Chapter 28: Baptizing The Evil Of The Ninja World With Scalding Lava
The voice sounding from behind made the three Anbu Ninjas instantly feel something was wrong, with warning signs constantly exploding in their hearts.
At the same time as their pupils contracted, they wanted to immediately scatter.
But the perspective in front of the three suddenly skewed.
In their gradually blurring vision appeared the figure of a Uchiha girl, but before they could see what she looked like, the three heads had already rolled off their necks.
【Ding! You have successfully executed Absolute Justice three times in the Ninja World! Your Chakra has gained a small increase! Congratulations, you have successfully obtained: ①”Shurikenjutsu” Experience Book×7; ②”Water Release: Flowing Blade Technique”; ③”Customs Shop Identification Technique” Experience Book×4!】
The crimson boxes hovering above the heads of the three Anbu Ninjas slowly dissipated.
But killing them was merely the beginning. The earlier commotion had already alerted the entire secret base.
But that was fine.
It saved Uchiha Ikeizumi the trouble of rooting out everyone.
……
When more Anbu Ninjas arrived.
They found several corpses on the ground and saw a Uchiha Ninja holding a bloodstained ninja sword, with killing intent emanating from his body.
Shocked, though they didn’t know exactly what had happened, they immediately sounded the base alarm.
“Woo—woo—woo—”
The piercing alarm startled even Sarutobi Shinnosuke.
“Enemies invading?!”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke frowned under his Anbu mask. Since this secret experimental base was established, there had never been an enemy invasion.
How come such a mess happened right when the old man entrusted this secret base to him?
What puzzled Sarutobi Shinnosuke even more was, what kind of person had the guts to invade a secret base near Konoha Village?
The fact that a base could be built near Konoha Village meant it had a secret close connection with Konoha.
Didn’t the intruder know that?
Or…
The other party didn’t care about Konoha at all?!
“All combat personnel, assemble!” Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s expression gradually grew serious as he issued the order: “Immediately head to the location where the alarm sounded in the base. The intruder…”
Thinking that once this secret base was exposed, it would very likely bring a certain reputational risk to the old man.
Killing intent flashed in Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s eyes.
“Regardless of who the intruder is, kill on sight!”
“Yes!!!”
Led by Sarutobi Shinnosuke, an entire Anbu squad mobilized—this secret base was originally guarded by two Anbu squads.
One Anbu squad’s task was to stand guard outside the base, patrol inside, and transport supplies; the other Anbu squad was responsible for eliminating threats to the base.
Both Anbu squads were under Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s command.
Sarutobi Shinnosuke felt that the first squad might have already met with trouble!
Moreover, the intruder’s strength was not to be underestimated!
Otherwise, the enemy could not have sneaked into the base silently.
“Wait!”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke stopped an Anbu and ordered him: “You don’t need to come. Immediately return to Konoha and inform the old man about this. If there’s no message from the base back to the village within fifteen minutes, it means something has happened here. It’s best if the old man brings more people.”
“Yes!”
Just as Sarutobi Shinnosuke was about to continue heading toward the alarm location, a sudden sense of crisis made his heart skip a beat.
He instinctively shouted: “Stop!”
At the same moment, he sharply noticed that the metal-reinforced wall on the right side had a faint orange-red glow, and he could feel a scorching temperature coming from there.
——Boom!!!!
Terrifying high temperature instantly melted a huge hole in the metal-reinforced wall. The volcanic-like fierce impact sent molten iron splashing everywhere, and an invisible heatwave came rushing at them.
The group of Anbu Ninjas immediately bent their knees to steady their bodies, all looking in horror at the melted hole in the wall.
“That’s…”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s pupils shrank as he saw “half” a person lying next to the wall hole.
The other half of that “half” person’s body was nowhere to be found.
But from the clothing, the other was also an Anbu Ninja.
The other’s mask had fallen off, and half of the face was frozen in an expression of utter terror, chilling to the bone just to look at.
Drip—
Drip—
Strange water droplet sounds entered their ears.
Sulfur smell flooded their noses.
A name of a Uchiha Clan Ninja that Sarutobi Shinnosuke extremely despised suddenly popped into his mind—Uchiha Ikeizumi!
Just as the thought fell, a figure with lava slowly flowing over its body stepped out from the other side of the wall hole.
“—It’s Uchiha Ikeizumi!!!” An Anbu Ninja behind Sarutobi Shinnosuke shouted in shock, naming the other.
“Long time no see, Shinnosuke… Teacher.”
Lava dripped from Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body, the molten glow from the lava unable to mask the blood-red of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
He stared straight at Sarutobi Shinnosuke in front of him and said: “As one of the Third Hokage’s right-hand men, you’ve had no trace for the past two years. I thought you were dead. I didn’t expect Shinnosuke Teacher was arranged here by the Third Hokage.”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s fists instantly clenched.
His expression under the mask darkened, and he gritted his teeth: “When you killed two companions back then, you were no longer my student, and I was no longer your guiding Jonin! Uchiha Ikeizumi! What exactly do you want by coming here?”
Looking at the half-corpse on the ground, Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s mood worsened. He glared fixedly at Uchiha Ikeizumi: “You really can’t suppress the demon in your heart after all. Are you preparing to go on a killing spree in Konoha and slaughter these innocent people?!”
The other Anbu Ninjas behind him were quite surprised.
So Shinnosuke Senior and Uchiha Ikeizumi actually had such a past; he had once been the other’s guiding Jonin!
Uchiha Ikeizumi calmly asked: “There are too many evils of the Ninja World dead by my hand. Which two are you referring to?”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s breathing nearly stopped.
“You… have you completely forgotten even your companions?”
“I don’t bother to remember the villains who died by my hand.”
Veins throbbed on Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s forehead.
“Shimura Reiya! Uzuki Shaku! Surely you remember these two names! They… were Genin students of mine, just like you back then!”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke couldn’t help recalling the “fellow disciple fratricide” incident from back then that had shaken him to the core.
It was also after that incident that he no longer served as guiding Jonin for any Konoha Genin.
“Oh… I vaguely remember now.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said: “Shimura Reiya once bullied others at the Ninja Academy, leading the bullied person to commit suicide after futile complaints; Uzuki Shaku, Shimura Reiya’s accomplice, spread rumors about the bullied person in the village even after their death.”
“It was indeed I who killed those two. But at the time, they struck first, so the Fourth Hokage classified it as excessive self-defense but held me unaccountable.”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke listened to Uchiha Ikeizumi’s tone, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, as if his “companions” were utterly dispensable in his heart.
A surging rage welled up in his heart: “Their crimes did not warrant death!”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said: “Then the bullied one deserved to die?”
With every step he took forward, a molten pit appeared on the ground.
“In my eyes, your two students had already been corrupted by the ‘evil’ of the Ninja World into unforgivable villains. I merely purified the unforgivable ‘evil’ of the Ninja World with scalding lava. That’s all.”
“Shinnosuke Teacher.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s crimson eyes fell on the crimson box hovering above Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s head.
“The current you…”
“Has also fallen into the abyss.”
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