Why Are There So Many Wars?

"You really are something. Toroi was a Bloodline Ninja, after all. Leaving his corpse intact would have meant more to us."

Shisui looked at Toroi, who had been completely burned to ash, his face full of helplessness.

The battle was over. Habara and Shisui had dealt with the four-man Cloud Hidden Village squad, including Toroi, who possessed Magnet Style!

This squad's combat power had not been weak at all. If it had been anyone else, they might truly have had no way to deal with them.

Even a standard full combat squad might not have found them easy to handle. Normally, turning around and leaving would have been the best choice.

But this Cloud Hidden Village squad had been terribly unlucky. They had run into Habara and Shisui, two members of the Uchiha Clan.

Everything they excelled at had been completely countered by these two, so naturally, they had not had many opportunities.

The battle had ended completely in less than ten minutes. The only reason it had taken so long was because someone had chosen to flee, forcing Shisui to pursue them.

A fair amount of time had been wasted in the process, and what Shisui had never expected was that when he returned, he discovered that Habara had already burned Toroi.

"That's the Anbu way of doing things. I'm not Anbu. I don't have the habit of bringing corpses back for research."

Habara did not think there was anything wrong with what he had done. In fact, over the years, whenever he killed an enemy during a mission, he would choose to burn them directly into ash.

Although such a practice looked rather evil, to put it bluntly, it was practically the same as grinding someone's bones to dust.

But Habara knew that This World had techniques that could make the dead rise again and continue fighting, and one such technique existed right within Konoha.

He did not want to encounter someone he had killed again in the future. Being cautious and turning them into ash meant he would not have to worry about that later.

"You really are..."

Shisui was left speechless by Habara's words, but he quickly Shook Head and stopped dwelling on it. Instead, he looked at Habara strangely.

"Just now, after I saw you use the Substitution Technique, you flew straight into the sky. Your flying speed was not slow, and you were extremely agile in the air. When did you learn a technique like that?"

"Not long ago."

Habara smiled faintly before answering unhurriedly.

"Actually, ever since I heard that the Third Tsuchikage could fly, I started thinking about how to do it.

He has Earth Release, and so do I. So I began researching how to use Earth Release to make the body lighter, thereby achieving flight.

I was lucky. Although it took quite a bit of time and effort, I still managed to do it."

Although Habara's Sky Dance Technique had absolutely nothing to do with Earth Release, that did not stop him from using it as an excuse. Besides, explaining it this way was the most convincing.

After all, there was Ōnoki as an example, and Habara carried the title of a genius. It was only natural for people to believe he had researched something on his own.

Sure enough, Shisui Cannot Help But Nod lightly after hearing Habara's words, then he did not ask any further questions.

Every shinobi had techniques they excelled at, and some even had techniques that belonged to them alone. They would not casually discuss those techniques with others.

If someone kept pestering them for answers, that person could basically be treated as an idiot. In serious cases, they could even be regarded as a spy.

"I understand. Let's deal with the scene."

Shisui looked at the corpses scattered everywhere and sighed involuntarily before walking over first.

Habara naturally Acted Together with him, but as he moved, he could not help checking his System interface.

After killing Toroi, his System had given him several notifications, making him rather curious.

Skill: Glorious Evolution (0/1)

Activation Requirement: Collect one hundred Power Fragments to activate

Power Fragments: Jonin yield twenty-five, Chūnin yield twenty, Genin yield ten, ordinary enemies yield between one and five

Current Power Fragments Acquired: Eighty-five

Friendly reminder: Ninja Rank has nothing to do with ninja strength. Please work hard, Host.

"Hm?"

When Habara saw the information displayed on his System interface, he froze completely.

He had never expected to have so many Power Fragments, which left him puzzled.

He did not Have Any Cheat/System that doubled rewards through critical hits, so there was naturally no way his rewards could have doubled after being granted.

And Just Now, he had only killed Toroi. By the time he wanted to turn back and help Shisui, Shisui had already killed two and gone after the last one.

That had left him rather helpless at the time, because even a Chūnin or Genin was worth at least ten and at most twenty Power Fragments.

"Could it be because Shisui and I formed a team? Even if I didn't touch them, the assists still counted for me, so I got the Power Fragments too?"

Thinking it over carefully, Habara felt that Really Was possible. Eighty-five Power Fragments—did that not mean the equivalent of one Jonin and three Chūnin?

The numbers matched perfectly. Habara was instantly overjoyed, because that meant he only needed to kill one more Jonin—or even just one Chūnin—to complete the task!

"This is such a huge profit. If Shisui hadn't come with me, I really wouldn't have dared to take those four head-on!"

Habara's mood improved even further At This Moment. Although having his kills stolen at first had made him very unhappy, after killing Toroi, he knew he had not lost out.

And now that he discovered he had made a huge profit, such a dramatic reversal naturally delighted him beyond measure.

But now was clearly not the time to celebrate. Looking at the corpses strewn across the ground, Habara could not help sighing as well.

He did not care about the Cloud Ninja corpses, and he could even face them coldly, but he found it difficult to accept the corpses of the civilians.

Although civilian casualties in shinobi battles were an extremely common occurrence.

These Cloud Ninja had slaughtered an entire small village merely to deal with a rogue shinobi. Their actions were no different from those beasts from Udong.

Habara felt entirely at ease killing them, and their deaths were Well-deserved Punishment!

Silently, he and Shisui gathered all the corpses in the small village. In the end, they used Fire Release to give them a collective burial.

Blazing flames ignited the entire village, and pitch-black smoke rose slowly into the night Along With the firelight.

Habara and Shisui stood in the distance, silently watching All of This. The flames stretched their shadows long.

But just as the raging blaze burned at its fiercest, Shisui suddenly broke the somewhat oppressive silence.

"Habara, why do you think there are so many wars?"