Are You Trying to Destroy Konoha?!

While Danzo was still reeling in shock, Uchiha Chisen's crimson figure flashed into view right before his eyes. Startled, Danzo immediately dodged while rapidly forming hand seals.

"Wind Style-"

Danzo sucked in a deep breath, his chest swelling to an exaggerated degree, then forcefully expelled it.

"Vacuum Bullets!!!"

In the end, he still did not tear off his bandages.

If he exposed all those Sharingan in public, every ninja clan in Konoha with a kekkei genkai would likely see him as an enemy.

After all, no one wanted a kekkei genkai hunter lurking in their village.

The wind-style chakra gathered in his mouth shot toward Uchiha Chisen like machine-gun rounds.

Each "Vacuum Bullet" was half the size of a baby's fist.

When they struck nearby houses, they punched round holes even through the thick walls!

But...

When the barrage of "Vacuum Bullets" struck Uchiha Chisen, it was like throwing stones into water.

They sent up splashes of magma, but never managed to penetrate that bizarre Lava Release defense.

Drip...

Drip...

With every step Uchiha Chisen took forward, the terrifying heat left trails of flaming footprints on the ground. The sulfurous stench in the air had grown so thick it nearly made people faint.

Damn it, it really is just like the Hōzuki Clan's Water Transformation Technique... A kekkei genkai ninjutsu that turns his body into a natural element, making him immune to most physical attacks?

At the very least, my Wind Style barely affects him!

Danzo's expression was utterly grim. Uncertainty flickered through his dark, wary eyes. No... No ability is invincible. It has to have a weakness...

That Monkey may be weak-willed, but he would never tolerate an uncontrollable Uchiha Clan with no weaknesses.

Something suddenly occurred to Danzo.

The only time Uchiha Chisen had blocked a ninjutsu attack was when the two Root Ninja had used Water Style.

That's it!

Water Style...

Could that be the Naturally Evil Uchiha Brat's weakness?

Water Style was not Danzo's specialty, but that did not mean he could not use it.

Suddenly!

Danzo saw Uchiha Chisen raise an arm and point a finger at him.

Power seemed to build within that flowing magma fingertip, ready to erupt.

"Not good!"

At that very instant, Uchiha Chisen's fingertip sprayed blobs of searing magma!

Countless miniature magma projectiles streaked straight toward Danzo, trailing arcs of light!

"Lava Style: Lava Globs."

Danzo's pupils contracted. He rapidly formed hand seals and pressed both palms against the ground. "Water Style: Water Wall!!!"

A wall of water rose.

Countless magma projectiles slammed into the Water Formation Wall. The spreading sulfurous stench and scalding steam left Danzo drenched in cold sweat.

Had he been even half a second slower, he would have been forced to use the Sharingan's power to evade Uchiha Chisen's attack.

Damn it!

Half my strength lies in Wind Style, and the other half in the Sharingan and Wood Style.

Yet one of those three abilities is completely useless against the Naturally Evil Uchiha Brat, and I can't openly use the other two.

The piercing pain that intermittently shot through his left ear filled Danzo with fury.

He had never felt so stifled.

My hands are completely tied!

If only they were fighting somewhere else, if only he had made more preparations and brought more Root Ninja, Danzo was certain he could kill this evil brat, Uchiha Chisen!

After all...

That was exactly how he had killed Uchiha Shisui a year ago.

No matter how talented an Uchiha was, he could not withstand a coordinated assault, much less insidious schemes that were impossible to guard against.

But...

Today's clash with Uchiha Chisen had happened far too suddenly.

It was nothing like his confrontation with Shisui.

"Hm?" Just then, through the indistinct view beyond the translucent Water Formation Wall, Danzo vaguely made out what seemed to be a vast crimson glow ahead.

"Lava Style: Great Eruption."

A massive magma fist, already swollen to the size of a house, hurtled toward the Water Formation Wall with unstoppable force. Even the ground melted beneath its passage.

The terrifying impact, like a volcanic eruption, instantly shattered the Water Formation Wall. The searing heat evaporated every last drop of water!

Before Danzo's eyes, the massive magma fist suddenly expanded several times over the instant it broke through the Water Formation Wall.

An immense Magma Torrent surged straight toward him, ready to swallow him whole!

For a moment, Danzo felt as though he were facing a tsunami made of magma!

"-Izanagi!!!"

Danzo could no longer afford to hold back. Whether to save his own old hide or to kill the Naturally Evil Uchiha Brat, he had no choice but to activate the Sharingan's power.

The surging Magma Torrent swallowed his aged body in an instant. Human flesh could not withstand the magma's scorching heat.

In less than a second, Danzo's entire body vaporized.

The rolling magma even wiped out nearly half a street's worth of buildings.

Danzo was dead.

And yet he was not.

The Sharingan's forbidden secret technique, "Izanagi," could rewrite any event unfavorable to its user, including death.

Once used, the Sharingan would inevitably go blind. The ability to rewrite unfavorable events could last a full minute.

As one transplanted Sharingan beneath his bandages closed for good, the vaporized remains of his body drifting in the air instantly gathered together, rapidly forming a human shape.

Having come back to "life," Danzo wore a grim expression, overflowing with murderous intent.

"Danzo!!!"

"Stop!!!"

Just then, figure after figure suddenly appeared on the street, swiftly surrounding it.

All of them wore the uniforms of Konoha's Anbu.

Three full Anbu squads had mobilized together.

Led by Sarutobi Hiruzen, they had finally arrived.

Looking at the devastated street before him and breathing in the strange odor hanging in the air, Sarutobi Hiruzen could not help coughing several times.

His aged face looked no less grim.

"Danzo! What are you doing?!!!" With Kakashi and the other Anbu guards following behind him, Sarutobi Hiruzen strode into the battlefield, hands clasped behind his back and his deeply wrinkled face thunderous.

"This is Konoha! Are you trying to destroy Konoha, Danzo?!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately demanded an answer.

Danzo: "???"

Danzo could understand why all this commotion had drawn Monkey here.

What he could not understand was why the man had started aggressively interrogating him the moment he arrived.

"Sarutobi! What are you implying?!"

Danzo did not even call him "Hiruzen" anymore. Gritting his teeth, he snapped back, "What gives you the right to say I'm trying to destroy Konoha? On the contrary, if I can kill this ambitious Uchiha brat today, I'll be saving Konoha!"

He furiously pointed at Uchiha Chisen. "The Naturally Evil Uchiha Brat was just trying to control the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki with his Sharingan and recreate the Nine-Tails' Rampage from a few years ago!"

"If I hadn't happened to arrive and witness it, Konoha would already have been destroyed at his hands!"