Chapter 39: All I Can Do Is Purge Sin With Absolute Justice
“Senior, the corpse has turned into white bone, all the evidence should be gone, where should we start investigating?” Izumi asked weakly.
Uchiha Ikeizumi said faintly: “Rookie, go back to the Police Force once.”
“Ah?” Izumi was stunned for a moment.
Uchiha Ikeizumi said: “After finding the list of all missing persons in Konoha over the past five years, bring the missing persons list to me. Kijiro, have your ninja cat offspring do a blanket search of Konoha’s sewers, and collect all bone fragments that are suspected to be human bones. I’ll walk around the village and see if I can get lucky.”
Unfortunately, although the Ninja World has technology to extract DNA from bones, Konoha Village has not established a villager DNA archive, making it impossible to immediately identify the victim’s specific identity through this method.
Izumi was puzzled, wondering what luck her senior could get by walking around the village…
She suddenly recalled what her senior had once told her—his pair of eyes had the ability to see through sin!
Hiss! Her senior had found the murderer this way several times before!
Izumi swept away her hesitation and hurriedly replied: “Yes, Senior Ikeizumi!”
Kijiro also said: “Yes, Senior Ikeizumi!”
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Izumi hurriedly rushed back to the Uchiha Clan Compound, and just as she was about to step quickly into the Police Force Headquarters, a familiar silhouette suddenly appeared ahead, causing her to freeze for a moment.
She shook her head in some disbelief, closed her eyes and paused for a full two seconds, then opened them again.
But the silhouette ahead was still there.
“…Itachi?” Izumi couldn’t help but ask tentatively.
She saw him turn around.
Then a familiar face came into the Uchiha girl’s view—it was none other than the Uchiha Clan’s eldest son, Uchiha Itachi!
“It’s Izumi.” Uchiha Itachi suppressed his rather heavy mood, looked at this one and only friend, and forced a polite smile.
Izumi immediately said in surprise: “Itachi, it’s really you! You came back to Konoha without saying a word, I thought you were still carrying out ninja missions outside the village.”
Uchiha Itachi forced a smile: “I just got back not long ago too.”
He felt no joy at reuniting with his friend.
Because in the short time since returning to the village, he had already realized that the conflict between the village and the Uchiha Clan was becoming increasingly irreconcilable.
The biggest irreconcilable conflict point recently was that Uchiha Ikeizumi had killed Hokage’s eldest son Sarutobi Shinnosuke!
He had already felt the pitch-black darkness enveloping the Uchiha.
Like a cage trapping all the Uchiha within it, with no one able to struggle and escape.
If this conflict continued to escalate, to the point where the village side had to use special means… the Uchiha Clan would absolutely cease to exist!
And the Uchiha Clan’s counterattack would also cause heavy losses to Konoha, severely wounding the village’s vitality, and making Hokage and the others completely lose faith in the Uchiha Clan.
At that time…
Sasuke, he…
One terrible thought after another lingered in Uchiha Itachi’s mind, causing a layer of gloom to involuntarily cover his eyes.
His mood became even heavier.
“Itachi, do you have something on your mind?” Izumi keenly sensed that Uchiha Itachi’s expression was a bit off: “Is it because the Anbu mission didn’t go smoothly? Or?”
Uchiha Itachi came back to his senses, shook his head expressionlessly: “…It’s nothing.”
Uchiha Itachi then suddenly noticed that Izumi’s attire was the Uchiha Police Force’s combat uniform.
He remembered that just over half a month ago, Izumi had graduated from the Ninja Academy not long before.
Uchiha Itachi changed the topic, also calming his fluctuating thoughts a bit, and asked in a tone without much fluctuation: “Have you joined the Police Force? Are you getting used to it?”
Izumi nodded, showing a confident smile: “Yeah! I’m currently just a trainee of the Police Force, and it will take a long assessment period to become a formal member. Although it’s very tiring on a regular basis, I’m barely getting used to it! After all, Senior Ikeizumi is only strict on the surface, but actually quite caring toward his subordinates.”
Uchiha Itachi was taken aback: “Ikeizumi… senior?”
Izumi’s smile stiffened slightly.
Oh no, it must be because she was too tired yesterday and didn’t sleep well last night, causing her memory to decline.
She had actually forgotten that Senior Ikeizumi and Itachi didn’t have a good relationship!
“Uchiha Ikeizumi, right?” Uchiha Itachi asked.
“…Yes.”
Izumi nodded stiffly.
She now wanted to give her own head a conk.
Uchiha Itachi hesitated silently for a moment, but ultimately chose to remind this last friend of his: “Izumi, I hope you don’t think I’m meddling. Uchiha Ikeizumi’s thoughts are sometimes too extreme. Shisui, he…”
He paused for half a second, took a deep breath, and continued: “Shisui once told me that Uchiha Ikeizumi’s stance belongs neither to the Uchiha nor to Konoha, only to himself alone.”
“He’s the type who not only harms his enemies but also hurts those around him. Especially his Absolute Justice will bring big trouble to the Uchiha.”
“Senior Ikeizumi’s Absolute Justice won’t bring any trouble to the Uchiha Clan.” Upon hearing Uchiha Itachi say those words, Izumi almost instinctively blurted it out.
Uchiha Itachi was stunned.
Izumi was also stunned.
She pursed her lips, pinched the hem of her clothes, and said: “I don’t know what conflict Senior Ikeizumi has with you, Itachi. But I want to say that Senior Ikeizumi’s Absolute Justice has never done anything wrong.”
“He is also dutifully fulfilling the responsibilities and obligations of a Police Force Ninja, always silently upholding Justice on his own, and constantly suppressing Konoha’s crooked winds and perverse practices.”
“It’s just that everyone has too shallow an understanding of the senior, and the senior’s personality is such that he doesn’t want to say words he thinks are meaningless, which leads to many misunderstandings about Senior Ikeizumi.”
“I believe that this misunderstanding will disappear one day!”
Izumi didn’t know why she was explaining this to Itachi.
Perhaps because she had chosen to follow the senior’s Absolute Justice, she subconsciously wanted to defend Absolute Justice.
And subconsciously wanted to defend Senior Ikeizumi.
Uchiha Itachi gazed at the girl’s expression, which was hesitant yet somewhat serious, and said expressionlessly: “You’ve already made up your mind to follow that man’s extreme Ninja Way?”
“Yeah!”
Izumi’s small face was serious as she said: “Ever since the Ninja Academy, I’ve always wanted to catch up to the footsteps of a Konoha genius like you, Itachi. But my talent is average, I graduated from the ninja school at twelve, and I had no plans for my future in life…”
“But I believe I can realize my value in Konoha in another way! After meeting Senior Ikeizumi and gradually understanding his character, I also gained a clear understanding of the way to realize my life’s value.”
“Itachi, using Absolute Justice to purge the ‘evil’ in the Ninja World—that is my, Uchiha Izumi’s, Ninja Way!”
Uchiha Itachi was silent for a moment.
“Is this your caliber?” he said expressionlessly: “It’s quite imposing indeed. However, your path will go astray…”
“Meow, rookie, what are you doing?” A voice with a strange tone suddenly interrupted Uchiha Itachi.
A black ninja cat was standing on the eaves to the side.
It spoke human words to Izumi: “Grandfather Kijiro sent me to supervise you. Have you gotten the missing persons list, meow?”
“Eh! You’re that ninja cat that was guarding the sewer entrance before, right?”
Izumi looked up hurriedly: “Ah! Wait for me, I’ll go right now!”
Watching Izumi’s back as she hurriedly ran into the Police Force Headquarters.
Uchiha Itachi withdrew his gaze, then shifted his calm eyes to the black ninja cat.
The black ninja cat was also staring at him.
“Uchiha Itachi…” The ninja cat’s fur on its back bristled slightly, and it subconsciously stepped back a few paces—the ninja cats associated with Uchiha Ikeizumi, like Uchiha Ikeizumi himself, were not fond of Uchiha Itachi, this clan leader’s eldest son.
It could even be said they were somewhat hostile.
Uchiha Itachi hesitated for a moment.
Ultimately, he chose not to use his Sharingan to interrogate this ninja cat for intelligence about Uchiha Ikeizumi.
“Pass this on to Uchiha Ikeizumi for me.”
Uchiha Itachi said slowly to the ninja cat: “What he did will only deepen the conflict between the village and the Uchiha Clan. In the end, it will lead to an irreversible situation. I hope he can consider the village’s stance and also the rarity of peace.”
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“Meow! Senior Ikeizumi! Big trouble!”
The black ninja cat didn’t stay to wait for Izumi, because it rushed back to notify Uchiha Ikeizumi.
The ninja cat said panting heavily: “Senior Ikeizumi, Uchiha… Uchiha Itachi is back in the village, meow!!!”
“He’s a Konoha Ninja, isn’t it normal for him to return to the village?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s emotions showed no fluctuation.
The ninja cat was stunned, and it said: “But didn’t Senior Ikeizumi say before that Uchiha Itachi would commit heinous evils beyond redemption? Senior Ikeizumi already has the power to see through others’ future evil, right? And your power has never been wrong.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi paused his steps slightly and said: “If you know a person will commit heinous evils beyond redemption in the future, but he hasn’t had the chance to do it yet, what would you do?”
The ninja cat said in distress: “I’m just a ninja cat, my brain can’t handle such profound problems…”
“Perhaps…”
The black ninja cat said weakly: “I’d try to stop it somehow?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said: “I’ve advised the Clan Head and the Clan Head’s wife to have Uchiha Itachi’s head checked—his, their eldest son’s head, is definitely seriously ill. I’ve also told Uchiha Shisui that protecting Uchiha Itachi will make him regret it.”
“I’ve taken many ‘preemptive prevention’ measures. If the other party still willingly falls into the abyss to become a beast, then what I can do is to purge the sin with Absolute Justice.”
Suddenly.
A loud shout from not far away reached their ears.
“Senior! The miss… missing persons list has been found!!!”
The Uchiha girl arrived, holding a file in her hands.
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Hiss, this chapter is three thousand words, I accidentally didn’t hold back and wrote so much_(`」∠)_
