Hmm... Hmm?
No! Something was wrong!
His halted steps abruptly retreated. As Uchiha Nobuhiko broke out in a cold sweat, he almost instantly leaped back two steps, putting distance between himself and the boy lying on the ground.
However, though he had retreated in alarm, his expression changed slightly the moment he landed. His eyes flickered, and a strange look appeared on his face.
"Crack..."
At that moment, two more crisp sounds, like something shattering, came from the lifeless body of Uchiha Hirohiko sprawled on the ground.
"Crack crack crack crack crack... Crack crack crack... Crack crack crack crack crack..."
Then, as if those two sounds had been some kind of signal or switch, a string of crisp cracking sounds rang out from Uchiha Hirohiko's "corpse."
At this point, the tension and strangeness mingling on Uchiha Nobuhiko's face gradually eased.
At this moment, in his eyes, a deathly gray color was slowly spreading across Uchiha Hirohiko's corpse, centered on the scorched wounds on his body—the wounds inflicted by his Amaterasu Cone Spike.
Before long, it had crawled over the entirety of Uchiha Hirohiko's corpse, coating it in the ghastly pallor of death.
It was not obvious, but under the perceptive power of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, it was crystal clear.
Heh...
I really am getting worked up over nothing!
Seeing this, a smile slowly appeared at the corner of Uchiha Nobuhiko's mouth.
A somewhat stiff smile.
Given the current situation, it was obvious that Uchiha Hirohiko could not possibly still be alive. Every cell in his body had already entered a necrotic state. Though Nobuhiko did not know why his cells had decayed so thoroughly after death, he could now be certain that no one could come back to life from a state where their cells had completely died.
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