Chapter 181: No Mercy! Clash Of Susanoo!
Uchiha Fugaku’s face, originally always carrying steadiness and worry, now only showed a resolute coldness.
He looked at those former subordinates who were turning their blades against him.
Looking at his wife who had completely betrayed him, then turning back to glance at his second son who would never understand his good intentions, the last trace of hesitation in his heart was thoroughly severed.
He finally “understood.”
It was precisely his past indecisiveness, his compromise and indulgence toward that “absolute justice,” that allowed Uchiha Ikeizumi’s extreme ideology to grow and expand like a tumor within Konoha.
To the point that today, he, the clan leader, was forced to step down by his own clan members.
The entire Uchiha Clan was even led by Ikeizumi toward a cliff completely opposed to Konoha’s Will of Fire.
This was not reviving the family at all; this was dragging the entire Uchiha into an irredeemable abyss!
And all of this could have been avoided!
All because of his own series of weaknesses back then, letting all this happen to the Uchiha Clan.
Intense regret and sense of responsibility burned in his heart.
If he had been more firm back then, if he had decisively stopped Ikeizumi…
If he could have strangled absolute justice in its cradle…
“Ikeizumi.”
Fugaku’s voice was low and hoarse, piercing through the noise at the scene.
He ignored the cold blades pointed at him from all around, his gaze locked firmly on the source of all this.
“Since it’s the cause I planted, bearing this evil fruit…”
Fugaku said slowly, as the chakra in his body began to surge like an awakening giant beast, “then let me, in my own way, make up for my mistakes, and steer the Uchiha that’s strayed from the right path… back on track!”
The moment his words fell, the already tense Police Force ninjas made their move.
“Uchiha Fugaku chooses violent resistance to law enforcement! He even injured one of our fellow comrades!”
A ninja who had activated his two-tomoe Sharingan roared in anger, his eyes filled with belief in absolute justice and fury toward the former clan leader.
“Everyone! In the name of the Police Force’s absolute justice, take him down!”
Several elite ninjas burst forward simultaneously, their ninja swords flashing with cold light as they charged toward Fugaku from different directions!
Fierce killing intent instantly enveloped Fugaku!
However, facing this siege, Uchiha Fugaku merely narrowed his eyes slightly.
Buzz—!
A chilling, heart-palpitating eye power mixed with chakra energy erupted from his body like a tangible storm, cracking the ground beneath his feet inch by inch, with debris pushed away by invisible airwaves.
Rumble—!!!
The next moment, an enormous skeletal arm made of deep purple chakra burst out from the ground in front of Fugaku.
The giant arm’s five fingers spread open, casually swinging at the ninjas charging from the front!
“What?!”
“Bad!”
The faces of the several Police Force ninjas at the forefront changed drastically!
They had no time to make any effective reaction, only feeling a terrifying wind pressure like a mountain-toppling wave crashing toward them!
It felt as if they were facing a sudden storm head-on!
Their forward momentum was forcibly halted.
Their bodies staggered backward uncontrollably, their facial muscles trembling violently from the wind pressure, their breathing stifled.
Cold sweat instantly beaded on the foreheads of several of them.
The expressions in their Sharingan were replaced by horror!
“This… what power is this?!” A capable Uchiha chunin barely steadied himself, looking at the slowly retracting purple skeletal arm, his face full of disbelief.
Beside him, a Uchiha jonin squeezed out the legendary name through gritted teeth: “Susanoo! This is one of the supreme dojutsu in Sharingan legend!”
This power had already surpassed the scope of what ordinary ninjas could comprehend!
“This is no longer a battle you can participate in, meow.”
A strange, somewhat lazy voice broke the brief silence.
Ninja cat Kijiro was squatting at Uchiha Ikeizumi’s feet.
Its body was short and fat, previously almost ignored by everyone.
Kijiro licked its paw, looking at the massive purple skeletal arm, and said slowly: “Meow, Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Itachi, these two are father and son for a reason. Maybe Uchiha Itachi that little beast’s extreme obsessive personality was inherited from you, you old guy.”
It tilted its head, as if thinking seriously: “In comparison, that kid Sasuke is much more normal, maybe… he inherited it from his mother? Tsk, truly a lucky break in family misfortune, meow.”
After the snark, Kijiro raised its head, looking at Uchiha Ikeizumi standing unmoving like a rock beside it, its tone becoming respectful: “Lord Ikeizumi, we now…”
Before it finished asking, Uchiha Ikeizumi’s cold, emotionless voice rang out ahead of time.
“Uchiha Fugaku, violent resistance to law enforcement, using Mangekyo Sharingan illusion technique to gravely injure law enforcement personnel mentally, adding to the crime.”
His gaze pierced through the dissipating smoke, landing on Uchiha Fugaku.
“Absolute justice’s verdict on the criminal villain ‘Uchiha Fugaku’ is…”
A brief pause, yet it made the air freeze to the extreme.
“—Execute without mercy!”
The instant these cold three words fell, Uchiha Ikeizumi moved.
He also took a step forward.
Boom!
A more violent, more scorching crimson-red chakra, like a volcano suppressed for a thousand years, erupted from his body.
Visible crimson energy wrapped around him like blazing flames, scorching and melting the ground around him black.
Rumble!
Rumble!
Two even thicker, more ferocious crimson-red skeletal giant arms tore out from beneath the ground, smashing heavily onto the surface!
Immediately after, an enormous skull head made of crimson-red chakra also broke through the ground, slowly rising.
Under everyone’s shocked gazes, the two skeletal arms propped against the ground and exerted force!
Accompanied by teeth-gritting bone friction sounds and the roar of the ground cracking.
A crimson-red skeletal giant over ten meters tall, only the upper body, like a lava demon god crawling out from hell, stood towering in the Uchiha Compound!
Veins and muscles began to weave rapidly over the bones!
Soon, a crimson-red ninja sword was gripped in the Susanoo’s hand.
Uchiha Ikeizumi stood within the crimson Susanoo, his eyes having turned into the complex, eerie Mangekyo pattern at some point.
He coldly overlooked the front.
Like Uchiha Fugaku, he too had activated this supreme dojutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
—Susanoo!
“Everyone, do as Kijiro said.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s voice transmitted through the Susanoo, carrying an indisputable indifference: “Immediately evacuate all civilians in the Uchiha Compound to shelters! Send the injured to Konoha Hospital for treatment right away! And request Sannin Tsunade to come and treat the mental trauma caused by Sharingan illusion techniques on the injured.”
Witnessing the confrontation between these Mangekyo Sharingan, feeling those two terrifying eye powers capable of destroying heaven and earth.
The remaining Police Force ninjas, even if unwilling, fully understood that the upcoming battle had long exceeded their ability to intervene.
Moreover, one of the iron laws of “absolute justice” was—obey orders!
“Yes! Lord Ikeizumi!”
Without any hesitation, all the ninjas responded in unison and swiftly carried out the orders.
Some escorted Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Sasuke away.
Some carried their unconscious comrades toward Konoha Hospital.
More began efficiently organizing civilian evacuation.
Uchiha Fugaku coldly watched all this, not making a move to stop them.
All his attention was focused on the crimson-red skeletal giant ahead.
That familiar, heart-palpitating red evoked the memories deepest in his heart that he least wanted to touch.
“Itachi…”
Fugaku’s voice carried a faint tremble, as he stared deathly at Ikeizumi under the crimson Susanoo, questioning: “He… died under your Susanoo, right? Right, Ikeizumi.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s response was very cold: “He died cleanly, lucky for him.”
Snap—!
A very faint but clearly audible crisp sound suddenly rang out.
It was Uchiha Fugaku clenching his teeth hard, the immense force even snapping off the tip of a canine tooth!
Driven by intense emotion, the ground behind him collapsed violently again.
Another enormous purple skeletal arm burst out from the ground.
Immediately after, more purple chakra surged madly, with bones, meridians, and muscle-like chakra tissues building rapidly!
A purple Susanoo, also only the upper body but comparable in size to the crimson one, fully stood tall!
“Ikeizumi! I must stop you! I’m doing this for the Uchiha Clan! I have a clear conscience! If I can stop you, even at the cost of my life, I have no regrets. The moment I made my choice, I already cast aside my life!”
Uchiha Fugaku’s voice transmitted through the purple Susanoo, no longer his usual steadiness, but carrying resolute hoarseness.
The pattern in the Mangekyo Sharingan spun wildly, massive eye power pouring out like burning flames.
In the huge skeletal palms of his second-form purple Susanoo, deep eye power and chakra surged and condensed madly.
An ancient, ferocious dark purple naginata gradually solidified!
The blade was wrapped in ominous purple chakra flames, its edge flickering with heart-palpitating cold gleam.
This was the Susanoo blade unique to him, Uchiha Fugaku!
The massive purple Susanoo moved accordingly, its huge skeletal joints emitting teeth-gritting friction sounds.
It gripped the enormous dark purple naginata with both hands, slashing down vertically with mountain-splitting, sea-cleaving momentum carrying terrifying power to tear everything apart, toward the crimson Susanoo ahead!
Wherever the blade passed, air was forcibly pushed aside, emitting ghostly wails.
Facing this heavy blow, Uchiha Ikeizumi’s Susanoo reacted instantly.
“Obstinate fool.”
The cold voice transmitted from within the crimson Susanoo.
The crimson-red Susanoo with lava-like flows on its surface showed no evasion or retreat.
Instead, its arm muscle-like chakra tissues bulged fiercely.
In the same fearless posture, it swung the crimson lava ninja sword.
From below upward, without dodging the edge, it slashed toward the incoming dark purple naginata!
Clang!!!
The two massive blades clashed fiercely, an indescribable roar exploding instantly.
A huge energy orb mixed with purple and red expanded at the point of blade collision.
It then turned into a destructive ring-shaped shockwave, spreading wildly in all directions like a tsunami!
Rumble!
Uchiha Fugaku’s residence, closest by, with its carefully built courtyard, walls, roof… before this tangible shockwave, was crushed as if by an invisible giant hand.
Debris was flung into the high air like a rainstorm, solid walls collapsing and shattering layer by layer like building blocks!
Merely the aftermath of one clash had nearly leveled this area.
Uchiha Fugaku, protected by the purple Susanoo, had his expression tighten suddenly!
Through the feedback from the Susanoo.
He clearly felt an irresistible scorching violent force surging along the naginata!
He watched in horror as his Susanoo was falling behind in the struggle against Ikeizumi’s Susanoo’s terrifying power!
“How is that possible?!”
Fugaku’s heart shook violently.
He watched as his Susanoo’s massive purple arms were forced to bend backward continuously, the finger bones gripping the naginata emitting overburdened “creak” sounds.
The enormous dark purple naginata itself trembled violently, as if emitting pained wails!
Even more shocking to him, at the point where the two giant blades locked in collision, the edge of his naginata, condensed from ultimate yin release eye power, showed signs of melting at the contact point!
“This is… Lava Release power!”
Uchiha Fugaku instantly realized, murmuring: “He perfectly integrated the Lava Release Bloodline Limit’s power into the Susanoo!”
The fusion of two different bloodline limits had never been recorded in the Uchiha Clan’s long history.
Because before Uchiha Ikeizumi, the Uchiha Clan had never produced a ninja with both Sharingan and another bloodline limit!
This also meant…
Susanoo of the same form, but Ikeizumi’s Susanoo, fused with Lava Release traits, had crushing destructive power advantage.
“So that’s it… Back then, Itachi activated Susanoo yet lost so cleanly, probably instantly crushed before this Susanoo fused with Lava Release power, right?”
Fugaku’s face was overcast.
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Meanwhile.
Hokage’s Office Building.
Due to too much dissatisfaction within the Sarutobi Clan toward him as Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen did not return to the clan compound tonight, instead choosing to stay overnight in the Hokage’s Office rest room.
However, just as he was starting to feel sleepy…
Boom!!!
A muffled thunderous roar came from afar, followed by the entire Hokage’s Office Building trembling lightly.
The teacup on the desk shook.
Tea spilled out.
“What’s happening? Enemy attack?!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen instantly woke.
Sleepiness gone!
He grabbed the nearby Hokage robe and put it on, his figure flashing to appear before the office’s large window, his sharp turbid eyes gazing toward the direction of the roar.
The next moment, his pupils contracted sharply.
Under the night sky of the Uchiha Compound, two “giants” were fiercely clashing!
That massive size, that terrifying chakra fluctuation, that iconic form…
“It’s Susanoo! And two of them! Right in the Uchiha Clan Compound!”
His gaze locked firmly on that crimson-red Susanoo.
“That red one… is Ikeizumi’s Susanoo! No mistake, that’s the power he used when he killed Itachi back then.”
Then, what about the other one? Who does that dark purple Susanoo belong to?!
The thought just emerged, and a possibility he’d almost overlooked struck his mind like lightning.
The answer was obvious!
“Fugaku!!!”
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