Amid the ruins and wreckage.
Uchiha Setsuna clenched his fists tightly. His eyes shot out two bone-chilling, icy glints as he turned to look at Moroi, Ramui, and Dodai, the three Kumogakure ninja.
Never before had he felt pain so unforgettable.
He was the Great Elder of the Uchiha, an eagle soaring freely through the heavens!
And the cool elder all the young eagles of the clan admired!
But now,
Here,
He could only watch that young eagle, destined to pierce the clouds, bear the blue sky upon its back, and ride the whirlwind ninety thousand miles into the sky.
Use his flesh and blood to carve out a miserable path of escape for him.
The Three Tomoe in Uchiha Setsuna's Sharingan spun rapidly, nearly connecting into a black line and forming a new pattern.
But,
That was all.
Uchiha Setsuna understood clearly, painfully, that he was not a gifted genius like Kagami Uchiha.
He did not possess the aptitude to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
So he could only glare with eyes as wide as bells, countless blood vessels knotting across the whites.
His eyes were bloodshot, like a demon!
A streak of bloody tears silently slid down his cheek.
Uchiha Setsuna closed his eyes in anguish, yet countless figures of the dead appeared in the darkness.
Tajima Uchiha, Madara, Izuna, Kagami...
Figure after figure, wall after wall of Uchiha, stood before Uchiha Setsuna.
They were silent. They were numb. Their scarlet eyes were stretched wide open.
Their lips, teeth, even the skin on their faces trembled.
They stared at him, resentful, furious, condemning...
Why, from the Warring States Period until now, had a mediocre piece of trash like him been the one to survive?!
Uchiha Setsuna suddenly opened his eyes. There was no longer even a trace of hesitation in his gaze.
His eyes flashed like lightning as his Sharingan, streaming with bloody tears, swept over the three Kumogakure ninja.
Uchiha Setsuna suddenly threw back his head.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
He was clearly laughing, yet his laughter was filled with the piercing agony of having fingernails ripped off.
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Uchiha Ci! As the Great Elder of the Uchiha Clan, the Leader of the Hawk Faction, and your Godfather!"
"I acknowledge your will!"
Uchiha Setsuna roared in grief and fury:
"Go die!"
"Die here freely, without a single attachment!"
Inside the barrier, Uchiha Ci's heart skipped a beat, and he could not help looking toward Uchiha Setsuna.
He was afraid the little old man might get too worked up, refuse to leave, and insist on playing some die-together act with him here.
He had already done this much. This old man better not lose his mind!
Damn it, if you can't win, just run. Was that really so shameful?
However,
Uchiha Setsuna raised his long blade and pointed it at the three Kumogakure ninja, his gaze as cold as an eternal glacier.
He promised in a stern voice:
"Don't worry. I'll flee like a wild dog with its tail between its legs!"
"But these three!"
"Will bear the eternal fury of the Uchiha Clan!"
"From this day forth, I will mobilize the entire clan to hunt these three down!"
"The Daimyo's Mansions and ninja villages of the Five Great Nations—Wind, Fire, Earth, Water, and Lightning—will all receive a bounty mission with no expiration date!"
"Furthermore, the Underground Exchange will permanently display a bounty for their heads!"
"Every major and minor Ninja Organization, Hoshigakure Ninja, Takigakure Ninja, Kusagakure Ninja, Amegakure Ninja, Yugakure Ninja, female ninja, the Land of Iron, Ryudoin, Akatsuki, Xuanyuan Group, Forest, Grove, Hannya Group, and En!"
"All powers, all organizations!"
"Will all know—"
Uchiha Setsuna's eyes were crazed, the corners of his eyes split open. His tone was hard, as though he were chewing nails:
"Your heads are worth one hundred million ryo each!"
Every word cut to the heart and carved into the bone!
"What the fuck are you talking about?!" Ramui could not stop his whole body from trembling, panic appearing on his face.
"Uchiha Setsuna, have you lost your mind?!"
"Are you trying to destroy the unspoken rules of the ninja world?!"
"You're courting death!"
Dodai and Moroi, standing nearby, felt as though hammers had struck their heads. Their minds buzzed.
Mad!
They were all mad!
The little brat was mad!
And the old bastard had gone mad with him!
In the chain of hatred within the ninja world, every clan and every village had endured hatred and pain that cut to the bone. Yet openly, no one—and no one who dared—would go as far as Uchiha Setsuna.
At most, they would anonymously post a bounty at the Underground Exchange.
The reasoning was simple. You killed my son, so I put a bounty on your head. Nothing wrong with that.
But such actions would undoubtedly intensify conflicts, causing war to continue without end until villages were destroyed and nations ruined. Naturally, the Ninja Villages would restrict such behavior.
But the Uchiha Clan was different.
As one of the only two strongest clans of the Warring States Period, the Uchiha had the ability to bypass the ninja village Mission System and deliver this Revenge Notice to every organization.
Though no one had ever done it before, the Uchiha truly had connections carved out with Gundams.
However, offering three hundred million ryo openly would likely cost more than a billion ryo behind the scenes. That expense alone left the Ninja Organizations helpless and furious.
Just to kill three people, they would have to sell off the clan's assets and make everyone tighten their belts.
Did the ninja clan not need to develop anymore?
But the Uchiha were different!
The Uchiha had money—lots of it!
Such an expense would not damage their foundations.
And the Hawk Faction within the Uchiha Clan was full of lunatics. They would probably be more than happy to pay out of their own pockets and contribute toward such a bounty.
Hearing Ramui's words, Uchiha Setsuna grinned, his cold and arrogant gaze full of disdain.
"Rules? Do you think I give a damn about rules?!"
"Have you mistaken me for someone else? I am—"
"Uchiha Setsuna!"
As soon as those words fell, Ramui, Dodai, and Moroi's expressions changed at the same time.
Right, this old bastard was Uchiha Setsuna!
At this time, Uchiha Setsuna's name was known to every high-ranking ninja in every nation.
He had dared launch a coup while the Second Hokage was away negotiating and had plotted to assassinate the Second Hokage.
He was practically the same kind of bastard as Kumogakure's Kinkaku Ginkaku!
And Kagami Uchiha, the current Patriarch, had still been alive at the time!
He was a complete and utter lunatic!
For someone like him, it would not be strange at all if he got hot-headed and did anything.
The only difference between this old bastard and Kumogakure's Kinkaku Ginkaku,
Was that one had succeeded in an assassination, while the other had failed and never gotten the chance to launch his coup.
A genuine terrorist!
"You fucking lunatic! Lunatic! Lunatic!" Dodai cursed, his face filled with terror.
Ramui stretched out an arm and pointed at Uchiha Setsuna. He shook with rage, his arm trembling so badly that he could not say a word.
Moroi looked completely defeated, almost devoid of any desire to live.
Who could understand how he felt?
In front of him stood a little lunatic wearing Exploding Tags like clothes.
Behind him stood an old lunatic declaring that he would chop off Moroi's head and use it as a chamber pot.
He was on the verge of a mental breakdown!
Even Uchiha Ci felt as though something were lodged in his throat.
Looking at Uchiha Setsuna made his scalp tingle.
A sudden thought arose in him: he did not want to die here.
It felt like if he died here and Uchiha Setsuna, the Great Elder, returned instead,
The Uchiha might perish even faster than they had in the original history!
Uchiha Ci could not help wailing inwardly:
Save me!
Why are all these Uchiha lunatics?!
I finally got away from Shisui Uchiha, so why had I run into Uchiha Setsuna, whose condition was even worse?!
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