Yuzhen's Advice

Not long ago, Might Duy had received some intelligence.

It said that his son, Might Guy,

would be ambushed by the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

He had rushed over at once.

But when he saw his son and his friends safe on the way,

he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he heard that their team leader, Uchiha Yuzhen, had also said the attackers were powerful.

Moved by Yuzhen's decision to stay behind,

he had hurried over to support him.

But when he arrived,

he saw that only Uchiha Yuzhen was standing.

Everyone else was lying on the ground.

He even wondered if the intelligence had been wrong.

Perhaps these men weren't the Seven Ninja Swordsmen at all,

just ordinary shinobi.

But once he saw the faces of the corpses clearly, along with the weapons Uchiha Yuzhen had gathered and sealed in a scroll,

he was shocked to discover that they really were the Seven Ninja Swordsmen!

The Seven Ninja Swordsmen were the Mist Ninja's claim to fame.

In the Ninja World, everyone knew of them!

Their personnel records were common knowledge.

They had to be.

Every shinobi village went to great lengths to promote famous shinobi like these.

They used them as a calling card to attract clients and increase the number of missions they were hired for.

And yet...

This group of shinobi, renowned for both their fame and strength,

had actually been killed by Uchiha Yuzhen alone?!

The revelation shook him to the core!

Uchiha Yuzhen, a Special Jonin of Konoha, was nicknamed "Body Flicker Yuzhen."

As a rising star of Konoha and a shinobi with a title, he was bound to be powerful.

Duy knew all that.

But knowing it was one thing.

He still had no real sense of just how strong Yuzhen was.

Now, seeing this, how could he not understand?

Uchiha Yuzhen's strength had already reached the level of a Kage.

Looking at Uchiha Yuzhen's handsome, youthful face,

Duy was truly stunned.

To reach the level of a Kage in his teens...

It was simply inconceivable!

By then, Uchiha Yuzhen had finished gathering the spoils.

He walked over to Might Duy.

Seeing the shock on Duy's face, Yuzhen felt a little helpless.

He could already predict how much his reputation would grow after killing the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

He was sure that in just a few days,

his name would no longer be in its early, barely-known state.

It would resound throughout the Ninja World!

"Sigh... Come on, Uncle Dai. Guy and the others should be waiting for us." Yuzhen sighed, then reminded Duy before

he took a step and flashed away from the battlefield.

After Uchiha Yuzhen and Might Duy reunited with Katekai, Shiranui Genma, and Ebisu,

they reached Konoha's main camp after traveling through the night.

Once they entered the camp, Uchiha Yuzhen, as the team leader,

walked toward the tent of the camp's commander at an easy pace.

The reason he was so relaxed was simple.

The commander of this stretch of coastline was Uchiha Fugaku!

As the head of the Military Police Force, one of Konoha's most important departments,

he was the highest-ranking officer on this front, so the commander could only be Uchiha Fugaku.

Fugaku's tent wasn't far away. It took less than two minutes to reach.

Yuzhen arrived, lifted the flap, and walked inside.

Inside the tent,

Uchiha Fugaku had been waiting for him.

When he saw Uchiha Yuzhen enter looking well, he nodded in satisfaction.

"Thanks for your efforts, Yuzhen-kun. It couldn't have been easy to escape from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen with those three Genin."

Fugaku meant every word.

He knew Uchiha Yuzhen could use the Flying Thunder God, so he hadn't been too worried about his safety.

But the fact that Yuzhen had managed to bring those three burdens along with him—

that seemed almost unbelievable.

Hearing this, Yuzhen's expression turned serious as he stepped up to Uchiha Fugaku.

He handed Fugaku two scrolls.

"What are these?" Uchiha Fugaku asked, taking the scrolls and looking at Yuzhen in confusion.

"Lord Fugaku, you should call in the shinobi from the Intelligence Division. And bring all the Jonin in the camp here as well."

"Of these two scrolls, one contains the attackers' heads, and the other contains their weapons."

At Yuzhen's suggestion, Fugaku raised an eyebrow.

One of the scrolls contained the attackers' heads.

Calling in the Intelligence Division to extract information from them made sense.

But why summon every Jonin in the camp as well?

Puzzled, he immediately asked Yuzhen:

"It makes sense to call in the Intelligence Division, but is it really necessary to summon all the Jonin in the camp?"

"It is, Lord Fugaku... Open the scroll with the heads, and you'll understand why."

Hearing this, Uchiha Fugaku didn't waste any time.

He opened the scroll at once.

With a puff of smoke,

more than ten heads came into view.

He shot to his feet.

Staring at the heads in shock, he exclaimed, "Yuzhen-kun! That fat head with the serrated teeth—is that Suikazan Fuguki?"

"That's right. And the other heads belong to the Seven Ninja Swordsmen as well." Yuzhen pointed solemnly at the Root shinobi's heads and warned Uchiha Fugaku, "Those aren't important. These few are."

At Uchiha Yuzhen's explanation, Uchiha Fugaku's expression changed dramatically.

The heads of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen weren't as important as these unfamiliar shinobi's heads?

"What is going on?"

"Lord Fugaku, call in the Intelligence Division. Then you'll understand everything."

Hearing Yuzhen insist for the third time,

Fugaku's expression turned grave, and he nodded solemnly.

He followed Uchiha Yuzhen's instructions and summoned the Intelligence Division shinobi and every Jonin in the camp.

Ten minutes later,

dozens of shinobi had gathered in the tent.

The Jonin who had come were all solemn.

After all, anyone who became a Jonin

was no fool.

They had run into the Intelligence Division on their way here.

The Intelligence Division had been summoned, along with every Jonin in the camp.

Given all that—

they had all begun to speculate.

Had Lord Fugaku received some urgent intelligence?

Fugaku sat at the head of the table. Once everyone had arrived,

he pointed to the tabletop and addressed them all:

"These heads are why I called you here."

At his words, everyone present

looked toward the heads.

"Hm? If I'm not mistaken, those are the heads of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, aren't they?"

"That's right... Those men have harassed us over the past six months. It's them!"

"Wait, how did they die?!"

Only then did everyone in the room realize what they were seeing.

They stared at Uchiha Fugaku in shock and asked:

"Lord Fugaku, what happened? How did they die?!"

Seeing this, Uchiha Fugaku raised a hand and gestured for them to calm down.

At his gesture,

the room fell silent.

"The Seven Ninja Swordsmen are indeed dead. There's no doubt about it."

As he spoke, Fugaku took out the other scroll.

He tossed it onto the floor.

Poof—!

As the smoke cleared, seven oddly shaped Ninja Blades appeared on the ground.

"The Ninja Blades are here too. And the one who did all this..." Fugaku looked down at Uchiha Yuzhen, standing off to the side, and said solemnly, "was Yuzhen-kun!"

As Fugaku's words rang out,

all the Jonin in the room turned to look at Uchiha Yuzhen!