Chapter 88: No Distinction Of Status Before Absolute Justice
When Uchiha Ikeizumi pulled his arm out, Nan Wu’s eyes had already lost their luster. He collapsed limply to the ground, with a huge hole almost severing his torso on his chest.
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s expression showed no change. This member of the Twelve Guardian Shinobi, he felt, was not as strong as Root’s elite jonin.
Then his gaze fell on the group ahead, now only showing their backs.
Yes.
At the instant Nan Wu attacked Uchiha Ikeizumi, a strong desire for survival made the vassals hurriedly take Goyuen Kyusuke and flee.
In just this short moment, they had already run over a hundred meters away, and the group was shouting loudly for help.
“Murder! Murder! There’s an assassin trying to assassinate the envoy sent by the Daimyo to Konoha Village! Someone come quickly!!!”
“Uchiha Clan ninja has gone mad! He’s trying to assassinate the Daimyo’s Son!”
“Where are all the Konoha ninjas? Hurry and come save us!”
“Where’s the Hokage? Where’s Konoha’s Hokage?!”
“…”
The shouting vassals appeared extremely terrified and panicked.
They clustered Goyuen Kyusuke tightly in the middle of the crowd.
Trying to protect the Daimyo’s Son in this way.
“Madman… he’s simply mad…”
Goyuen Kyusuke was drenched in cold sweat, his young face pale as death.
While being pushed and shoved by the vassals in a hasty escape, he muttered with trembling lips: “He… how dare he… I’m the Daimyo’s Son! Even Konoha’s Hokage has to treat me as an honored guest. A mere Uchiha ninja… how dare he…”
Goyuen Kyusuke racked his brains and could only come to one conclusion.
—Encountered a madman!!!
Suddenly.
Goyuen Kyusuke stunnedly discovered a head thrown high into the air, appearing in his left field of vision.
Immediately after, another head appeared in his right field of vision.
He recognized the owners of these two heads at a glance.
These were his two vassals!
When he panicked and hastily looked back during his escape, he was instantly scared out of his wits—two headless corpses’ necks were spurting blood over two meters high. Uchiha Ikeizumi, holding a ninja sword, stood between the two headless corpses, his ninja sword blade covered in bright red blood!
Especially that pair of scarlet three-tomoe Sharingan, as if able to evoke the most fearful emotions in the human heart.
And it was at the instant Goyuen Kyusuke’s terrified gaze collided with Uchiha Ikeizumi’s Sharingan gaze.
Illusion Technique…
It began.
“Waaahhhh!!!” Goyuen Kyusuke’s shrill scream, even sharper than a woman’s, burst from his mouth. His feet tangled and tripped himself, leading to a hard fall flat on the ground.
It scared the nearby vassals into stopping to help.
They were shocked to find Goyuen Kyusuke slumped on the ground.
His face full of fear and breakdown, shouting and yelling at the empty air ahead.
“Don’t come over! Don’t come over! It wasn’t me who set the fire! I just sent people to set it! I… I didn’t know the fire would get out of control, I didn’t know it would burn you to death!”
“You… you all died long ago, didn’t you?”
“Don’t come over aaaahhh!!!”
His frenzied, terrified, and despairing state was like he had gone insane, or as if seeing something they couldn’t see.
It made the remaining vassals hair stand on end.
It was the first time they saw Goyuen Kyusuke, this Daimyo’s Son, scared to the point of tears and snot flowing out at the same time.
And…
When a stench of urine filled the air.
“Kyusuke… he, he seems…” A vassal muttered dazedly: “… to have been scared into incontinence!!!”
…
For some reason.
Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly had an ominous premonition, especially realizing he was about to meet the Daimyo’s envoy, that strange feeling grew stronger, until his heart began to feel uneasy.
Several possibilities immediately popped into his mind.
—The funding the Land of Fire allocates to Konoha next year will be greatly reduced.
—The Daimyo is preparing to hire Konoha ninjas for a very tricky mission.
—Goyuen Kyusuke, the second son of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, might not be a polite young man, and meeting him might not be particularly pleasant.
—The Daimyo’s envoy encountered an accident!
Sarutobi Hiruzen was suddenly startled, a name flashed through his mind.
“Ikeizumi!”
He finally realized what he had overlooked.
The Daimyo’s envoy wouldn’t have run into Ikeizumi, right? That young man shouldn’t have done evil, right? After all, as the second son of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, he basically has everything he wants. As for doing evil?
But Sarutobi Hiruzen’s face grew even stiffer.
Because he knew those thoughts were just him comforting himself.
He knew very well that those pampered magnates never put the law in their eyes from beginning to end.
Land of Fire Law…
Is just for restricting ordinary people.
“Follow me closely!” Sarutobi Hiruzen said tensely to the two Anbu guards beside him. The next second, he vanished from the spot. When he reappeared, he had body flickered dozens of meters away.
The Anbu guards immediately followed closely.
Soon, Sarutobi Hiruzen saw a group of people gathered in the distance ahead. Based on the location reported earlier by that Konoha ninja, the group ahead should be the envoy sent by the Daimyo.
And at this moment, the taut string in Sarutobi Hiruzen’s heart snapped, and the heavy stone hanging in his heart sank to the bottom.
Because he saw Uchiha Ikeizumi!
His old face suddenly darkened greatly.
“…This is bad!” When he saw Uchiha Ikeizumi holding a ninja sword, Sarutobi Hiruzen’s last sliver of hope that “maybe Ikeizumi just happened to pass by” was completely extinguished.
Sarutobi Hiruzen panicked instantly.
“Ikeizumi! Stop!!!”
He tried to shout to stop him.
Pfft—Clearly hundreds of meters away, but Sarutobi Hiruzen felt like he heard the hallucination of a blade severing a head. He even saw from afar a young man beheaded by Uchiha Ikeizumi with one stroke! Judging by that young man’s luxurious attire completely different from the others, he was most likely the Daimyo’s Son!
Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned.
He was completely dumbfounded, even his rapidly charging footsteps stopped. His whole body petrified on the spot like struck by lightning.
“…Hokage?” An Anbu guard swallowed hard and couldn’t help asking.
Sarutobi Hiruzen didn’t respond.
His expression was dazed.
“That’s…” An inexplicable pang of anger and pain gripped his heart, making Sarutobi Hiruzen’s figure blur. A hoarse, dry voice came from his throat: “That’s the second son of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire!”
“What… is he doing!!!”
…
“Meow, rookie, this is what I meant. In Senior Ikeizumi’s eyes, so-called magnates have no privileges. The 「Absolute Justice」 Senior Ikeizumi believes in won’t grant special amnesty to magnates.”
Kijiro said to Senior Izumi: “Whether ordinary people, ninjas, nobles, or even the Daimyo’s Son. In Senior Ikeizumi’s eyes, they are all people. People who commit crimes must pay the price.”
“And this guy called ‘Goyuen Kyusuke’ has committed sins in the past that can’t be redeemed by just imprisoning him for a few decades. Death is 「Justice」’s judgment on his crimes.”
Senior Izumi had already made some mental preparation.
But at this moment, she was still somewhat dumbfounded.
After all… the villain’s identity was too special. Senior Izumi had lived this long without ever seeing the magnate class of the Land of Fire outside Konoha. The most noble person she had seen was the Hokage.
But thinking about it, Senior Ikeizumi had even killed the Hokage’s eldest son, so what was a Daimyo’s Son?
“That…”
Senior Izumi doubtfully turned back to look behind: “Senior Kijiro, did you just hear someone behind shouting ‘stop’?”
Kijiro said without turning his head: “I heard it. It’s the Third Hokage’s voice. He personally witnessed Senior Ikeizumi kill the Daimyo’s Son.”
Senior Izumi suddenly realized: “So it’s the Hokage…”
“…Eh?!”
She said shocked: “The Hokage? He saw everything!?”
…
Drip…
Drip…
Drop by drop of bright red blood slid down the blade to the tip, then dripped to the ground, splashing into blood flowers.
Goyuen Kyusuke’s head had already fallen to the ground and rolled a few times. The face on the head was frozen in unresolved terror, with a trace of astonishment still lingering in the lifeless eyes.
The headless body swayed left and right on the spot, then lost all support and collapsed softly.
Blood spurted from the neck, splattering the ground full of blood.
【Ding! You successfully killed a “Red Name” villain! Your chakra gains a small boost! Congratulations, you successfully obtained: “Gambling” experience book×10!】
“Kyusuke… Kyusuke!!!”
Accompanied by an incredulous shrill scream, a vassal hurriedly rushed forward, anxiously picking up Goyuen Kyusuke’s head, trying to put it back on the headless body.
Another vassal, eyes wide with rage, pointed tremblingly at Uchiha Ikeizumi and shouted: “You you you… do you know what you’ve done?!”
“Kyusuke is the second son of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire! He’s one of the highest-status people in the Land of Fire! He’s the son the Daimyo dearly loves! He’s one of the Daimyo’s sons most likely to become the next Daimyo of the Land of Fire!!”
“You… why did you lay a poisonous hand on Kyusuke? Is your Konoha Village rebelling!?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi lightly flicked his wrist.
The blood on the ninja sword was flung off.
He said expressionlessly: “The one executing justice on villains is me, not Konoha. What illusion makes you think I’m doing this for Konoha, to execute this villain on the spot.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s eyes were very calm, as if what he killed wasn’t the Daimyo’s Son, but just an insignificant pest in the Ninja World.
His indifferent voice continued: “Arson, direct murder, indirect murder, dumping corpses… one crime after another upon him. If he doesn’t die, justice cannot be upheld.”
“Madman… you’re a madman!”
A vassal shouted in breakdown and rage: “Even if the so-called crimes you mention are true, you’re not qualified to execute Kyusuke! The Daimyo’s heirs hold the highest authority in the Land of Fire! So what if he killed? So what if he committed arson?”
“Land of Fire Law clearly states! Land of Fire nobles who violate the law have exemption and amnesty rights! For the minor mistakes Kyusuke made due to immaturity, at most a short confinement!”
“You… how can you kill him, what right do you have to kill him? You Konoha ninjas are all mad!!!”
“I don’t know if other Konoha ninjas are mad, but Senior Ikeizumi is the type with absolute reason!” Senior Izumi gritted her teeth and stepped forward, saying to the collapsed vassal: “Moreover, the so-called Land of Fire Law is a weak and nauseating law to begin with!”
A trace of anger appeared on Senior Izumi’s fair little face. She didn’t know why she was so angry.
Especially upon hearing “Land of Fire nobles who violate the law have exemption and amnesty rights.”
Senior Izumi couldn’t suppress the anger surging in her heart at all.
Her voice gradually grew louder: “You ask what right Senior Ikeizumi has to kill this villain, then I ask what right the Land of Fire Law has to amnesty criminal nobles?”
“I see, now I understand… it’s because of this unfair existence that so many evildoers in the Ninja World escape the law, even becoming a terrifying inertial consensus.”
“On behalf of Senior, I tell you! 「Absolute Justice」 will never be restricted by Land of Fire Law from beginning to end! 「Absolute Justice」 won’t bow to any specially privileged magnates!”
“Before 「Absolute Justice」, there is no distinction of nobility! People who do evil must pay the price! Once justice is absent, someone must stand up to uphold justice for the victims!”
“You supporters of the evil of the Ninja World are the least qualified insects to question 「Absolute Justice」!”
The Uchiha girl who had said so much in one breath had her voice become somewhat hoarse.
At this moment, she also suddenly came back to her senses—she seemed to have arbitrarily said some things for Senior that he might not want to say.
She carefully lifted her head to look at Senior’s profile.
She found Senior’s expression showed no abnormality.
Senior Izumi suddenly realized—Senior was just too lazy to waste words on these insects that wouldn’t listen anyway.
But Senior Izumi felt it was her duty to say these words for Senior.
Because…
These words weren’t for the supporters of the evil of the Ninja World, but for the surrounding Konoha residents!
This way, more people could understand Senior’s Absolute Justice.
The girl immediately convinced herself in her heart.
“Meow, quite the talker, rookie.” Kijiro glanced at the stunned group ahead and said to Senior Izumi: “You’re getting closer to the passing line in Senior Ikeizumi’s heart.”
“Eh? Really?” The anger in Senior Izumi’s heart instantly dissipated, her tone suddenly tinged with a bit of secret delight.
She scratched her head sheepishly: “Feels okay, I just said what was on my mind…”
Kijiro gave a half-moon eye expression and retorted: “Hurry and control your mouth, meow.”
…
At this moment, figures instantly appeared in front of everyone.
It was Sarutobi Hiruzen and a group of Anbu ninjas who had arrived.
Actually, Sarutobi Hiruzen had come back to his senses five minutes ago.
But upon realizing it was Uchiha Ikeizumi ahead, he forcibly suppressed the impulse to rush over and question him—because he had only brought two Anbu guards.
With so few people, Sarutobi Hiruzen lacked the confidence to confront Uchiha Ikeizumi directly.
The previous lesson was Shimura Danzo!
Even though Sarutobi Hiruzen believed he had no so-called evil on him.
He still had someone send a signal to gather nearby Anbu ninjas, and only when over a dozen Anbu ninjas arrived did Sarutobi Hiruzen bring the group to the scene.
The headless corpse on the ground, and the two distant headless corpses, all entered his sight.
Making Sarutobi Hiruzen’s eyelids twitch wildly.
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