Konoha Elbow Strike!

Bang bang bang bang!

Uchiha Chi looked thoughtfully toward the entryway.

The neighbor's warning had been right. Someone really was waiting for him to come home.

The voice outside did not belong to Uchiha Fugaku. As the Clan Head, he could not bring himself to do something so damaging to his dignity.

So it had to be a member of the Security Force.

Just as Uchiha Chi was considering this,

having received no response from inside for so long, the person outside grew even more impatient.

"Uchiha Chi, I know you're in there. Get out here, now!"

Uchiha Chi rose and went to open the door, quietly studying the visitor's face as he did.

Outside stood a brown-haired man in a green vest. His cheekbones were high, and he was glaring this way with a deep frown.

Uchiha Yashiro.

Uchiha Chi recognized him. This man was a key member of the Security Force and one of Uchiha Fugaku's trusted aides: Uchiha Yashiro.

"Hello." Uchiha Chi greeted him with a smile. "Senior Yashiro."

Uchiha Yashiro said nothing. He merely stared at Uchiha Chi, his already narrow eyes nearly squinting into slits.

It was this smiling Youth in front of him who had cost him his weekend break!

"I'm not well at all!" he said coldly.

"Oh dear." Uchiha Chi cooperatively put on a worried expression. "What should we do about that?"

[Detected dissatisfaction from Uchiha Yashiro!]

[Received 10 points and increased Defense by 2%!]

"I don't have time for your nonsense." Uchiha Yashiro said impatiently, "Uchiha Chi, answer me. Where did you go this morning?"

"This morning..." Uchiha Chi rested his chin on his hand and pondered. "I was training with a friend by the Naka River."

After saying that, he asked curiously, "Did something happen, Senior Yashiro?"

He really was curious about what the Clan Head wanted with him.

After all, he had not stolen rice from Uchiha Fugaku's house.

"Still playing dumb!" Uchiha Yashiro's gaze turned even more displeased at Uchiha Chi's question. "What happened? I think you know better than I do!"

When Uchiha Yashiro had asked why Uchiha Chi was being summoned to the Security Force, Uchiha Fugaku's answer had been vague.

But that only convinced Uchiha Yashiro that Uchiha Chi must have done something unforgivable!

Uchiha Chi spread his hands and shook his head with a wry smile. "I really don't know..."

"Enough!"

Uchiha Yashiro impatiently cut him off. "You can say whatever you want later. For now, come with me to the Security Force."

With that, without caring whether Uchiha Chi agreed, he turned and headed outside.

Watching Uchiha Yashiro's back,

the corners of Uchiha Chi's raised lips slowly lowered.

He hated being interrupted more than anything.

"Why aren't you coming?" After walking some distance and hearing no footsteps behind him, Yashiro turned back.

"Where to?" Uchiha Chi asked with a raised brow.

Uchiha Yashiro opened his mouth reflexively. "Of course, to..."

Before he could finish the words "Security Force," Uchiha Chi interrupted him.

"I'm not going."

"Not going?" Uchiha Yashiro's gaze instantly turned hostile. "Are you saying you're refusing a lawful investigation by the Security Force?"

Over all these years, no one had ever been able to refuse a summons from the Security Force. Not even members of the Uchiha clan were exempt.

Putting aside whether it was fair or just, refusing to come meant disrespecting the Security Force established by the Hokage. It meant disrespecting the Uchiha!

"Why should I go?" Rather than answer the question, Uchiha Chi said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "I know perfectly well that I haven't done anything."

"If you truly hadn't done anything, the Security Force would never have come looking for you!"

Uchiha Yashiro shouted angrily as he stepped forward. "Since you refuse to come willingly, I'll have to drag you there!"

Uchiha Chi was almost angered into laughter. "Do you people have no sense of reason?"

Now he finally understood why outsiders were so resistant to the Uchiha.

With such an unreasonable Security Force around, anyone who could still have a good impression of the Uchiha was practically a saint.

"Reason?" Uchiha Yashiro gave a cold laugh. "We only discuss reason in the interrogation room!"

Uchiha Yashiro paused.

The next second, he appeared at Uchiha Chi's side.

His lowered palm turned into a hand blade and rose high. He casually swung it at the Youth's neck, intending to knock him out and take him away.

Yet just as he was considering how he would wake Uchiha Chi later, a piercing pain shot through his palm.

What happened?

Uchiha Yashiro had just lowered his head to look at his hand when his nose suddenly tingled. A warning from his danger instincts rose in his heart.

His pupils contracted. He decisively raised his hand before his face, and the next second, an unimaginable Giant Strength instantly sent his body flying!

After tumbling for more than ten meters, Uchiha Yashiro clawed at the ground with Both Hands, leaving two long trails in the earth before finally steadying himself.

He slowly rose from a half-crouch and stared in the Youth's direction. For the first time, surprise appeared on his face.

"You..."

Uchiha Chi straightened up from the twist of his waist and calmly lowered his raised elbow.

Looking at Uchiha Yashiro, who was completely unharmed apart from his twitching palm, he shook his head regretfully.

"What a shame... An elbow strike just doesn't have the same feel when it doesn't hit the face."

What he had just used was Might Guy's Konoha Senpukyaku, a Taijutsu technique that involved launching oneself into the air with force before attacking the opponent.

But Uchiha Chi preferred to call the move Konoha Elbow Strike.

An elbow as hard as a skull.

Combined with the boost of Monster Strength.

And nearly one hundred percent additional Damage Increase...

It was enough to send any opponent who underestimated this move to another world.

"You brat..."

Uchiha Yashiro narrowed his eyes at Uchiha Chi. The casual expression he had worn before had turned utterly grim.

Judging by the force he had felt just now, if his instincts had not warned him in time, he would already be lying unconscious on the ground!

Was this kid born with divine strength? Why was he so strong!?

"Huh?"

Seeing Uchiha Yashiro speak, Uchiha Chi looked over in surprise. He cupped a hand to his ear, tilted his body, and asked:

"Senior, you're not dead yet?"

Uchiha Yashiro gave a muffled snort, then said furiously:

"You're just a brat with a bit more strength. Don't get too arrogant!"

He had merely been careless and failed to dodge. If he fought seriously, Uchiha Chi would not even be able to get close to him.

"Senior, you still won't give up? You still want to take me back to the Security Force?" Uchiha Chi asked, unable to understand why he was so insistent.

"Of course. The Clan Head said you did something wrong."

Uchiha Yashiro answered without hesitation. "Since you did something wrong, you must accept punishment. That is true fairness."

"I did something wrong?" Uchiha Chi frowned slightly, still unable to understand how he had offended Uchiha Fugaku.

However...

"Since that's the case..."

He gave Uchiha Yashiro a deep look, then turned and pushed the door open before walking back into the house.

Uchiha Yashiro warily watched the direction in which Uchiha Chi had disappeared.

Beyond the open door lay pitch-black, deathly silence, as though it connected to something terrifying. It made him feel inexplicably restless.

Then Uchiha Chi's voice came from the depths of the darkness.

"If you have enough courage, then follow me into the courtyard for a duel."

"Courage?"

As though he had heard a ridiculous joke, Uchiha Yashiro scoffed disdainfully.

"My courage is absolutely greater than that of a brat like you!"

With that, he did not hesitate in the slightest. He strode straight into the house and vanished beyond the door.