Kill Senrin, Obtain the Byakugan

Meanwhile, at the Ninja Academy.

Uchiha Mina smoothly made her way to Hyuga Senrin's seat and unfolded the note she had left behind.

She learned where Hyuga Senrin was at that moment.

"Hyuga Senrin, just you wait. I'll definitely kill you."

Uchiha Mina clenched the note tightly in her hand, her face twisted with madness as she ran toward the address written on it.

The moon shone bright amid sparse stars, and some time had already passed.

Hyuga Senrin seemed to have fallen asleep, leaning against Uchiha Tunan's chest and unwilling to get up.

Seeing that the time was about right, Uchiha Tunan's right hand, which had been gently patting her back, paused.

He then pushed Hyuga Senrin slightly away. His left arm still wrapped around her slender waist as he looked down into her eyes and said:

"Senrin."

"Mmm~"

"I admire you very much."

As Uchiha Tunan spoke, he leaned his lips closer.

They could even feel the warmth of each other's breath.

"But your vision is too narrow. You don't have the heart of a strong person.

A strong person wouldn't cling to so-called love.

Come, I'll give you a gift."

With that, Uchiha Tunan slowly lowered his head.

A trace of intoxication flashed through Hyuga Senrin's eyes as she slowly closed them.

At the same time, the left arm around Hyuga Senrin's slender waist suddenly tightened, pressing her frail body firmly against his.

His free right hand, meanwhile, began forming hand seals slowly and rhythmically.

A few breaths later, their lips parted.

Their noses remained barely touching as Uchiha Tunan whispered in a magnetic voice:

"Alright, the time is about right.

The Explosive Tag has already been soaked."

The moment he finished speaking, Hyuga Senrin suddenly snapped awake.

Her eyes flew open, activating the Byakugan, and her delicate right hand struck toward Uchiha Tunan's heart.

"Pfft~"

"Crackle, crackle~"

A lightning needle flickering with electric arcs suddenly pierced into the back of Hyuga Senrin's head, passed through her skull, and emerged from the center of her forehead.

The next moment.

The Chakra in Hyuga Senrin's right hand dissipated, and her hand fell limply onto Uchiha Tunan's chest.

In an instant, all life left her body, and she collapsed into Uchiha Tunan's arms.

"If you love me, you want me to die with you.

That isn't love. That's insanity."

At some point, Uchiha Tunan had activated his Three Tomoe Sharingan.

His blood-red eyes looked at the corpse in his arms, his face full of sorrow as he said:

"Whatever your reasons were, if you wanted me dead, then I had no choice but to kill you.

You were so extreme. If you didn't die, I wouldn't feel safe."

Suddenly, Uchiha Tunan felt a faint warm current flow through his entire body.

"This Chakra nature... Water Release and Earth Release?

Not bad. This is..."

In Uchiha Tunan's vision, Hyuga Senrin's internal Chakra pathways were fully visible.

When he raised his head, the scenery around him seemed to have changed color. It was not the white vision of a genuine Byakugan.

Instead, it was a unique red, like an infrared detector.

Three hundred and sixty degrees, without a single blind spot.

"So the Byakugan's abilities have merged into the Sharingan as well.

Senrin, I never expected you to be such a treasure."

Joy rose on Uchiha Tunan's face as he instinctively controlled his eyes.

The next instant.

The Sharingan vanished. Veins bulged around Uchiha Tunan's eyes as he activated the Byakugan.

With the system's abilities, Uchiha Tunan could freely switch between the Sharingan and the Byakugan.

He could also add the abilities of one ocular technique while the other was active.

That was quite user-friendly.

Swish—

The kunai sliced across Hyuga Senrin's neck, severing her head.

Once he had killed someone, he had to deal with the aftermath.

Konoha had the Yamanaka Clan, who could probe the memories of the dead.

Thud.

Hyuga Senrin's headless corpse crashed heavily to the ground.

Uchiha Tunan tossed the head in his hand onto the open ground, then rapidly formed hand seals.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique."

The blazing fireball instantly charred the head.

After finishing everything, Uchiha Tunan unhurriedly fastened the button at his collar and smoothed the wrinkles from his shirt.

Then he turned and left along the path.

By killing Hyuga Senrin, he had gained Chakra of the water and earth natures, as well as a rudimentary Gentle Fist.

Of course, the most valuable gain had been the Byakugan's abilities.

He had also unexpectedly discovered that the Byakugan and Sharingan could be fused.

In that case...

Within the dark forest, dozens of lurking white doves lit up with blood-red Sharingan.

Everything in the surrounding forest came into view.

Just as Uchiha Tunan had expected, the Sharingan paired with Mirror Heaven and Earth Turning could control these white doves and share their vision.

Now that the Byakugan's abilities had merged into the Sharingan, the doves could use them as well.

It was just that maintaining this ability consumed an enormous amount of Chakra.

Even so, Uchiha Tunan was thoroughly satisfied.

In the ninja world, intelligence was the most important thing.

Even someone as powerful as Madara Uchiha could not withstand a sneak attack from behind.

Suddenly, through one dove's shared vision, Uchiha Tunan saw a familiar figure running through the forest toward this place.

He immediately halted, his expression turning completely grim as he said coldly, "No wonder you wanted to stall for time. Did you want all three of you to go on your way together?"

With that, Uchiha Tunan slowly walked into the shadowy forest.

A vast bank of dark clouds drifted across the sky, gradually devouring the full moon.

In the distance, an immense shadow swept over the earth, as though it were about to swallow the entire forest.

Elsewhere, the furious Uchiha Mina raced through the woods.

Before long, Uchiha Mina arrived before the waterfall.

But the surroundings were too dark now for her to see clearly.

She had only taken two steps forward when she realized she seemed to have stepped on something.

Lowering her head, she picked up the object from the ground.

"This is... that bitch's clothing."

Uchiha Mina frowned. Her nostrils twitched slightly as she sniffed twice and muttered, "Why does it smell like roasted meat?"

Uchiha Mina followed the scent for two steps, then suddenly froze in place.

An icy chill shot up her spine to the back of her head.

Not far away lay the naked, headless corpse of a woman.

About five or six meters from the corpse lay a charred head, its original features no longer discernible, while the surrounding ground was scorched black.

"This is..." Uchiha Mina glanced down at the clothing in her hand and swallowed.

She roughly guessed that the dead woman was Hyuga Senrin.

Although this was not Uchiha Mina's first time seeing a corpse, a chill still rose within her in such an environment.

She must have been bathing in the river beneath the waterfall earlier.

Who could have killed her before she even had time to put on her clothes?

Was this how it happened—her head cut off first, then burned with Fire Release to destroy it?

Had that person left? Could they have been a ninja from another village?

Or perhaps some perverted ninja hiding within the village.

She had heard the aunties in the clan say that people used to be caught peeping in the bathhouse all the time...

Uchiha Mina's imagination ran wild. The more she thought about it, the more terrified she became. She hurriedly threw down the clothes in her hands and ran toward Konoha.

The road was littered with broken branches and dead leaves, crunching beneath Uchiha Mina's feet as she sprinted at full speed.

She intended to report this to the Security Force.

Although Uchiha Mina hated Hyuga Senrin, Hyuga Senrin had been murdered after all.

And there was a good chance she had been killed by a spy from an enemy village. As a member of Konoha, Mina had to report something like this immediately.

Good riddance. That bitch would never be able to set her sights on Tunan-kun again.

Luckily, I arrived late. Otherwise, I might have been killed alongside her.

Uchiha Mina thought to herself.

Suddenly, a flash of insight crossed Uchiha Mina's mind as she ran.

Her steps gradually slowed.

Why hadn't she let me come directly from the start? Why did she make me go to the classroom to get that note?

She was stalling for time!

She must have arranged to meet someone else from the beginning.

That person...

Tunan-kun!