Clan Extermination Night, System Awakening

"Ancestors."

"Friends."

"Leave your brains here, you don't need them to read this book..." (Brain Safe)

[I hope all ancestors and friends will leave plenty of comments and point out the author's shortcomings.]

[Please try to rate 4 stars, otherwise the "system" will block you.]

[Let the storm rage even harder!]

Ninja World.

Konoha Hidden Village.

Hokage Rock.

Lead-colored clouds hung low, the twilight blood-red.

Three lightning rods pierced the gloomy sky. Beside them, a thin, small figure slowly raised his middle finger.

"Damn heavens."

His voice was hoarse, like sandpaper grinding against rust.

"I, Uchiha Mu; I don't accept this."

Uchiha clan youths passing by cast strange looks his way.

This trash had been at this for years; he really thought a mountain chicken could turn into a phoenix.

The moment the words left his lips,

BOOM!!

Lightning followed the rod, pouring directly into the boy's chest. The boy collapsed straight backward, charred and smoking all over.

Seeing this, the Uchiha youths scattered.

[Ding! System energy fully charged. Super Option System, successfully bound.]

[Host: Uchiha Mu]

(Current Status: Trash)

"Damn it, can you not be so blunt?"

Uchiha Mu wiped the charred ash from his face, his white teeth blinding in the twilight.

"If I'm trash, isn't it because of you?"

"Dog system, it's been ten years, and you finally activated."

[Ding; you're a "chakra-void physique," you have the nerve to complain.]

"You're a total chakra insulator."

You've practiced for ten years and only absorbed that tiny bit of chakra.

If it weren't for you drawing the power of lightning these past few years, I wouldn't have been able to activate even if you practiced for another ten.

I...

Forget it, I won't argue with you.

[Ding! Detected that the host has reached adulthood. Main quest issued.]

[Option One: Take a wife and have children]

Conquer women of different ranks to receive massive rewards and rapidly increase cultivation.

Given the host is young and lacks experience, you may choose the second option.

[Option Two: Collect the chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts]

Collect over 50% of each Tailed Beast's chakra to obtain Ten-Tails Sage power.

The higher the completion rate, the richer the rewards. (Species unknown)

Hearing this, Uchiha Mu exploded.

"Just let me die!"

"I'm only twelve! You want me to take a wife, fine, but have children?? Are you kidding me?!"

"And you said I'm trash, yet you want me to capture Tailed Beasts.??"

"Are you sure this isn't just delivering takeout to the Tailed Beasts.?"

"Also, where am I an adult?!"

[Ding! Mental age has met the standard.]

[Do you want to surpass the Hokage? Do you want to become the Sage of Six Paths? Do not hesitate.]

"No, system, I don't."

"In my past life, I was a veteran of a hundred battles, but in this life, I'm still a kid!"

"Look at me from head to toe, aside from these good teeth, where else am I hard?"

[Ding! Refusal of options. Newbie gift pack will not be issued.]

"..."

Uchiha Mu opened his mouth.

A person is truly speechless when they are extremely speechless.

"If I die, I die."

He took a deep breath, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes.

Either way, it was death.

"Only children make choices—I want them all."

[Ding! Dual options activated.]

Host has chosen dual mission progression. "No further main quests will be issued until this one is completed."

Mission Progress:

He rubbed his chin.

Honestly, taking a wife was doable.

Building bonds would grant chakra, and the first success would double the rewards. This gave Uchiha Mu immense confidence.

As for delivering takeout to the Tailed Beasts, he would put that off for a while.

"System, are there other ways to get stronger?"

[Ding, there is a 0.1% small probability of randomly triggering major events. Rewards unknown.]

[Ding! Triggered: Uchiha Clan Extermination Night; countdown: 3 hours.]

Uchiha Mu stiffened.

Tonight??

He jerked his head up; the sun was sinking into the west.

Memories flooded in like a tide:

(Shisui is dead.

Three days ago, the man known as "Body Flicker Shisui" was killed at the Naka River. The Uchiha clan said Itachi killed him because Itachi didn't attend the meeting that night and had no alibi. The clansmen pressured Itachi, nearly coming to blows.)

And earlier today, Uchiha Mu had seen it with his own eyes.

Itachi had come out of the Hokage building, his face as pale as a ghost.

The Third Hokage stood at the window, smoking his pipe, his eyes complex.

Danzo's Root ninjas were looming in the shadows outside the clan grounds.

Patrols by the Military Police Force were three times denser than usual.

Father Fugaku (who had adopted him as a foster son after his uncle died) had locked himself in the shrine and hadn't come out all day.

Coup d'état.

Clan extermination.

These words exploded in Uchiha Mu's mind.

"System..." his voice was hoarse.

"Why didn't you warn me that the timeline had already reached the Extermination Night?"

[Ding, the system just activated.]

"Damn it."

"But I'm nothing right now. What can I do on the night of the extermination?"

[Ding! Participate in the major event: Extermination Night]

[1. Save the Uchiha clan. Each successful rescue adds one skill point.]

(Mission fails if more than half the clan is killed)

[2. Abandon the Uchiha, participate in the killing, or ignore the clansmen being slaughtered—indifferent and cold-blooded, but mentally resilient.]

(Reward 1 skill point for every person killed.)

Uchiha Mu fell silent.

Save them?

He was a waste who couldn't cultivate, lacking even a shred of chakra. How could he save anyone?

Kill them? Force him to kill his own clansmen with his own hands?

It wasn't that he had any particular moral hang-ups, but it wouldn't be much different from delivering takeout to the Tailed Beasts.

Better to check the beginner's gift pack and see if it could help him take off.

[Ding, beginner's gift pack opened.]

The moment the voice faded, a glowing jade box appeared in his hand.

Uchiha Mu steadied his heart.

Success or failure.

Greatness or ruin.

It all depended on whether this draw hit the mark.

Click.

The jade box opened.

Three items appeared.

He touched the first: "Kage-Level Replication Card," duration ten minutes.

It copied the full strength of any character at the Kage level or below, including bloodline limits.

"This is my trump card."

Uchiha Mu gripped the black card tightly, a surge of boldness rising in his chest. He was alive; a low-stakes opening had been turned around by this single card.

"But ten minutes... System, isn't that... a bit too short?"

---(The system is speechless, suspects the host of making suggestive remarks, and ignores him.)

He slowly reached for the second item:

"Ultimate Idol Card."

A pink card.

Select a target, and you can transfer their affection for others onto yourself.

(Note: The higher the target's realm, the lower the success rate.)

"There's a restriction?"

Uchiha Mu's brain raced.

The clan massacre was tonight, and he had just gained another trump card.

Who would be the right target for this card?

His gaze pierced through the twilight, looking toward the depths of the clan compound.

There, a lonely figure was returning home.

Uchiha Itachi. My dear brother.

And following behind him was the girl whose eyes were filled only with him.

Uchiha Izumi.

Uchiha Mu's pupils contracted sharply.

Izumi's love for Itachi was known to almost everyone in the ninja world.

If... he transferred that love?