With Lucian's appearance, the hospital was thrown into chaos!
As Sarutobi ran down the corridor and saw Lucian, his voice was grave:
"What are you trying to do? Do you really want to be Konoha's mortal enemy?"
"Don't think you're invincible. I..."
Heh!
Lucian ignored Sarutobi and directly pushed open the door to the adjacent hospital room.
Upon opening the door, he saw two lolis holding hands.
For a moment, six eyes met!
"You! You're..."
Seeing Lucian, Mikoto Uchiha was stunned, her small mouth falling open involuntarily.
Although Lucian had grown from a child to an adult, she inexplicably recognized him at a glance.
Kushina's eyes also widened. She rubbed them with her other hand and then blurted out.
"Ah, you've gotten so big!"
"..."
Lucian paid no attention to the two girls, instead carefully sensing the Nine-Tails' spiritual pressure.
Worthy of the Nine-Tails. The amount of spirit particles was far greater than that of the several hundred ninja he had killed.
"It's hopeless! He's here to kill us!"
The Nine-Tails' roar echoed again. Kushina was a little confused, completely unable to understand the Nine-Tails' meaning.
Just as she was about to speak, she saw Lucian walking towards her with a cold expression.
A murderous aura spread out, causing the temperature in the entire room to plummet!
At that moment, Kushina finally came to her senses and subconsciously muttered:
"Are you going to kill me? In that case, take my life..."
These lolis are something else.
Lucian couldn't understand Kushina's way of thinking at all. He formed a hand-knife and chopped down towards her.
Thud!
Seeing Kushina's eyes roll back as she fainted, Mikoto Uchiha protectively pulled her into her arms and assumed a fighting stance, "I..."
"You go down too!"
Looking at the two girls who were like conjoined twins, Lucian gave Mikoto a chop as well.
Package deal!
Lucian held Kushina and Mikoto, one in each arm, then turned to look at the extremely furious Hiruzen Sarutobi at the door.
There was also an even more furious, red-eyed teenager.
"Ah! You bastard!"
"Let go of Mikoto!"
Seeing Mikoto in Lucian's arms, Fugaku Uchiha's heart was about to break!
As the young master of the Uchiha clan, he could have anything, but there was one thing he had always sought but never obtained.
That was Mikoto's gentleness and embrace.
As the most beautiful princess of her generation in the Uchiha clan, and the daughter of an elder, Mikoto was kind and gentle, the goddess in the hearts of all the young Uchiha.
But Mikoto had never smiled at him, likely because he was too arrogant and brash as a youth.
He acknowledged his shortcomings and was willing to change for Mikoto.
Fugaku believed: A simp, in the end, will have everything.
But now, the goddess he hadn't even touched a fingernail of was knocked unconscious and held in another man's arms. Fury instantly filled his entire being.
The hatred of having one's wife stolen is irreconcilable!
"Die..."
The charging Fugaku was completely ignored by Lucian. He glanced at Sarutobi, who was also making a move, left a single sentence, and vanished.
"I'm taking the Nine-Tails. See you."
Such insolence!
Simply lawless!
Seeing Lucian take Kushina away, Hiruzen Sarutobi was truly enraged.
The fact that the Nine-Tails was inside Kushina was something that not even the Sannin knew. It was a strategic asset of Konoha.
"Everyone, after him!"
Sarutobi roared and gave chase, even though the hope was slim.
"...He's gone?"
Orochimaru, who had just rushed over, was a bit stunned. He had thought that Lucian's return was to find him.
Orochimaru: What! I'm less important than two lolis?
Does he like women?
I... I can be one too!
"Ah! Mikoto!!"
A heart-wrenching cry from Fugaku Uchiha echoed through the hospital, truly bringing tears to the eyes of those who heard it.
An indescribable pain swept through Fugaku's entire body. The sight of Mikoto being snatched away brought him not only pain but also an extremely intense hatred!
Hum, hum, hum!
A special chakra surged through Fugaku's brain, acting on his optic nerves and causing a change in his crimson eyes.
The two-tomoe Sharingan spun rapidly, becoming a three-tomoe in the blink of an eye.
But it didn't stop there; it began to spin even faster.
Along with an extremely dark energy fluctuation, the three tomoe of the Sharingan linked together, forming a strange, pinwheel-like shape.
"Mangekyo Sharingan!"
If Lucian had seen this, he would have definitely exclaimed in shock.
In the original timeline, Fugaku Uchiha had awakened his Mangekyo during the Third Shinobi World War and had kept it hidden.
But at that time, Fugaku was in his thirties, wasn't he?
But now he was only a teenager. A massive level-up!
Hagoromo, because of a goddess's death, went from zero to three-tomoe!
Obito, because of a goddess's death, evolved from two-tomoe to Mangekyo.
Fugaku, because his goddess was stolen, evolved from two-tomoe to Mangekyo.
In summary!
Women are the shortcut to evolving the Sharingan. Yes.
...
The next day, another piece of news shook the ninja world!
Konoha's wanted poster!
A bounty on the Demon King Lucian: three billion ryo!
Wanted dead or alive!
"Hiss, is this for real!"
"My god, this is insane!"
The news spread like wildfire through the ninja world, causing a massive uproar.
All the ninja were discussing it with excitement, and even shock.
This was definitely the highest bounty in history!
To put it in perspective, even more than twenty years later, Chiriku, one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja of the Land of Fire's Daimyo, had a bounty of 30 million.
The Hokage's son, Asuma, had a bounty of 35 million. Even the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, Utakata, was only worth 60 million.
The highest bounty for other rogue ninjas was barely a hundred million.
Lucian, who had been given the title "Demon King," had his bounty raised directly to three billion ryo.
A number that was enough to drive any ninja crazy.
What was most shocking was that Konoha had also announced that if one obtained Lucian's flesh and blood, after confirmation, they could also receive a reward of no less than one hundred million ryo.
Lucian's flesh and blood energy was different from chakra, so it would be easy to identify.
"They're so damn rich..."
This time, it wasn't just other ninja; even the Kage of other villages were a little envious, shocked at how wealthy Konoha was.
At the same time, it strengthened their resolve to take down Konoha.