He Suddenly Attacked Me

Sneaking into the heart of a clan's territory was almost impossible.

Especially during the Warring States Period, when each clan had an extraordinary degree of control over its territory. The moment a stranger appeared, the Enforcement Team would quietly keep an eye on them.

Unless someone on the inside showed them the way—and that someone had to be a person of real power and influence.

Only then could they move freely through the clan's territory, even approaching one of its most important facilities: the Youth Academy.

Uchiha Atsushi was the Second Elder's trusted subordinate, and he had rendered many outstanding services to the clan.

Whenever he walked down the street, people would always greet him with a smile.

Who could have guessed that this renowned strongman had already fallen under the enemy's control?

A few days earlier, while out on a mission, Uchiha Atsushi had carelessly fallen into a trap the enemy had laid. He had thought his life was over, but the enemy hadn't killed him right away.

At first, Uchiha Atsushi had naively thought there was still a chance to turn things around, and that he could regain his freedom by paying a ransom.

It wasn't until a familiar man appeared in his field of vision that he finally understood the enemy's plan.

"Yamanaka Koji!!!"

No matter how desperately he struggled, he couldn't break free of the enemy's Mind Body Switch Technique.

This secret technique was powerful. By releasing their spiritual energy, the user could take control of their opponent's body and manipulate it.

Even Obito, with his powerful Rinnegan, had been controlled by Yamanaka Ino for a short time, let alone Uchiha Atsushi, who was already under someone else's control.

In the world of his soul, Uchiha Atsushi roared with all his might and wailed in fury, trying to draw the attention of passersby.

If he could, he would have killed himself on the spot. But he had completely lost control of his body, and even the simplest act of suicide had become an unattainable dream.

"Come on, can't anyone notice me?!"

He was terrified, because he knew he was about to make a terrible mistake.

In the clan-based society of the Warring States Period, if you asked what mattered most, everyone would answer the same way: raising the next generation was every clan's highest priority.

The enemy's intentions were perfectly clear. They planned to use his identity as cover and take advantage of the clever timing, when most of the clan had gone to welcome its heroes, to carry out an extermination of the next generation.

If the enemy succeeded, the Uchiha Clan would undoubtedly suffer a devastating blow, losing its former position of supremacy for the next twenty years.

There was no denying that the enemy's plan was ruthless. Who could have imagined that, amid such a festive atmosphere, a deadly threat was quietly spreading through the clan?

"Haah."

Sosuke shook his head with a soft sigh and tossed the textbook in his hand aside.

To dissuade him from going to the battlefield, the Clan Head had simply taken the direct approach and sent him back to the academy to start over.

Of course, this time Sosuke wasn't there as a student. He had been specially hired to teach the children about the applications of developing ninjutsu.

In the eyes of many, Uchiha Sosuke was a once-in-a-century genius ninja, brimming with creativity and destined to become a pillar of the Uchiha Clan.

Even the elders opposed sending him to the battlefield so soon.

To prove his strength, Sosuke had already decided to challenge one of the clan's renowned strongmen when the right opportunity arose.

If he could defeat his opponent, that would be proof enough that he was capable of going to the battlefield.

Then Tajima and the others would have no reason to object.

After stretching with a yawn, Sosuke decided to call it a day. As an adult in mind, he really had no interest in spending all day hanging around with a bunch of brats.

Madara and Izuna were the exceptions. Strength was always the best way to earn respect.

"Maybe I should join the welcoming party too?"

He smiled and greeted Uchiha Atsushi as the man entered the academy. Just as Sosuke was about to leave, he suddenly stopped and slowly turned to look at the group of unfamiliar faces.

It wasn't strange for unfamiliar faces to show up in the clan's territory when someone led them there. They might be clients, or perhaps newly hired workers.

But there was no reason for them to be at the clan's academy.

Even the students' parents weren't allowed to enter without permission.

As the Second Elder's trusted subordinate, how could Uchiha Atsushi make such an obvious mistake?

"Wait." Watching the group come to an abrupt halt, Sosuke frowned and slowly moved his hand toward the ninja tools pouch at his waist. "Mr. Atsushi, could you tell me what all these people are doing at the academy?"

Most of the clan members had gone outside to welcome the heroes returning from the battlefield.

It might have seemed like their fighting strength was undiminished, or even greater than before. In reality, the clan's defenses were now more vulnerable than ever.

"Damn it, where'd this brat come from?" Yamanaka Koji gritted his teeth and quietly made a hand signal.

They were only a step away from the academy. He couldn't let some brat ruin the plan.

The group had ventured deep into Uchiha territory to carry out the Extinction Plan without expecting to make it back alive.

It was easy to imagine that, if the plan succeeded, the enraged Uchiha would tear them limb from limb.

They weren't afraid of dying, but the Extinction Plan had to succeed. Not a single child in the academy could be allowed to escape.

Including the boy standing before them, questioning the group.

"Attack!"

The moment the words left his mouth, a figure at the back of the group flung a Kunai.

At such close range, there was no way a little brat could dodge a sudden attack.

But what happened next was beyond the attacker's expectations. The boy not only dodged; he raised his hand and fired a Great Fireball into the sky.

Bang!

The flames burst in midair. Such a conspicuous display was bound to alert anyone nearby.

"So they really are up to something." Sosuke drew his short blade, his gaze sweeping over the faces peering out from inside the academy.

The main force could return from outside in just a minute, but that was more than enough time for the enemy to slaughter everyone in the academy.

On his own, it would be hard to stop so many people.

"Run!" Sosuke roared at the children.

At the same time, he formed Hand Seals, and the familiar chirping of Chidori rang out once more.

Seeing the lightning in the boy's hand and those eerie eyes, Uchiha Atsushi, whose body had been taken over by the enemy, suddenly began to laugh.

They said the Uchiha had produced a peerless genius. He'd thought there was no chance he could get his hands on the boy, but fortune had smiled on him. It had delivered the main target of this operation right to him.

That Lightning Release Ninjutsu was powerful, but it was useless against a group of assassins ready to die.

Just as he'd predicted, when Sosuke charged with Chidori in hand, the enemy actually opened his chest and rushed toward him.

[System Notification: Successfully killed Naoki, received 140 Points.]

The man was indeed dead, but before he died, he had used all his strength to trap Sosuke's arm inside his body.

Even that brief delay of a single second was enough for two enemies to reach him.

"Die, brat!" the man cackled as he brought down his executioner's blade.

"You're the one who's going to die." Sosuke lowered his eyelids halfway, and a dazzling flash of lightning suddenly burst around him.

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