Handsome?

Uchiha Gen nodded. "Yeah, I know."

Hearing this, the air pressure around Sasuke dropped instantly. "Where is he?!"

Uchiha Gen looked Sasuke up and down with the expression of someone staring at a moron. "What, you think if I tell you, you'll be able to slaughter him?"

"I..." Sasuke was momentarily speechless, then suddenly thought of a question. "Then why do you want to kill him too?"

Expecting Sasuke to ask this, Uchiha Gen answered naturally, "Oh, he killed my relative." Did Uchiha Gen really want to kill Itachi? Of course not. Since transmigrating, he hadn't even killed a chicken; where would a young man get such murderous intent?

He only said it because he felt having a common goal would make things easier to manage, and Sasuke couldn't afford to lose that motivation.

"???" Sasuke frowned. Fine, the reason was barely passable, but it still felt a bit strange. "Who is your relative?" Besides, a Jonin asking a Genin for help—though Sasuke was a bit arrogant, his brain wasn't damaged.

"Why do you care so much? Even if I told you, you wouldn't know them." At the same time, Uchiha Gen muttered to himself: even though he was a reincarnation of the Uchiha clan, heaven knows which relatives he had. They were all dead anyway, and he didn't even know them himself. Should he just make one up next time?

Just then, the system suddenly prompted: Detected Two-Tomoe Sharingan (obtainable). Do you choose to hand it over?

Uchiha Gen, feeling extremely impatient, chose: No.

This was the nth time the system had prompted him since dragging Sasuke back, and he seriously suspected the system wanted him to accidentally click the wrong option.

Not knowing if the system could hear him, Uchiha Gen thought: I will obtain the Sharingan in due time. I don't know what you want with it, but if you push me too far, I'm going on strike! Kill me if you want, get lost!

What Uchiha Gen didn't see was that after he said this, the system went silent, as if it were pondering something.

Sasuke finished eating and sat in his seat, watching Uchiha Gen perform his facial expressions. He seriously suspected this Sound Ninja had a brain problem and secretly decided to find an opportunity to escape.

Although he had learned this information from Jiya, Sasuke wasn't an idiot; following this guy had no benefits for him. As for him being stronger than Orochimaru? Forget it.

Uchiha Gen finished his instant noodles with a crunch and, seeing Sasuke sitting there with no reaction, curled his lip. So he really was just going to bolt after getting the info.

But if I just let you slip away like that, wouldn't I, Gen, lose face?

He picked up the disposable chopsticks from the table and flicked them casually. The chopsticks shot toward Sasuke like an arrow, passing straight through his forehead. There was no blood; the Sasuke in front of him exploded into smoke.

Glancing at the chopsticks on the floor, he thought, Clone Technique, huh... If he knew the Shadow Clone Technique, he probably would have slipped away while in the restroom.

Seeing the door wide open, Uchiha Gen chased after him. About two minutes later, he saw an unfinished rice ball on the ground. Poof! A burst of smoke erupted, and as it cleared, it was indeed Sasuke.

However, Sasuke hadn't counted on this plan to buy much time; he opened the window, intending to jump away in the opposite direction from where Uchiha Gen had just left.

Just as he opened the window, he saw Uchiha Gen hanging upside down from the frame, looking at him with dead-fish eyes. "Seriously? You look down on me that much? You're using these little tricks to fool me?"

Seeing he couldn't escape, Sasuke didn't change his expression. "Since our goals are the same, why did you kidnap me? Or do you have a way to make me stronger?"

The reason for the kidnapping? Of course, it was because if I couldn't find any other Sharingan, I'd have to dig yours out.

Naturally, Uchiha Gen wouldn't say that out loud. He swung his arm and jumped back into the room from the window. "I just want to observe the Sharingan up close and gather some intelligence. After all, besides him, you're the only one left of the Uchiha clan. In exchange, I'll teach you some combat knowledge. How about it?"

Sasuke was silent for a moment. "You said before that you could defeat Orochimaru?"

"Yes, I can defeat the current Orochimaru—or rather, completely crush him. His strength declined significantly after the battle with the Hokage."

After asking, Sasuke thought for a moment and added, "How does he compare to that man?"

Hmm... that question was quite profound. Uchiha Gen's expression was conflicted, unsure if he should say it. "That... do you want the truth? I feel like if I say it, you might fall into despair or something."

Despair? Sasuke thought to himself. Suddenly, a possibility occurred to him, and he was shocked. "You mean even Orochimaru at his peak couldn't beat him?!"

Uchiha Gen didn't answer Sasuke's question directly—there was some bias there, after all, due to elemental counters. He pointed at Sasuke's neck. "Do you think the Curse Mark is strong?"

Sasuke didn't reply, only subconsciously touching the Curse Mark with his hand.

Seeing his expression, Uchiha Gen understood his thoughts. "This thing has far more drawbacks than advantages—at least in my opinion. The power it seems to give you in a burst is nothing to Itachi."

Hearing this, Sasuke's brows furrowed, his expression dazed and lost. If even Orochimaru couldn't beat Itachi, what could he possibly use to kill him?

Seeing Sasuke on the verge of a mental breakdown, Uchiha Gen clenched his right fist, protruding his middle knuckle slightly, and quietly approached, knocking it hard against Sasuke's head! "Are you back to your senses yet?"

This action pulled Sasuke out of his mental spiral. "Hiss~! Are you sick?!" Sasuke cursed out loud, subconsciously covering the spot he'd been hit, his vocabulary so poor he couldn't even manage a real swear word.

He looked up to see Uchiha Gen staring blankly at the Curse Mark on his neck, and he suddenly felt a chill.

"Don't move!" Uchiha Gen's expression suddenly turned serious. He frowned and reached out to touch the Curse Mark on Sasuke's neck. Sasuke almost couldn't help but lash out.

This aura...

Uchiha Gen closed his eyes, sensing the flow of chakra in his body. Found it! A flash of ferocity crossed his eyes. He pinched the skin, pulling hard from behind the scalp, and yanked out a small snake the thickness of a finger from beneath the skin.

Upon hitting the outside air and sensing a threat, the small snake twisted frantically. The moment it was pulled out, it turned to bite Uchiha Gen's hand, but he slammed it against the wall. Whoosh! With a sharp whistling sound, a kunai pinned the snake to the wall.

On the other side, from Sasuke's perspective, it looked like Uchiha Gen had pulled a snake out of his own brain, and he couldn't help but feel a wave of nausea. "What is that?"

Uchiha Gen rubbed the back of his head, feeling the skin where the wound had begun to fester from pulling out the snake. He couldn't help but sigh; it seemed this human skin mask couldn't be used anymore. Those snakes had always been able to find him, so it clearly wasn't because of his scent.

Facing Sasuke's question, Uchiha Gen replied, "It must be one of Orochimaru's tracking methods. If he hadn't paid such a heavy price in that battle, you might be seeing him right now."

"..." After saying this, Uchiha Gen suddenly thought of something and gritted his teeth. Wrong, I've been played. He turned around and started packing his things. If he had really done that, this place was no longer safe. Or... should he just dig Sasuke's eyes out now? Dodging around like this was too much trouble, and if he didn't keep an eye on him, he'd slip away. (Malice...)

This thought was fleeting. Uchiha Gen walked into a partition and began tearing off the human skin mask, unwinding the bandages wrapped around his hands layer by layer.

Looking at himself in the mirror, his face full of cracks, it was the same face he had before transmigrating. This appearance, he had to admit, was actually quite disgusting~?

When he came back out, Uchiha Gen had already used the skin provided by the system. Except for the clothes, his face was exactly the same as when he was alive, though his hair was a bit long.

"?" Sasuke looked at Jiya, who now had a completely different face. "Transformation Technique? Or is this your original appearance?"

Uchiha Gen tied his overly long black hair into a style identical to the Hyuga clan's with a hair tie. "Yeah, I suppose this is my original appearance." He raised an eyebrow at Sasuke. "Handsome?"

Sasuke "..." His eyelid twitched uncontrollably. He decided that once he gained power, the first person he would slaughter was this guy.