Uchiha Chisen's Special "Lava Release"!

Danzo's pupils suddenly constricted.

Uchiha Chisen was too fast. The scorching heat radiating from the magma arm closing in at point-blank range made Danzo's eyes sting with dryness, while waves of heat washed over his face.

The thick sulfurous stench hit his nostrils head-on, and the warning bells in his heart, along with the sense of approaching death, grew ever more intense.

If it touched him...

He would die!!!

Danzo could no longer care about appearances. His evasive movement was exceedingly awkward; he practically rolled backward like a donkey, tumbling several times before barely avoiding the attack.

"Lord Danzo!!!" A Root Ninja's cry made Danzo realize that he might not have avoided it completely.

"Hiss—"

The throbbing pain from his left ear made Danzo suck in a sharp breath. He thought he could smell burnt roasted meat.

He quickly touched his left ear and found that it was gone!

When he hurriedly looked up, Uchiha Chisen had already broken free of the encirclement. With a tap of his foot, he soared into the air.

His magma-flowing right arm suddenly began to swell visibly.

It was like a living volcano gathering terrifying power.

"Newbie, get farther away."

The Anbu Ninja assigned to watch the Jinchuriki saw this and stopped caring about anything else. Moving faster than he ever had in his life, he scooped Naruto into his arms and tried to get away from this dangerous place.

The panic in Izumi's eyes was immediately overtaken by scarlet. Sensing danger, she activated the Sharingan she had awakened at the age of five, in her grief after witnessing her father die at the hands of the Nine-Tails Fox.

And it was also a Three-Tomoe Sharingan! (In Itachi Shinden/original TV, it was Three-Tomoe as well.)

The spinning tomoe rapidly consumed her Chakra, instantly draining the color from her little face, but they also unleashed an unprecedented power of ocular jutsu.

But she used that power to evade.

Izumi believed that Senior Chisen would not have told her to get away for no reason.

She chose to trust Senior Chisen!

Meanwhile, the two Root Ninja below formed hand seals in perfect sync.

"Water Style: Water Colliding Wave Technique!" ×2

Two massive torrents surged upward toward Uchiha Chisen.

"Lava Release: Great Fire Eruption."

His right arm, now larger than his entire body, slammed downward. The rolling magma formed from Chakra erupted in an instant, creating an unimaginably enormous magma fist like a volcanic eruption as it crashed down toward the ground below!

—BOOM!!!

The violent collision between Lava Release and Water Style sent waves of scalding steam into the air, while an incredibly pungent and toxic gas spread wildly.

Although Uchiha Chisen's "Lava Release" was extremely similar to Rōshi of Iwagakure's "Lava Release," both taking the form of magma—

Uchiha Chisen's "Lava Release" possessed a trait Rōshi's lacked—the impact force of a volcanic eruption!

Before the horrified eyes of the two Root Ninja, the gigantic magma fist vaporized the Water Style and continued crushing downward!

"Protect Lord Danzo!"

—BOOM!!!

One Root Ninja grabbed Danzo and swiftly dodged, but the other was half a step too slow. When the magma fist crashed heavily into the ground, splashing magma drenched half his body.

"AAAAAAHHHH!!!!" The Root Ninja's agonized scream drew everyone's gaze toward him.

Half of his body looked as though it had been erased from existence.

The parts of his body struck by the magma were actually on fire!

A massive crater had also appeared in the ground.

It was as if a pool of heat-radiating magma had formed in the middle of the street!

"So this is... the Uchiha Clan's double Kekkei Genkai genius who rose to fame during the Third Shinobi World War, whose reputation was nearly on par with Uchiha Shisui—the Lava Beast, Uchiha Chisen?"

The Anbu Ninja holding Naruto coughed violently from the sulfurous smell, cold sweat already soaking his body.

Fortunately...

He had very wisely chosen not to engage the other party in combat from the start.

Otherwise...

He did not dare guarantee that he could have escaped unscathed.

"U! CHI! HA! CHI! SEN!" Danzo's aged face had darkened so much it seemed black water could drip from it.

One hand tightly gripped the bandages on his face.

Veins bulged on the back of his hand.

Danzo was not afraid of Uchiha Chisen. This innately evil Uchiha brat was, when all was said and done, merely a young punk who had only recently entered the world.

What Danzo was hesitating over was whether to reveal his Sharingan trump card in full view of everyone.

Damn it...

If he had brought more Root guards today,

there would have been no need to hesitate.

Uchiha Chisen landed atop magma hot enough to vaporize human flesh. The magma's extreme temperature did not affect him in the slightest. Magma constantly dripped from his body, scorching one shallow, smoking pit after another into the ground.

"Hmm?"

Far away in the Hokage Building, Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly sensed something strange happening outside.

Just as he turned his head, he saw a Ninja Pigeon fly in.

Sarutobi Hiruzen's gaze sharpened.

He remembered clearly that the summoned beast of the Anbu Ninja he had assigned to observe and protect Naruto was a Ninja Pigeon!

"Lord Hokage! Lord Hokage!"

The Ninja Pigeon spoke in an extremely shrill voice. "This is bad! Uchiha Chisen and Shimura Danzō are fighting! The Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Naruto, has been caught up in it too!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen abruptly rose to his feet.

"Danzo!" The solemn expression on his face immediately turned ugly, and he gritted his teeth. "Did I not just tell him not to provoke that child Chisen?!"

Given his understanding of Danzo, there was a high chance Danzo had started this conflict himself!

Danzo had always despised the Uchiha Clan. After running into the relatively active Uchiha Chisen in the village...

There was no telling what extreme action Danzo might take.

However.

When Sarutobi Hiruzen recalled Uchiha Chisen's Absolute Justice, his nearly perfect case-solving rate, and those eyes that seemed able to see through everyone...

He hesitated somewhat.

This...

Wasn't right!

Sarutobi Hiruzen shook off the strange thoughts in his mind. What mattered most now was getting there immediately to stop the conflict between the two sides.

Otherwise, the range of that child Chisen's Lava Release Kekkei Genkai ninjutsu was no joke!

He clearly remembered the child's terrifying performance during the Third Shinobi World War.

That "Lava Release" with power like a volcanic eruption...

Was absolutely one of the most dangerous powers in the Shinobi World!

"Take me there!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen first spoke to the Ninja Pigeon, then suddenly called out, "Kakashi!"

Whoosh!

A figure instantly appeared before Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Sarutobi Hiruzen gave a grave order. "Immediately lead three Anbu squads and follow me to stop the conflict!"

"Yes, Lord Hokage."

Kakashi nodded.

Elsewhere.

Squelch!!!—Just as the crimson magma-flowing arm effortlessly pierced through the second Root Ninja's chest,

a sharp tearing sound suddenly cut through the air, instantly ripping the Root Ninja's body in half.

Yet before any blood could splash onto Uchiha Chisen, it had already been vaporized by the magma's heat.

The "Wind Style: Wind Blade Technique," powerful enough to sever steel, did not lose momentum. It carved a gash more than ten centimeters deep into Uchiha Chisen's chest.

But the gash was filled in by the churning magma around it.

"What exactly is going on with his 'Lava Release'..."

Danzo's expression was incomparably grim. He felt that Uchiha Chisen's Lava Release bore an uncanny resemblance to the Hōzuki Clan's Water Transformation Technique.