Let's Join Forces and Take Him Down

Eight hundred meters was not a great distance.

For Uchiha Daiki, who had acquired top-tier sensory abilities, every sound and movement within that range was crystal clear to him.

At that moment, Uchiha Daiki heard the conversation between Sarutobi Shio, Hyuga Koji, and the others.

"Heh..."

He could not help but sneer.

Before he had transmigrated, he had often seen naive fools online saying not to indulge in conspiracy theories.

They claimed that the Sarutobi Clan, led by Hiruzen Sarutobi, had not actually treated Konoha or the Uchiha that badly, and that Shimura Danzō was the only truly evil one.

Now, reality was slapping them hard across the face.

This was still during the Third Shinobi World War. The Uchiha Clan remained one of Konoha's main combat forces, serving as the Land of Fire and Konoha Village's frontline soldiers against attacks from other ninja villages.

Yet even so, Sarutobi Shio of the Sarutobi Clan had maliciously speculated about him like this, clearly targeting him.

Or, more accurately, targeting everyone with the surname "Uchiha."

A glimpse through a tube revealed the whole leopard; this showed just what kind of position the Uchiha Clan currently held throughout Konoha.

Uchiha Daiki had originally intended to turn around and leave.

To stop caring about those guys altogether.

But just as he turned to leave and search for enemies on his own, he suddenly heard several hushed voices from farther away.

"Do you think those guys will take the bait?"

The voice was familiar. It belonged to one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.

This made Uchiha Daiki's heart tighten slightly.

"Could these guys... be planning to lure the snake out of its hole?"

He stopped and listened closely.

More voices immediately reached him.

"Hmph, I'd say they've probably fallen for it. We'll wait here for them to chase after us and see whether my judgment is correct!"

"Those Konoha brats will definitely come. We'll deal with them here."

"..."

From the conversation between these enemies alone, he could tell that their earlier injuries and retreat had most likely been an act.

Their purpose was to lure Sarutobi Shio and the others into pursuit.

Then they could wipe out those Konoha ninja in one fell swoop.

"No wonder the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist are so renowned in the shinobi world. They really aren't easy opponents!"

Uchiha Daiki thought silently to himself. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to stay.

It definitely was not for Sarutobi Shio's sake.

But the Hyuga Clan was worth winning over.

Maintaining a good relationship with their clan would be somewhat helpful to his future plans.

As for Uzuki Sen, although she was merely a Konoha civilian, he could still draw closer to her and build goodwill between them.

Just as Uchiha Daiki made up his mind, more voices came from afar.

"You were actually injured?"

"That guy hit me with a kunai from over a hundred meters away! He doesn't seem ordinary!"

"Over a hundred meters? A ninja who can hit an opponent with a kunai from that distance is no ordinary person. Did you get a clear look at what he looked like?"

"Judging by the clan crest, he should be an Uchiha!"

"An Uchiha... I knew something was off!"

The conversation of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist came to an abrupt end there.

However, they did not leave and remained where they were.

Uchiha Daiki could clearly hear their breathing and heartbeats. He could even distinctly smell the scent they had left behind in the forest.

Sure enough, after a brief silence, someone spoke again. "That guy is alone?"

"I only saw one person!"

"Then that's good. There are seven of us, so we might as well deal with him here too. As long as it isn't someone like Body Flicker Shisui or the Yellow Flash, any other Uchiha is nothing to the seven of us working together!"

They clearly never imagined that Uchiha Daiki could hear their conversation from so far away.

After the seven of them made their decision, they began to set up an ambush.

Uchiha Daiki found it amusing.

"Good thing Heaven-Defying Comprehension awakened such powerful sensory abilities."

"Looks like I'll have no choice but to personally kill one or two of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist today."

He concealed his presence and began sneaking toward the enemy's location.

Elsewhere, Sarutobi Shio arrived with Hyuga Koji and Uzuki Sen near the Explosive Tag array Uchiha Daiki had set up earlier.

After examining the bloodstains left on the ground, they identified the direction in which the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist had fled.

"They really were injured!"

"Koji, check where those guys went!"

Sarutobi Shio ordered.

"Should we wait for the corpse retrieval unit to arrive before moving together?"

Uzuki Sen still looked somewhat worried.

To prevent intelligence from being leaked, ninjas who died on the battlefield would normally have their bodies retrieved by their own comrades.

But since this was wartime, the able-bodied forces still needed to carry out combat missions, so dedicated corpse retrieval units handled such matters.

They only needed to mark the location of the bodies, and the unit would come find them.

"By the time they get here, the enemy might already be gone!"

Sarutobi Shio replied.

Hyuga Koji added, "It looks like they've already left the one-kilometer range. That's the limit of my vision—I can't see them now, but I can clearly see the bloodstains left on the trees... It's certain that they were all injured!"

"Then we need to speed up!"

"If you don't dare join us, stay here and wait for us. Don't follow us and hold us back!"

Sarutobi Shio gave Uzuki Sen a cold glance, then took the lead in pursuing the direction the enemy had fled.

Hyuga Koji also turned back to glance at Uzuki Sen hesitantly before following him.

Seeing that both her teammates had left, Uzuki Sen hesitated for a moment before she could only force herself to follow.

They still did not know that death was waiting for them ahead.

Uchiha Daiki silently crept close to where the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist lay in ambush.

At the same time, Sarutobi Shio, brimming with confidence and eager to earn merit, arrived at the enemy's ambush point with Hyuga Koji and Uzuki Sen.

Hyuga Koji suddenly stopped.

Sarutobi Shio immediately turned around and asked in confusion, "What is it?"

"The blood trail disappears here. How strange..."

Hyuga Koji muttered to himself.

"Hehe! Strange, is it?"

"Because we've been waiting here all along for you to walk right into our trap!"

"So it really is only the few of them? There are no reinforcements lying in ambush at all. We were simply too careless..."

"To think we got injured by these few brats. What a disgrace. Let's wipe them out here!"

All of a sudden, seven figures appeared at once, surrounding the three of them.

One of them, a bearded middle-aged man, let out a puzzled "Huh?" "Why are there only three?"