Chapter 2: The First Lesson in Executing [Justice]
Uchiha Chisen looked back and saw a girl with long, straight black hair standing behind him with a hesitant expression.
"Senior Chisen, I... I..."
Izumi suddenly stammered. Uchiha Chisen's gaze made her involuntarily nervous.
She could muster the courage to talk to other seniors, even Patriarch Fugaku.
But in front of this "Uchiha Chisen" senior, she was so nervous she didn't know what to say!
"Speak."
Uchiha Chisen spoke.
Izumi jolted and quickly introduced herself, "My name is Uchiha Izumi! I participated in this year's Konoha Military Police Force recruitment assessment. When Patriarch Fugaku told me to choose an examiner, I... I chose you, Senior Chisen, as my examiner."
However, facing the sharp, scrutinizing gaze of this Konoha Military Police Force senior, her voice grew softer and softer.
In the end, she didn't even dare to look up and meet Uchiha Chisen's eyes.
"Examiner? Me?"
Uchiha Chisen looked at the girl and evaluated expressionlessly, "Although you look very frail, you at least have commendable courage."
Uchiha Chisen forced a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes. "Passing my assessment is also very simple. Within a month, don't give me any reason to kill you, and you'll pass."
"Oh, wait a moment, a rat is trying to escape."
Izumi: "???"
Huh?
As Izumi was bewildered, she was shocked to see Uchiha Chisen suddenly draw the ninja sword at his waist.
The ninja sword flashed a silver arc in the air, and a splash of scarlet blood entered Izumi's sight.
The next second.
She watched with her own eyes as a short man suddenly fell to the ground.
—The man's left leg had been severed!
"Ahhhhh!!!"
The short man's piercing screams and the smell of blood filling the air were stimulating Izumi's psychological tolerance.
She instinctively took half a step back.
Her forehead was sweating with nervousness.
"Uchiha Izumi." Uchiha Chisen flicked the blood off his sword.
"Ah?" Izumi, who was worried the man on the ground might bleed to death, quickly looked up in alarm.
Uchiha Chisen frowned. "When I call your name, you must answer 'Here'."
"Oh... ah, Here!"
Izumi flusteredly corrected herself.
"Speaking so softly and you want to join the Konoha Military Police Force?" Uchiha Chisen said coldly. "I can't hear what you're saying at all. Is this the resolve you have to join the Konoha Military Police Force? Can someone like you protect the word [Justice]? Why don't you just go home and be a good girl!"
Patriarch Fugaku was right, Senior Chisen was really strict. She was scolded severely on their first meeting.
Izumi could only muster all her strength.
Her small face turned red.
"HERE!!!!"
Seeing the coldness in the senior's eyes soften slightly, Izumi finally relaxed a little.
"Um..." Izumi hesitated.
"Speak."
She quickly reminded him, "Senior, if the person on the ground isn't treated quickly, he might die from blood loss."
"How much longer can he live?" Uchiha Chisen asked calmly, a question that surprised Izumi.
She replied quickly, "He might go into shock within 10 minutes."
"There's plenty of time." Uchiha Chisen said to Izumi, "Rookie, I have a mission for you."
Izumi swallowed nervously. "Senior, I haven't learned any medical ninjutsu. How about... we take him to Konoha Hospital?"
Uchiha Chisen glanced at her. "Who said I wanted you to treat him?"
"Ah?" Izumi forgot how many times she had been bewildered today.
She stammered, "Senior means..."
Uchiha Chisen handed over the ninja sword, and Izumi instinctively reached out to take it.
Uchiha Chisen said with a completely impassive face, "Prove your resolve to join the Konoha Military Police Force. Take this sword and interrogate this guy. Ask him—where are the child's remains. You only have ten minutes. If you can't get the answer, then you can go home. Don't bother coming to see me tomorrow."
Interro...
Interrogation?
Izumi was stunned. She couldn't help but look around; this was one of Konoha village's busiest streets. Her gaze swept over the surroundings, and she couldn't even count how many people were on this street!
To openly interrogate a civilian whose leg had been severed, right here?
And why interrogate him about the "child's corpse"?
Was this the usual style of the Konoha Military Police Force? Or was this just the personal way of doing things of Senior Uchiha Chisen?
She tried to sneak a glance at Uchiha Chisen's eyes.
She found that the senior's eyes were gradually becoming colder.
Izumi was suddenly startled.
The reminders from Patriarch Fugaku and that senior female officer flashed through her mind.
—"Don't defy his orders if you want to live."
—"Good luck. Sometimes, surviving is also a matter of luck."
Izumi was scared.
She gripped the ninja sword, its hilt still warm, and cold sweat beaded on her fair, white forehead.
A strong will to survive made her take a few steps forward. She interrogated the short man, who was wailing and clutching his severed leg: "You... where did you hide that child's corpse?!"
A flicker of panic crossed the short man's eyes, filled with pain and despair.
"Quick... take me to Konoha Hospital, ahhhh!"
He didn't answer Izumi's unconvincing interrogation. Instead, he yelled in panic, "My head is getting dizzier and dizzier, and I'm bleeding more and more. Am I going to die? Save me quickly, I don't want to die! Quick... save me quickly!!!"
I don't want to die either—this was Izumi's cry from the bottom of her heart.
"Where did you hide the child's corpse?"
Izumi tried to calm herself. She believed that Senior Chisen wouldn't have asked her to inquire about this for no reason. She said repeatedly, "Only if you answer this question quickly can I send you to Konoha Hospital. You don't have much time!"
The short man continued to yell in panic, "I don't know about any child, I don't know anything! Please, save me!"
"Senior..."
Izumi wanted to cast a pleading look at Uchiha Chisen, but she found that the senior was standing with his arms crossed, watching coldly.
She couldn't read the slightest emotion from those indifferent eyes.
She suddenly had a suffocating illusion.
This feeling...
Izumi was familiar with it.
During the Nine-Tails Night years ago, when she encountered that massive Nine-Tails monster, she had experienced the same feeling—a desperate, suffocating sense that her life was about to end!
Izumi's will to survive once again overpowered her sympathy. She hardened her heart, grabbed the ninja sword, and pressed it against the short man's neck. Gritting her teeth, she said, "Last chance! Where is the child's corpse!"
The sharp blade had already drawn a bloodline on the short man's neck.
The short man's eyes widened in terror. The dull pain in his neck flustered him. "I... I didn't mean to... I didn't want to kill her. You have to believe me! You really have to believe me! She... she's my daughter after all..."
"I was just playing with her. I... I didn't expect her to die... I threw her in the old well in the yard."
Izumi was stunned.
The short man's fragmented words revealed information that shocked her body and soul—the man Senior Chisen had ordered her to interrogate in public had actually killed his own daughter! And he had thrown his daughter's corpse into an old well!
This was a murderer!
"Rookie. This is your first lesson in carrying out [Justice] as part of the Konoha Military Police Force," Uchiha Chisen's voice slowly sounded from behind Izumi. "—Always carry out the orders I give you."
"Without question."
"Irresistible."
"Without error."
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