Revenge on Sarutobi Hiruzen!

Scarlet blood seeped through the gaps between the giant hand's fingers, staining Uchiha Genki's hands red.

He performed the cruel act with a blank expression, then casually tossed the pair of bloody eyeballs down at Sarutobi Hiruzen below.

"Plop." The eyeballs landed by Sarutobi Hiruzen's feet and rolled a few times before stopping.

"Hahahaha--!!" Uchiha Genki let out a madman's laugh, filled with the joy of revenge. "Do you know, Sarutobi Hiruzen! This is the pain the Uchiha clan has endured! This is the tragedy of countless families under your higher-ups' decisions! Now, it's your turn to experience it firsthand!"

Watching Sarutobi Hiruzen tremble as he hesitantly crouched down, his wrinkled hands gently cupping the still-warm eyeballs, tears mixed with blood streaming from his eyes, Uchiha Genki's laughter grew even more unhinged.

"I'm going to... tear you limb from limb--!!" Genki's taunts and cruelty completely enraged the elderly Hokage.

Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly looked up, his eyes bloodshot, tears of blood cascading down his cheeks. He rapidly formed hand seals, desperately channeling the last sliver of Chakra within him, unleashing Ninjutsu after Ninjutsu towards the Susanoo Armor.

"Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"

"Earth Style: Earth Flow River!"

"Lightning Style: Ground Running!"

...Even as his Chakra ran out, causing sharp pain in his meridians, even as his body trembled from the overload, he didn't stop.

But no matter the Ninjutsu, no matter how powerful, it seemed utterly futile and laughable against the seemingly invincible defense of the complete Susanoo Armor, unable to even stir a ripple.

Under Sarutobi Hiruzen's gaze, filled with despair, pain, and ultimate rage, Uchiha Genki, before his very eyes, personally turned Konohamaru into a second Fugaku Uchiha.

Gouging out eyes, cutting off hands, severing limbs, slicing off a nose, cutting out a tongue, beheading, and ripping out a heart... each cruel action was like the sharpest knife, carving into Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart.

To witness his beloved grandson brutally murdered before his eyes, yet be powerless to intervene.

Sarutobi Hiruzen completely lost it. He threw his head back and let out a soul-wrenching scream that was barely human. More tears of blood streamed from his eyes, his Chakra surging chaotically throughout his body. He collapsed onto the ground like a puppet that had lost its soul.

But in Uchiha Genki's eyes, all of this was so beautiful, so delightful.

He looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen, collapsed on the ground and utterly broken, at the fearful, desperate gazes of the surrounding ninjas, and felt the thrill of revenge wash over his soul. He once again threw his head back and let out a mad, earth-shattering laugh.

"Hahahahaha--!!!!"

The laughter echoed madly through Konoha's night sky, carrying endless destructive desire and despair, heralding that this catastrophe had only just begun...

Genki's earth-shattering, mad laughter pierced Obito Uchiha's ears like ice-cold needles.

Hidden in the shadows, the hairs on his body stood on end. An indescribable chill coursed down his spine, making his scalp tingle and his breathing become labored.

It's over!

He'd completely messed up!

The thought hammered repeatedly in his mind like a heavy mallet, leaving him dizzy.

Obito clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force. The face beneath his mask was deathly pale.

He had meticulously planned for so many years, orchestrating the extermination of the Uchiha clan, with one core objective: to prevent this clan, blessed with the Sharingan, from producing another uncontrollable powerhouse like Shisui Uchiha or Itachi Uchiha, which would disrupt his plan to achieve the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Shisui's Kotoamatsukami could control others' will, and Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan offered both offense and defense, along with sealing abilities. Both had made him wary.

That's why he had proceeded step by step, instigating the conflict between the Uchiha and Konoha, and using Itachi to complete the clan massacre. He thought this would solve the problem once and for all, nipping potential threats in the bud.

But he never expected that his series of actions would not only fail to eliminate the threat but would instead personally give rise to a monster a hundred times more terrifying than Shisui or Itachi!

A madman who had completely broken free of control, his sanity consumed by madness!

Recalling the scene just moments ago, Obito's heart sank.

The reason he had desperately helped Itachi Uchiha earlier, even proposing to team up, was not to save Konoha, but to rely on Itachi's power, combined with his own Kamui, to eliminate this unexpected "variable" in its infancy while Uchiha Genki had just awakened his Dojutsu and his power was not yet fully stable.

He had thought that even if Genki, who had just awakened a Special Mangekyo, had strange powers, there would still be weaknesses to exploit.

After all, even the strongest Dojutsu would have an adaptation period when first mastered, but reality had slapped him hard – this Uchiha Genki was terrifyingly beyond all his understanding!

A thousand-meter-tall complete Susanoo Armor, which even Jiraiya's Sage Art and Itachi's Totsuka Blade couldn't penetrate, and his own Kamui didn't even have the qualification to shake its defense!

Obito had no idea that the Ōkuninushi and Magatsunokami that Genki possessed, while inherently powerful, would under normal circumstances never grow so rapidly.

The massive consumption of souls had brought about a devastating impact on his will; for anyone else, their soul would have long since dispersed and died.

But Genki had witnessed his mother and sister die before his very eyes. That extreme grief had already completely shattered him.

Furthermore, the despair of personally consuming their souls, extinguishing all hope of their revival, had utterly crushed his sanity.

The current Uchiha Genki was no longer a complete "person," but merely a husk filled with madness and hatred.

His power had surged so rapidly by forcibly stacking it through the consumption of countless souls, the price of which was the complete annihilation of his humanity, leaving only the obsession to destroy everything.

What made Obito's scalp tingle and his spine chill the most were the words Genki had roared out earlier.

The target was not merely to destroy Konoha!

It was to drag the entire ninja world, and even all parallel ninja worlds, into hell to be destroyed together!

This completely exceeded Obito's plan!

He wanted to control the ninja world, to create a "peaceful world" where everyone lived in dreams through the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

But if the entire ninja world was destroyed, leaving not a single living being, then who would he cast his Infinite Tsukuyomi on?

Wouldn't all his years of planning and forbearance become a joke?

Cold sweat trickled down Obito's forehead, soaking the strands of hair at his hairline.