Su Nuo and Hyuga Shin's First Meeting, Teaching Liger Bomb! Giving You a Lesson!

He knew.

The Hyuga Clan was just this weak.

Konoha's great clan, second only to the Uchiha?

This... was just too pathetic!

"Enough. We'll end the discussion here for today." The Hyuga Clan Head glanced at his son before dismissing the meeting.

Inside the prison.

Hyuga Shin had not thought of his parents in a long time.

He remembered that when he was still young, he heard that his parents were going to the battlefield... That should have been during the Second Shinobi World War.

Then, his parents left him behind.

Fortunately, thanks to the clan's subsidies, the Hyuga Family was quite wealthy, so Hyuga Shin had never lacked food or clothing up to this point.

However.

The Hyuga Family always reminded him that all of this had been bestowed upon the Branch Family by the Main Family... He had to be deeply grateful, he had to be appreciative, and thank the Hyuga Main Family.

All of a sudden.

A question surfaced in Hyuga Shin's mind.

Why?

His memories...

Gradually became clear.

Those memories buried deep within him began to emerge.

—Protect the Main Family.

Why... My parents had clearly given their lives to protect the Main Family, so why did the Main Family demand that I be deeply grateful for the compensation they gave me?!

If I didn't want compensation, could my parents come back?!

Why... Why, why, why, why!

Negative Emotions unlike anything he had ever felt filled his heart, causing tears to flow from Hyuga Shin's swollen, tightly shut eyes.

The tears mixed with blood.

Every tear that rolled down brought a stinging pain.

"Why..."

"I've never resisted, yet I'm still treated like this..."

"Just because I'm from the Branch Family?"

The Branch Family Members, his comrades, and the civilians all saw him as a hero.

Yet at home, the Main Family used the Caged Bird to control him, suppressing and interrogating him as they pleased... As though... as though he were a slave!

Hyuga Shin painfully clawed at the dirt in the prison.

The dirt stained his fingernails and dragged his soul into darkness.

Gradually.

A bloody stench filled Hyuga Shin's nostrils...

The smell of blood was unimaginably thick.

Hyuga Shin felt as though he had lost the ability to breathe, his mind seized by the sight before him.

Countless corpses... bones... piled atop one another.

Was this hell?

Was he dead?

Was he in hell now?

"Kid, without my permission... don't raise your head."

A lazy voice came from above.

Hyuga Shin felt his entire body go numb and begin to tremble.

Fear!

Fear!!

What kind of existence was that?!

Hyuga Shin had never felt fear before. Everyone said he was strong, and he had believed it himself.

But at this moment, he felt fear deeply!

Thud!

Hyuga Shin knelt in a pool of blood.

"Hmph..." A snicker came from above.

"You may raise your head..." the voice said.

Hyuga Shin panted heavily.

Over on Su Nuo's side.

Seeing that the effect was too strong, he slowly withdrew his fear.

Unlike Original Sukuna, Su Nuo possessed the power to absorb souls. For now, it seemed that he also had the power to absorb his host's emotions.

With this ability, Su Nuo could indirectly control Hyuga Shin.

Hyuga Shin's resistance to fear is really low... Well, all the Negative Emotions he's had since childhood were absorbed by me.

Su Nuo felt that he had not crossed over only recently. Rather, he had come here long ago, but had been asleep all this time.

He had no idea how many years he had been in the world of Hokage...

After absorbing a vast amount of fear.

Hyuga Shin's breathing finally became a little smoother. He raised his head and saw a figure seated upon a throne, with a face identical to his own but black markings across it...

The figure sat casually, radiating a powerful aura.

Hyuga Shin struggled to his feet. He looked at the man, fear filling his heart, yet he still gathered the courage to ask, "You... who are you?"

"An ancient god." Su Nuo smiled faintly, casually making up a backstory for himself.

Not bad.

Even Original Sukuna did not possess the ability to devour souls.

Over there.

Hyuga Shin's eyes widened.

A god...?

"You... are you the Sage of Six Paths?"

"Something like him isn't worthy of comparison to me."

Though Su Nuo was not particularly powerful at the moment, that did not stop him from boasting. Or rather, with his ability to devour souls, his potential for growth was limitless.

"Kid..." Su Nuo looked at Hyuga Shin. "You and I are fated. Are you willing... to become my Divine Emissary?"

A Divine Emissary?!

Hyuga Shin was greatly shocked.

But he quickly came to his senses.

All this flesh strewn across the ground...

Did this look like a proper god?!

An Evil God?!

Hyuga Shin realized it at that moment.

"I..."

"Submit to me, work for me, and use slaughter to offer this world as sacrifice. Then I will grant you the power to change everything."

Seeing Hyuga Shin's expression, Su Nuo casually curled a finger.

"Ah!"

Hyuga Shin crashed into the blood pool again.

In his mind, endless resentment and malicious thoughts began to surge, surge wildly, explode!

When he was little, he had been bullied by the Hyuga Main Family.

Now, after becoming a War Hero, he had been falsely accused, imprisoned, and tortured!

No, no!

It should not have been like this!

Intense hatred rose within Hyuga Shin's heart!

"The power... to change everything?!" Hyuga Shin's gaze sharpened.

"Mhm, that's right..." Su Nuo propped up his chin, an evil curve on his lips. "The more you kill, the stronger you will become."

"A... you were the one who helped me kill him, weren't you?" Hyuga Shin suddenly spoke.

As he spoke.

Hyuga Shin slowly rose to his feet.

"Hm?" Su Nuo was slightly stunned.

Had he stuffed in too much hatred?

Indeed, it was said that under the most extreme hatred, one's eyes would turn red and one would fall into a frenzied state.

There was also a term for this state—demonic madness.

Hyuga Shin fixed Su Nuo with an incomparably sharp gaze.

His eyes had turned into the Byakugan as well.

"Then I accept this contract!" Hyuga Shin abruptly spread his arms wide. "I want power!"

Bang!

Hyuga Shin sprang up, landing directly atop the massive skeleton.

Su Nuo watched Hyuga Shin in his unhinged state with great interest.

"You say you're a god? Then you must be some kind of Evil God... Give me power! And this space is quite nice too! Wouldn't it be perfect for testing my new power?"

Gentle Fist Style: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!

Hyuga Shin charged straight at Su Nuo!

"Hmph... fine."

Lightning Release: Liger Bomb!

Su Nuo remained seated upon the throne, but his hand had already changed color. That was the Lightning Release ninjutsu, Liger Bomb.

"This is the first skill I'm going to teach you."

"But..."

"For your offense, I need to teach you a lesson."

Su Nuo grinned sinisterly.

Splurt!

Hyuga Shin, now only a few meters away from Su Nuo, froze in midair.

The next instant, the slash tore him into eight pieces!

And after the most extreme agony, Hyuga Shin's consciousness abruptly cut out!

The last sight he saw was from his head as it flew high into the air... the shattered body of "Hyuga Shin."