Genin? One Punch per Kid (Jonin Edition)—Even Minato Was Dumbfounded!

The surging power within Kamizuki Yu quickly settled, as obedient as his own limbs.

The insight granted by the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan elevated his control over chakra to an entirely new level.

He swept his gaze across the battlefield. Severed limbs lay everywhere, and wails filled the air. The Hidden Leaf squad he belonged to had already been wiped out.

The scattered Hidden Leaf ninja stood back-to-back, barely holding on under the encirclement of the Rock ninja. An air of despair permeated the battlefield.

"The prerequisite for lying flat is being invincible. Looks like I'm still far from that."

Kamizuki Yu muttered to himself. His former life as an overworked office drone let him instantly assess the situation. On this battlefield, only taking the initiative could win him a sliver of survival.

He no longer hid himself.

Several poisoned shuriken tore through the air with shrill whistles, sealing off every route of escape.

Kamizuki Yu's figure swayed slightly. The extreme speed granted by his Sage Body turned him into an afterimage, allowing him to slip easily through the gaps between the shuriken.

"What?!" A Rock ninja cried out. His prized throwing technique had been so easily neutralized.

Before he could react, the pinwheel pattern in Kamizuki Yu's left eye suddenly contracted.

Kamui.

The Rock ninja, along with two companions attempting to surround Kamizuki Yu, abruptly twisted and compressed before vanishing from where they stood, leaving not the slightest trace behind.

It was as though they had never existed.

"Sp... space ninjutsu?!" The voice of a Rock ninja who had narrowly avoided being caught trembled with uncontrollable fear.

Kamizuki Yu ignored the shock of these small fry.

Like a tiger charging into a flock of sheep, he rushed into another group of encircling Rock ninja.

Against these scattered enemies, he did not even need to use the full power of his Mangekyō.

The distortion power of Kamui from his left eye coated his fists and feet.

A Rock ninja lunged at him with a kunai. Kamizuki Yu neither dodged nor evaded, instead meeting him with a punch.

Crack!

The instant his fist touched the man's chest, invisible spatial force erupted. The Rock ninja's breastbone and internal organs were instantly compressed and shattered by the terrifying power. He flew backward like a rag doll and made no sound when he hit the ground.

Another Rock ninja attempted to ambush him from the side. Without even turning his head, Kamizuki Yu spun and kicked.

The power of spatial distortion struck again. The Rock ninja's lower leg bent backward at an unnatural angle, jagged white bone tearing through flesh with a sound that made teeth ache.

"Ahhh—my leg!" The agonized scream came to an abrupt end.

Kamizuki Yu stepped forward and brought down a hand chop. The distortion force directly snapped the man's cervical vertebrae.

Efficient and lethal.

In just a few breaths, another seven or eight Rock ninja died at his hands. Their deaths varied, but every one of them had shattered bones, torn tendons, and ruptured organs.

This utterly unreasonable method of slaughter made everyone on the battlefield who witnessed it tremble from the depths of their souls.

"Is... is he really a Hidden Leaf genin?" A surviving Hidden Leaf chunin muttered, his voice filled with uncertainty and a hint of... awe.

In his understanding, even the village's elite jonin could never carry out such clean, decisive, and unfathomable slaughter.

This had gone beyond the realm of ninjutsu. It was more like some kind of bloodline limit—an unheard-of, terrifying bloodline limit.

"Monster! He's a monster!"

"Run! Report to the captain! There's a Hidden Leaf monster here!"

The remaining Rock ninja finally broke.

What they faced no longer seemed human, but a killing machine wearing human skin.

Those blood-red, pinwheel-shaped eyes were like death warrants.

"Retreat! Everyone retreat!" The leading Rock jonin roared hoarsely, his eyes nearly splitting apart.

He had personally watched his most capable subordinate, a battle-hardened special jonin, have his body torn apart by invisible force beneath that bizarre ocular technique. The man had not even managed a single scream before becoming a cloud of blood mist.

This was not a fight on the same level at all.

Fear spread like a plague. The Rock ninja fled in a panicked rout, their formation collapsing as they wished their parents had given them two more legs.

In one corner of the battlefield, the pressure on several Hidden Leaf ninja who had been on the verge of collapse suddenly eased. They stared blankly at the figure moving through the Rock ninja as though no one stood in his way, their hearts filled with mixed emotions.

Was that reinforcements?

But why had they never heard of such a powerful youth in the Hidden Leaf?

Kamizuki Yu did not pursue the fleeing soldiers.

His target was the Rock jonin who had given the retreat order.

To catch the bandits, first catch their leader.

The Rock jonin had just turned to flee when an intense sense of danger engulfed his heart.

He abruptly turned around and met Kamizuki Yu's pair of cold Mangekyō Sharingan.

Not good! Alarm bells blared in the Rock jonin's mind as his hands rapidly formed seals.

However, it was already too late.

Kamui in Kamizuki Yu's left eye activated once more.

The space around the Rock jonin began to twist violently. He felt an irresistible, enormous suction force coming from all directions, as though it would crush him to pieces before dragging him into an endless abyss.

"Earth Style..." Before he could complete his final seal, his body was uncontrollably pulled and warped out of shape.

Just then.

A golden flash flickered at the edge of the battlefield.

Minato Namikaze had arrived.

Having just dealt with an unexpected situation on the other side, he sensed the violent chakra fluctuations in this area and the Rock ninja's panicked rout. He immediately rushed over using the Flying Thunder God Technique.

The instant he appeared, he witnessed a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.

A youth wearing the standard uniform of a Hidden Leaf genin stood there, his left eye glimmering with an eerie blood-red light as he calmly "watched" ahead.

Under the youth's "gaze," the Rock jonin's body twisted and shrank in a manner that defied the laws of physics, ultimately vanishing completely into thin air without leaving even a trace of blood behind.

Throughout the entire process, the youth had not formed a single hand seal.

Minato Namikaze's heart shook violently.

What a terrifying space ninjutsu!

It was instantaneous, and powerful enough to directly erase a jonin!

Who was this person? Since when had the Hidden Leaf possessed someone like him?

Kamizuki Yu sensed that powerful aura, far beyond ordinary people, almost at the same moment Minato Namikaze appeared.

He slowly turned around, his calm face betraying no emotion.

Their gazes met in midair.

From those blood-red, pinwheel-shaped eyes, Minato Namikaze sensed an indescribable strength and depth.

[Ding!]

[Plot-critical character [Minato Namikaze] detected. Check-in location refreshed: [Land of Fire Border—Hidden Leaf Frontline Command Tent].]

The system prompt rang in Kamizuki Yu's mind.

He looked at the legendary Yellow Flash before him, the future Fourth Hokage, without much disturbance in his heart.

Strength was the foundation for establishing oneself in this world.

And he had just proven that.