The Holy Mother Deserves to Die!

[Ding, Uchiha clan member death detected!]

[Ding, does the host wish to...]

Upon hearing the system prompt, Uchiha Jin did not feel the joy he had imagined; instead, he felt a calm that was difficult to put into words.

Uchiha Shisui...

This stumbling block on the path forward, after being guided through careful, meticulous maneuvering, had finally died at the hands of Uchiha Jin.

Perhaps you find it strange...

Staring at the corpse that was gradually losing its warmth, the slightly honest face showed no trace of pain, but rather a lingering, indescribable sense of bewilderment and confusion.

It was not hard to imagine how complex Uchiha Shisui's thoughts were before he died, to the point where he had forgotten his own body, which had long since reached its limit, and the extreme pain of life fading away.

It seemed that until the very moment of his death, Uchiha Shisui had never imagined that his final curtain call would not be due to the accumulation of heavy injuries while charging into battle for the Will of Fire.

But rather...

He died at the hands of Uchiha Jin!

Why?

Even though Uchiha Shisui was unable to speak at that moment, the information he wanted to convey was accurately transmitted into Uchiha Jin's eyes!

"There's no such thing as 'why'—if you're a saintly fool, you deserve to die!"

Although he had inherited the 'Uchiha Filial Piety System,' the natural enemy of the Uchiha, it did not mean that Uchiha Jin had to follow the cliché path of 'kill every Uchiha you see.'

After all, while being a system host, Jin was currently wearing the skin of an Uchiha.

Just like a farmer disguised as a turkey, even if he didn't truly consider himself a turkey, he couldn't just watch as a neurotic turkey in the farm attempted to push him and all the other turkeys into the abyss of destruction, could he?

That's right!

Uchiha Shisui's slogans of peace were shouted very loudly, and every word radiated a sincerity that seemed to stem from his very soul.

But precisely because of this, Shisui deserved to die even more!

Politics is, by nature, a product of mutual compromise!

Yet, because of the existence of such a bizarre person as Shisui, the most basic political rules were broken, ultimately pushing the Uchiha into the abyss of clan extinction.

That's right!

The one who actually did the deed was Uchiha Itachi, another brain-dead lunatic and madman.

At this moment, Uchiha Jin couldn't help but recall the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem from his past life. In it, there seemed to be a ruthless character who, relying on a saintly heart, destroyed humanity, destroyed the Earth, and perhaps even destroyed the universe!

If Uchiha Itachi were compared to Evans in The Three-Body Problem, who wanted the farm owners to descend and destroy humanity, then Uchiha Shisui was Cheng Xin, who abandoned the deterrence plan and pushed the humans of Earth into the abyss of destruction.

The greatest commonality between them was that rootless sense of morality.

For such so-called saintly fools, not desecrating morality was their primary requirement. As for how to actually solve problems, they didn't know, they couldn't do it...

As for the results?

They would just say, "I am heartbroken, I am innocent, stop, please don't fight anymore..."

They never considered that in a 'zero-sum game,' if one protects the sheep in the name of love, the wolf will simply starve to death.

Extreme love is inevitably accompanied by extreme cruelty. For instance, a mother can risk her life to protect her child and kill the enemy without hesitation when the child is threatened; hence the saying that a mother becomes strong for her child.

And if one cannot be strong, one can never protect love and kindness.

Cheng Xin's mistake was believing too much in love, believing that all of humanity, and even the entire universe, would abide by the moral standards she assumed, which ultimately led to the humans of Earth missing every opportunity for self-salvation.

And Shisui's greatest mistake was believing in Sarutobi Hiruzen, believing in that hollow, void, and twisted Will of Fire, never once thinking from the perspective of the Uchiha from beginning to end.

The Uchiha must compromise! The Uchiha must concede!

He never considered that under the rules of such a 'zero-sum game,' if the Uchiha could not display their sharp claws, then all that awaited them was to be smoothed down and silently perish.

But!

Things were not supposed to be this way; the outcome did not have to reach such a desperate point!

Possessing the power of the Mangekyo and the miracle of Kotoamatsukami, he was fully capable of building a balanced bond between the Hokage and the Uchiha lineage.

Although there might have been constant friction on the surface, both sides would generally maintain a certain level of restraint. This dynamic balance would have actually been truly beneficial for all of Konoha.

But Shisui did not understand, and even naively thought that doing so was wrong. He even wanted to stand from the perspective of the village (the Hokage) and use methods like controlling Uchiha Fugaku to force the Uchiha to concede.

And even after being backstabbed by Danzo, who represented the village, he ultimately chose to commit suicide out of cowardice, just to avoid further intensifying the conflict between the village and his clan.

What was even more speechless was that he insisted on passing down his own hollow and twisted Will of Fire to Uchiha Itachi, causing a fool who was already struggling mentally due to the war to eventually bring about the tragedy of the night of the clan's extinction.

Lose your humanity, lose a lot!

Lose your beastliness, lose everything!

Recalling this famous quote from Mr. Zhou, Uchiha Jin felt not a shred of guilt for taking out Shisui; in fact, in his current capacity as an Uchiha elder, he felt a sense of satisfaction for having saved his clan.

Of course!

As the farmer, Shisui, this plump and delicious turkey, had finally welcomed his Thanksgiving...

Just like that.

Only a dead Uchiha Shisui is a good Uchiha Shisui!

Therefore, even though he knew Uchiha Shisui was already on the verge of death and might not even survive being sent to Konoha Hospital, Uchiha Jin still chose to end the man's life with his own hands.

He didn't deserve it!

To let Shisui die while clinging to those moronic, naive fantasies would be the greatest mockery of all the innocent Uchiha who died in the original story...

Swish!

Casually pulling the kunai from Shisui's chest, Uchiha Jin bathed it in scorching fire chakra before tossing it aside with a Body Flicker.

As he felt the system prompt in his mind asking him to make a choice, Uchiha Jin did not rush to address it. He swept a faint glance at the increasingly intense slaughter not far ahead, then turned his body to look at the hundreds of figures rushing toward him from behind.

"Shisui!"

Accompanied by a somewhat youthful and terrified voice, Uchiha Itachi's swift figure appeared nearby. He stumbled over with a Body Flicker to his best friend's corpse, completely unable to accept that his dearest friend had died right before his eyes, two clear streams of tears flowing down his natural tear troughs.

"Jin, what is the meaning of this?"

Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Setsuna arrived one after another; after all, this place was not too far from the Uchiha compound, and such a massive commotion could not possibly escape the notice of local powerhouses like them.

Yet, Uchiha Jin still showed no intention of acknowledging the two, his gaze remaining fixed on the countless chakra fluctuations surging toward them from the distance.

Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!

It was merely a basic C-rank ninjutsu, yet it instantly blew away the thick mist generated by the clash between the numerous Uchiha and Root.

The moment the mist vanished completely, Sarutobi Hiruzen descended from the sky, landing heavily on the eaves of a house before shouting sternly.

"Stop! What are you all doing again?"

(Sarutobi Hiruzen's inner thoughts: Why did I say 'again'?)