Instead, a hint of expected mockery flashed across his face.
"A dying struggle."
He commented indifferently.
He didn't even make any defensive or evasive moves.
Just at this critical moment,
A blade light, quick to the extreme, like a lightning bolt in the dark night, silently slashed out from behind Di Yan!
Pfft!
Blood splattered!
Danzo's right arm, covered in Sharingan and about to be sacrificed for Izanagi, was severed at the shoulder.
Carrying those unconsumed Sharingan, symbols of sin and power,
It spun away from Danzo's body!
"Ugh ah!"
Although Danzo's body was fixed by genjutsu, the extreme pain still made him let out a muffled shriek.
His eyes were filled with incredible horror.
His last trump card was broken so easily.
The one who struck was Uchiha Tekka, who had been guarding behind Di Yan like a shadow.
The long blade in his hand was spotless, and his Sharingan were icy cold.
But this was not over!
Almost at the same time,
Another ghostly figure… Uchiha Izumi.
She appeared before Danzo as if teleporting.
Izumi's movements were as swift as a ghost, her fingers like blades.
She pierced with incredible precision into Danzo's eye socket, which contained the power of Kotoamatsukami!
"Puff!"
After a slight muffled sound,
Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan, which contained the "strongest genjutsu," was forcibly gouged out by Izumi.
She carefully held it in her hand.
Danzo's last glimmer of hope for a comeback was completely stripped away!
…The intense pain and utter despair almost drove Danzo mad.
However, an even more soul-shaking scene was yet to come.
A gentle figure, but now with a chilling killing intent,
Slowly walked out from behind Izumi.
And stood before Danzo.
When Danzo clearly saw the face of the newcomer,
Danzo's remaining single eye instantly widened to its extreme.
His pupils contracted wildly.
As if he had seen the most incredible sight in the world!
"It's… it's you? Uchiha Mikoto?"
Danzo's voice was twisted and distorted by extreme shock, "You… you're not dead? Impossible!"
The one who appeared before him was the wife of the former Uchiha Clan head, Uchiha Fugaku.
The gentle woman who should have died on the night of the Uchiha Clan massacre… Uchiha Mikoto!
However, at this moment, Mikoto's face no longer held its former gentleness.
It was replaced by an icy killing intent, accumulated from countless hatreds and pains.
In her eye sockets, there were also a pair of slowly rotating, crimson three-tomoe Sharingan.
In an instant, all the clues exploded in Danzo's mind!
The "Uchiha survivors" Di Yan demanded back then.
The appearance of Uchiha Ninja… and now the appearance of Uchiha Mikoto, who should have died!
"So… so that's it!"
Danzo let out a desperate and regretful roar, "My agreement with him back then… was a colossal mistake!!"
He finally understood that he had invited a wolf into his home.
He had personally brought the ghost of vengeance back to Konoha!
Di Yan was not cooperating with him at all.
Instead, he was using him, while secretly accumulating the remaining power of the Uchiha!
However, his realization came too late.
Uchiha Mikoto stared intently at Danzo with those Sharingan.
His terrified, distorted face was reflected in her eyes, and her voice was as cold as the winds of the netherworld:
"For the Uchiha… for Itachi and Sasuke…"
She slowly raised the long blade in her hand, its body reflecting a cold, sharp light.
"Danzo Shimura… atone!"
The blade flashed!
Without the slightest hesitation, without any delay!
Accompanied by a splash of blood,
Danzo's head, filled with shock, regret, unwillingness, and fear, instantly detached from his neck and flew high!
His headless corpse stiffly swayed once.
Then heavily toppled forward onto the ground.
Having lost all his Sharingan, having lost the capital for Izanagi… this time, Danzo Shimura… could no longer return from death.
The Root of Konoha's darkness,
Finally, under the Uchiha's blade of vengeance, was completely severed!
His head rolled to the ground.
Those wide-open eyes seemed to still be expressing his final disbelief and utter defeat.
The plaza was dead silent.
All the Konoha Ninja stared dumbfounded at the reversal, revenge, and conclusion that had occurred in a flash.
Di Yan slowly stood up and lightly clapped his hands.
As if he had just finished watching a wonderful play.
"Clean it up."
He commanded indifferently.
Immediately after, his gaze bypassed Danzo's corpse.
And fell upon Tsunade's complex expression and the chaotic Konoha.
The first step of the chess game was complete.
Next, it was time for the second step… scoop.
67 Hand Over the Uchiha Remnants; Please Reconsider, Your Majesty
Danzo's death came so suddenly and decisively.
So much so that almost all the Konoha Ninja in the plaza fell into a temporary state of speechlessness and shock.
Danzo Shimura, who just a moment ago was fighting the Fifth Hokage to a standstill, possessed strange resurrection abilities, and caused such a huge stir,
Just like that, in a flash,
Was he jointly slain by several suddenly appearing Uchiha Clan members?
This huge contrast made it difficult for many to accept at once.
It felt like a full-force punch had hit nothing but air.
Their hearts were filled with a sense of unreality.
But with Danzo's demise,
His subordinates, the Root loyalists and Shimura Clan Ninja who had been stubbornly resisting, seemed to lose their backbone.
Their will to resist quickly collapsed.
Under the encirclement of Anbu and Konoha Ninja,
They were soon all subdued or killed.
The sporadic fighting quickly subsided.
The situation seemed to be under control.
However, the high-ranking officials and powerful individuals of Konoha showed no signs of relief on their faces.
Without exception, their gazes were extremely grave as they turned towards the Emperor of the Land of Fire, Di Yan, who had been sitting like a mountain and was now slowly standing up.
And… the few Uchiha Clan members quietly standing behind him!
Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Tekka, Uchiha Izumi.
And the little girl, Uchiha Hikari, who was still holding Di Yan's hand, her crimson eyes faded, returning to her innocent appearance, yet no one dared to underestimate her anymore.
The "597" four Uchiha.
Four Uchiha who should have "died" on the night of the Uchiha Clan massacre!
Moreover… three of them clearly possessed Sharingan.
That little girl might even possess Mangekyo!
The air was filled with a heavier and more unsettling tension than during the previous battle.
The reappearance of the Uchiha, and the meaning behind it,
Was far more complex and terrifying than Danzo's coup.
Just then.