Sarutobi Shinosuke took a deep breath. Even though he tried his best to calm himself down, the "psychological trauma" Uchiha Chisen had inflicted on him was still too great.
Once, two of the three Konoha genin he had mentored died in a fratricidal manner.
The only "murderer" who survived was now acting as if nothing had happened right in front of him.
This made the anger in Sarutobi Shinosuke's heart impossible to suppress.
Anger was a major taboo for Anbu ninjas.
Sarutobi Shinosuke coldly emphasized, "Everything I've done, from beginning to end, has been for Konoha Village, and I have never fallen into the abyss. Uchiha Chisen, you are merely someone who, out of selfish desire, arbitrarily cast 'evil' onto others! There's no need to sugarcoat your killing habit."
"I don't understand why the Fourth Hokage ruled that your killing of your comrades back then was excessive self-defense, nor do I understand why the old man hasn't dealt with you all these years."
"However..."
Sarutobi Shinosuke glanced at the Anbu corpses on the ground.
He hadn't even considered why Uchiha Chisen could recognize him at a glance while he was wearing an Anbu mask.
Nor had he considered why Uchiha Chisen would appear here.
At this moment, an uncontrollable killing intent was spreading wildly in his eyes beneath the Anbu mask: "Since you killed a fellow village Anbu ninja in front of me... then today, I will clean house for the old man, for Konoha Village!"
"At the same time..."
"I'll clean house for myself too!"
The moment Sarutobi Shinosuke finished speaking, the six Anbu members behind him quickly understood.
They cooperated seamlessly, using their unique ninja tactics to lock down all of Uchiha Chisen's escape routes, while simultaneously attacking him with various ninja tools.
Swish—
Swish—
A ninja sword and a scythe blade instantly carved two extremely gruesome, large gashes into Uchiha Chisen's body.
Other Anbu ninjas threw a large number of kunai and shuriken, all of which accurately hit Uchiha Chisen's body.
One of the kunai even had an explosive tag wrapped around its end!
"Explode!"
RUMBLE!!!
The deafening explosion caused the eardrums of several Anbu ninjas to ache slightly. They watched as Uchiha Chisen was engulfed by the explosion's flames and smoke. By all rights, he should have been blown to pieces.
However...
"No... my ninja sword!"
"My scythe blade... how can his Lava Release's temperature be so high? When my ninja tool grazed his body, it was in contact for less than half a second at most, and it was already melting?"
Two incredulous exclamations suddenly rang out.
The Anbu holding the ninja sword and the Anbu holding the scythe blade were now staring in shock at the half-melted ninja tools in their hands.
Molten iron could be seen dripping from the broken edges of the tools.
And when they looked up at the front simultaneously.
Rolling crimson lava had already swallowed the dispersing explosion smoke. The entire passage of the secret base seemed to be filled with lava.
The flowing lava, like a mudslide, surged towards the Anbu ninjas. Everything it passed over had its ground melted by the lava.
Sarutobi Shinosuke's expression turned grim: "Lava Release..."
Although he had been Uchiha Chisen's jōnin instructor, Sarutobi Shinosuke had rarely seen Uchiha Chisen use Lava Release.
He only knew that Uchiha Chisen's Lava Release possessed a terrifyingly high temperature, capable of killing ordinary people almost instantly upon contact.
Beyond that, he had no further information about Lava Release.
Sarutobi Shinosuke finally realized that he knew absolutely nothing about this former genin student.
Seeing the surging lava torrent rush towards them, Sarutobi Shinosuke calmly ordered, "Deal with him in this passage! Don't let him leave here, otherwise, his Lava Release Kekkei Genkai will definitely destroy the entire base! Use Water Release against him!"
The Anbu ninjas immediately understood.
Three Anbu ninjas proficient in Water Release jutsu immediately began forming hand seals.
The moment the lava torrent was mere inches away, they simultaneously used the same Water Release jutsu.
"Water Release: Water Collision Water Wave!!!" ×3
A surging stream of water, like a sea tornado, rose from the ground out of nowhere, enveloping all the Anbu ninjas.
When the water gathered to a certain extent, it poured towards the lava in front like a mighty flood.
The instant the two clashed, the scorching steam that filled the passage caused the faces of the Anbu ninjas to change drastically.
So hot!!!
Uchiha Chisen's extremely cold tone echoed through the steam-filled passage: "Teacher Shinosuke, you believe you haven't fallen into the abyss... then let me ask you. Six months ago, when a 'volunteer' who willingly became a test subject became too frightened and wanted to back out midway, who killed him?"
Sarutobi Shinosuke, enduring the pain of the scalding steam, his pupils contracted.
"A year ago, when there weren't enough 'volunteers', who ordered his subordinates to go to a neighboring country of the Land of Fire, capture over a dozen war orphans from neighboring countries, and force them to become test subjects?"
Sarutobi Shinosuke's gaze turned somewhat horrified.
Uchiha Chisen was like a judge from the underworld, each word he spoke piercing Sarutobi Shinosuke.
"Furthermore, two years ago..."
"And..."
Every sentence Uchiha Chisen uttered caused Sarutobi Shinosuke's expression to shift, and the Anbu members beside him couldn't help but cast astonished glances at their captain.
"Teacher Shinosuke, you said you wanted to cleanse the clan for Konoha... well, coincidentally, today, I'm going to cleanse the ninja world."
...
"Hokage-sama!" At the same time, the Anbu ninja dispatched by Sarutobi Shinosuke to report back to Konoha finally arrived at the Sarutobi Clan's compound overnight, loudly calling out to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
With a swish, the sliding door of a house was pulled open.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, dressed in casual clothes, walked out in wooden clogs.
Holding his pipe, he frowned and asked, "If I remember correctly, you're an Anbu from Shinosuke's side... What happened over there?!"
The Anbu ninja organized his thoughts and quickly replied, "Hokage-sama, enemies have attacked a secret base outside the village. Captain Shinosuke said the enemy is likely very powerful, so he requested I return to the village and ask for Hokage-sama to send reinforcements."
"What?!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart tightened.
After he had led people to destroy Orochimaru's human experimentation research facility in Konoha years ago, they had confiscated much of Orochimaru's research data that he hadn't had time to take or destroy, and they had also captured a large number of unforgivable human experimentation researchers.
He had originally intended to destroy that data, and he had also promised Uchiha Chisen that he would secretly execute those researchers.
After all, if these evil research materials fell into the hands of ambitious individuals, they might give rise to a new Orochimaru.
However...
Under the persuasion and advice of Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, Sarutobi Hiruzen only destroyed some of the research data that appeared too evil, keeping all the rest.
At the same time, he did not fulfill the promise he made to Uchiha Chisen, but instead transferred those researchers to a location outside the village.
In the words of Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura: "They have done so much irreparable evil that death is too easy for them. They should slowly repay their debts with their knowledge and their limited lives."
—"Hiruzen, you can't act irrationally just because you made a promise to a young Uchiha clan member. We know you think highly of him, but that genius with two Kekkei Genkai ultimately carries the Uchiha name..."
—"Can you guarantee that the benefits Uchiha Chisen will bring to Konoha's future will outweigh the benefits Orochimaru's subordinates can bring to Konoha? Their knowledge is the most precious wealth in the ninja world."
—"Besides, we can just destroy the intolerable data, and the village can make good use of the rest."
Sarutobi Hiruzen was swayed.
Thus, a secret research base was built in a hidden location more than ten kilometers outside Konoha Village to study some of the research data left behind by Orochimaru.
He also entrusted the management of this base to his eldest son, "Sarutobi Shinosuke."
He didn't feel at ease entrusting it to outsiders.
It was just that Sarutobi Hiruzen hadn't expected that after only a few years of operation, the secret research base would have an incident.
The enemy that could make Shinosuke send someone back to the village to request reinforcements... was likely no ordinary enemy!
"I will personally lead people there."
Sarutobi Hiruzen said gravely.
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