Arrival in Konoha, Year 48!

Konoha, Year 48!

Land of Fire, Konohagakure.

The strongest ninja village in the shinobi world, which had enjoyed peace for a full forty-eight years.

On the night of October 10th that year, it faced its first great calamity!

Towering flames.

Spreading smoke.

A rampaging, frenzied crimson shadow.

Accompanied by the incomparably shrill cries and screams below.

And building after building collapsing in succession, blood was everywhere.

"Damn it! Why is the Nine-Tails here?!"

"Stop it! We have to stop this monster!"

"Bastard!"

"Water Release!"

"Lightning Release!"

"Earth Release!"

An utterly chaotic scene.

Wave after wave of terrifying, chilling power.

This was a scene every Naruto fan knew all too well from the Original Work: the tragedy of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Attack, triggered by Uchiha Obito's assault on Konoha!

Though this was a plot point that, including Liu Heng, countless Naruto fans had found deeply regrettable and infuriating.

When it unfolded vividly before his eyes.

Liu Heng's heart was in complete turmoil!

He could even be said to be utterly at a loss.

That's right!

Liu Heng had transmigrated!

He had transmigrated from a peaceful, harmonious country in his previous life into this cold-blooded, cruel, and dark world.

And, unfortunately, he had arrived in Konoha in Year 48—this village hailed as the strongest ninja village!

He had merely dozed off during class, so why had he directly transmigrated!?

Even though he had complained more than once that he wanted to visit the world of Naruto, those had only been jokes!

As an utterly ordinary college student.

Who would be willing to abandon a comfortable life and come to such a dangerously extreme world!?

Especially when he had arrived in Konoha at such a terrifying point in time.

The most horrifying part was.

The three black tomoe spinning rapidly in his pupils, set against the scarlet color filling them.

All proclaimed his identity at this very moment—the Uchiha Clan!

Transmigrating into a member of the Uchiha Clan in Konoha Year 48!

How was that any different from throwing himself into the national army in Year 49?

Well, if he had to point out a difference, the latter meant immediate GG, while he still had five or six years of buffer time now?

Thanks to the formidable perception granted by his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Liu Heng could vaguely detect the powerful presences hidden in the shadowy corners nearby. If he remembered the plot correctly.

These were the elite Anbu units Sarutobi Hiruzen had deliberately deployed on Shimura Danzō's suggestion to monitor the Uchiha Clan!

They were spread throughout the areas surrounding the Uchiha Clan compound.

Forcibly isolating the Uchiha Clan.

After hesitating, Uchiha Fugaku chose to yield. Rather than support the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, he obeyed the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen's orders to keep every clan member under control and forbid them from joining the battle.

This also completely severed the Uchiha Clan's last chance to reconcile with the High Command!

As long as Minato Namikaze lived.

The Uchiha Clan and the Konoha High Command still had hope of reconciliation.

Once Minato Namikaze died in battle, given the temperaments of Konoha F4—Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu—the Uchiha Clan would no longer have any possibility of reconciling with them. The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Attack would further cause these Konoha High Command members, who had already been wary and fearful of the Uchiha Clan, to suspect and guard against them even more!

When the Uchiha Clan could endure no longer and sought to launch a rebellion.

That would be when the Uchiha Clan's true day of death arrived.

However, if they really could have successfully launched a rebellion in the Original Work, the outcome would still have been uncertain. At the very least, even in the worst-case scenario, they could have preserved some embers of hope. Liu Heng did not believe that, with Uchiha Fugaku's strength after awakening the Mangekyo, leading dozens of Elite Jōnin and hundreds of clan members who had awakened their Sharingan, the weakest of whom were at least ordinary Chūnin, they could not have fought their way out?

Perhaps Uchiha Fugaku and the others would all have died in battle.

But they could at least have escorted a small portion of the clan out of Konoha!

Yet Uchiha Fugaku had ultimately chosen a strategy of complete nonresistance.

And now, he had transmigrated into a member of such a terrifying clan at such a terrifying point in time.

The worst part was.

Liu Heng had absolutely none of the memories of the person whose body he had taken over.

His use of the Sharingan came only from subconscious muscle memory and conditioned reflexes. No matter what, this body was now the "vessel" of his soul and consciousness!

He did not even know who he was!

Liu Heng, who had only been an ordinary person in his previous life.

What could he do?

What was he capable of doing?

The answer was that he could do nothing!

Without this body's memories from this life, whether Liu Heng could even wield the strength this Uchiha clansman should possess remained unknown.

An ordinary person had transmigrated into a ninja, and not just any ninja, but a Jōnin with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan—most likely part of the Uchiha Clan's elite!

Coupled with the situation outside!

Lost and dumbfounded!

That was Liu Heng's truest state at this moment.

Fear was even more plainly written in his emotions.

Few people did not fear death. If things continued like this, then seven years from now!

What awaited him would be death!

Or perhaps that time would come even sooner.

Because he had absolutely no memories of this body's life.

Could he just lie and claim amnesia?

Don't joke around. This was the world of Naruto, a terrifying world filled with supernatural powers!

Besides, what did the Uchiha Clan and the Sharingan represent?

Liu Heng understood it better than anyone.

The moment he exposed a flaw, genjutsu interrogation would be the most obvious outcome.

He would not even need to wait seven years.

Perhaps tomorrow, when he encountered a "somewhat closer clan member."

His day of death would arrive!

He might even be regarded as an accomplice of that mysterious Uchiha who controlled the Nine-Tails.

Anyone who was not blind could see the Sharingan in the Nine-Tails' pupils.

The moment he thought of this.

Liu Heng's emotions gradually became extremely unstable as he looked at the rampaging Nine-Tailed Demon Fox in the distance.

His heart churned with violent waves.

And almost at the same moment.

"Hmm!?"

Deep within his mind—or perhaps deep within his soul.

A sudden, heavy impact emerged!?

It made Liu Heng feel a heart-rending pain in an instant!

"Ugh!?"

In an instant.

Liu Heng collapsed to the ground. His eyes widened, the three tomoe spun rapidly, and copious sweat seeped from his forehead.

An intense, tearing pain surged through his nerves.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Liu Heng could not suppress it at all.

The scream that burst from him.

He clutched his head tightly.

It felt as though his head were about to explode.

Cold sweat drenched him, and his face was deathly pale!

"Bang!"

After another violent impact seemed to strike deep within his mind.

His consciousness sank completely.

As Liu Heng's vision went black.

And he fell straight to the ground.

He sank into a deep coma.

However, before he completely lost consciousness, the three tomoe spinning rapidly in his pupils linked together in the next instant, revealing the form of a Four-Pointed Windmill Sharingan!

After an eerie crimson gleam flashed within them.

They returned to dim, silent darkness!