Pride (1)

"The first target..."

"...is you!"

At that moment, when Uchiha Yue decided to make one final struggle with what little life he had left, it felt as though he had cast off every burden he carried. In that instant, in that second, he felt incomparably light. Moreover, after making his final resolve, Uchiha Yue no longer used his chakra to suppress the terrible injuries within his body.

Then, when Uchiha Yue reclaimed the chakra that had originally been suppressing those terrible internal injuries, he first spat out a mouthful of blood. Immediately afterward, he felt infinite strength fill his body once more. And now that he had regained control of his immense chakra reserves, the power Uchiha Yue could unleash was terrifying indeed.

The very next second, the kunai embedded in Uchiha Yue's abdomen by the Sunagakure jonin before him was suddenly blasted out by the force of Uchiha Yue's erupting aura after he withdrew the chakra suppressing his injuries. Moreover, because that Sunagakure jonin had never expected Uchiha Yue to still possess the strength to retaliate, the kunai sent flying by his overwhelming aura plunged straight into the jonin's body!

"Pfft..."

Without question, the force attached to the kunai Uchiha Yue had blasted away was astonishing.

Thus, after the kunai shot out, it not only pierced the Sunagakure jonin before Uchiha Yue, but instantly went straight through his body. Only when it struck the barrier did the kunai blasted away by Uchiha Yue's terrifying aura fall to the ground with a crisp clatter.

Hearing the kunai hit the ground, the Sunagakure jonin in front of Uchiha Yue finally came back to his senses.

But what the Sunagakure jonin never could have expected was that the instant he regained his senses, he found himself staring into a pair of crimson