Chapter 27: Absolute Justice’s New “believer”
Inuzuka Maki vaguely recalled the youth from many years ago who had turned Orochimaru’s research base into a sea of lava and fire.
That year… many of his colleagues died at the hands of that youth.
If the Hokage hadn’t appeared in time and stopped that Uchiha youth who possessed Lava Release and the Sharingan.
Even he, Inuzuka Maki, would have died that night!
Inuzuka Maki thought he would never meet that terrifying lava-releasing ninja, who was like a demon, in his lifetime.
But he never expected…
That person would be standing right in front of him tonight!
He and that person had met again!
Inuzuka Maki dared to swear that he could never mistake that face.
Even though the other person had grown several years older; even though the other person’s face was a bit more mature than before, with less youthful immaturity… the basic outline had not changed.
Inuzuka Maki quickly snapped back to reality, not even having time to consider how the other person had infiltrated so silently. He quickly reached out to the wall on his left, trying to trigger the alarm.
“Huh?”
But suddenly, his vision blurred, and he saw an arm thrown high, occupying his sight and blocking the alarm.
That looked like…
His own hand!
As splashing blood splattered onto his terrified face, Inuzuka Maki’s neck also bore a clear bloody gash, and blood streamed down his neck like an unblocked pipe.
A head with a frozen expression rolled from his neck.
Uchiha Ikeizumi had, at some unknown time, stepped over the headless corpse.
He said indifferently to Uchiha Izumi behind him, whose pupils trembled slightly, “Rookie, this is the iron-blooded method one must possess to uphold absolute justice. You need to have a more thorough killing intent than ‘evil’ to eliminate the ‘evil’ of the ninja world one by one.”
“And… you must be merciless!”
As Uchiha Ikeizumi finished speaking, he backhanded a sharp kunai to the left.
The kunai flew through the air and in an instant, accurately hit a ninja who had sensed the commotion and came to investigate.
“Urgh!!!”
The ninja, hit in the neck by the kunai, frantically clutched his throat, a strong sense of suffocation filling him with immense fear.
He couldn’t even understand why there were “enemies” attacking today?
Why hadn’t the Anbu on watch outside sent a warning?
Uchiha Ikeizumi paused for a moment, then said to Izumi behind him, “Rookie, finish him off quickly, and let me see if your resolve for justice is as firm as you claim. I can remind you, this person participated in horrific human experimentation 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, “Senior… I was very afraid of you at first because there were many bad rumors about you in the Police Force. The first time I met you, I had many misunderstandings about you.”
Izumi walked up to the ninja clutching his neck, her clear, bright eyes gazing into a pair of eyes filled with terror and pleading.
“But after these past few days, I know that you are completely different from the rumors. You are not the ‘demon of killing’ 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 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 the pupils of her eyes returned to stability.
Senior had said that this man had the lives of war orphans on his hands, and that he had participated in horrific human experimentation.
Then…
In the face of Absolute Justice.
He…
Must be purged!!!
Izumi fiercely plunged the kunai in her hand into the ninja’s forehead, with such force that it pierced the thin metal plate of the Konoha headband and buried itself in his skull with a “thud.”
Ding! Your cultivated follower of Absolute Justice has successfully executed an act of absolute justice within the ninja world! Your Chakra has received a slight boost! Congratulations, you have successfully dropped: New Skill “Dog Training”!
At the same time, Uchiha Izumi also received a slight Chakra boost!
Uchiha Ikeizumi looked at the panting girl’s back in surprise.
This was the first strange change in his golden finger in many years.
Was it that Izumi’s determination had been recognized by the golden finger?
Or…
Watching the girl stagger unsteadily to her feet, and seeing her stare blankly at the fresh blood on her hands… Uchiha Ikeizumi had found the answer to the doubt that arose in his heart.
“Uchiha Izumi.”
“Here!!!” Izumi instinctively shouted, then suddenly realized, her small face turning pale, knowing she had messed up.
This was bad!
Would her thoughtless shout cause Senior Ikeizumi’s infiltration plan to fail?
However.
When she looked back at Senior Ikeizumi in panic, ready to accept his scolding and reprimand… she found that the expected scolding and reprimand from Senior Ikeizumi did not occur.
She heard Senior Ikeizumi say to her in a perfectly calm tone, “Rookie, your foolishness has alerted the enemy. I’m deducting one thousand and ten points from you.”
Izumi’s face instantly drained of color.
Senior had said that a perfect score was one thousand points, and she had only received a score of ten points before, so deducting one thousand and ten points now… Hiss! Wouldn’t that be negative points?
The consequence of negative points…
Would she be killed by Senior?
“Your current score is zero points.” Uchiha Ikeizumi’s vision now showed Anbu ninjas who had arrived after hearing the commotion.
Izumi froze.
She stared blankly at Senior Ikeizumi, who, with his sword, unhesitatingly charged towards the three Anbu ninjas who had arrived, the “zero points” Senior had mentioned still echoing in her mind.
“So… for a while just now…”
“I was at full score?!”
She found that the psychological shadow of her first kill had instantly dissipated.
…
“You guy, are you Uchiha Ikeizumi?” An Anbu ninja immediately recognized Uchiha Ikeizumi, who was quite well-known within Konoha Village. Upon realizing the visitor was hostile, he immediately drew his ninja sword and confronted him, “Why are you here? I warn you, stop immediately!”
Beside him, another Anbu ninja’s pupils contracted, and he quickly warned, “Be careful! His sword has blood on it! Don’t look into his eyes!”
Unfortunately.
It was too late.
Two of the three Anbu ninjas who had arrived upon hearing the commotion suddenly froze, 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 Ikeizumi could reach him, he immediately formed hand seals and shouted.
“Genjutsu: Release!”
The Anbu ninja simultaneously pulled out two shuriken and threw them at his comrades—it wasn’t that he had lost his mind, but that he lacked the confidence to break free from the Uchiha clan’s Sharingan genjutsu, so he tried to inflict pain on his comrades to forcibly break the genjutsu.
He succeeded.
The other two Anbu ninjas vaguely regained consciousness.
At this moment, Uchiha Ikeizumi, with blood-red eyes, had already appeared and was closing in.
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s ninja sword slashed towards one of their throats.
Clang—
The sound of metal colliding was crisp and clear.
It was blocked.
“Hoo, hoo…” The Anbu ninja gripped his ninja sword, his arm trembling, dripping with sweat: “Sharingan genjutsu… is truly terrifying. Fortunately… we are the Anbu Trio, with our excellent coordination. Fortunately, one of us could help break the genjutsu.”
“Is that so?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s voice already sounded from behind the three of them: “What illusion made you think the genjutsu was broken?”
What!??
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