"Fujima-kun? W-why...!"
"I thought you didn't want me anymore...!"
Most people in the clan were already engaged, and personal preferences hardly mattered. If Senju Fujima really broke off their engagement, she would never be able to hold her head up in the Uchiha Clan again.
Hearing Senju Fujima change his tune so quickly, she clung tightly to him and cried sadly.
"Don't be silly. I was just joking!"
"Mm...!"
Seeing how upset Shizuka Uchiha was, Senju Fujima reached out and wiped the tears from her face. Then he lowered his head and kissed her on the lips.
"Huh?"
"Fujima-kun kissed... kissed me?"
"Th-this is so embarrassing! What do I do? I...!"
"This feeling is so strange...!"
After Senju Fujima kissed her, Shizuka Uchiha forgot everything that had happened earlier. She put it all behind her.
She froze, staring wide-eyed at Senju Fujima in front of her. For a moment, she didn't know what to do, but she thought the feeling was wonderful and didn't resist much.
"Ding! Host detected exploiting a system bug. System has entered a brief state of confusion. Repairing...!" "Ding! System repair successful. Since the host violated the system's selection rules, the Shikotsumyaku within the host has been revoked. The host's choice to kiss Shizuka Uchiha has been taken as the default selection. Charisma -1."
As Senju Fujima kissed Shizuka Uchiha, he thought he had killed two birds with one stone. Instead, he had caused a system bug, which was immediately fixed.
What's more, the system had taken back the Shikotsumyaku he'd just obtained and reduced his Charisma by one. This was a massive loss.
"Pfft...!"
"System, you're ruthless...!"
As Senju Fujima kissed Shizuka Uchiha's cherry-red lips, he heard the system's voice in his mind and froze. He nearly spat up blood and dropped dead on the spot.
"Damn it, the Shikotsumyaku in my body has been removed."
In an instant, Senju Fujima felt something change inside him. The system had really extracted his Shikotsumyaku, and the information in his mind had inexplicably vanished as well. He couldn't help feeling resentful toward the system and roared inwardly.
He had to admit, the system was ruthless! Even this counted as exploiting a bug.
"Ding! Host's hostility detected. God Selection System activated." [Option One: Kill Shizuka Uchiha, release Kurama, join forces against Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, and successfully defect from Konoha. Mission reward: Six Paths Mode.] [Option Two: Remove your own limbs and do not restore them for one hour. Only after one hour may you use the Power of Immortality to heal them. Mission reward: Shisui Uchiha's ultimate ocular technique—Enhanced Kotoamatsukami (known as the strongest genjutsu eye; it can change anyone's will, including Black Zetsu's. Cooldown: ten years.)] [Option Three: Seal away your sexual desire. You must abstain from all sexual activity for fifteen years. After fifteen years, when the host is twenty-five, it may be unsealed. Mission reward: Kaguya Otsutsuki's release (and she will become your wife and never betray you).] [Special Notice: The host must make a choice by the end of today. Otherwise, all three punishments will be imposed: Shizuka Uchiha will die, your limbs will be removed, and your sexual desire will disappear for fifteen years.]
The system sensed Senju Fujima's hostility and immediately retaliated with three even more malicious options, which appeared right before his eyes.
"What the hell?"
"System, are you trying to kill me?"
"You want me to kill my wife? And then fight Madara Uchiha and my dad by myself?"
"Are you just trying to get me beaten to a pulp?"
"And you deliberately gave me rewards like these to make me give in?"
"Six Paths Mode? What a trap!"
"The other two are even worse. You want me to tear off my own limbs? Sure, the reward is an enhanced Kotoamatsukami, but you want me to die from the pain?"
"And the last one... I'd love to take Kaguya Otsutsuki as my wife, but there's no need to cut off my manhood!"
"System, you're ruthless. Who created you?"
"Why are you trying to screw me over? Who did I offend?"
"Pfft...!"
Looking at the three options before him, Senju Fujima saw that not one of them was any good. Each was more torturous than the last.
But the rewards were more tempting than the last, too. They included Kaguya Otsutsuki as his wife, Six Paths Mode, and an enhanced Kotoamatsukami—the three greatest rewards imaginable.
The rewards were outrageous, but the pain he'd have to endure to get them was just as extreme. This was inhuman.
"I definitely can't kill my wife."
"And I have to keep my manhood!"
"So what do I do? Remove my limbs?"
"Damn, this is messed up!"
"And I'm forced to choose, or the system will hit me with all three. Damn it...!"
Senju Fujima kept thinking about what to choose. All three options were incredibly hard to pick.
If he only had to abstain for ten years, he might have accepted it. He'd only be twenty then, and afterward he'd even get a wife from the Otsutsuki Clan. That would be an incredible deal.
But it was fifteen years, not ten... He'd be twenty-five by then, way too old. If he got married at that age, people would think he was impotent.
"Shizuka, it's about time. Let's head back to class!"
There was nothing else he could do. Senju Fujima took Shizuka Uchiha back to school, then pulled away from the kiss and spoke to her.
"Mhm, mhm...!"
Shizuka Uchiha was incredibly embarrassed. She wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it. She'd just lost her first kiss, and it was so humiliating. She lowered her head, fidgeted with the hem of her clothes, and mumbled shyly.
"Let's go!"
Soon after, Senju Fujima took Shizuka Uchiha by the hand and vanished from the spot.
They quickly arrived at the school entrance and walked inside.
"Shizuka, go to class first. I'm going to the bathroom."
Once inside the school, Senju Fujima pretended he needed to use the bathroom, then walked away.
"Wood Clone."
In the bathroom, Senju Fujima created a Wood Clone to attend class in his place. Then he vanished from the bathroom and appeared in Konoha Forest.
"Damn system. Just you wait until I get the chance—I'll beat you to a pulp, I swear."
Once he reached the forest, Senju Fujima thought furiously about the system. Just thinking about the options it had given him made his blood boil.
"Wood Clone."
Senju Fujima created another Wood Clone. What he planned to do with it, well, who knew? He didn't dare say.
"My dear Kaguya, just wait for me...!"
What would Senju Fujima choose in the end? Everyone would love to have Kaguya Otsutsuki, judging by her appearance, and he was no exception.
"Crack, crack, crack...!"
"Ah...!"
"Smack...!"
Suddenly, something seemed to fall to the ground with a thud.
"Again."
Senju Fujima looked at the clone in front of him and hurriedly spoke.
A wooden sword appeared in the hand of Senju Fujima's Wood Clone, which promptly chopped off one of his arms.
"Crack...!"
"Ah...!"
"Huh? It doesn't hurt?"
"Crack...!"
"Still no pain? I can't feel anything? So the system was just trying to scare me?"
Soon, all four of Senju Fujima's limbs had been chopped off by his Wood Clone. Blood poured out, pooling all over the ground.
"Huff, huff...!"
"Collect the blood. Don't waste it."
Senju Fujima's Wood Clone quickly collected the blood from the ground and stopped the bleeding.
"Phew...!"
"I thought it would hurt, but it doesn't. Still, this is no way for a human to live."
"Who would have thought the system was lying? I have an immortal body, so I can grow my limbs back or reattach the ones I had."
"But the system won't allow that. Damn it!"
"You nearly scared me to death."
"I really brought this on myself."
"One day, I'll get my revenge. Just you wait."
Poor Senju Fujima lay quietly on the ground. The bleeding had stopped, but he had to stay that way for an entire hour. It didn't hurt, but time passed agonizingly slowly.
Those sixty minutes were a kind of torture in themselves, a truly inhuman ordeal. No wonder the system could come up with something like this.
Fortunately, Senju Fujima now had the Body of Immortality, so he couldn't die. He could only be sealed away, and the pain he felt was much less than what someone else would have suffered.
Before long, the hour passed. Senju Fujima had been counting down the minutes the whole time, and at last it was over.
"Ding! The host has successfully made a choice. Congratulations on passing the test and completing the mission. Reward: Shisui Uchiha's ultimate ocular technique—Enhanced Kotoamatsukami (known as the strongest genjutsu eye; it can change anyone's will, including Black Zetsu's. Cooldown: ten years.)"
"Boom...!"
In an instant, Senju Fujima felt a powerful, dark, sinister energy surge into his mind. The method for using Kotoamatsukami appeared in his thoughts, and the enhanced, ultimate genjutsu eye was reflected in his left eye. His left eye immediately evolved into an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
Senju Fujima now had one Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, one Mangekyō Sharingan, and three ocular techniques.
"Ahem, ahem. I suppose this counts as a blessing in disguise!"
"So it was a test. You scared me half to death."
"Were you trying to see if I'd kill Shizuka for Kaguya and Six Paths Mode?"
"But I awakened an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan ahead of time and got a genjutsu like Kotoamatsukami. It was worth it."
As soon as Senju Fujima heard the system's announcement, he reattached his limbs. Before long, he was completely unharmed, his limbs having fused back into place.
"Poof...!"
Once Senju Fujima had recovered, he dispelled the Wood Clone in front of him.
"Whew. That hour felt endless, like an entire century had passed."
"But the results were worth it. Kaguya can wait until later!"
"I'll release her sooner or later. Then, heh heh heh!"
Everyone had dreamed of obtaining Kaguya Otsutsuki, without exception. Naturally, Senju Fujima was no different.
"I've used up too much energy. I should go catch a fish."
With the selection complete, Senju Fujima had nothing else to do. He realized he was hungry, so he headed toward the river in the forest.
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