Chapter 182: Fugaku’s Death! “truly Self-moving”
“This is… that guy’s dojutsu, right?”
Lady Tsunade frowned as she gazed at the distant scene, murmuring: “Causing such a huge commotion in the village, did he run into a strong enemy?”
“Shizune!”
Lady Tsunade immediately grew serious and said to Shizune beside her: “Keep an eye on that group from the Hyuga Clan, make sure they don’t run around late at night.”
Shizune was stunned and hurriedly said: “Lady Tsunade, are you going to?”
Lady Tsunade said straightforwardly: “That guy Ikeizumi is making too much noise, and he’s the type who doesn’t care about the consequences when he fights. I’ll go take a look to prevent him from destroying the nearby buildings and facilities. Otherwise, the village will have to spend extra money to repair them.”
Shizune: “???”
Isn’t that…
When did Lady Tsunade start caring so much about the village? Besides, shouldn’t this be something only the Hokage worries about? Hasn’t Lady Tsunade long stopped getting involved in ninja affairs?
Hmm…
“It’s probably just to help Uchiha Ikeizumi, and she found a clumsy excuse? When Lady Tsunade gambles or fails to pay back loans, she’s so thick-skinned. But at a time like this, Lady Tsunade is especially concerned about her image…”
Shizune saw right through Lady Tsunade. She held Tonton and muttered.
“Um…”
At that moment, a voice that was curious yet somewhat shy came: “Excuse me, did something happen over in the village?”
Shizune turned her head and saw that it was Hinata Hyuga, the young mistress of the Hyuga Main Family.
Oh right.
The Hyuga Clan no longer recognized her as the young mistress of the Main Family.
And the other Hyuga Main Family members were also standing behind Hinata.
Shizune could only explain a little.
“Uchiha Ikeizumi?” Among them, the only special jonin in the Main Family ninja group drew in a sharp breath as he gazed at the two Susanoos in the distance—one scarlet red and the other dark purple.
He couldn’t help but swallow hard.
Maybe…
Uchiha Ikeizumi had shown some mercy to the Hyuga Main Family.
After all, if he rampaged through the Hyuga Clan with this kind of power, probably few in the Hyuga Main Family would survive.
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“Sage Fukasaku, Sage Shima, that’s Susanoo, right?”
Jiraiya stood on the rooftop of a tall building, his face grave as he gazed at the nearby Uchiha Clan Compound.
Sage Fukasaku nodded: “Yeah. That Susanoo carrying the aura of lava must be Uchiha Ikeizumi’s. What a terrifying presence! Even from over two kilometers away, you can feel that aura like a demon from hell.”
Sage Shima said: “He wields this kind of power, yet he’s not the child of prophecy who will save the world. What a pity. If his thoughts weren’t so extreme, he might be the true savior.”
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“Teacher Ikeizumi…”
“Father…”
Sasuke, escorted away by Police Force ninjas and evacuated to a distance, looked blankly at the two Susanoos locked in struggle.
He never imagined things would escalate to this point—Father had become a villain in the eyes of Absolute Justice.
And Father showed no remorse for his sinful behavior; instead, he actively attacked the Police Force ninjas!
Teacher Ikeizumi hadn’t initially let the Police Force ninjas capture Father, which meant he had already given Father a chance.
As long as Father was willing to turn himself in, he might only need to reflect in Konoha Prison for a few months, at most two or three years, and then Father could come out.
But…
Father chose to oppose Absolute Justice. His behavior, his thoughts…
Were exactly like his brother’s.
“Mother…” Sasuke couldn’t help but turn his gaze to Uchiha Mikoto beside him and saw Mother staring dazedly into the distance.
Just looking at Mother’s profile, Sasuke felt that she had suffered a certain degree of mental shock.
Perhaps because of the unfamiliar side Father had shown.
It gave Mother a sense of being caught off guard.
And Sasuke’s voice brought Uchiha Mikoto back to her senses from her daze.
Complex and pained expressions flashed across Uchiha Mikoto’s beautiful face.
“Sigh…”
In the end, it could only turn into a sigh. She said bitterly: “Sasuke, your father… has always been unable to reconcile with situations he can’t control. He always thought it was you and I, his wife and son, who couldn’t see the village’s situation clearly. But in reality, the one who’s been blind all along… is him. And he has no self-reflection about it.”
“He made the exact same choice as Itachi. And his outcome and fate might be exactly the same as Itachi’s…”
Hearing this, Sasuke keenly noticed that Mother’s voice was already choked with suppressed sobs.
Sasuke opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.
He knew Mother was very conflicted—on one hand for his sake, on the other Father was her husband, and on another hand there was Absolute Justice that could make the Uchiha better.
And the one who brought Absolute Justice into the home was also Mother.
“Mother…” Sasuke gritted his teeth and said seriously: “You did nothing wrong. If Father hadn’t held onto those extreme thoughts, if he hadn’t crossed the bottom line of justice, Teacher Ikeizumi wouldn’t have acted against him.”
“The root of all the fault…”
“Is Father!”
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Crack—
A faint but incredibly clear sound, like ice cracking, pierced piercingly into Uchiha Fugaku’s ears.
His scarlet Mangekyo Sharingan suddenly contracted to its limit.
He looked in disbelief at his Susanoo’s arms!
He saw that the arms, originally surging with deep chakra flames, now had faint but clear cracks!
Cracks even spread rapidly like a spiderweb.
What terrified him most was… the huge dark purple naginata in his Susanoo’s hand had dense cracks crazily forming at the blade edge locked with the scarlet lava ninja sword!
The entire blade was emitting a groan of unbearable strain, and the long hilt was bent into an exaggerated crescent arc, showing signs of snapping at any moment.
“How is that possible!??”
A storm of shock surged in Uchiha Fugaku’s heart, his face filled with unacceptable horror.
“Both are Mangekyo Susanoo! Just by fusing Lava Release traits… the gap is this huge?!”
He couldn’t understand!
This had exceeded his understanding of Susanoo power.
However, reality gave him no more time to think.
In that instant when his mind faltered.
On the giant ninja sword in Uchiha Ikeizumi’s Susanoo’s hand, as if forged from the earth’s core lava, a burst of violent power far surpassing before erupted!
Clang—
Crack!!!
Boom!!!!
Accompanied by a deafening roar like a mountain collapsing!
Uchiha Fugaku’s dark purple naginata, covered in cracks, shattered inch by inch in mid-air like fragile glass.
The naginata turned into countless purple chakra fragments, scattering and splashing.
Then they dissipated in the air.
The scarlet lava ninja sword’s momentum didn’t wane, sweeping through like a hot knife through solidified butter, unimpeded!
Slash—!!!
A scarlet arc of death flashed past.
The two arms of Uchiha Fugaku’s purple Susanoo, already full of cracks, were severed at the root!
The Susanoo arms crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust, then slowly dissipated into the most primal chakra particles.
The residual power of this slash even turned into an extremely hot scarlet red wind pressure shockwave, plowing madly forward along the ground to the side.
Rumble—!!!
The ground was like it had been harshly plowed by a giant’s plowshare.
A huge trench, several meters deep, over ten meters wide, and nearly spanning the entire Uchiha Clan Compound in length, formed instantly.
The walls of the trench were mirror-smooth, even crystallized into a glassy state from the instantaneous high temperature!
Dark red lava flowed and dripped slowly at the bottom of the trench.
Emitting suffocating heat and sulfurous fumes!
A few drops of cold sweat slid from Uchiha Fugaku’s forehead, tracing his stiff cheek.
He could even feel the scorching pain from the scarlet wind pressure that brushed past, as if it could melt his soul.
Suddenly!
He jerked his head up, his pupils trembling wildly from extreme shock!
He saw that ahead, Uchiha Ikeizumi’s scarlet red Susanoo hadn’t stopped.
Its size was expanding upward at an astonishing speed!
Thirty meters…
Fifty meters…
And it was far from over!
Even more massive scarlet red chakra surged from underground like a tsunami, quickly forming a complete lower body—huge pelvis, sturdy legs, and feet covered in heavy armor!
This towering giant finally revealed its complete form!
At the same time, layer upon layer of ancient, heavy, fierce, and solid scarlet red armor plates covered its torso and limbs.
Lava-like patterns flowed on the armor, and hot airwaves jetted from the joints.
Like a lava demon god crawled from the deepest layer of purgatory.
Towering over the Uchiha Clan Compound!
Uchiha Fugaku had to crane his head to the maximum to barely see the eye sockets burning with cold karmic fire under that massive war helmet!
Uchiha Fugaku’s face was deathly pale, nearly dazed.
The resolute fighting spirit and vigor deep in his heart were pierced by an invisible sharp needle, instantly deflating completely.
His Susanoo, with severed arms and only half a body, was even less than a third of the opponent’s Susanoo height.
He even suspected that even if he jumped with all his strength, he might not reach the opponent’s crotch!
Even with intact arms, he could probably only hit the knee!
This absolute gap in size and power was like a six-year-old child desperately facing a fully armed burly giant.
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness and insignificance, bone-deep, drowned him like a tide.
The next instant.
That scarlet red lava ninja sword, which had also gigantified with the Susanoo, was raised high by Uchiha Ikeizumi’s Susanoo.
Though its volume was now enormous, its speed didn’t slow at all; instead, due to extreme power concentration, the wind pressure from the descending slash was even more terrifying!
Boom!!!!
Before the ninja sword fully fell, the substantial wind pressure from compressing the air swept through the entire Uchiha compound like a typhoon!
Nearby buildings were blown away and crushed like paper!
The ground trembled and groaned violently!
Uchiha Fugaku looked up at the sky-obscuring giant blade burning with destructive flames; the last light in his eyes went out.
He seemed to see his eldest son’s scene before death through this fatal blade.
“Itachi…”
He murmured to himself, his voice hoarse and almost inaudible: “I think I can understand now… the despair you felt before dying. This isn’t fear of death. It’s the powerless despair of giving everything yet unable to shake the enemy at all.”
Boom!!!
In his final vision, everything before him began to distort and melt like wax figures thrown into a furnace.
His proud Susanoo, condensed with the strongest eye power, was fragile like a oddly shaped pat of butter before that massive lava ninja sword!
Before the blade fully touched, the extreme high temperature had already begun melting and vaporizing the Susanoo’s defensive structure.
Use Izanagi? —This thought instinctively flashed in his mind.
No point. —The next second, this thought was crushed by cold reality.
Before this absolute power gap, even sacrificing one eye for a resurrection…
Then what?
Face this unbeatable power again?
Uchiha Fugaku couldn’t even muster the thought of using other Mangekyo dojutsu now.
Because…
It would be useless!
When the scorching heat had already torn his skin with burning pain, when the shadow of death had completely enveloped him, even smelling his own hair scorching.
Uchiha Fugaku made his last, and only choice he could still make.
He suddenly raised his hands, index and middle fingers hooked, and viciously gouged at his own Mangekyo Sharingan eyes!
Squish!
Two warm, blood-stained Mangekyo Sharingan eyes with eerie patterns were dug out from their sockets by force.
“Ikeizumi!!!”
Using the last of his strength, he hurled these two bloody eyes toward a relatively safe direction in the distance!
“Take my eyes… to Sasuke!!!”
No matter if he and Uchiha Ikeizumi were mortal enemies, he absolutely couldn’t let his precious Mangekyo Sharingan be destroyed like his eldest son Itachi’s.
The Uchiha Clan’s future… might still need this power.
This was the last thing he could do as a father and former clan leader!
Itachi opposed Ikeizumi for Konoha’s “peace.”
And I, for the Uchiha’s “future.”
Even in defeat, he had to do one last thing for the Uchiha Clan.
Slash—!!!
The next moment, that massive lava ninja sword finally tore through the already negligible dark purple Susanoo. The terrifying blade, carrying heat to incinerate all things, swallowed Uchiha Fugaku, whose eye sockets were now two bleeding holes.
Human flesh and blood couldn’t exist for even an instant before this Lava Release-infused slash.
Every cell, nerve, and inch of bone in Uchiha Fugaku’s body emitted the ultimate scream of pain in a ten-thousandth of a second.
Then instantly evaporated and vaporized by the indescribable heat!
No scream, no struggle, no trace left.
As if he had never existed in this world.
The smoke and hot airwaves slowly dissipated.
“A villain who fell into the abyss himself can still feel self-moved at the end. As expected, Uchiha Itachi inherited your mental illness.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s cold voice rang out.
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