All Bowed

Kagami Uchiha, faced with Yuan Ming's question,

fell silent.

How could he possibly explain the details of the eye technique that had turned the tables for him?

After all, in a ninja's battle,

information was crucial.

Once you revealed your abilities, your opponent could find a way to counter your tactics among all the jutsu at their disposal.

Unless you were terrifyingly strong!

At that thought,

Kagami Uchiha's heart sank.

Wasn't that exactly what his opponent was...

A terrifyingly powerful ninja!

So young,

only fifteen,

and already his eyes had reached such a level!

After all,

this was already

a level comparable to that man's!

He cut off his wandering thoughts

and continued dodging the terrifying attacks of the young man before him!

Just then,

"Your eye technique is pretty good... the ability to manipulate luck!"

"Luck twisted every one of my attacks. My slashes that should have hit you somehow veered off course!"

The young man's words reached his ears.

Kagami's pupils contracted.

How could that be?!

"How could you figure out my ability from such a brief fight?!"

The words burst out of him,

his panic impossible to hide!

Watching Kagami Uchiha retreat to the side, his face full of disbelief,

Uchiha Genmei

sighed.

"Honestly, are all of you so set in your ways?"

A flash of arrogance crossed his brow.

He said lightly,

"Let me remind you: I'm already the clan head."

Kagami Uchiha

suppressed his disbelief.

He couldn't afford to let his guard down in battle.

He couldn't be careless;

carelessness meant death!

At those words, a glimmer of understanding flashed through his mind.

"I see! The change to Hi-no-Kaku's plan was because you used genjutsu on them, wasn't it?"

"No, that's not it! Twisting a person's will—that's an eye technique!"

Clap, clap, clap.

Uchiha Genmei applauded.

He praised him.

"So your mind hasn't completely seized up after all. I already knew the details of your eye technique!"

As he spoke,

the young man turned the hilt of his blade,

holding the Divine Sword level with his brow!

"I haven't tried this move since turning Susanoo into armor!"

His gaze sharpened.

Chakra flames enveloped his whole body,

a blaze of lightning and fire

shimmering across his golden divine armor!

"Let's see how long your eye technique can hold out against my Thunder-Fire Chakra Mode!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A deafening crash shook heaven and earth. The Uchiha's figure vanished in an instant.

The ground shattered where he had just stood. Along the straight path toward Kagami Uchiha,

rings of sonic booms erupted one after another!

In the blink of an eye,

he struck Kagami Uchiha dozens of times!

Each slash came down with tremendous force,

cutting through the air with a sharp whistle!

Kagami Uchiha struggled to dodge the overwhelming assault.

He watched the Destruction Slashes miss him, their shockwaves carving enormous trenches into the earth as they swept past.

His eyes grew more and more uncomfortable,

and blood trickled down in an endless stream.

No,

his ocular power was about to give out!

"Hahahahaha!"

"Your eye technique is so interesting!"

"With your strength, you should have fallen to my sword long ago, yet you've held on until now! Amazing!"

His excited laughter rang out across the battlefield!

Uchiha Genmei was exhilarated!

The old man opposite him was clearly so weak, yet he had lasted this long.

Manipulating luck—what an outstanding eye technique!

Suddenly,

Kagami Uchiha's figure faltered.

He couldn't dodge in time. A flash of the Divine Sword, wreathed in lightning and fire, swept past...

One of his legs was severed.

"Checkmate!"

With his eye technique

no longer able to protect Kagami Uchiha,

Genmei seized the instant he fell and couldn't react.

"I've put up with you for long enough, you old bastard! Every time we met, you acted so superior, like you were there to guide me!"

Uchiha Genmei roared,

the blade in his hand

brimming with savage intent!

He drove it

straight into the head of the enemy before him!

With an upward sweep of his sword hand,

Kagami Uchiha's body was split in two from head to toe!

Elsewhere,

Uchiha Chiri

dragged Uchiha Rai, his eyes vacant,

slowly toward them.

Her battle had been much simpler.

She hadn't given him a chance.

The moment she unleashed the eye technique Izanami-no-Mikoto,

Uchiha Rai was trapped in an endless loop.

He wouldn't wake until he changed his ways!

She had reached the edge of Uchiha Genmei's battlefield long ago and watched the fight.

"Is it over?"

At the girl's question, Uchiha Genmei hadn't lowered his guard yet.

"I don't know. The old man's body hasn't disappeared, so I don't know if he's got one last desperate move left."

Hearing this,

the girl nodded to show she understood.

The two kept watch over the battlefield for a while.

Only after seeing the body cut in two did they finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Uchiha Genmei dispelled Susanoo and his chakra mode.

He sneered.

"Looks like Rai aside, the other Uchiha with Mangekyo still treasure their eyes."

He walked over to Kagami Uchiha's body and gouged out his eyes.

He placed them in a bottle he summoned.

"His eyes' technique is pretty good. I'll keep them for now."

Seeing what Uchiha Genmei was doing, Chiri hesitated to speak.

In the end, she couldn't help saying,

"Isn't that a little disrespectful to the dead?"

At those words,

Uchiha Genmei realized what he'd done.

The Uchiha cared quite a bit about this sort of thing.

They insisted on burying the dead whole.

Otherwise,

even after their generation had been through a civil war,

some of the Mangekyo Uchiha would have kept at least one eye, passing it down to the era of the original story.

"Chiri, thanks for reminding me."

With that, he turned around.

His right eye twitched,

and a black Undying Black Flame

burned Kagami Uchiha's body to ashes.

He closed his Sharingan and looked at the girl, whose mouth hung open.

He shrugged

and chuckled.

"That takes care of it."

Lurking nearby,

a bizarre figure, half black and half white,

watched the battle end.

The black half chuckled.

"Impressive. Truly impressive!"

"I never imagined that this generation of Uchiha would produce someone like him."

"His ocular power is so immense, it must be the Eternal Sharingan."

The white half heard him

and added,

"Zetsu, he doesn't have any brothers or sisters. Why does he have the Eternal Sharingan?"

Looking at his foolish other half,

Zetsu said irritably,

"I don't know. Anyway, this kid's appearance is really a nuisance."

He thought with some helplessness that Uchiha Madara was still in the process of awakening the Rinnegan.

At this stage,

this kid called Yuan Ming was

the strongest in the entire Shinobi World!

He hoped Yuan Ming wouldn't negatively affect his plans for the future.

Just then,

the white half-body suddenly spoke:

"Zetsu, do you think he poops? Should I go ask him what it feels like to need to poop?"

"Don't make trouble for me!"

He scolded the white half-body.

He watched the boy and girl slowly leave

the battlefield.

"Let's go. I'll report the Uchiha clan's current situation to Madara."

Zetsu slowly sank underground

and left the area.

Inside Naka Shrine,

using Maru-Maru's Immortal Treasure,

they repeated the same trick,

and everyone who had taken part in the battle returned here once more.

After a brief rest,

Uchiha Genmei took the seat reserved for the clan head.

He looked at

the ninjas bowing before him.

He was in high spirits!