"Damn it!"
Hearing Uchiha Brahman's words, A's expression changed at once. Damn that Uchiha Brahman—he was truly vicious. But A no longer had the strength to fight him. He raised his hand and brought it down toward his own head.
Suicide!
He couldn't let this madman control him. For the sake of the village, this was the last thing he could do. He couldn't think of any way to escape other than dying.
He was too strong. A had never seen a ninja as powerful and terrifying as Uchiha Brahman. No—not even a ninja anymore, but a god: the ninja among ninjas, the strongest among the strong. Perhaps only the God of Shinobi from long ago could kill Uchiha Brahman.
"B, stay alive!"
A roared inwardly, clinging to one last hope: that after he died, Killer B, who had remained in the village, could lead the surviving ninja out of Kumogakure. He was the village's last hope.
He never would have imagined that he would lose so quickly. The ninja of Kumogakure were so utterly powerless before Uchiha Brahman, so weak. Uchiha Brahman hadn't even used any ninjutsu against them. He had merely fired off a pile of serums, as if dealing with wild beasts, and wiped out all the ninja of Kumogakure.
Even A, the strongest person in Kumogakure, had been completely crushed by Uchiha Brahman's immense power, as helpless as a newborn child. Now, he couldn't even escape.
Sage of Six Paths, why could Uchiha Brahman be so powerful? Why? How was this possible?!
It made no sense. None of it made any sense.
They knew all about Uchiha Brahman's background, because he had never hidden it.
He was born into the Uchiha Clan. At this time in previous years, he should still have been selling fish. Before the Daimyo of the Land of Fire set out for Konoha, Uchiha Brahman had been an ordinary fishmonger, not even a ninja. He had no parents and no siblings.
He was just an Uchiha orphan.
Yet this ordinary person, someone no one had ever noticed, as weak and unremarkable as an ant, had suddenly risen to prominence. First Konoha, then Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and now Kumogakure.
It was absurd. Utterly absurd. It was like seeing an ant by the roadside and reaching down to crush it—only for the ant to suddenly unleash divine power, kill you, and begin ruling the world.
Even now, A felt as if he were living in a dream.
Was it those eyes? The Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan?
No, that couldn't be. This wasn't how ninjas worked. This wasn't the way of the ninja. If the Uchiha Clan were that powerful, they would have conquered the world ages ago. There wouldn't be any place for the rest of them.
"What a monster..."
A said one last thing and swung his hand toward his forehead. If the blow landed, his head would burst open and he would die on the spot.
But just as his hand was about to strike his head, his movement stopped.
A hand clamped tightly around his wrist.
"Hey, child, why do you want to kill yourself? You mustn't do that. You can't get into heaven by killing yourself. What do you think life is? Why do you want to die? Do you think your life is so worthless? Do you think your life belongs only to you?"
Uchiha Brahman looked at A, bewildered, his face sorrowful. Then he spoke in a stern, righteous voice.
"Madman! Aah!!!"
A stared into Uchiha Brahman's crimson eyes and raised his other hand, aiming for his shattered chest. He was going to die today. He said so himself! No one could stop him from killing himself!
But in the next instant, Uchiha Brahman squeezed hard. The bones in A's wrist shattered, and a surge of electricity crackled across Uchiha Brahman's body.
Lightning Style: Bio-Electric Interference Pulse Jutsu!
A special electromagnetic pulse burst from Uchiha Brahman and enveloped A in an instant. Under this powerful electromagnetic pulse, specifically designed to target carbon-based lifeforms, the nerve signals in A's body went haywire. His brain lost control of his body, and the hand that had been about to plunge into his chest and crush his own heart fell limp.
Thud!
A collapsed to the ground.
He lay there in pain and despair, staring at Uchiha Brahman.
What... kind of... jutsu...
Fragmented thoughts swirled through his mind, like those of a malfunctioning artificial intelligence.
Seeing A's confusion, the kind and gentle Uchiha Brahman crouched down.
"Bio-Electric Interference Pulse Jutsu! It's a special jutsu I developed specifically to target living things. At their core, living things are just complex machines. This jutsu converts chakra into a special electromagnetic pulse. Without specialized protection or a sufficiently powerful life force, no one can resist it..."
Uchiha Brahman explained casually, then placed a finger on A's forehead.
Life seal. Soul suppression. Cellular activity suppression...
Before long, A's heart stopped beating. His consciousness sank into darkness, his vital signs began to fade, and the shadow of death closed around him.
A stopped heart didn't cause someone to die instantly. To Uchiha Brahman, true death meant brain death.
Of course, now that he was in the Shinobi World, he had adapted his methods. To Uchiha Brahman, true death meant the destruction of the soul.
With his technology, even if someone really died, he could still pull their soul back and revive them. It wasn't difficult. It was only a matter of whether he wanted to, not whether he could.
"Come, child. Accept the great blessing! Hahaha!"
A golden fruit appeared in Uchiha Brahman's hand, then fell directly onto A.
A's vital signs began to recover. His heart started beating again. He was alive.
The Seed of Blessing and Sacred Blessing Serum had essentially the same effects. In fact, the Sacred Blessing Serum was better, since that stuff could truly make people stronger.
As for the Seed of Blessing—
Apart from granting chakra to creatures that had none and turning creatures that weren't followers into followers, it had no other use. Creatures who received the Seed of Blessing were no different from how they'd been before. Even the nature of their chakra wouldn't change.
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