Nine-Tailed Night, the System Went Mad

"Shisui, help look after Jinghuo."

"You have Jinghuo, who was just born. I should be the one to go!" Uchiha Shisui immediately objected.

"Shisui, you are Kagami Uchiha's direct descendant, and besides..."

Following his gaze, Uchiha Shisui saw the crazed Nine-Tails wreaking havoc ahead.

Flames raged there, and the dense clash of metal could vaguely be heard, mixed with countless wails and cries of despair.

Anyone could go help, except the Uchiha Clan.

Because they said... the Uchiha Clan could control the Nine-Tails.

Logically, the Uchiha Clan should have stayed obediently within the Uchiha Clan Land.

But the Uchiha had to make a statement. They could not let the Uchiha suffer suspicion again.

At a time when Konoha needed protecting, as relatives of Kagami Uchiha, whom the Hokage higher-ups trusted, they were the only ones in the Uchiha Clan who could stand out.

Moreover, they truly did not want sixteen-year-old Uchiha Shisui to rush over after all that effort, only to be met with vigilance, mockery, and gossip.

So, as his elders, they entrusted the task of looking after their newborn child to Uchiha Shisui.

Uchiha Shisui opened his mouth.

Yet beneath their smiles, the words caught in his throat, and he could not say a single one.

In the end, Uchiha Shisui closed his eyes and suppressed the unease throbbing in his heart. "Please, come back safely!"

The husband and wife, both barely over twenty, smiled faintly.

Then they looked at three-month-old Jinghuo Uchiha in the baby basket, their gazes overflowing with doting love, like the gentlest water in the world—tender, careful, joyful.

"Jinghuo, wait for us to come back." They did not say it aloud. Still smiling beneath that boundless love, they reluctantly turned around to face the terrifying Nine-Tails destroying everything, their expressions swiftly becoming resolute.

Uchiha Shisui watched their receding backs in silence.

It was as though a mountain weighed upon him.

Simply looking at him made one feel stifled. An ordinary child, especially one with keen senses, might have burst into tears outright.

Jinghuo Uchiha was different. He was a little annoyed.

Because quests kept refreshing in his mind.

[Quest name: You Think You Have It the Worst? So You Want to Kill Teacher, Kill Mother?]

[Quest content: Kill Uchiha Obito!]

[Quest reward: Immortal Body + Eight Gates Released Formation + Re-Cell Attraction]

When he had first seen the quest reward, Jinghuo Uchiha's eyes had gleamed so brightly that his parents had nearly thought he had awakened his Sharingan.

Unfortunately, the quest requirements were far too demanding. Jinghuo Uchiha had happily thought he could save it for later.

But he had not expected the quest reward to change over time.

For example, this quest's initial reward had been... Immortal Body + Eight Gates Released Formation Array + Re-Cell Attraction.

By the time he could kill Uchiha Obito, it was hard to say whether even the Immortal Body would remain.

That nearly broke him.

He was a superhuman infant who had just been born, unable even to crawl or speak, and they expected him to crawl over there and kill Uchiha Obito right now?

Was that reasonable?

He did not understand.

"Forget it. It looks like a face-slapping system anyway. Things will be fine once I grow up." Three-month-old Jinghuo Uchiha comforted himself like that, ignoring the occasional quests that usually told him to kill Shimura Danzō, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu.

But today, the system had gone mad.

It refreshed frantically every second. The rewards made his eyes turn red, and he wished he could crawl over right now and kick the quest targets, maybe giving the Nine-Tails a chance to stomp them to death.

[Quest name: You're the One Plotting the Uchiha Clan's Destruction?][quest content: Kill Shimura Danzō!][quest reward: Immortal Body + Dead Demon Consuming Seal Blood + Mosquito Summoning Beast]

[Quest name: You Call That the Will of Fire?][quest content: Kill Sarutobi Hiruzen!][quest reward: Rinnegan]

[Quest name: You're the Uchiha Clan Head?][quest content: Kill Fugaku Uchiha!][quest reward...]

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[Quest name: You Have a younger brother?][Quest content: Kill Uchiha...]

[Quest name: You Have a mother?][Quest...]

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"Quick!"

Under the swift guidance of Konoha ninja, the terrified villagers hurried toward the shelters, fleeing the terrifying Nine-Tails behind them.

Yet two figures moved against the flow, emerging from the Uchiha Clan Land and racing across the rooftops toward the Nine-Tails.

Suddenly, a voice came from an alley.

"You two."

The young husband and wife halted and looked toward the Anbu within. Confused, they thought, Anbu? Why were they secretly calling us over in an alley?

But out of trust in the Hokage, they did not question it and jumped straight into the alley.

The Anbu slowly said, "You two, Lord Hokage has something he needs your help with..."

Just as the Uchiha man was about to hear what the other party had to say, he immediately sensed a fierce killing intent erupting toward him. His expression changed drastically.

In his panic, he shoved his wife away.

"Qingfeng!" The wife watched helplessly as three Anbu short knives pierced her husband's chest, throat, and heart.

The intense pain blurred the man's consciousness. His entire body convulsed, and blood spilled from his mouth, staining his chin red.

"Run... run..."

He felt the strength rapidly draining from his body. Every word was like a knife sawing back and forth across his throat, leaving him in unbearable agony.

But as long as his wife was safe, it did not matter even if he died.

Just as he prayed that his wife could escape, he saw two masked people drive short knives through her chest.

The man's face went blank. His lips trembled as they opened and closed slightly, filled with disbelief.

The voice that came from his pierced throat was hoarse beyond measure, like two sheets of sandpaper rubbing together.

"Jing... Ya?"

His heart felt as though it had been cut by knives. Mad killing intent surged into his eyes, veins bursting as they reddened.

He stared fixedly at those people's masks.

Only then did he realize that those masks were not the animal-shaped ones worn by Anbu, but bizarre, colorful masks of demons and monsters.

These were masks unique to a certain Konoha department.

"Root!"

The Three-Tomoe in his eyes spun wildly, filled with frenzied hatred. Two streams of tears of blood ran down his face, as though something was about to change, causing an abnormal pain in his eyes.

But no pain could compare to watching his wife die miserably before him!

"Root! I'll make you pay..."

The next second.

Swish—

A cold gleam flashed past, and foul-smelling blood splattered across the wall.

The man's expression seemed frozen, devoid of any lifelike vitality.

His killing-filled eyes swiftly turned vacant as his head hit the ground and rolled across it.

It finally stopped, his head tilted as he stared blankly at his lifeless wife, while his mouth still opened and closed faintly.

His voice was nearly inaudible, seeming both present and absent.

"Jing... Jing... Ya..."