill "Dog Training"]
[At the same time, Uchiha Izumi has also gained a small Chakra boost!]
Uchiha Chisen looked with surprise at the panting girl's retreating back.
This was the first strange change in his golden finger in many years.
Was this Izumi's resolve being recognized by the golden finger?
Or…
Looking at the girl stagger unsteadily to her feet, and seeing her staring blankly at the blood on her hands… Uchiha Chisen had found the answer to the doubts that had arisen in his heart.
"Uchiha Izumi."
"Got it!!!" Izumi instinctively shouted, then suddenly realized her mistake, her small face turning deathly pale. She knew she'd messed up.
Oh no!
Did my thoughtless shout ruin Senior Chisen's infiltration plan?
However.
When she panicked and looked back at Senior Chisen, expecting to be berated and scolded... she found that the reprimand and scolding she'd anticipated from Senior Chisen didn't happen.
She heard Senior Chisen speak to her in a completely calm tone, "Newbie, your foolishness alerted the enemy. Minus one thousand and ten points."
Izumi's face went completely bloodless.
Senior said the maximum score was one thousand points, and I only got ten points before. If he deducts another thousand and ten points... Hiss! Won't that be negative points?
The consequence of negative points... could it be...
I'm going to be killed by Senior?
"Your current score is zero," Uchiha Chisen's vision already showed Anbu ninjas rushing over at the sound.
Izumi froze.
She stared blankly at Senior Chisen, alone with his sword, charging without hesitation towards the three Anbu ninjas who had arrived, the word "zero" still echoing in her mind.
"So... for a moment just now..."
"I had a perfect score?!"
She found that the psychological shadow of her first kill instantly dissipated.
...
"You're Uchiha Chisen?" one Anbu ninja recognized Uchiha Chisen, who was quite famous in Konoha Village. Seeing that he was hostile, he immediately drew his ninja sword to confront him. "Why are you here? I'm warning you, stop right there!"
Beside him, another Anbu ninja's pupils constricted, and he immediately warned, "Careful! His sword has blood on it! Don't look into his eyes!"
Too late.
The three Anbu ninjas who had arrived at the sound had two of them suddenly freeze, clearly affected by the Sharingan's genjutsu.
The remaining Anbu ninja was greatly alarmed.
Fortunately, he was an Anbu elite with quick reflexes. Before Uchiha Chisen could reach him, he quickly formed hand seals and let out a low cry.
"Genjutsu Release!"
The Anbu ninja simultaneously pulled out two shuriken and threw them at his companions. It wasn't that he had lost his mind; it was that he lacked the confidence to break the Uchiha clan's Sharingan genjutsu. He tried to make his companions feel pain, thereby forcibly breaking the genjutsu.
He succeeded.
The other two Anbu ninjas dazedly regained consciousness.
At this moment, Uchiha Chisen, with his eyes scarlet, had already arrived and was within striking distance.
Uchiha Chisen's ninja sword swept towards one of them's throat.
Clang—
The sound of metal colliding was crisp.
It was blocked.
"Hoo, hoo..." The Anbu ninja held his ninja sword, his arm trembling, drenched in sweat. "Sharingan genjutsu... it's truly terrifying. Fortunately... we're the well-coordinated Anbu trio. Luckily, one of us could help break the genjutsu."
"Is that so?"
Uchiha Chisen's voice sounded from behind the three of them. "What illusion makes you think the genjutsu has been broken?"
What!??
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