Are You Trying to Destroy Konoha?!

Just as Danzo stood there in shock, Uchiha Chisen's crimson figure suddenly closed in, reflected in his pupils at point-blank range. Startled, Danzo immediately dodged while rapidly forming hand seals.

"Wind Style—"

Danzo took a sharp breath, his chest swelling exaggeratedly as he expelled that breath with force.

"Vacuum Bullets!!!"

In the end, he did not tear away the bandages around his body.

If he exposed that body full of Sharingan in public, every Kekkei Genkai ninja clan in Konoha would likely regard Danzo as an enemy.

After all, no one wanted a Kekkei Genkai hunter lurking within the village.

The Wind Style Chakra gathered in his mouth shot toward Uchiha Chisen like machine-gun rounds.

Each "Vacuum Bullet" was as large as half a baby's fist.

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

But...

When the countless "Vacuum Bullets" landed on Uchiha Chisen's body, it was like throwing stones into water.

Though they splashed up globs of magma, they could never break through that bizarre Lava Release defense.

Drip...

Drip...

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

"Damn it, it really is very similar to the Hōzuki Clan's Water Transformation Technique... A Kekkei Genkai ninjutsu that can turn one's body into a natural element and become immune to most physical attacks?"

"At the very least, my Wind Style does little against him!"

Danzo's expression turned incomparably grim. As all kinds of uncertainty flashed through his sinister eyes, he thought heavily, No... There can't possibly be an invincible ability. It must have a weakness...

"Though that Monkey is soft-hearted by nature, he would never tolerate an Uchiha Clan member with no weakness and beyond his control."

Danzo suddenly recalled something.

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

That was it!

Water Style...

Could that be the weakness of this innately evil Uchiha brat?

Water Style was not a ninjutsu Danzo excelled at, but that did not mean he could not use it.

Suddenly!

Danzo saw Uchiha Chisen raise an arm, one finger pointing in his direction.

Power on the verge of eruption seemed to have built up at that magma-flowing fingertip.

"Not good!"

At that very instant, clusters of scorching magma shot from Uchiha Chisen's fingertip!

Countless miniature magma bullets trailed arcs of light as they flew straight toward Danzo!

"Lava Release: Lava Globs."

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

A wall of water rose up.

Countless magma bullets crashed into the Water Wall. The spreading sulfurous odor and scalding steam made cold sweat pour down Danzo's face.

Had he been even half a second slower, he would have had no choice but to use the Sharingan's power to evade Uchiha Chisen's attack.

Damn it!

Half of my abilities lie in Wind Style, while the other half lie in the Sharingan and Wood Style.

Yet one of those three abilities is completely useless against that innately evil Uchiha brat, while the other two cannot be used openly in public.

The piercing pain that periodically came from his left ear filled Danzo with rage.

He had never felt so stifled before.

He was far too restrained!

If the battlefield had been somewhere else, if he had made more preparations and brought more Root Ninja, Danzo guaranteed that he could kill Uchiha Chisen, that evil brat!

After all...

A year ago, that was exactly how he had killed Uchiha Shisui.

No matter how talented an Uchiha genius was, they could not withstand being attacked by a group, much less endless plots and schemes.

But...

Today's conflict with Uchiha Chisen had come far too suddenly.

This was different from when he had dealt with Shisui.

"Hm?" At that moment, through the faint image visible beyond the translucent Water Wall, Danzo vaguely saw a vast crimson glow appear ahead.

"Lava Release: Great Fire Eruption."

A gigantic magma fist, already swollen to the size of a house, crushed toward the Water Wall with unstoppable force. Everywhere it passed, even the ground was scorched and melted away.

The terrifying impact, like a volcanic eruption, instantly shattered the Water Wall. The scorching heat vaporized every drop of water in an instant!

In Danzo's sight, the magma fist suddenly expanded several times over at the moment it broke through the Water Wall.

An enormous Magma Torrent surged directly 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 worry about anything else. Whether for the sake of his old life or to kill this innately evil Uchiha brat, he had no choice but to activate the Sharingan's power.

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

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

The churning magma even erased the buildings along nearly half the street.

Danzo died.

But he did not die.

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

Once activated, the Sharingan would inevitably go blind. Moreover, this power to rewrite unfavorable events could last for a full minute.

After one transplanted Sharingan beneath his bandages closed completely, water vapor from the human body drifting through the air instantly gathered together, rapidly condensing into a human shape.

Danzo, who had "come back to life," wore a dark expression, his killing intent overflowing.

"Danzo!!!"

"Stop!!!"

At that very moment, figure after figure suddenly appeared on the street, swiftly surrounding the entire area.

Every one of them wore Konoha Anbu attire.

No fewer than three Anbu squads had deployed at once.

Led by Sarutobi Hiruzen, they had finally arrived.

Looking at the devastated street before him and breathing in the strange stench in the air, Sarutobi Hiruzen could not help coughing a few times.

His old face did not look much better, either.

"Danzo! What are you doing?!" With Kakashi and the other Anbu guards following behind him, Sarutobi Hiruzen entered the battlefield with his hands behind his back, his wrinkled old face dark and imposing.

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

Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately demanded.

Danzo: "???"

Danzo could understand why Monkey had been drawn over by such a huge commotion.

But he could not understand why, upon arriving, the man had immediately begun aggressively questioning him.

"Sarutobi! What do you mean by that?!"

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

He angrily pointed at Uchiha Chisen. "This innately evil Uchiha brat just tried to use the Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and recreate the Nine-Tails' Rampage from years ago!"

"If I had not happened to appear and witness that scene, Konoha would already have been destroyed by his hands!"