Atop a mess of ruins.
Uchiha Setsuna clenched his fists, and his eyes shot out two gleams of coldness as piercing as bone-chilling ice. He turned to look at Moloy, Lamie, and Dodai, the three Kumogakure ninja.
There had never been a moment when he felt such unforgettable pain!
He was the Great Elder of Uchiha, the eagle that flew freely in the sky!
He was also the handsome, respected figure that the young eaglets in the clan yearned for!
But now,
Right here,
He could only watch the young eaglet that would surely break through the clouds, carry the blue sky, and soar ninety thousand miles (idiom: achieve greatness).
Use its own flesh and blood to carve out a miserable escape route for him.
The three tomoe in Uchiha Setsuna's Sharingan eyes rotated rapidly, almost connecting into a dark line, turning into a new pattern.
But,
That was all.
Uchiha Setsuna suddenly understood clearly and painfully that he was not a gifted person like Uchiha Kagami.
He did not have the qualifications to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Therefore, he could only stare with a pair of ball-like eyes, countless blood vessels densely packing the whites.
His eyes were red, like a demon's!
A line of bloody tears quietly slid down his cheek.
Uchiha Setsuna closed his eyes in pain, but in the darkness, countless figures of elders who had passed away appeared.
Uchiha Tajima, Madara, Izuna, Kagami...
One after another, figures and a human wall formed by Uchiha stood before Uchiha Setsuna.
They were silent, they were numb, their canthi wide with pairs of scarlet eyes.
Their lips, teeth, and even their faces were trembling.
Just looking at him like this, feeling resentful, angry, and scolding—
Why, from the Warring States Period to the present, was the one who had survived all the way such a mediocre waste like him?!
Uchiha Setsuna suddenly opened his eyes, without any hesitation in them.
His eyes were like lightning, and he glanced at the three Kumogakure ninja with a pair of Sharingan eyes dripping with blood and tears.
Uchiha Setsuna suddenly raised his head.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
He was clearly laughing, but his laughter was filled with a heart-wrenching pain that felt like a fingernail being torn off.
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Uchiha Ci! As the Great Elder of the Uchiha clan, the leader of the hawk faction, and your godfather!"
"I recognize your will!"
Uchiha Setsuna roared angrily and furiously:
"Go to hell!"
"Have no worries; just die here happily!"
Inside the barrier, Uchiha Ci's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but look at Uchiha Setsuna.
He was afraid this old man would get too emotional, refuse to run away, and stage a life-and-death drama with him here.
He had done it to this point; this old man must not act stupidly!
Damn it, just run away if you can't win. Isn't that simple?
However,
Uchiha Setsuna raised his long sword and pointed it at the Kumogakure ninja, his eyes as cold as an eternal iceberg.
He promised sternly:
"Don't worry, I'll run away like a stray dog!"
"But these three people!"
"I will bear the eternal wrath of the Uchiha clan!"
"From now on, I will use the strength of the entire clan to hunt down these three people!"
"Wind, Fire, Earth, Water, and Lightning—the Daimyo's courts and Ninja Villages of the Five Great Nations will all receive a permanent bounty mission simultaneously!"
"Besides, the underground money exchange will always have a bounty on their heads!"
"The big and small organizations in the ninja world: Star ninja, Waterfall ninja, Grass ninja, Rain ninja, Hot Water ninja (Yu), kunoichi, Land of Iron, Ryūdōin, Akatsuki, Fūma clan, Mōri, Hayashi, Hannya clan, Kagero..."
"All forces and all organizations!"
"Everyone will know—"
Uchiha Setsuna's eyes were crazy for a moment, his eyes about to burst, his tone cold and hard as if chewing nails:
"One of your heads is worth one hundred million ryō!"
Every word was heartfelt!
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Lamie couldn't help but tremble all over, a look of panic on his face.
"Uchiha Setsuna, are you crazy?!"
"Are you going to break the unspoken rules of the ninja world?!"
"This is simply a recipe for death!"
When Dodai and Moloy heard Uchiha Setsuna's words, their foreheads buzzed as if hit by a hammer.
Crazy!
All crazy!
The little one is crazy!
The old thing went crazy too!
In the chain of hatred in the ninja world, every family and every village had endured piercing hatred and pain, but openly, no one, and no one dared to do what Uchiha Setsuna was doing.
At most, they could anonymously post a bounty at an underground money exchange.
The truth was very simple. If you kill my son, I'll hang your head on my wall—there was nothing wrong with that.
But such behavior would undoubtedly intensify conflicts, allow the war to continue endlessly, and destroy villages and countries. Of course, the ninja villages of various countries would restrict such behavior.
However, the Uchiha clan was different.
As one of the only two strongest families from the Warring States Period, Uchiha had the ability to bypass the Ninja Village mission system and submit this vendetta to various organizations.
Although no one had ever done this, Uchiha did have the connections to pull it off, like using a Gundam to hack the system. (Idiom: use overwhelming force/means)
However, although the surface bounty might be 300 million, the actual cost might exceed 1 billion. This kind of expense also meant that organizations in the ninja world could only sigh, feeling helpless and furious.
Just to kill three people, the entire clan's assets would have to be sold off, forcing the whole clan to tighten their belts and live frugally.
How could the ninja clan continue to develop?
However, Uchiha was different!
Uchiha was rich, very rich!
Such consumption would not harm their foundation.
Moreover, the hawks in the Uchiha clan were a bunch of lunatics and would probably be very happy to donate money from their own pockets to pay for such bounties.
Hearing Lamie's words, Uchiha Setsuna grinned, his eyes cold and arrogant, full of disdain:
"Rules? Do you think I care about rules?!"
"Did you mistake me for someone else? I am—"
"Uchiha Setsuna!"
As the words fell, the expressions of Lamie, Dodai, and Moloy changed simultaneously.
Yes, this old guy was Uchiha Setsuna!
At this time, Uchiha Setsuna's name was known to every senior ninja from all over the world.
He had dared to launch a coup when the Second Hokage went out to negotiate and planned to assassinate the Second Hokage.
He was simply cut from the same cloth as Kumogakure's Gold and Silver Brothers (Kinkaku and Ginkaku)!
And during that period, the current patriarch, Uchiha Kagami, was still alive!
He was completely insane!
It was not unusual for such a person to do anything when his brain got hot.
The only difference between this old guy and their Kumogakure's Gold and Silver Brothers was,
One assassination was successful (referring to Kinkaku Unit killing Tobirama), the other was an attempted assassination (Setsuna's attempt), and the coup wasn't launched in time.
A complete terrorist!
"What the hell, you're just a madman, madman, madman!" Dodai looked frightened and cursed.
Lamie stretched out an arm and pointed at Uchiha Setsuna. He was so angry his whole body was shaking, his arms trembling, and he couldn't get a word out.
Moloy looked dejected and almost hopeless.
Who could understand how he felt?
Standing in front of him was a little lunatic who wore explosive tags as clothes.
Behind him stood an old madman who threatened to chop off his head and use it as a chamber pot.
He was about to have a nervous breakdown!
Even Uchiha Ci felt a bit stuck in his throat at this time.
Looking at Uchiha Setsuna, his scalp went numb.
He suddenly had the idea that he didn't want to die here...
He felt that if he died here, and was replaced by the Great Elder Uchiha Setsuna's reign,
I'm afraid the Uchiha would be destroyed faster than in the original history!
Uchiha Ci couldn't help but wail in his heart:
Help!
Are all these people named Uchiha crazy!?
After finally getting rid of an Uchiha Shisui, why did he encounter an Uchiha Setsuna who was even more seriously ill than him?