Under the cover of night, the Uchiha Clan Compound had become a living hell, while the village just one street away seemed completely unaffected, its homes still ablaze with lights!
Hovering in the air, Shinji lowered his gaze and watched everything unfold.
He could see the urgently mobilized ANBU surrounding the Uchiha Clan Compound. They seemed to be sealing it off, preventing the battle inside from spreading to the village, yet it also looked as though they were gathering strength, preparing to wipe out the Uchiha Clan in one fell swoop.
Inside the Uchiha Clan Compound, the killing was already underway.
Obito headed straight for the Konoha Military Police Force building. Apart from the clan head's residence, it was the Uchiha Clan's most important stronghold, with Uchiha Jonin stationed there permanently.
Those Uchiha Jonin clearly had not expected the attack to come so suddenly—or that the attacker would be Obito, who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan and wielded Kamui. Thus, in their very first exchange, several squad leaders of the Uchiha Military Police Force were ambushed by Obito's Kamui one after another, falling into Kamui Space.
Without the squad leaders, who were all Jonin-level fighters, the other members of the police force quickly became a scattered rabble. Obito swept through the building floor by floor, slaughtering them one after another with ease.
Obito's restraint gave Itachi the opportunity to act without hindrance.
The massacre in the compound went even more smoothly than Itachi had expected. Not only did the police force's members fail to appear in large numbers and interfere with him, but the father-and-son duel he had thought would inevitably occur did not happen as scheduled either.
He entered one household after another, and screams followed in his wake as the lights went out.
Seven-year-old Former Master stood in the