"It's the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan Genjutsu! Don't look him in the eye!"
A cry of alarm rang out, and in their haste the remaining seven Kumogakure ninja quickly retreated, lowering their heads and avoiding eye contact with Yun.
Pfft!
Yun pulled out his long sword, and a jet of blood burst from the Kumogakure captain's chest.
The Kumogakure captain, whose heart had been pierced, glared at Yun and struggled to stammer, "His... is not... an ordinary... Sharingan..."
Bang!
With his final words spoken and the intelligence he had gathered revealed, he collapsed to the ground, lifeless.
Yun shook his head slightly. Aside from Susanoo, Mangekyō abilities rarely overlapped.
With just this information, could the enemy really understand the rules behind Kotomu?
"Shimura clan member, can you still move?"
The question sounded, and Shimura Ken, who had collapsed beside his teammate's corpse, struggled to stand.
"Thank you for the rescue... I... can still move. Do you need help?"
Looking at the trembling man, who was clearly out of chakra, Yun twitched his lips.
"Find somewhere to hide. These guys are easy for me, but if they target you and try to take you down with them, then you'll just be damn unlucky."
Shimura Ken was stunned.
Although this Uchiha had indeed killed the enemy captain in a single strike, it had clearly been a surprise attack, and the captain had already been injured by his Wind-style, right?
After not returning to battlefield for several years... were the Uchiha still this arrogant?
Ignoring the peripheral member of the Shimura clan behind him, Uchiha Yun looked at the remaining enemies.
His figure flickered.
Swish!
Bang!
With a single downward strike, Yun slammed his long sword down with immense force, directly forcing a Kumogakure ninja to his knees.
The surrounding Kumogakure ninja rushed forward to rescue him, but Yun's left hand gathered chakra instantly.
A sphere formed.
Rasengan.
Boom!!!
"The second one."
The enemy was blasted away by the spiralling force and instantly lost the ability to move.
Before the others could surround him, Yun disappeared from his position once again.
"This Uchiha bastard is too fast! And that ninjutsu without hand signs, combined with his speed, leaves no time to react!"
"That's the Fourth Hokage's Rasengan! A ninjutsu without hand signs combined with the Yellow Flash's speed, it's impossible to deal with!"
"What should we do? I think I made eye contact with him earlier while trying to save someone. I've never seen a Sharingan like that."
The Kumogakure ninja who spoke suddenly froze.
His body would not move.
The next moment, the teammates who had been standing beside him slowly began to change their appearance.
They became enemies.
"You just said you... made eye contact with my eyes?"
Yun's voice echoed through space, omnipresent like a god.
In the Kumogakure ninja's vision, every teammate had transformed into Yun.
Even the surrounding trees, flowers, and grass began to change.
"Never make eye contact with an Uchiha's Sharingan. That is an iron rule of the battlefield. You made a mistake..."
From the Kumogakure ninja's shoulder, a head resembling Uchiha Yun slowly emerged.
A pair of crimson Mangekyō stared directly at him.
"Ah!!!"
Amid a frenzied roar, blood suddenly erupted from his neck.
The scream faded.
Clutching his throat, the Kumogakure ninja collapsed to the ground, slowly dying.
"The third one."
...
In the real world, witnessing another teammate killed instantly by genjutsu, the remaining five Kumogakure ninja were already gripped by fear.
They were merely an ordinary reconnaissance squad. Without their captain, knowing only the iron rule of avoiding eye contact was far from enough to survive against the Sharingan.
"What do we do? In this situation, we have no chance of winning!"
"That special Sharingan, I've seen records of it in the village. It's the same kind of eye as the ancient Uchiha ancestor, the one that can summon a chakra giant. There's no mistake."
"The Uchiha ancestor... the one who stood alongside Senju Hashirama during the Warring States Era, the First Hokage. How can we fight against such eyes?"
"Fight? I'm more worried about how to retreat!"
"Scatter and run. If even one of us escapes, it's worth it."
"No! We can't scatter! This place isn't far from the base! You all run; I'll cover the rear!"
As the words fell, the other four looked toward the older ninja who had spoken.
"What are you staring at? This old man has been a chūnin for over ten years. This is as far as I'll ever go in life."
The Kumogakure old man's gaze gradually hardened.
"I'm just an old geezer who survived several times by luck. You're different. You're young, the future of Kumogakure."
He paused briefly.
"Actually... I for one here hate wars. Take care of Romu for me, and tell that kid not to avenge me."
"Now go!!!"
With a final roar, the old man formed hand signs rapidly, lightning chakra surging into his long sword.
Without hesitation, the remaining four Kumogakure ninja nodded with tears in their eyes, accepting his dying wish before instantly disappearing.
Now alone, the old man stood covering the rear.
Lightning chakra surged across his entire body like a cloak.
Enduring the numbing pain spreading through his body, he slowly raised his head and looked directly at Uchiha Yun.
"This ability, imbuing my entire body with lightning using Lightning-style chakra, burns me because I can't fully control it."
"But like this, with my chakra network constantly disrupted by lightning, your genjutsu will no longer work."
"And my speed... should now be able to keep up with yours."
Yun showed no urgency.
Instead, he observed the old man calmly.
"This isn't the Lightning Style Chakra Mode. Did you develop it yourself?"
"Even though this lets you resist my genjutsu and boosts your speed through lightning stimulation, you'll burn yourself to death soon even if we don't fight."
The Kumogakure old ninja smiled.
"As long as I delay you long enough for them to reach the base, then this useless old man won't die in vain."
"Is that so?"
Yun sighed softly.
"So... why did Kumogakure start such a war?"
As his words fell, Yun's Mangekyō Sharingan slowly rotated.
Kotomu.
Swish!
In the next instant, Yun disappeared.
Pfft!
The old man, who had just raised his weapon confidently, was pierced through the heart by Yun's blade.
Shock filled his eyes.
He had clearly seen the trajectory of the sword.
So why hadn't he blocked it?
It was as if the opponent had seen the future.
As if his own chest had collided with the blade on purpose.
Such a terrifying ability...
Why?
"The fourth one."
Uchiha Yun pulled out his sword and sighed again.
"This is war… Whether you like it or not, killing every enemy becomes the only objective."
"Kumogakure's higher-ups started this war to satisfy their own ambitions... yet you, a mid-level ninja, clearly hate war."
"What a great irony."
With those words, Yun disappeared once more, beginning his pursuit.
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