Fire Country Daimyō

The three tomoe within the Sharingan were slowly rotating. What did that mean?

It meant the Sharingan was exerting its power, performing the function it was meant to perform!

Only the Fire Country Daimyō and Yun Yan were in the bedchamber. Yun Yan sat comfortably in his seat, eating and drinking throughout, while the Fire Country Daimyō sat frozen in his own seat, lost in a daze. It was obvious who Yun Yan's Sharingan was affecting.

If anyone were to discover the state of the bedchamber at this moment, they would first be unable to believe it, then be utterly terrified.

After all, Yun Yan was using Sharingan genjutsu to hypnotize the mighty Fire Country Daimyō!

Good heavens, this was no mere audacity. His nerve was enough to defy the heavens!

Of course it was. The Fire Country Daimyō was the sovereign of a nation, the legal supreme ruler of the Fire Country. Even the Hokage was merely the Daimyō's subordinate and had to obediently bow his head and follow his commands in the Daimyō's presence.

Yet Yun Yan—Uchiha Yunyan—the man outsiders saw as the Daimyō's favored, fawning minister, was using Sharingan genjutsu to hypnotize the Daimyō himself! And judging by the situation, he had been doing so countless times over an unknown length of time!

Wasn't that defying the heavens?

And Yun Yan himself?

He felt nothing about what he was doing, nor did he find anything improper about it. As though he were merely completing some trivial task, he continued hypnotizing the Fire Country Daimyō with genjutsu as usual.

Yes, trivial and as usual. Yun Yan had indeed been doing this trivial thing as usual, and he had been doing it for at least two years.

At this point, one could guess why Yun Yan had gradually earned the Fire Country Daimyō's trust during his years as one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, until that trust had deepened into outright favor.

What favor? What subordinate? It was all an act put on for outsiders!

In truth, the Fire Country Daimyō had long since been hypnotized by Yun Yan's genjutsu!

Strictly speaking, the Fire Country Daimyō was now under Yun Yan's control.

Once he had actual control over him, creating the illusion for outsiders that the Daimyō favored a minister was naturally easy.

Still, Yun Yan only had a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan. How did he dare to hypnotize the Fire Country Daimyō? Wasn't he afraid the matter would be exposed? Wasn't he afraid the other ninja around the Daimyō would notice something amiss?

Indeed, the Fire Country Daimyō was the ruler of a nation. Besides the Twelve Guardian Ninja, he also had other recruited wandering ninja by his side. They protected the Daimyō, answered directly to him, and were fairly capable.

Had none of these ninja discovered that the Daimyō they served had been under genjutsu's influence, perhaps hypnotized for who knew how long?

Naturally, they had discovered nothing. They had not noticed even the slightest flaw or abnormality.

Because Yun Yan's Sharingan were far more than merely Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Yun Yan believed that the idiots around the Daimyō were, at best, jōnin-level. It was utterly impossible for them to detect that the Daimyō had been influenced by his genjutsu.

Only a ninja at Kage level, and one with exceptionally high attainments in genjutsu, would have even the faintest chance of sensing something unusual.

Therefore, Yun Yan's hypnosis of the Fire Country Daimyō could be said to be flawless.

And the fact that the mighty Fire Country Daimyō, the supreme ruler of the strongest nation in the Shinobi World, had secretly fallen under Yun Yan's actual control was almost impossible to measure in significance and value!

With the Fire Country Daimyō in hand, Yun Yan would enjoy countless conveniences in the future and be able to accomplish many things.

Holding such a secret trump card gave Yun Yan sufficient confidence before returning to Konoha. It could even be said that he felt somewhat fearless.

Could the Hokage possibly be greater than the Fire Country Daimyō? If it really came to that, he would flip the table and have the Fire Country Daimyō speak to him directly.

Unless the Hokage dared to openly defy the Daimyō's orders, oppose the Daimyō himself, and lead all of Konoha in rebellion against the entire Fire Country!

It was not that Yun Yan looked down on Hiruzen Sarutobi. Hiruzen Sarutobi truly could not go that far, nor would he dare. Already old, he lacked that kind of nerve and would never risk becoming the first person to openly oppose the Daimyō and the very system surrounding the Daimyō.

Ninja who wielded tremendous power still had to obey weak Daimyō.

Though such a system was bizarre and distorted, it had genuinely persisted for over a thousand years. It had existed for so long that it had become deeply ingrained in people's minds, and no one found anything wrong with it.

Yun Yan had transmigrated here. His extraordinary perspective and flexible way of thinking left him deeply dissatisfied with this twisted and abnormal system.

But if this abnormal system could bring him enough benefits and convenience, then that was another matter.

For now, at least in the short term, Yun Yan, with the Daimyō as a trump card in hand, could rely on this abnormal system and use that card as a secret killing move.

Everyone was an adult. Good and evil, right and wrong—none of that mattered. Whether there was profit in it and whether it benefited oneself, those were what truly mattered.

After leisurely eating and drinking in his seat for a while, Yun Yan felt that he had reinforced the hypnosis enough. The three tomoe in his eyes stopped turning.

Although he had stopped the hypnosis, Yun Yan kept his Sharingan activated. The Fire Country Daimyō still sat above him with vacant eyes, not yet awake.

With scarlet Sharingan in his eyes, Yun Yan wiped his hands, rose from his seat, climbed several steps, and came before the Fire Country Daimyō.

He first waved a hand in front of the Fire Country Daimyō's face. When he saw no change in the Daimyō's gaze, he became even more disrespectful, gripping the Daimyō's head and turning it as he stared into his eyes, examining the results of his work.

After observing for a while, Yun Yan nodded in satisfaction and muttered softly, "Not bad. After being hypnotized for so long, this Daimyō's thoughts have been fundamentally altered. The genjutsu's influence has seeped into his bones and become as firm as stone.

"Trying to break my genjutsu would be as difficult as ascending to heaven even with a Mangekyō Sharingan. Unless Itachi Uchiha used Izanami, or Uchiha Shisui used Kotoamatsukami to dispel it, there might be some possibility."

Once he confirmed that there were no issues, Yun Yan released the Daimyō's head.

Yun Yan was not boasting. The effect of his genjutsu on the Fire Country Daimyō had truly reached this level.

Yun Yan's genjutsu attainments were already far from low. Hypnotizing an ordinary person with no chakra and no real strength was effortless.

Combined with the intermittent genjutsu hypnosis spanning two whole years, the accumulation of quantity had brought about a qualitative change. This had left the Fire Country Daimyō absolutely incapable of escaping Yun Yan's control.

With that, Yun Yan was rather relieved. He could leave the Fire Country's capital without worry and return to Konoha.

Just as Yun Yan finished and prepared to walk down the steps, his gaze swept over the table before the Daimyō, and he spotted a small flaw.

None of the pastries on the Daimyō's table had been touched, nor had any tea been drunk, while more than half the tea and snacks on Yun Yan's own table had already been consumed. It was obviously abnormal.

After noticing this, Yun Yan unceremoniously picked up the teacup in front of the Daimyō. Without caring that the tea had gone completely cold, he drained it in one swift gulp.

Then, relying on his excellent appetite, Yun Yan quickly devoured nearly half the pastries on the Daimyō's table as well.

After doing all that, Yun Yan looked around once more. Only after making sure there were no problems did he back down the steps.

No one could blame him for being fussy. That was simply his cautious nature. If he did not notice something, then so be it, but once he did, he was unwilling to overlook even the tiniest flaw.

It never hurt to be cautious.

At last, there were no more problems. Yun Yan strode freely toward the bedchamber's exit, showing no attachment whatsoever to the luxury within.

After all, he understood that a mortal's luxury was not where he belonged. His own strength and the entire Shinobi World were the stage meant for him in the future.

Just before stepping out of the bedchamber, Yun Yan discreetly snapped his fingers, dispelling the Daimyō's genjutsu and waking him from his hypnotized state.

Inside the bedchamber, the Fire Country Daimyō's head gave a slight jerk. Then he saw Yun Yan in the distance, already leaving his bedchamber.

He did not feel that anything was strange. In the genjutsu just now, Yun Yan had already respectfully bid him farewell. Though he had tried several times to make him stay, he could not keep him. Yun Yan carried a summons from the Hokage, and there was nothing he could do.

In the genjutsu, the Daimyō had no choice but to let Yun Yan return to Konoha with great regret.

Now, after waking and seeing Yun Yan depart, reality connected perfectly with everything from the genjutsu.

Even after Yun Yan had completely disappeared from the Daimyō's sight outside the bedchamber, the Daimyō still felt regretful.

He let out a deep sigh. With Yun Yan, his "kindred spirit," gone, he began to feel despondent.

That despondency quickly turned into displeasure, and the displeasure swiftly transformed into an emotion called resentment.

The Fire Country Daimyō, suddenly seized by inexplicable anger, slammed his palm on the table and began muttering furiously, "What exactly is Hiruzen Sarutobi doing? Among the Twelve Guardian Ninja, this Uchiha boy is the only one I favor, yet he transferred him away. Is he deliberately trying to make things difficult for me!?

"Damn it!"