Shimura Danzō's Downfall!

Konoha.

Senju Clan compound.

"What kind of eyes are those?"

"They're not Three Tomoe—the pattern changed!"

"This Chakra pressure... How can it be this strong?!"

"..."

Seeing Fugaku Uchiha's eyes.

Some ninjas who did not know what was happening cried out in shock.

The pipe in Sarutobi Hiruzen's hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

But he paid it no mind, his gaze fixed firmly on Fugaku's eyes.

Someone from the Uchiha Clan had actually awakened the Mangekyo again!

Danzo's breathing caught as well.

He had never expected Fugaku Uchiha, who had always seemed weak and incompetent, to be hiding such a trump card.

But he quickly forced himself to calm down.

So what if it was the Mangekyo?

Without Senju Clan cells to provide vitality.

Forcibly using those eyes would only hasten the onset of blindness.

"Stop playing tricks!"

Danzo roared.

He wasted no more words and decided to strike first.

The fingers of his remaining left hand moved in a blur, forming one-handed seals so quickly they dazzled the eye.

"Wind Style: Vacuum Serial Waves!"

Danzo drew in a deep breath, then violently exhaled.

More than a dozen invisible crescent-shaped wind blades howled forth.

The wind blades were incredibly sharp, carving deep furrows even into the bluestone slabs beneath them.

Fugaku Uchiha stood where he was without moving.

Bloody tears streamed from his eyes.

"Susanoo!"

Solid dark-gold Chakra erupted.

Immediately afterward.

A massive skeletal frame rose from the ground, securely protecting Fugaku at its very center.

Veins and muscles rapidly spread and wound around the bones.

In only a few seconds.

A half-bodied Tengu War God dozens of meters tall stood in the middle of the field.

The war god wore sturdy Chakra armor and gripped a Chakra longsword, like a demonic deity descended from myth.

The violent wind blades finally struck Susanoo's armor.

"Clang, clang, clang—"

A string of piercing metallic collisions rang out.

Sparks scattered everywhere.

However.

Before Susanoo's defense.

Ninjutsu of this caliber was nothing but a joke.

At the sight.

Every ninja present held their breath.

Was this the Uchiha's true power?

With a stance like that of a deity, even a hundred ordinary ninjas charging in would only be throwing away their lives.

"Shimura Danzō."

"Is this all you can do?"

Fugaku Uchiha stood inside Susanoo.

His voice was amplified through Chakra, making everyone's eardrums ache.

Danzo's face turned livid.

He understood that conventional ninjutsu was utterly useless against this monster.

To break through Susanoo's defenses, he had to use greater power.

The next moment.

Danzo abruptly raised his left hand.

He grabbed the bandages wrapped around his right eye and yanked hard.

With a tearing sound.

The bloodstained bandages fluttered down in the wind.

Everyone's eyes widened again.

Danzo's right eye, which had always been tightly shut, was now open.

It was not the eye of a normal person at all.

It was a Sharingan bearing an equally intricate pattern!

Dark-red Chakra overflowed from the eye socket, carrying an intense aura of ill omen.

"That old bastard!"

"He actually has a Sharingan too!"

"A Mangekyo! Another Mangekyo!"

The crowd erupted again.

This time, even the Hyuga Clan ninjas could not help but curse aloud.

Ordinary clan members might not understand.

But the heads of the Major Clans knew perfectly well.

Only the Uchiha Clan could awaken the Sharingan.

Danzo had not only stolen someone else's eye—he had stolen a pair of Mangekyo!

Such an act had violated the absolute taboo of every ninja clan.

"Fugaku."

"Did you think you were the only one with these eyes?"

"I have prepared for this day for a long time!"

As for the curses around him.

Danzo turned a deaf ear, merely staring at Fugaku Uchiha with a vicious grin.

Then.

He pointed at his right eye.

"Look carefully!"

"This is the eye of your Uchiha Clan's genius, Kagami Uchiha!"

"Today, I will personally send you on your way with the power of your ancestor!"

The moment those words were spoken.

In the Uchiha area.

Shisui Uchiha felt as though he had been struck by five bolts of lightning.

His entire body froze in place, his mind going blank.

Grandfather?

Those were Grandfather's eyes?

Shisui had been indoctrinated with the Will of Fire since childhood.

He had always believed that his grandfather had died heroically on the battlefield while protecting the village.

It had been the honor he took pride in.

It was the motivation that drove him to desperately protect this village.

But now.

That elder who never stopped claiming everything was for Konoha.

Actually flaunted the eyes he had dug from his grandfather's sockets before everyone!

Shisui felt the world spin around him.

What Will of Fire?

What bonds between village and clan?

It was all bullshit!

They were all lies used by the higher-ups to brainwash and exploit them!

Shisui's knees buckled, and he fell to the ground with a thud, his fingers digging fiercely into the dirt.

His nails broke...

Blood flowed...

Yet he could not feel even the slightest pain.

The Three Tomoe in his eyes spun wildly as two streams of bloody tears silently rolled down his face.

At the center of the battlefield.

Fugaku Uchiha saw that eye.

Overwhelming fury completely destroyed the last of his reason.

"Danzo!"

"I'll tear you into ten thousand pieces!"

Fugaku Uchiha roared.

Susanoo raised its Chakra greatsword dozens of meters long and brought it down on Danzo's head.

Before the blade even arrived.

The terrifying pressure of the sword had already cut a massive fissure into the ground.

"Don't underestimate me!"

Danzo neither dodged nor retreated.

He frantically activated the ocular technique in his right eye.

A strange Chakra fluctuation erupted instantly.

An invisible mental assault stabbed directly toward Fugaku's brain.

He wanted to use the Mangekyo's genjutsu to directly control Fugaku and make him dispel Susanoo.

If it had been an ordinary Uchiha clansman.

This move might truly have worked.

But unfortunately.

The one Danzo faced was the Uchiha clan head, who possessed the Mangekyo as well.

More fatally.

Danzo's Wood Style arm had already been torn off by Chiba.

The current Danzo no longer had Hashirama Cells in his body and could not withstand the immense backlash of the Mangekyo.

The instant he activated the ocular technique.

A tearing pain shot through Danzo's right eye.

Fugaku Uchiha snorted coldly.

His immense ocular power crushed forward without reservation.

Two invisible spiritual forces collided fiercely in midair.

They remained locked for barely half a second.

Before Danzo's genjutsu was forcibly torn into countless fragments.

"Blech—"

Danzo suffered a severe backlash and vomited another large mouthful of blood.

His trump card, which he had been so proud of, was unbearably fragile before a true Uchiha bloodline.

At the instant his ocular technique was broken.

Susanoo's greatsword crashed down with world-destroying force.

"BOOM—"

A deafening explosion rang out.

The earth shook violently, as though an eight-magnitude earthquake had struck.

Countless shattered stones mixed with dirt shot outward like cannonballs.

Dust rose into the sky, blotting out the sun.

The ninjas around the perimeter hastily used ninjutsu to defend themselves.

But even so.

They were still forced back dozens of meters by the terrifying shockwave.

A full dozen seconds passed.

Before the raging wind slowly dispersed the dust.

Everyone craned their heads to look toward the center of the field.

The once-level ground had been smashed into a massive crater more than ten meters deep.

At the bottom of the crater,

Danzo lay there like a heap of mush.

Every bone in his body had been shattered, and more than half of him had been crushed into pulp.

On the other side,

Fugaku Uchiha dispelled Susanoo.

Though the Mangekyo was powerful, its consumption was equally terrifying.

At that moment, Fugaku Uchiha's vision had already begun to blur.

Yet he forced himself to stay focused, slid down the crater wall, and walked over to Danzo.

"Old bastard."

"Hand over Senior Kagami's eye."

Fugaku Uchiha's gaze was icy, devoid of even a trace of pity.

He bent down directly, preparing to dig out Danzo's right eye.

Just then,

Danzo, who had been on the verge of death, suddenly opened his eyes.

His pupils began to lose focus, but an incomparably crazed smile tugged at the corners of his mouth.

"Fugaku..."

"Come to hell with this old man!"

Danzo's voice was soft, yet it carried endless malice.

Along with those words,

Dense black curse marks emerged from Danzo's heart.

Like living creatures, the curse marks crawled over his entire body at a horrifying speed before spreading outward.

Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing!

This was Danzo's final measure, prepared for himself.

Once activated,

the caster's blood would turn into ink, forming a black spherical space.

Everything within that sphere would be dragged into a sealed death barrier and permanently sealed away.

Fugaku Uchiha tried to retreat.

But he was too close!

The black curse marks had already crawled onto the soles of his shoes!

Their power had restricted all of his movements!

"Damn it!"

Fugaku Uchiha's pupils contracted sharply.

He never would have imagined

that someone as cowardly and afraid of death as Danzo would possess a move that could take them both down!

Bang!

At that critical moment,

the earth split open without warning.

A tree root as thick as an arm burst from the ground.

Like an azure dragon surging from the sea, it wrapped precisely around Fugaku Uchiha's waist.

Whoosh—

The tree root suddenly recoiled.

Fugaku Uchiha was flung away, finally crashing down at Chiba's feet.

Almost at the same time,

an incomparably dense black light erupted from the bottom of the crater.

A massive black sphere instantly expanded.

It devoured Danzo's corpse, the surrounding dirt, shattered rocks, and even the air itself, leaving nothing behind.

Then,

the black sphere rapidly contracted.

It became a tiny black dot, then fell completely still.

The crater was empty.