Chapter 43: You’re Not Regretting—you’re Afraid Of Dying
“Kill him.” — Senior Ikeizumi’s words, devoid of any emotion, caused sweat to seep from Izumi’s palms.
She knew that Senior Ikeizumi never joked around.
Izumi also understood that whether Senior Ikeizumi asked her to interrogate the criminal or to execute the criminal…
it was testing her determination toward「Absolute Justice」!
Recalling the photo of the “Yamada family” mother and daughter on the missing documents; remembering the faint smiles on those two delicate faces; thinking of the broken bone fragments fished out from Konoha’s sewer; seeing Yamada Binjiro’s unrepentant attitude just now…
Izumi’s eyes had changed from hesitation and confusion to resolute determination.
“Yes! Senior!”
As she uttered these words, she noticed that Senior Ikeizumi had dispelled the Sharingan Illusion Technique.
Because she saw Yamada Binjiro dazedly snap back from endless collapse and despair illusions.
He was both shocked and terrified, his crotch already soaked, snot and tears streaming together, his facial expression twisted to the point of being unbearable to look at.
Izumi didn’t know what illusion Senior Ikeizumi had shown Yamada Binjiro.
She only heard the other party neurotically muttering in fear.
She only saw the other party trembling and wriggling on all fours, and she also saw him smear the ground’s filth, the blood on his hands, and even his own spilled urine onto his face.
“Don’t kill me, I was wrong… Don’t kill me, I regret it… I won’t dare anymore, please… I really regret it… I was wrong, wuwuwu, I know I was wrong…”
Izumi had never seen someone debase themselves so low just to survive.
“Did you ever think that the mother and daughter you killed were also this desperate before they died?”
Izumi gripped the ninja sword tightly, gritting her teeth: “Do you remember if they begged you for mercy?”
“And you… did you spare them?”
Izumi’s grip on the hilt was so tight that her fingers turned pale.
“You’re not actually regretting it.”
“You’re just afraid of dying.”
“Human! Scum!!!”
Puchi—
The ninja sword in Izumi’s hand had pierced through Yamada Binjiro’s heart. Following the killing techniques learned at the Ninja Academy, she viciously twisted her wrist, then silently withdrew the ninja sword while immediately stepping aside to the right.
A jet of scarlet blood sprayed from Yamada Binjiro’s heart, just barely avoided by Izumi.
She watched as Yamada Binjiro’s eyes began to dissipate.
Until he completely collapsed to the ground.
No longer showing any signs of life.
【Ding! The「Absolute Justice」 follower you nurtured has successfully killed a “Red Name” villain! Your chakra has gained a small boost! Congratulations, you have obtained: Dismemberment Experience Book×2!】
【At the same time, Uchiha Izumi also gained a small chakra boost!】
“Senior Ikeizumi, the criminal in the Murder and Dismemberment Case has been executed by me!”
Izumi took a deep breath, letting the rainwater rinse the blade. She suddenly had a strange illusion that after executing justice and killing the criminal, her body felt an inexplicable “sense of relief”.
She had this same illusion the day before yesterday in the Secret Research Base.
This made Izumi shudder involuntarily.
Could she be some kind of hidden natural-born murderous pervert?
Izumi was startled by her own wild thoughts, shook her head, and hurriedly asked: “Senior, how should we dispose of the corpse?”
“Let the Police Force collect the body.”
“Yes, Senior!”
……
Everyone at the Konoha Funeral Home was already too scared to make a sound.
Even though they knew the Hokage was in the Konoha Public Cemetery, they still felt no sense of security.
But what they couldn’t understand was… in this fear with no sense of security, they actually felt a strange sense of reassurance.
Izumi keenly noticed the fear in their expressions.
She pursed her lips, then suddenly spoke: “Yamada Binjiro murdered his brother’s wife and daughter, and cruelly dismembered them, throwing the body pieces into the sewer. The Uchiha Police Force took a full four years without catching the culprit, allowing him to evade justice for years.”
“Until today, justice for this mother and daughter has finally arrived late. This is the Uchiha Police Force’s negligence! But I guarantee here that as long as we uphold「Absolute Justice」 to purge sin, such incidents will become fewer and fewer in the future!”
She didn’t know if her words had any effect.
Izumi noticed that the fear in their eyes had slightly dissipated.
But they seemed to have added a bit of confusion.
Izumi didn’t know what else to say, so she ended with one sentence: “The Ninja World will one day become better and better under the baptism of「Absolute Justice」.”
She then quickly turned to catch up with Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Izumi lowered her little head, walking anxiously behind Uchiha Ikeizumi, no longer having her earlier courage, and apologized in a mosquito-like voice: “Sorry, Senior. I acted on my own and said a lot of things I shouldn’t have…”
She had just realized that she seemed to have badmouthed the Uchiha Police Force earlier.
However.
She didn’t hear any rebuke from her senior.
Senior Ikeizumi didn’t even say a word.
“…Senior?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said flatly: “You just told the truth.”
……
After seeing off the famous Uchiha Police Force “Plague God”, everyone at the Konoha Funeral Home couldn’t help but exchange glances, then looked at the corpse on the ground with trepidation.
They probably only understood two points.
—They were good people, Uchiha Ikeizumi wouldn’t trouble them, and the people had left, so they could relax.
—Yamada Binjiro was an extremely vicious murderer!
“Gulp!” Someone swallowed hard, finally unable to resist breaking the weird silence: “That Yamada guy actually did something like that… I used to go to brothels with him often, wasn’t I in danger every day?”
“That Uchiha Clan ninja said Yamada dismembered his brother’s wife and daughter’s corpses!”
“Hiss, how did we never notice he was that kind of person before?”
“He hid it too well, huh? Good thing he was caught today… uh, seems like he wasn’t actually caught.”
“So those two Uchihas were here investigating the case.”
“Speaking of which, that ‘Plague God’ doesn’t seem as scary as the rumors say. Isn’t there talk that he kills wherever he goes? But we’re all still alive, right…”
“…”
Amid the whispering crowd, they temporarily forgot to hurry over and bury Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s coffin.
Until a Sarutobi Clan ninja walked over with a dark face.
He furrowed his brows, first glanced at Yamada Binjiro’s corpse, and muttered: “That Uchiha guessed right again.”
He was referring to Uchiha Ikeizumi’s 100% case-solving rate.
Then, the Sarutobi Clan ninja reminded the funeral home crowd: “Isn’t it time to bury him?”
The Konoha Funeral Home crowd finally reacted.
……
On the other side, when Uchiha Ikeizumi walked out of the Konoha Public Cemetery, an orange ninja cat hurriedly appeared in front of him.
“Lord Ikeizumi, ‘Coward Eyes’ is looking for you meow!”
Kijiro said rapidly.
“…Coward Eyes?” Izumi behind Uchiha Ikeizumi was stunned.
Kijiro said: “That’s Uchiha Fugaku! It’s a nickname Lord Ikeizumi gave Uchiha Fugaku a long time ago. I think it was seven or eight years ago?”
Izumi was astounded.
Clan Head Fugaku…
Was he really that cowardly?
……
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