This battle was on an entirely different level.
Shinnosuke.
Twenty-plus elite ANBU.
Against one man.
A battle no one could win.
Yet Qianyu advanced.
Because if he retreated—
He wouldn't be Uchiha Qianyu.
His hands bled.
His chakra was nearly drained.
But he fought.
Not for strategy.
Not for politics.
Only for justice.
If the guilty lived—
Then he would become their executioner.
Retreat meant betraying his own creed.
Hesitation meant betraying justice itself.
Kill.
Qianyu roared.
His Sharingan burned brighter than ever.
He pierced the formation—
Lightning tearing through flesh.
A blade entered a man's chest.
BOOM!
Ding!
You have freed Naiquan from endless darkness.
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"NAIQUAN!"
Shinnosuke screamed and charged.
"Wind Release! Great Breakthrough!"
"Fire Release! Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
"Combined Jutsu—Wind-Fire Devastation!"
A flaming tornado roared forward.
Qianyu dodged in an instant.
The attack annihilated everything behind him.
But Qianyu never stopped.
He ignored all others.
His blade aimed only at Shinnosuke.
Their swords clashed again.
Wind versus lightning.
Skill versus insight.
Strength versus resolve.
Shinnosuke faltered.
Qianyu's Sharingan saw everything.
A flicker.
A misstep.
Qianyu shattered the wind blade.
Shinnosuke's weapon flew.
Too late.
"No—!"
At that instant—
Three forces arrived.
The Third Hokage.
Elder yashiro.
Clan Head Fugaku.
"Qianyu—STOP!!!"
The world froze.
Shinnosuke sensed his father's chakra.
I won't die. I won't.
He wouldn't dare…
Qianyu was calm.
One thought passed through his mind:
"Though ten thousand stand against me—I go."
The blade fell.
SPLASH.
Lightning detonated.
Shinnosuke's chest exploded into a blood-soaked void.
He collapsed.
Dead.
Sarutobi Shinnosuke… was slain.
"NOOOOOOO!!!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen's scream tore through the sky of Konoha.
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