Training Against Genjutsu, Hyuga Sho's Past

"How about this? I'll keep being friends with Young Master Asuma, but in exchange, you have to help me train specifically against Genjutsu."

Hyuga Sho made up his mind.

If Kakashi truly knew Genjutsu.

Then he would most likely use it when Sho challenged him in the future.

So preparing methods to counter Genjutsu in advance became the top priority.

There were still fifty-five days...

Before Hyuga Mami and Hatake Kakashi graduated early.

All he had to pay was two months' worth of social costs.

Saturday.

Yūhi Kurenai, who had agreed to Hyuga Sho's request.

Arrived at the Ninja Academy early in the morning.

The school was empty on its day off.

The two went to the rear field and began training against Genjutsu.

"Ninja Art..."

Yūhi Kurenai formed hand seals.

"Let me make this clear first. If you're scared to death, it won't be my fault."

"Bring it on. I've got guts. Since I was little, nothing has ever managed to scare me."

Hyuga Sho smiled, revealing a row of white teeth.

"Fine, then be careful... Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!!"

Hyuga Sho met Yūhi Kurenai's gaze, staring into those ruby-like eyes. Soon, he fell into an illusion.

A few days ago, Yūhi Kurenai had said that the Hell Viewing Technique could make someone see what they feared most deep inside.

At its core, it relied on meeting the target's eyes.

The Genjutsu caster manipulated the target's cerebral Chakra.

It was a method of confusing the target's five senses.

A moment later...

"!"

Hyuga Sho felt his vision blur.

The scenery around him changed.

"..."

Mountains, sunlight, a river.

He looked around, feeling something subtly off in his mind.

"Right... I've been on the run for exactly 325 days..."

Hyuga Sho turned on the radio he carried with him.

The radio was broadcasting the news.

"Warning! A vicious criminal has fled into the mountains of A City. In order to preserve humanity's peace, we will deploy the final measure..."

"Hmph... Criminal? Final measure? What methods haven't you people already tried?"

Hyuga Sho turned off the radio and stood.

He picked up his backpack and continued fleeing.

Just then.

A deep rumble suddenly came from the sky.

It sounded like... some kind of man-made object flying overhead.

"!"

Hyuga Sho raised his head and looked into the sky.

A modern weapon trailing tail flames exploded within his sight.

A nuclear missile.

The crystallization of humanity's technology and wisdom.

The terrifying sudden attack left Hyuga Sho with no time to react.

He had barely seen the flash.

Before the nuclear missile exploded.

Intense flames, shockwaves, and radiation instantly swept across dozens of kilometers...

In an instant, temperatures exceeding ten thousand degrees gave Hyuga Sho no chance to flee.

And melted him directly.

"Ugh!!"

Hyuga Sho broke free from the Genjutsu.

His vision blurred briefly before Yūhi Kurenai's figure emerged before him.

"I..."

Only then did Hyuga Sho realize.

That everything just now had been an illusion.

"How was it?" Yūhi Kurenai asked as she released her hand seal.

"It was so real..."

Hyuga Sho clenched his fist.

Everything in the Illusionary Realm just now had seemed completely real.

"And while I was in the 'Genjutsu,' I didn't realize it was 'Genjutsu.'"

Hyuga Sho summed up this point.

He had truly believed he was on Earth and still fleeing.

What he had experienced in the Illusionary Realm just now.

Had actually been the final scene of Hyuga Sho's previous life.

"That's perfectly normal. Genjutsu acts directly on the brain," Yūhi Kurenai answered matter-of-factly.

The disrupted Chakra caused abnormalities in how the brain functioned.

That made the illusion... as real as reality itself.

"So... what did you see just now?"

Although Yūhi Kurenai, as the caster, could make Hyuga Sho fall into an Illusionary Realm.

She had no way of knowing what Hyuga Sho was experiencing.

Yūhi Kurenai was very puzzled.

Because...

Everyone struck by the Genjutsu called "Hell Viewing."

Should, without exception, reveal a terrified expression.

But...

Hyuga Sho had not.

He showed none of the negative expressions of terror, fear, panic, or anything else.

So this simply... Did not match common sense.

"Again!"

Hyuga Sho spoke to Yūhi Kurenai.

He wanted to experience Genjutsu once more.

This time... he at least had to recognize that he was inside an Illusionary Realm.

Yūhi Kurenai: "..."

A few seconds later, Yūhi Kurenai still formed hand seals.

He opened his eyes.

It was still that familiar scene.

Hyuga Sho stood up.

"!"

This time, amidst Hyuga Sho's muddled thoughts... there was an additional trace of clarity.

"I think I just now... fell under Yūhi Kurenai's Genjutsu."

He looked around and checked his pack.

Then he turned on the radio.

"Warning! Citizens, a vicious villain has fled into the mountains of A City. In order to preserve humanity's peace, we will deploy the final measure..."

This time, Hyuga Sho did not continue fleeing.

Instead, he raised his head and gazed up at the sky.

Very soon, a blinding flash covered everything his eyes could see.

Including Hyuga Sho himself, of course.

"Again!"

"Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!"

Hyuga Sho was not confused at all.

The instant he woke, he began looking for cover.

When the nuclear missile exploded, Hyuga Sho lived one second longer than last time.

"Slash!"

The knife mercilessly cut across his body.

Fresh blood sprayed from his arm.

After doing that, Hyuga Sho looked up at the sky.

A blinding flash erupted.

"Release!"

Hyuga Sho formed hand seals with both hands.

He desperately stirred the Chakra within his body.

Trying to make it erupt within him in an instant and undo Yūhi Kurenai's disruption of his cerebral Chakra.

A few seconds later, the nuclear missile exploded.

"The wound I inflicted in the Genjutsu can't affect my body in reality."

"Gathering Chakra in the Genjutsu is also merely an illusion."

Hyuga Sho summarized the failures of the previous attempts.

When someone had truly fallen under Genjutsu.

The various countermeasures for dispelling it were not easy to put into practice.

Yet despite failing repeatedly.

Hyuga Sho did not know...

That Yūhi Kurenai, standing opposite him, grew increasingly alarmed with every use of Genjutsu.

"At first, this Hyuga Sho had absolutely no resistance to Genjutsu, but after just one time, he developed resistance."

"On the second use, I increased the Genjutsu's precision and invested more Chakra Amount."

"The third, the fourth... every time became more exhausting."

"If this continues, even if I use Genjutsu with all my strength, I won't be able to trap him anymore."

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