Great Sword: Samehada (Seeking Recommendations!!)

They had come to blows!

In this Secret Chamber used for the clan's confidential gatherings, they had actually drawn weapons and started fighting. This was an unprecedented first. Even the Elders had never encountered such a situation before, and they could only stare dumbfounded as Uchiha Toshiwa and Sōken began fighting right in front of everyone.

No one stepped in to stop them.

Although this was a Secret Chamber for gatherings, there were no clan rules forbidding members from sparring here. Besides, the clan head and Elders each had their own thoughts, and all silently chose to stand by and watch.

"We are Uchiha!"

Sōken swung the strange bandage-wrapped weapon he had taken from his back, resembling a narrower door panel. He calmly blocked Uchiha Toshiwa's attacks while still having the leisure to speak. "Seniority doesn't count for anything in our clan. Want me to call you senior? Fine. Just defeat me!"

The instant his words fell, the door-panel-wide weapon thrust horizontally through the air. Its utterly crushing force smashed into Uchiha Toshiwa's Short Sword. Before that overwhelming strength, Uchiha Toshiwa, sword and all, was sent flying backward. With a bang, he turned into a cloud of white smoke.

It was a Shadow Clone.

Everyone present was a Jonin, yet even so, not everyone had seen when Uchiha Toshiwa had used a Shadow Clone to replace his real body. This was enough to show that this confidant of the clan head was no incompetent hanger-on.

Uchiha Toshiwa's true body appeared directly above Sōken.

At some point, he had planted himself upside down on the ceiling.

The Short Sword in his hand, wrapped in a dazzling arc of lightning, plunged viciously toward Sōken's head.

Clang—!

The sharp, crisp sound of metal striking metal echoed through the Secret Chamber.

Sōken raised the door-panel-like weapon in his hand horizontally, using it as a shield to block Uchiha Toshiwa's highly penetrating Short Sword. Even with the downward attack carrying the force of his body weight, Sōken took it without so much as a reaction.

"You..."

Uchiha Toshiwa opened his mouth, intending to say something.

But suddenly, he discovered that the lightning flickering around his Short Sword had vanished. At the same time, his Chakra began pouring uncontrollably down the blade like floodwaters through a breached dam. Realizing something was wrong, he tried to pull back, but it was already too late.

The strange door-panel-like weapon suddenly tore free of the bandages wrapped around it and began writhing like a living creature. Its long body abruptly stretched out, coiling around Uchiha Toshiwa's waist like a python as it devoured his Chakra with even greater speed and ferocity.

Only then

did the clan members finally recognize the weapon in Sōken's hand for what it truly was.

"Great Sword: Samehada!!!"

"Why is that sword in Sōken's hands?"

"Isn't that sword supposed to belong to Kirigakure's Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist?"

The clan members erupted into discussion.

No one had expected the door-panel-like thing Sōken had carried on his back all this time to be Great Sword: Samehada. This sword was quite famous and had an extremely long history. Its precise origins could no longer be verified, but at the very least, the name Samehada had indeed appeared in the history of the Uchiha Clan.

It was a Ninja Tool as ancient as the Uchiha Gunbai that the Uchiha Clan had lost.

A Ninja Tool capable of devouring Chakra was a powerful weapon in any era. Its special ability had been enough to draw the Uchiha Clan's attention and earn it a place in their crude, simple historical records.

The so-called Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist were merely a recent invention cooked up by Kirigakure. If they had acquired a few more similar sword-shaped Ninja Tools back then, perhaps they would have been the Eight Swordsmen or Nine Swordsmen... And the Seven Ninja Swordsmen's debut battle had gone badly—they had been crippled by a mere Konoha Genin. Truly pitiful!

"Toshiwa, it seems you can't make me call you senior after all." Under Sōken's control, Samehada released Uchiha Toshiwa, whom it had coiled around. More than eighty percent of his Chakra had been devoured cleanly—enough to leave him bedridden for several days.

Uchiha Toshiwa could not answer Sōken at all.

He collapsed to the ground with a thud, having completely passed out after so much of his Chakra had been devoured.

"Who's next?"

Sōken no longer looked at the defeated man lying on the ground. He raised Samehada and swept its point around the clan members in the Secret Chamber before finally aiming it at Fugaku Uchiha. This was blatant provocation.

"Sōken, why is this sword in your possession?"

Fugaku Uchiha frowned deeply as he looked at Samehada pointed at him.

He felt a profound sense of trouble.

He had not stopped Toshiwa from attacking because he wanted to see for himself what the clan's [Flame Demon] was truly capable of, and how far he differed from the data in the reports. Yet he had not expected Toshiwa to lose so quickly and so easily. And there had been absolutely no mention of Great Sword: Samehada in the reports. The discrepancy was far too great—

When a powerful Ninja Tool fell into the hands of a powerful ninja, it could completely produce the effect of giving a tiger wings.

The Uchiha Clan's [Uchiha Gunbai], the Ninja Tool that had vanished along with Madara Uchiha, was the clearest and most typical example. According to the records, that Ninja Tool possessed the ability to reflect ninjutsu. Countless people had died to that technique because they did not know its nature. The clan's history books even recorded the glorious feat of a certain clan head using it to reflect a small Tailed Beast Bomb fired by a Tailed Beast.

The power of top-tier Ninja Tools was plain to see.

"This is Spoils of War from the battlefield. I killed that whoever-it-was."

Sōken waved Samehada in his hand. This Ninja Sword, which was exceptionally picky about its wielder, behaved as obediently in his hand as an extension of his own arm. This was the power of [Knight of Owner], allowing him to effortlessly subdue this unruly Ninja Sword.

"Is something like that even worth asking? Lord Clan Head, you should be thinking about whether you plan to fight me personally or send someone else to compete with me. Oh, and everyone, you can come at me together if you want. I don't mind being surrounded or fighting one after another."

That contemptuous attitude stabbed into the clan members' arrogant hearts.

Especially the older Jonin. Being provoked so openly by a mere fifteen-year-old junior caused their anger to rise uncontrollably. Although the clan head had warned them in advance not to act rashly, proud Uchiha were hardly so easily restrained.

"Kid, a powerful Ninja Tool can indeed be of great use, but relying too heavily on external things is not entirely a good thing."

The one who stood was a stubbly clan member who looked to be in his forties or fifties. He did not move a single step from where he stood. He merely opened his Sharingan, his Three Tomoe crimson eyes staring straight ahead as his gaze met Sōken's head-on.

"The Sharingan is what our clan—ah!!!"

His unfinished words turned into a cry of agony.

The clan member who had been speaking so confidently broke out in a cold sweat, his muscles twitching faintly as the pain he felt within the Genjutsu fed back into his body. In his clash of Genjutsu against Sōken, he had suffered a crushing defeat.

The two of them had coincidentally used [Illusionary Arts: Binding Chain Technique].

It was one of the clan members' favorite Genjutsu. Within the mental world constructed by the caster, the captured person's limbs felt as though wedges had been driven into them, completely robbing them of their freedom of movement. It was also accompanied by the illusion of physical pain, producing a powerful interrogation-like effect... Its exceptional practicality had made this Genjutsu one of the Uchiha's signature techniques.

A clash between the same eye-technique Genjutsu!

Naturally, it became a contest of whose ocular power was stronger, since this Genjutsu itself was not known for its complexity.

The result of the clash—

Naturally, Sōken won decisively. He even skipped the stalemate phase, overwhelming his opponent's ocular power outright and pinning the once-confident clan member in place, unable to move.

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