"Captain, what do we do with the bodies?"
Looking at the corpses strewn across the ground, Uchiha Hikari smiled with satisfaction. "Leave them here. Let those guys come and collect their dead."
Today, they had slaughtered most of the Three Clans' descendants. The three families would surely decline over time, falling from prestigious clans to small, sparsely populated ones.
When that happened, they would no longer pose any threat to the Uchiha.
Kyosuke tossed aside the bloodstained Kunai and took a few deep breaths. In the end, he had gone through with it.
He had thought he would be panicking, but unexpectedly, he felt calm.
I've accepted killing so easily. Looks like I'm well suited to surviving in the Naruto world. A mocking smile tugged at Kyosuke's lips. He walked off by himself, with no intention of helping clean up the battlefield.
Suddenly, an intense sense of dread made him shudder. He hurriedly looked up and saw a gigantic palm blotting out the sky, crashing down on them like the heavens themselves were collapsing.
Remember that palm strike from the heavens?
The others might not, but Kyosuke would never forget what happened that day.
Ninjutsu: Partial Expansion Technique!
"I'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!" Akimichi Mitsuki's furious roar shook the heavens and the earth.
Feeling the ground tremble, Kyosuke tumbled across it in a panic. Using the billowing dust as cover, he scrambled back to his own side.
After glancing at the corpses of several Uchiha Genin, Houboku backed away, ready to run at a moment's notice.
When facing an unstoppable beast, you didn't have to outrun it. You only had to outrun your companions.
Compared to a young kid, Uchiha Hikari was the real target.
Akimichi Mitsuki, the current Clan Head of the Akimichi Clan, was said to have reached the peak of the Elite Jonin level.
By the Warring States era's rankings, he was just one step away from the realm of Clan Leader Level.
Uchiha Hikari, who led the group, was merely an ordinary Jonin. Even with the Sharingan, he couldn't bridge the vast gap between their strength.
Looking at the deep crater in the ground, Hikari scoffed. In his heart, the Uchiha were invincible. Why should they fear the mere Akimichi Clan?
If the Yamanaka and Nara were here too, that would be another matter. But now...
He was already imagining the rewards he'd receive after killing the Akimichi Clan Head.
"Attack! Show no mercy!" Akimichi Mitsuki didn't bother talking. Blood debts had to be paid in blood.
"Hmph. I've wanted to face you for a long time." The two sides had roughly the same number of fighters.
The Uchiha had too many people to move efficiently, and willing cannon fodder for a mission behind enemy lines wasn't easy to come by.
As for the Akimichi reinforcements, the situation had simply been too urgent. They hadn't had time to gather more men.
The two groups, fewer than twenty people in total, clashed on the blood-soaked road.
"A bunch of lunatics." Kyosuke gritted his teeth, gripped his Kunai, and charged at the Akimichi boy across from him.
He did want to run, but he needed his comrades to cover him.
Run off alone?
He hadn't even left Akimichi territory. They'd catch him and drag him right back.
Forget it. I'll take out the enemy in front of me first. Chakra surged beneath his feet, and Kyosuke leaped into the air.
In this era, clan education for the next generation was terribly inadequate.
He was already on the battlefield, yet aside from a decent Throwing Technique, he knew almost nothing.
Well, according to his predecessor's memories, he could at least use the Three Body Technique proficiently, along with the crude swordsmanship passed down through the Uchiha generations.
Why call it crude? Because ordinary clan members couldn't get their hands on advanced sword techniques.
No one should be paying attention to me, right? At this critical moment, Kyosuke couldn't afford to hold back.
His eyes narrowed. A red glow spread across his pupils, and a single black Tomoe slowly turned within them.
Sharingan, activate!
Relying on the Sharingan's keen perception, he flicked his hand and sent three Kunai streaking toward the enemy.
"Pathetic trick." The Akimichi boy raised his arm mockingly, ready to knock away the Kunai as they neared him.
But the Kunai collided in midair. By the time the boy realized something was wrong, one of the deadly blades had already pierced the back of his head.
[System Prompt: Killed an Akimichi Clan Genin. Earned 45 points.]
The sudden prompt nearly made Kyosuke twist his ankle when he landed.
The startling message kept him from deactivating his Sharingan right away. The moment the boy looked up, everyone nearby saw the glow in his eyes.
"Crap." Kyosuke didn't have time to figure out what had triggered the prompt. He hurried back into the ranks, afraid the enemy would gang up on him.
"His... his Sharingan awakened?!"
"If I remember right, Kyosuke's only six or seven."
Uchiha Hikari took a deep breath, pulled out two smoke bombs, and hurled them at the ground.
"Retreat! Everyone, fall back!"
Whether Kyosuke was six or seven, the talent he'd just revealed was unprecedented in the Uchiha Clan.
Even if they all died, they couldn't let such a gifted youngster perish here.
They had eliminated the Three Clans' descendants and uncovered an astonishing genius. Uchiha Hikari could practically see himself rising through the ranks.
That's right. He thought Kyosuke had awakened the Sharingan in the heat of battle, so he deserved a share of the credit.
Without his keen eye for talent and his insistence on bringing the boy along for experience, how could the clan have gained such an exceptional youngster?
Kyosuke had no idea how shamelessly the others were thinking. With someone protecting him, he quickly reviewed what had just appeared in his mind.
"System."
Name: Uchiha Kyosuke
Age: 7
Physical Strength: Below Average
Mental Strength: Elite Genin
Chakra Reserves: Below Average
Abilities: Uchiha Style Swordsmanship (Level 1), Three Body Technique (Level 3), Throwing Technique (Level 5), Chakra Control Technique (Level 1), Hand Seals (Level 1)
Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan (One Tomoe)
Summoning Beast: None
Ninja Tools: None
Points: 45
"As expected, you can't transmigrate without a system."
Given his age, his physical strength was basically on par with a Ninja School student.
The same went for his Chakra reserves. His body hadn't developed enough to produce much Chakra.
The one area where he stood out was his mental strength, which had already reached the Elite Genin level.
Like his inexplicably awakened Sharingan, that was probably thanks to the fusion of his souls.
In other words, his mental strength would grow twice as fast from now on.
Maybe even faster.
Level 1 Uchiha Style Swordsmanship was only the basics. It wasn't very useful in actual combat.
Three Body Technique. It could save his life at a critical moment.
Throwing Technique. A lethal weapon. Combined with certain specialized Ninjutsu, it could even threaten Kage Level fighters.
Chakra Control Technique. Best not to mention it.
Finally, Kyosuke turned his attention to the points column.
The system had activated because he had personally killed an Akimichi Clan Genin.
That meant points were the most valuable thing in the system.
So what could he use them for?
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