The Shinobi World Had Already Been Ravaged by "Evil"

Uchiha Chisen's voice exploded beside Izumi's ear like a thunderclap.

She took a deep breath of the increasingly thick scent of blood in the air.

As she slowly rose to her feet, she could still hear the weak, fading wails and groans of the short man at her feet.

"I've told you everything... Save me... Please save me... Please, I don't want to die..."

Izumi pressed her lips together.

For a Genin like her, who had graduated from the Ninja Academy less than a month ago, this was still far too shocking and intense.

"Where do you live?" Knowing that he was the beast who had killed his own daughter, Izumi no longer felt any sympathy for the short man. She questioned him about his address first, hoping to find the child's body.

After vaguely hearing him weakly give an address—

Izumi gathered her courage and turned to Uchiha Chisen. "Senior, should we split up? I'll take him to Konoha Hospital, while you go look for that child's body?"

Uchiha Chisen said flatly, "Rookie, do you know what sentence someone receives for killing while drunk in Konoha?"

Izumi froze. "Life... life imprisonment?!"

Uchiha Chisen shook his head. "Ten years in prison. After ten years, a thoroughly evil criminal like this will return to living under the sunlight. In fact, if he behaves well in prison, he might not even need to serve ten years. He could get out after seven or eight."

"Tell me. Does that punishment count as an equivalent retribution?"

Izumi timidly replied, "Ten years... is a little short, isn't it? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like equivalent retribution."

The moral bottom line of this twelve-year-old Uchiha Genin girl instinctively told her that the sentence was far too short.

Was the cost of murder in Konoha really so low?

Or perhaps...

Could drunken murder be forgiven?

"If Justice is not carried out absolutely, then it can never be called Justice, and evil will never receive the punishment it deserves." Uchiha Chisen said, "There's no need to split up, and no need to take him to Konoha Hospital. Take him directly to the address he just gave."

"Oh, right."

Uchiha Chisen took the Ninja Sword back from Izumi, sheathed the bloodstained blade, and added, "Remember to drag him. You'll drag this scum of the Shinobi World and follow behind me."

Izumi's little face was filled with shock.

Senior Chisen... even within the Uchiha Clan, he was probably among the most extreme members, wasn't he?

She swallowed hard, unable to stop herself from looking at the short man.

Drag him?

Hiss!

Izumi felt an enormous amount of pressure now.

Under the frightened and stunned gazes of civilians and ninjas alike, she gritted her teeth, grabbed the short man's collar with both hands, and strained to keep up with Uchiha Chisen.

The horrifying wound where the short man's legs had been severed scraped continuously against the ground. He screamed in terror and struggled desperately.

It made Izumi feel unbearably sorry for him.

But when she looked at Senior Uchiha Chisen's straight, imposing back, and recalled the suffocating feeling of his gaze gradually turning cold when she had hesitated during the interrogation earlier...

Izumi could only try to harden her heart.

She did not dare look back. All she could do was imagine whether the short man's crimson blood was drawing a long, straight line across the street.

She felt his struggles becoming weaker and weaker.

She felt the gazes of some nearby Konoha civilians upon her, as though they feared her as an accomplice to an evil person.

She heard his cries growing quieter and quieter.

Until...

There was no movement at all.

Izumi was startled and hastily turned around. Terrified, she quickly said to Uchiha Chisen, "Senior Chisen, he's gone into shock!"

Uchiha Chisen slowed slightly. He did not turn around, merely asking lightly, "Can you wake him up?"

"I'll check..."

Izumi cautiously felt for the short man's breath. Her heart trembled, and she replied in panic, "It seems... it's too late. He... this man is already dead!!!"

Uchiha Chisen said regretfully, "That's unfortunate."

Izumi could not help but freeze.

Then she heard the senior continue, "He died too easily. It wasn't enough to repay the sins he committed. My original plan was to have you drag him to his home. Once we retrieved the child's body, we would execute him in front of it."

"And besides." Uchiha Chisen glanced back. "I was planning to let you, the rookie, try your hand at it."

Izumi was completely dumbfounded.

"S-Senior..." Izumi said weakly, "I've read the Konoha Military Police Force's code of conduct manual. It seems to mention that after capturing a criminal, we must not use private punishment on them. I think that was a rule added to the Konoha Military Police Force manual by the Hokage."

Uchiha Chisen asked, "Rookie, do you think the lofty Third Hokage represents Justice?"

Izumi did not dare make a sound.

Uchiha Chisen stared at this girl who possessed only half Uchiha blood and slowly said, "If you want to become a good member of the Konoha Military Police Force, you must first know who Justice's enemies are. All 'evil' in the Shinobi World is an enemy of Justice."

"The Shinobi World has already been eroded beyond recognition by countless instances of 'evil.' Only by carrying out Justice through absolute and thorough means can we set the Shinobi World back on the right track."

Including the Hokage...? Izumi only dared to run those words through her mind. She did not dare ask them aloud.

"Including the Hokage."

The very next second, as though Uchiha Chisen possessed mind-reading abilities, he blurted out those shocking words without the slightest hesitation.

Izumi was stunned senseless.

What Izumi did not know was that, at the very instant the short man died from shock brought on by excessive blood loss—

A Golden Finger notification appeared before Uchiha Chisen's eyes.

Ding! You have successfully killed a "Red Name" evil person! Your Chakra has received a small increase! Congratulations, you have successfully obtained: Gambling Skill Experience Book ×2

Name: Uchiha Chisen

Age: Eighteen

Identity: Member of Konoha's Uchiha Military Police Force

Strength: Jonin

Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan, Lava Release

Taijutsu: Uchiha Style Kenjutsu, Shuriken Throwing Technique, Kunai Combat Technique...

Ninjutsu: Great Fireball Technique, Phoenix Sage Fire Technique, Great Fire Annihilation, Mind Body Switch Technique...

Other: Cooking, Calligraphy, Gambling, Bedchamber Arts...

This was the Golden Finger Uchiha Chisen had awakened when he first transmigrated to Konoha.

He could see everyone's "evil." Whether it was evil they had committed in the past or evil they would commit in the future, he could see it all clearly.

Those who had already committed unforgivable evil would have a crimson box hanging over their heads and were known as [Red Names].

Those who would commit unforgivable evil in the future would have a white box hanging over their heads and were known as [White Names].

After killing them...

Not only could he obtain a certain increase in the Chakra within his body, but he could also seize any of their ninjutsu, taijutsu, Kekkei Genkai, secret techniques, skill experience, and more.

The Golden Finger's characteristics were perfectly suited to the [Absolute Justice] Uchiha Chisen upheld.

In just a few short years, his hands had been stained with the blood of countless evildoers.

He had even dulled several Ninja Swords from all the cutting.

As for the "Lava Release" listed under Kekkei Genkai, it was part of the starter gift pack granted when his Golden Finger awakened.

The Golden Finger's description of the gift pack was—

Greetings from a follower of [Absolute Justice] from the sea.

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