"Let me show you the true power of the Uchiha."
When his vision returned, the Daimyo's son gasped for breath and found that the scene before him had become utterly incomprehensible.
The sky was blood-red, and so was the ground. An endless expanse of water covered that crimson ground, without a single ripple. Its surface reflected the equally crimson sky, making it impossible to tell where the sky ended and the earth began.
My body... I can't move.
Sensing something wrong with his body, the Daimyo's son looked down. His arms were stretched out to either side, held fast by shackles. He had been bound to a cross.
"Where... where is this?!"
His voice echoed through the empty, blood-red space. "Hokage! Do you know what you're doing?! This is! This is an abuse of force! I'm the Daimyo's son! I'm a noble of the Land of Fire! You can't—"
The Hokage, Uchiha Satsuki, appeared.
She appeared before the Daimyo's son, but something was wrong with her figure. Her body was utterly transparent, and she held a long blade in her hand.
"You seem to have misunderstood something."
Satsuki's voice came from that transparent figure. "Even after what happened, you seem to think shinobi won't lay a hand on you. You think shinobi have rules, limits, an inviolable law against attacking nobles. Let me destroy your ambitions once and for all."
"What are you going to do?! What exactly have you done?!"
The Daimyo's son wanted to use his status to intimidate her, but he could no longer get the words out. The long blade in the spectral Satsuki's hand was already pointed at him.
Shlk.
"Aaargh—!!!"
The agony of being impaled struck him all at once. The blade entered his chest, passed through muscle, slipped between his ribs, and pierced