Chapter 32

Uchiha Yi had turned his lair upside down with that one move.

Root's headquarters was finished.

"What the ** do you think you're doing?"

Danzo roared, veins bulging on his forehead.

But the next second, when the Third Hokage descended with a large group of people, he immediately composed himself.

What Uchiha Yi had not expected was that Danzo opened his mouth and immediately resorted to his favorite trick: framing someone else. "Hiruzen, you came at the right time! Uchiha Yi is about to betray the village. Move now—help me take him down!"

The surroundings instantly fell into an eerie silence.

Uchiha Yi was going to betray the village?

The Third Hokage's mouth twitched, and he felt utterly speechless.

How could he not know what kind of person Danzo was? He could figure it out with his toes—Danzo had clearly been the one to provoke Uchiha Yi first. "Danzo, calm down. Uchiha Yi would never betray the village."

"Hiruzen, you've already been blinded by him! He's awakened the Uchiha Clan's most wicked Mangekyo Sharingan. Can you guarantee he won't become another person capable of controlling the Nine-Tails?"

Danzo's voice rose higher and higher. "Do you want another Nine-Tails Night? He's Konoha's greatest threat right now!"

Those words made many of the people present change expression. "Sigh..."

The Third Hokage sighed and shook his head, just about to speak.

But Uchiha Yi beat him to it with a laugh. "I'm betraying the village? I'm the village's greatest threat?"

His laughter was thick with mockery.

Susanoo dispersed. Uchiha Yi flashed forward and appeared directly in front of Danzo.

Danzo's heart tightened, and he instinctively leaped backward.

But rip—

His freshly bandaged right arm, along with half his body, was ripped open by Uchiha Yi in a single grab.

Whoosh—!

The crowd instantly erupted. "What the hell is that?!"

"Good heavens, why is Lord Danzo's right arm covered in eyeballs? They're all Sharingan?!"

"No, there's something wrong with his body too!"

Danzo's heart lurched—his secret, hidden for so many years, had just been exposed before everyone.

A cold smile hung on Uchiha Yi's lips as he raised his voice. "Everyone here can see it clearly, right? Danzo's right arm is covered in the Sharingan of my Uchiha Clan!"

He paused, his tone turning mocking. "I truly never expected that after my Uchiha Clan was massacred, even the ** would not be left in peace. This 'hero' of Konoha has certainly helped us 'carry on' our eyes."

"What the ** are you talking about?!"

Danzo roared, veins bulging across his forehead.

But just then, the Third Hokage descended from the sky with a squad of ANBU. Danzo's expression immediately calmed, replaced by a righteous and dignified facade.

What happened next left even Uchiha Yi stunned for half a second—this old fox, famous for framing others, began his most practiced performance. "Hiruzen, you came at the right time!" Danzo pointed at Uchiha Yi, speaking with righteous indignation. "This brat is about to betray the village. Join me and take him down!"

The scene instantly fell into dead silence.

Uchiha Yi was betraying the village?

The Third Hokage's mouth twitched. He knew perfectly well what was going on—Danzo was definitely trying to pull some ** on Uchiha Yi again. "Danzo, calm down first. Uchiha Yi would never betray the village."

"Hiruzen, you've been deceived by him!" Danzo shouted sternly. "This brat has awakened the Uchiha Clan's most ** Mangekyo Sharingan! Have you forgotten the Nine-Tails disaster from over a decade ago? Do you want the village to face another threat capable of controlling the Nine-Tails?!"

At those words, quite a few people nearby changed expression.

The Third Hokage sighed and was about to speak, but Uchiha Yi laughed first. "I'm betraying the village? I'm a threat?"

As his laughter faded, Susanoo instantly dispersed. Uchiha Yi flashed and appeared directly in front of Danzo.

Danzo's pupils shrank as he retreated violently!

But it was already too late.

Riiip—

Danzo's newly wrapped right arm, along with half his body, was torn open by Uchiha Yi in a single motion!

"Gasp—what is that thing?!"

"**! Why is Lord Danzo's arm covered in eyes? And they're all Sharingan?!"

"Something's wrong. There's something strange about his body too..."

Cries of shock rose one after another throughout the crowd.

Danzo's face completely darkened. His deepest secret had been ripped open before everyone, bloody and bare.

Uchiha Yi sneered as he swept his gaze around the crowd. "You're seeing correctly. Those eyes on Danzo's right arm are all Sharingan from my Uchiha Clan."

Then his tone shifted, edged with viciousness. "I just never expected that after my Uchiha Clan was massacred, even the ** would not be left in peace. Some people won't even spare the dead."

"Shut your mouth!" Danzo roared. "Your entire Uchiha Clan is made up of lunatics! I merely put your damned bloodline to proper use. I'm helping you atone!"

"My Uchiha Clan is made up of lunatics?"

Uchiha Yi's lips curled with mockery as he shook his head. "Danzo, you should take a good look at yourself first. In my eyes, you're the most insane and twisted one of all."

"Nonsense! Everything I've done was for Konoha!"

"Oh?" Uchiha Yi's voice abruptly rose. "Then digging up the ** of Konoha's hero—the First Hokage—for experiments was also for Konoha?"

That sentence hit like a **.

Everyone around them froze, and the Third Hokage's expression changed as well.

Tsunade, who had been watching from the side, instantly went cold. Her gaze swept toward Danzo like blades. "Don't slander me—"

"Slandering you?" Uchiha Yi cut him off. "When you fought me just now, did you use Wood Release? Wasn't half your body cultivated from the First Hokage's flesh and blood?"

He pressed him step by step. "And when Orochimaru attacked Konoha before, he used Impure World Reincarnation to summon the First and Second Hokage. That required flesh and blood as a medium, didn't it?"

"So you had long been colluding with Orochimaru? Then Orochimaru's previous actions were also ordered by you, weren't they, Lord Danzo?"

Danzo did not say a word, but the looks in the Konoha ninja's eyes had completely changed.

Over on Tsunade's side, her killing intent could no longer be restrained. "Danzo, stop struggling." The Third Hokage sighed, his tone full of disappointment. "Admit it."

He knew perfectly well what dirty deeds Danzo had done.

But he had never expected this old bastard to dare lay hands on the ** of the First and Second Hokage.

Who was the First Hokage? He was Konoha's symbol. Without him, there would be no village.

And the Second Hokage had been their teacher!

If no one had known about this, the Third Hokage could have let Danzo off for the sake of their decades of friendship.

But with everyone watching now, he could not protect him even if he wanted to.

Damn it!

Danzo nearly ground his teeth to pieces as he glared at Uchiha Yi. "It's all because of you, brat!"

He understood that if he stayed, only death awaited him.

If he allowed himself to be captured, his life would be over.

Yet even at this point, he still believed he had done nothing wrong.

The world was the one at fault!

Fire Release: Dust Concealment Technique!

Smoke exploded outward as Danzo tried to use the opening to escape.

Figures from Root also moved, charging head-on at the Konoha ninja. "Danzo, you—"

The Third Hokage trembled with rage.

This was not escape. He had openly rebelled!

Uchiha Yi curled his lip, his eyes full of ridicule.

Run?

Could he run?

Uchiha Yi had already left a Flying Raijin mark on Danzo.

If that old bastard could escape, then hell would freeze over.

He had never intended to let him leave alive.

That old schemer had come to provoke him with that smug "I'm a partner of justice" expression.

If Uchiha Yi did not kill him, he would be letting himself down.

Just as he was about to move, his vision blurred and Tsunade was already standing in front of him. "Kid, the old Third said you've got some kind of flash that's even faster than Flying Raijin. Come on, take me after that **."

"It's Divine Flash. And Lady Tsunade, could you stop calling me kid?"

"No. You're a thirteen-year-old little brat. What else am I supposed to call you?"

"Call me by my name, or call me Little Yi, and I'll knock ten million ryo off your debt."

"In your dreams. At least one hundred million ryo."

One hundred million?

Would changing how you addressed him kill you?

Outside the village, Danzo's face was twisted with fury. "Damn it, how did things end up like this?"

"I was one step away! Hiruzen was about to step down, and the Hokage position would have been mine!"

"It's all Uchiha Yi's fault. Just as expected, there's not a single good thing in the Uchiha Clan!"

He cursed as he ran, without slowing down in the slightest.

But the next second, his expression changed drastically.

Two figures appeared out of thin air before him.

Uchiha Yi and Tsunade.

Danzo had barely opened his mouth to curse when Tsunade's fist was already coming down.

He froze for an instant, then hurriedly dodged to the side.

With a thunderous boom, the ground was smashed into a huge crater, dirt and dust spraying everywhere.

Before Danzo could even catch his breath, lightning erupted behind him. Lightning Release: Extreme Explosion Lightning Cutter!

A figure flashed out from the void, lightning clenched in his hand as he slashed directly into Danzo.

Danzo was cut in half by the Lightning Cutter, blood splashing everywhere.

Tsunade's eyes widened, her face flushing with anger. "You little brat, why did you kill him? An old bastard like that should've been left for me to deal with!"

Uchiha Yi dispersed the lightning in his hand and glanced at her. "Don't worry. That old guy has Sharingan from my Uchiha Clan on him. Izanagi can bring him back to life. We can chop him up a few more times and vent some anger."

He paused, then added, "If you call me little brat again, I won't reduce that hundred-million-ryo debt."

Danzo had just recovered through Izanagi when he heard those words, and his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. "Uchiha Yi! What exactly do you take me for?"

Furious, he thrust out his right hand. Wood Release: Silent Killing Binding Technique!

Branches grew from his arm and lashed toward Uchiha Yi.

But Tsunade stomped down, crushing the branches directly into splinters. "In the state you're in, you still want to capture someone?"

Heaven's Hand and Foot!

With a shout, she flipped and brought her foot down hard on Danzo.

Danzo could have dodged, but his body inexplicably stalled for an instant. In that instant, Tsunade stomped him into the ground.

His entire body became a pile of mangled flesh.

As if she had sensed something, Tsunade turned and shot Uchiha Yi a glance, snorting unhappily through her nose. "It's fine. There are still eight more times waiting for him."

Eleven Sharingan were embedded in Danzo's right arm, meaning he could activate Izanagi eleven times in a row.

Fine. That was enough to kill him eleven times.

If they counted the final killing blow as well, that made twelve lives.

After Danzo reappeared this time, he did not waste a single word. He turned and ran.

By now, he had completely sensed that something was wrong.

Uchiha Yi's Mangekyo Sharingan was a little too strange.

No, it was extremely strange!