"After all, my lord is only a Shadow Clone here. Please leave as soon as possible."
Gosho, who was already fuming, wasn't about to let them leave just like that.
"He's only a mere Shadow Clone! Someone, seize Oyashiro Yui!"
Uchiha Genmei glanced at him again.
Whoosh!
He vanished with the Body Flicker Technique.
Gosho shouted in a panic, "After him!!!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
A wave of heat swept over them.
Gosho's heart lurched. He turned around.
A crimson blaze surged toward them like a bolt of lightning.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In the blink of an eye, it killed every ninja who had tried to give chase.
Standing in the middle of the battlefield—
It was Gabimaru!
Crimson flames soared around him. His sclerae were bloodred, and a vicious cross-shaped pupil glared out from his eye. A miserable, blood-red killing intent enveloped his entire body.
He was like a demon from hell!
"Hah..."
He exhaled a long breath of hot air.
"None of you are leaving!"
His gloomy eyes fixed on Gosho as he asked coldly,
"Lord Gosho, I have a question."
"Was my parents' and Yui's strange illness your doing?"
Looking into Gabimaru's eyes, Chinoike Gosho was captivated by their divine light.
Those eyes weren't shaped like the number "one"? Had it worked? Had it really worked? Had the demonic power of our clan succeeded in matching the divine eyes of the Uchiha?
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Gabimaru, those eyes of yours are the True Blood Dragon Eye, aren't they?"
"Subarashii!"
"Come with me. Our Chinoike Clan will resound throughout the Shinobi World!"
Facing the seemingly deranged Chinoike Gosho, Gabimaru remained unmoved. He spoke grimly:
"Answer me, Lord Gosho."
How could he tell you? If he revealed the truth, how could he use the power of those eyes for himself?
"Of course..."
Just as Gosho was about to continue drawing Gabimaru in with lies—
Huh? What was going on?
Why couldn't he move his mouth?
A pair of Sharingan appeared in his mind, then vanished.
Sharingan?
Ah...
There was no Sharingan. The True Blood Dragon Eye before him was amazing!
"Of course I did it! It was all to revive our clan!"
"The moment you, Gabimaru, displayed your peerless talent, you awakened the Ketsuryūgan without any emotional provocation!"
"A child chosen by heaven! If you could awaken it like that, what would happen if you were subjected to even greater trauma?"
"So I arranged for your parents to have an accident, and had someone drug your wife, leaving her afflicted with a strange illness!"
"It was all for the sake of the eyes in your sockets!"
Tsk!
Idiot!
A scornful laugh in his mind snapped Gosho out of his rambling.
What had he just said?
Why had he revealed those secrets?
That scornful laugh! The Sharingan that had appeared in his mind!
It was that bastard!
When had he been caught in a genjutsu?
His mind suddenly cleared. He remembered Genmei glancing at him twice earlier.
It had happened then!
"Ahhhhh! Damn you, Uchiha Genmei!"
"You tricked me!"
After bellowing a few times, the deranged Chinoike Gosho took several deep breaths and calmed down.
"Since things have come to this, Cloud Hidden, show yourselves! Kill Gabimaru and let's leave. Those eyes will be yours."
He had to get out first. Since he could raise Gabimaru, he could make another one using the same method!
He would give Cloud Hidden a reward now. Then he could rise again within their ranks!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
More than a hundred Cloud Ninjas appeared. Their leader spoke plainly:
"Lord Hell Warden, then we'll gratefully accept your offer."
"Kill that brat!"
Gabimaru watched in silence as it all unfolded. He saw every enemy emerge, saw the clan's ninjas and the Cloud Ninjas charge at him!
He closed his eyes.
He sighed.
"Is that everyone?"
"I must carve out a future for Yui and me. I must avenge my loving parents."
He opened his eyes!
His blood-teared gaze was terrifying!
"I declare: all beings are equal. No matter what kind of creature you are, you will all be reduced to fuel for the flames."
"Watch closely as this flaming hell, this kingdom of blood, is born!"
[True Blood Dragon Eye: Karma Fire Blood Refining!]
A single blood-red flame flickered to life beneath his feet, seeming ready to go out at any moment.
Then it expanded in an instant.
A man-eating crimson covered heaven and earth!
Hell had descended once more!
As that crimson light illuminated heaven and earth,
Uchiha Genmei strode along at an easy pace until he found a group of Military Police Force members. He stood beside Uchiha Yuta and gazed with him at that hellish scene.
Uchiha Yuta stared blankly for a moment, then turned to Genmei.
"Is that the demonic power that rivals our clan's, Lord Genmei?"
Uchiha Genmei nodded.
"That's right. It's different from the divine power of the Mangekyō Sharingan."
"The Chinoike Clan's True Blood Dragon Eye focuses on blood and augments it with fire. It's the ultimate eye of the heretical path."
Uchiha Yuta didn't seem convinced.
He asked, puzzled, "How do you know that, my lord?"
At Yuta's question, Uchiha Genmei stepped forward, his gaze distant.
"My Shadow Clone just reported back to me."
That was right.
His Shadow Clone had just rescued Yui and brought her to the Military Police Force, where he'd asked someone to look after her.
After the clone dispersed,
he learned that he hadn't been the only one to tell Gabimaru why he'd lived such a tragic life.
Gabimaru had also told him about the Ketsuryūgan. It was a powerful dōjutsu that was every bit as formidable as the Sharingan.
Its ocular power upon awakening rivaled that of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Aside from genjutsu of equal strength, it could also control an enemy's blood and use it like a bomb.
Its insight was weaker than the Sharingan's, but when all its other abilities were added together, it truly wasn't inferior at all.
Once it reached another level, the Ketsuryūgan became complete.
It had no side effect of blindness, and its dōjutsu was straightforward.
It could completely control blood!
Combined with the fire-style ninjutsu the Chinoike Clan had developed over hundreds of years, its destructive power was immense.
But that wasn't all.
The terrifying part was that those eyes devoured people!
They turned others into blood and used them as nutrients to strengthen themselves.
"Hmm? Lord Genmei, where did that strange cat on your shoulder come from?"
Hearing Uchiha Yuta's question, Genmei replied,
"Isn't she cute? Look, isn't she super cute?"
Excited, Uchiha Genmei lifted the little blue cat on his shoulder. Tears clung to the corners of her eyes.
"Look at these black markings on her blue fur. Aren't they beautiful?"
"And her head feels so nice to pet."
"But most importantly!"
The blue cat trembled, tears in her eyes, and looked utterly resistant as Genmei held her up high, exposing her belly.
Uchiha Yuta stared dead-eyed. "Most importantly what?"
"She's a female cat!!"
Genmei answered excitedly.
Yuta's face went completely blank.
Had I been mistaken to consider Lord Genmei a threat?
More than ten minutes earlier.
The golden giant walked up to the Jinchūriki, who was breathing his last.
"Good. He's badly injured, but the Tailed Beast Chakra saved his life."
"Drenched in Divine Sake, heh. This individual's chakra will all be branded with the Divine Sake Mark."
With that, he shrank the Susanoo down into a Crow Tengu wielding a spirit weapon.
Uchiha Genmei crouched down and lifted Gyobu's eyelids.
[Genjutsu: Sharingan!]
In an instant, Genmei found himself in a pitch-black domain.
He looked around.
"Is this Gyobu's mental world?"
"He's about to die. I probably won't get to meet him. Let's go see that cat."
He turned, his cold gaze fixing on the creature behind him.
A blue, two-tailed beast wreathed in demonic flames, sealed away.
Mysterious black markings covered its body.
It was the Two-Tails.
Uchiha Genmei's eyes lit up. He waved.
"Nice to meet you, Matatabi."
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