Fugaku wished for a moment that his hearing had failed him rather than Uchiha Chisen harboring such a dangerous thought.
"I wanted to kill Lord Hokage but couldn't find a suitable opportunity!"
Was that something one could say so brazenly in broad daylight?
Even Fugaku, a man of steady temperament, nearly lost his composure.
And at this moment.
Many members of the Uchiha Military Police Force arrived one after another.
They blocked all the intersections, leaving Uchiha Onigawara no chance to escape.
They also turned their vigilant gazes towards the two figures in front of them.
But when they discovered Uchiha Chisen was also present.
They all visibly froze.
"Uchiha Chisen? He... isn't he related to Uchiha Onigawara? If I recall correctly, he's his nephew?"
A member of the Uchiha Military Police Force murmured in astonishment.
...
Uchiha Onigawara was as shocked as Fugaku.
He believed that as Uchiha Chisen's blood relative, he understood Uchiha Chisen's extreme personality very well.
Only now did he realize...
His understanding of Uchiha Chisen was ultimately too superficial.
This kid was beyond extreme!
He dared to kill ninjas of the Uchiha Clan, he dared to kill his own blood relative, and he dared to kill the Hokage himself!
In this vast ninja world...
Who was there that he didn't dare to kill?
The pain from his ten fingers, which felt as if they were all connected to his heart, had blurred Uchiha Onigawara's vision. With every step Uchiha Chisen took forward, he stumbled back.
Uchiha Onigawara suddenly bared his teeth in a sinister grin, his tone turning fierce. "...Chisen, to be honest, isn't your so-called [Absolute Justice] just an excuse for you to kill? Besides, you haven't killed any fewer people in Konoha than I have, have you? You and I are actually the same! We are blood relatives! We are both bloodthirsty!"
"Chisen! Sooner or later, your mask will be torn off! Sooner or later, you will become exactly like me! No, you will become even more extreme than me! This is the destiny dictated by the Uchiha bloodline that flows through both of us!"
Uchiha Onigawara's vision was instantly consumed by rolling lava.
With his ten fingers melted by the lava, he was powerless to resist.
The distance between them had closed so much that he didn't even have a chance to dodge.
"Chisen! I'll be waiting for you in the underworld!!!"
—BOOM!!!
The body, whose head had vanished, instantly lost all strength.
It collapsed straight backward.
Uchiha Onigawara.
Dead!
[Ding! You have successfully killed a "Red Name" villain! Your Chakra has received a small increase! Congratulations, you have successfully dropped: "Sharingan Eye Power possessed by Uchiha Onigawara"!]
Uchiha Chisen's lava-formed arms had returned to normal.
He stood still, his eyes closed, silently rooted to the spot.
He could clearly feel a power within his eyes being rapidly absorbed, digested, and integrated into his own Sharingan power.
This transformation lasted only two seconds before ending.
In the eyes of outsiders...
He was silently standing there, having just killed his own blood relative who had fallen into the abyss of evil.
...
"This guy..." An Uchiha Clan ninja thought about stepping forward to check the situation but hesitated. "For his so-called [Absolute Justice], he actually killed his blood relative?"
A police force ninja remained silent for half a second before slowly saying in a low voice, "It is said that Uchiha Onigawara was Uchiha Chisen's only living blood relative."
"This..."
"No wonder they call him a once-in-a-decade genius of the Uchiha Clan. With such potential, won't he awaken the legendary Mangekyo Sharingan someday?"
"He seems to be closing his eyes... Hey, hey, I remember he has three tomoe. Is he really going to awaken it?"
"No way..."
"Tch, that [Absolute Justice] he kept muttering about wasn't just talk. Uchiha Onigawara tried to shake Uchiha Chisen's ninja path before he died. I guess he was overthinking it. How could someone like that be shaken?"
"..."
In the brief lull of the crowd's hushed whispers, Izumi, with Kijiro in tow, arrived in a hurried manner.
She braced her knees with her hands, panting, her small face pale.
"Meow, Lord Chisen really went against his own kin for the greater good..."
Izumi suddenly heard Kijiro on her shoulder speaking with a tone of shock.
She quickly looked up and saw Senior Chisen standing quietly before a headless corpse.
A bit of lava was still flowing on the ground ahead.
She exclaimed in shock, "That... that corpse, could it be...?"
Kijiro replied, "It's Uchiha Onigawara. The corpse's head is nowhere to be seen, and the neck looks charred and carbonized. No need to guess, he was definitely killed by Lord Chisen's Lava Release, meow."
"Meow, this was Lord Chisen's only blood relative. Now, Lord Chisen is truly alone in the world."
Izumi pursed her lips.
"Senior Chisen, is he in a lot of pain right now?"
She murmured.
Izumi couldn't imagine what kind of feelings she would have if she had to kill her own blood relative.
Sadness?
Pain?
Regret?
Grief?
"Ah—" She hastily wiped her damp eyes. As soon as she turned her head, she was met with Kijiro's disdainful gaze.
"Newbie, your empathy is too strong. It's a good thing Lord Chisen didn't look this way, or you would have lost points, meow."
Izumi quietly retorted, "But... perhaps only those with strong empathy can truly feel how hard-won justice and fairness are."
She took a deep breath. While the surrounding Military Police Force ninjas, including Fugaku, hadn't taken a step forward, She voluntarily walked towards Uchiha Chisen.
"...Senior Chisen?" Izumi approached Uchiha Chisen, gathering her courage to remind him.
"Newbie, you've come at the perfect time."
She noticed that Senior Chisen's tone held no sadness; it was as calm as ever, as if he had become numb.
Uchiha Chisen asked, "What lesson is this that I taught you?"
Izumi quickly straightened her posture and replied, "The fourth lesson! No matter how others commit evil under the guise of noble excuses, you must unswervingly uphold Absolute Justice! Even if..."
Her memory was excellent.
She could remember everything Senior Chisen said after hearing it just once.
Izumi's voice lowered slightly with emotion, but then she thought of how no one around her had ever understood the justice Senior Chisen believed in. She immediately raised her voice and shouted, "Even if you have to wield the blade of justice against those you know best and are closest to!"
"You must do so without hesitation! You must strike without indulgence!"
"You must execute justice with absolute and thorough methods!!!"
"To thereby purge the evil of the ninja world!!!"
Uchiha Chisen glanced at Izumi, whose small face had turned slightly red from shouting, then turned to Uchiha Fugaku not far away and said, "The rest is for you to handle."
Fugaku's ears were still echoing with the girl's resolute and decisive shouts.
He looked at Uchiha Chisen and Izumi with complex emotions.
Chisen had finally passed on his "ninja way" to the new generation!
But, could the "evil" of the ninja world truly be purged?
—Chisen, as long as there are people, evil will continuously breed! You know this better than anyone, right?
Fugaku didn't voice this thought.
But he knew that after today, many people within the Uchiha Clan would likely have a changed perception of Chisen.
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