News Spreads

Instead, because of its unique properties, it would bring flourishing life to that area.

Like a God of Life. But Uchiha Yue? That guy was a walking calamity, a living machine of extinction. Given enough time, he could destroy any nation in this world.

Of course, that was not the most important part. The most important thing was that, so far, Uchiha Yue had shown no sign of being willing to communicate. It seemed that the destruction of the Uchiha Clan had traumatized him and caused his power to spiral completely out of control. Otherwise, how could that monster have allowed Konoha to flee?

But there was another possibility for why he had let Konoha escape so freely: the monster simply did not care. He wanted to destroy the entire Ninja World—the whole world. When that time came, Konoha would naturally perish along with it. What happened to Konoha now was utterly irrelevant.

For the sake of this world, for the continuation of civilization, they had to unite, gather all their strength, and completely kill that monster, that demon, Uchiha Yue.

After Nagato and the others posted the evidence, the ninjas who had originally only been watching the spectacle realized something was wrong. Much of it was speculation, but Uchiha Yue was real. The Dead Silence Domain was real. Konoha had nearly been wiped out—that was real too.

But just how terrifying that domain was remained questionable. How could there be a ninjutsu in this world that absorbed Chakra and every form of energy, with no limit? Was that even possible?

Any ninja with even a little common sense knew it was impossible.

But what if? What if Uchiha Yue really could absorb energy without limit, grow without limit, and eventually cover the entire planet?

With such worries in mind, some wandering ninjas and ninjas who took missions through the Underground Exchange came to the Dead Silence Domain.

Then they discovered that the Dead Silence Domain really was continuously expanding, and it already covered an enormous area. The old Konoha had completely vanished. Afterward, several skeptical ninjas entered the domain. However, because they had intelligence on it, they did not go deep inside. The moment they noticed the power within their bodies dissipating uncontrollably, they immediately fled.

Besides that, they tied ropes around small animals and civilians incapable of refining Chakra, then drove them inside. Unfortunately, not long after entering, those animals and civilians were completely drained and died.

Now they truly believed it. Aside from Chakra, every other form of energy would be absorbed by that domain. Worse still, it was continuously expanding. A monster—a true monster!

This was not something that should exist in the human world. Such a World-Ending Calamity-like ability should only have existed in myths.

Ninjutsu that absorbed Chakra or energy alone was not frightening. What was frightening was that it covered the entire Ninja World and affected everyone, every living thing. That was the true horror. A simple ability had become an absolute calamity.

They could not even think of a way to solve this problem, aside from killing Uchiha Yue or waiting for Uchiha Yue to stop on his own.

But who the hell knew whether this thing would ever stop on its own? Who the hell knew whether it even had a limit? They did not dare gamble on it stopping or reaching its limit. Besides, the people spreading the news were right: even if it merely remained as it was now, Uchiha Yue could still pose an incomparably terrifying threat to every living being in the Ninja World.

Even if he did not target ninjas, he only needed to wander around any country a few times for that country to be practically finished.

Now, the prophecy of world destruction, which had initially been dismissed by the people of the Underground Exchange as the ravings of madmen, had been directly confirmed. So that was it. Everything was over. They might as well obediently wait to die. How could this be possible?!

Very quickly, the news began spreading from the Underground Exchange throughout the entire Ninja World.

"Brother, why..."

In New Konoha, Uchiha Sasuke stood at the entrance to the village with his fists clenched, staring fixedly at where the old Konoha had once stood.

He still remembered what he had seen when he returned home that day. Even now, he found it unbelievable, impossible to understand. His beloved brother had actually... actually done something so deranged.

The people in the village all said that the Uchiha Clan had been exterminated by Shimura Danzō, but only he knew that the Uchiha Clan had been destroyed by his brother. He had not spoken of it. Though he had witnessed it with his own eyes, he simply could not bring himself to say it.

For some reason, after the village escaped, the people seemed to have overlooked him. No one questioned him at all. No one asked after him, as though nothing had happened.

Sasuke could not understand it.

In truth, it was because of Uchiha Yue. The Uchiha Clan had been confirmed extinct. Uchiha Sasuke and Uchiha Yue were the last two surviving members of the Uchiha Clan in the entire Ninja World. They did not dare do anything to Sasuke.

Because they likewise could not understand why Uchiha Yue had not attacked Konoha even now, but instead remained there quietly without moving. Could it be because Sasuke was still in Konoha?

They had such a guess, but did not dare confirm it. They did not know what Uchiha Sasuke meant to Uchiha Yue.

If Uchiha Yue knew what they were thinking, he would certainly laugh. What did Sasuke mean to him? Nothing at all!

Uchiha Yue simply did not care about Uchiha Sasuke. He had forgotten such a person even existed.

The only reason he remained there was that he wanted to destroy the entire Ninja World.

When the entire Ninja World was destroyed, Konoha naturally would not survive either.

In short, that was why, so far, everyone believed the destruction of the Uchiha Clan was entirely Shimura Danzō's fault. If they had only asked Uchiha Sasuke, they would have learned that, besides Danzō, there was also that beast Uchiha Itachi.

If not for those two idiots, Konoha would still be perfectly fine. Uchiha Yue would still be a completely ordinary person who had not awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan—no, forget the Mangekyō Sharingan. He had not even awakened an ordinary Sharingan.

Not the World-Ending Calamity he was now.

Just then, Naruto walked over from behind Sasuke.

"What exactly is that thing?"

Inside Naruto...