It was worth mentioning that, for some reason, that old dog Danzo had done nothing after sending "Hannya." This had given Uchiha Chiba some time to grow.
"Chiba, I... I can't fit through." Katsuzuki turned sideways and looked toward Chiba.
Uchiha Chiba raised his head.
He saw Katsuzuki stuck in a crack between the rocks, her breasts wedged in the gap. She sighed, shifted her body, and backed out.
"Forget it. I'll wait outside." Katsuzuki waved a hand. She'd tried her best.
Chiba's mouth twitched.
Then
he turned around.
It was very dark here. The faint light he'd seen earlier came from a moldy wooden table. Uchiha Chiba walked toward it and saw that the source of the glow was a scroll.
Chiba picked up the scroll.
Buzz!!!!!
A wave of dizziness washed over him, and he clutched his head.
"There was clearly no trace of chakra. Could something inside this scroll have affected me?" Uchiha Chiba muttered to himself. Before he'd acted, he had carefully checked for traces of chakra or traps. Apart from a few fingerprints already covered by dust, there had been nothing else.
He unrolled the scroll.
The twisted characters seemed to come alive as they crawled into Uchiha Chiba's palm. Then they moved toward his heart.
Buzz!!!!
An invisible giant hand squeezed Uchiha Chiba's heart!
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
"What... is this?" Uchiha Chiba fell to his knees. A technique that left him drenched in sweat kept appearing in his mind. He could no longer feel the pain in his heart, because his consciousness was immersed in the technique...
After a long while,
Uchiha Chiba slowly opened his eyes. He reached out, braced himself against the wall, and shakily got to his feet.
A terrifying technique.
"This technique... doesn't seem to belong to this world. Could it have been prepared specifically for me? No, but it's also possible... It seems that nobody else in this world should be able to understand it..."
"So the question now is, why does Danzo want this technique? Could there be someone else in Konoha who crossed over into this world just like me? No, that doesn't seem likely. In this era of constant warfare, any other transmigrator would probably have made a name for himself by now. Then there must be some other reason... I have to go to Konoha, whether it's because of this technique or the possibility that there's another transmigrator..." Uchiha Chiba covered his eyes and panted heavily. Accepting the technique seemed to have taken a great deal out of him.
Buzz!!!
The Double Tomoe Sharingan slowly spun.
"Forbidden Technique: Blood Scar."
Glup, glup... glup, glup...
A patch of scarlet spread beneath Uchiha Chiba's feet.
Then
a blood-dripping kusarigama appeared in Uchiha Chiba's hand.
This technique could create miracles. It could absorb the chakra of people killed by weapons empowered with blood. Even if the weapon hadn't killed them, Uchiha Chiba could still absorb a portion of their chakra as long as he was within ten meters of the deceased. It also increased his own strength. Once there was enough blood, he could even use it to control everything about other people—except their souls.
Buzz!!!!
A flash of blood-red light.
Rumble!!!!
"Chiba? Why was there an explosion in there?" Katsuzuki called out in confusion from outside the crack in the rocks.
"It's nothing. I was just experimenting." Uchiha Chiba put away the blood-red scythe. As powerful as the technique was, it had a fatal drawback: activating it required blood. If there were enemies around, that was fine—absorbing blood within an hour of using it removed the restriction. But without enemies, the technique would drain Chiba's own blood. Losing a large amount of blood in a short time could cause shock, or even instant death. So blood had become a priority for Chiba.
"Looks like I'll have to go to the battlefield now. But I can't reveal this technique yet. If word gets out, it'll cause a lot of trouble..." Uchiha Chiba looked around.
Aside from the scroll containing the technique,
there was also a bottle and a book, along with a skeleton locked up in chains. This didn't look like a good place. Maybe those bones belonged to a ninja who had practiced the technique?
Uchiha Chiba picked up the bottle.
Glup~
The bottle shattered instantly, and a rush of blood flowed into Chiba's fingertips. After a long while, a blood-red rose pattern appeared on the back of his hand.
"This blood is so potent. There's probably enough to last me three days of continuous use. Is this what they call nature's bounty?" Uchiha Chiba touched the rose pattern on the back of his hand.
There was nothing unusual about it.
Then
Chiba picked up the book.
Most of it had been soaked in blood, making the writing impossible to read. But the last three pages were still intact, each describing a different technique. They all seemed to complement Blood Scar.
Blood: Thorn Shatter. This technique leaned more toward the Silent Killing Technique. A single use consumed about a tenth of his current blood supply. It transmitted his blood into an enemy's body through touch or a weapon. The blood would spread from their vessels to their organs and then to the surface of their body, where thorny streaks of scarlet would bloom and condense into a blood fruit.
"This... feels like it could make me look pretty cool." Uchiha Chiba's Sharingan glinted. It was a quick way to memorize things, and he used it to commit the techniques to memory.
Chiba looked at the next page.
Blood: Domination. This technique used splattered blood to control an enemy. Given Chiba's current abilities, he could control at most two people. Each use came with a prerequisite: he had to bleed himself. After forcibly controlling someone, he also had to cast an illusion on them and enter their inner world to break their inner demons. Only then would they willingly submit to his control. Each use would drain his entire blood reserve, so there was almost no reason to use it unless absolutely necessary.
Then he turned to the next page.
Blood Clone. It used blood to create a clone. When the clone disappeared, it turned back into blood and returned to the original body. It seemed like nothing more than a simple Clone Technique, but it was better than nothing. After all, it was an auxiliary technique developed from a forbidden technique, so it was still pretty powerful.
Suddenly,
Drip! Drip! Drip!
The instant Chiba finished reading, the book turned into blood and dripped onto the ground.
"Is this... a one-use book? What a shame. There probably isn't anything else here besides this blood technique and a few auxiliary techniques. I'd better get out first." Uchiha Chiba walked toward the exit.
"Oh! Chiba, you're finally out. My father sent me a message through Ibuse, telling us to go back and not head to the battlefield. Things have been rough lately... If you ask me, Father's making a fuss over nothing. How about we go kill a few Konoha ninjas on the flank of the battlefield in a bit?" Katsuzuki sounded calm. She seemed to have grown used to hearing Hanzo the Salamander say things like that. Even her father couldn't change her stubborn nature.
"Sure." Chiba slowly stepped out of the crack in the rocks.
Behind Chiba,
the smear of blood left by the book had somehow clotted on the ground into the shape of a blood-red rose...
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