"Does even the famous Uchiha Gentō lack the nerve to fight me?"
Muliujin stepped back, dodging his opponent's follow-up attack, wiped his split lip, and flashed a brazen grin.
"Try finishing me off first!"
"You scum!"
Across from him, Nagato, whose body Gentō had just reconstructed through Yang Release, continued attacking with an icy expression. The two quickly locked in combat again.
Their punches and kicks moved like the wind, leaving trails of afterimages. The captured ninja could not have intervened even if they wanted to.
Gentō gave Muliujin a rather bored glance.
He had no intention of responding.
Even if Muliujin had gained a few lucky opportunities and reached the level of a top-class ninja, he was still nowhere near worthy of Gentō taking action himself.
Simply put, Muliujin was not worth his effort.
If he had not needed Muliujin and Shuguse to undo Uchiha Hikari's seal, both men would have been captured the very day Shuguse escaped.
Why else would he have let them roam free for so long?
Gentō did not yet know that, just a minute before he appeared, Muliujin had been thinking that Uchiha Gentō was nothing special.
"Lord Gentō!"
"Your Majesty, First Emperor..."
"Your Majesty!"
The ninja Uchiha Hikari had captured and supposedly subjected to mental alteration abandoned their earlier listlessness and bowed in greeting to Gentō.
Clearly, thanks to Gentō's intervention, Uchiha Hikari had not brainwashed these ninja.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I failed to control myself and forced you to reveal yourself." The Bearded Chunin stepped out of the crowd, his voice full of self-reproach.
When he had seen that crimson Mangekyō Sharingan, Gentō's voice had sounded in his ears. Obediently, the Bearded Chunin had pretended that his mind had been altered.
He had intended to follow his orders and keep up