Bloodline-Deep Pleasure, the Laughing Uchiha

Chapter Sixteen: Bloodline-Deep Pleasure, the Laughing Uchiha

"Rust Release?"

"Forget it. It wasn't very useful—those few ninjutsu I'd unlocked were better."

He had gained a new Kekkei Genkai, but it brought Uchiha Shangwu no great surprise. If anything, he found it rather dull.

Rust Release might erase one's presence and scent, making it seem as though one had turned invisible, but its abilities were utterly useless in combat.

Entering an invisible state could conceal one's presence.

However, the condition was that he could not make any major movements while invisible. If he tried to attack an enemy in that state, his body would be forcibly expelled from it in an instant.

He swallowed a few more soldier pills to replenish his depleted chakra. As strength returned to his body, he recalled that he had activated Dead Bone Pulse and killed roughly sixty ninja this time. More than twenty had been from the Senju Clan; the rest had been from the Uzumaki and several small ninja clans aligned with the Senju.

Both sides had several hundred people, making this a chaotic battle involving nearly a thousand fighters.

Fire Release, Water Release, and Earth Release were the most common. Everyone in the ninja world knew that Uchiha ninja excelled at Fire Release, while Senju Clan ninja were famous for Water Release and Earth Release techniques. The techniques of the other clans were a messy assortment of everything imaginable.

Uchiha Shangwu pierced a Senju Clan Chunin through the chest with bone. Scalding blood sprayed across his face in an instant, dyeing the delicate-featured boy into a bloodthirsty demon.

Then he tore out the man's spine, turned, and unleashed a sweeping strike that sliced through the incoming hidden weapons and ninja tools.

"Don't rush. It'll be your turn soon enough."

White bones.

Blood.

And bits of flesh still clinging to the bone blades, not yet flung away.

Uchiha Shangwu took a step forward in that appearance. Before he even made an attacking move, all the Senju and Uzumaki ninja hurriedly retreated. This group of enemies, whose strongest members were only Chunin, had been terrified out of their wits.

"He's alone! What are you afraid of? Let's attack together—he can't possibly be a match for us!"

"That's right! He's just a brat under ten! Are we really saying that we can't handle one little kid?"

"Then I'll take the lead! I can use Earth Release proficiently. I can change the terrain beneath his feet in an instant, and then you guys can finish him off all at once!"

"No problem! It's settled, then!"

"Fine! Go!"

Uchiha Shangwu raised his head and strode forward, unconcerned by how many enemies stood before him.

Dead Bone Pulse could absolutely be called a battlefield butcher's Kekkei Genkai. As long as one mastered the taijutsu suited to it, a single person could easily kill enemies several times their own number.

Of course, that was assuming one could activate Dead Bone Pulse and did not stubbornly pick a fight with the Uchiha as the Kaguya Ninja did, choosing their natural enemy as an opponent. Dead Bone Pulse was clearly a powerful Kekkei Genkai, yet it was restrained by the Sharingan genjutsu of the Uchiha Clan.

"Earth Release! Earth—"

The young Senju Clan ninja who had declared that he would lead the charge had not even finished forming the hand seals required for his ninjutsu when a white bone suddenly pierced his forehead. Until his death, he never understood how an Uchiha under ten could possess such astonishing speed.

"Kill him!"

"Catch him!"

The chaotic cries sounded more pleasing than war drums, making Uchiha Shangwu feel his blood boil. His gaze swept imperiously across the battlefield, and pleasure surged through him in an instant, along with an irrepressible urge to throw back his head and laugh wildly.

"Hahaha! Die! All of you trash, die!"

"What Senju? Under the gaze of these eyes, you have no chance of winning at all!"

Perhaps something like this was hidden deep within his bloodline. Once he felt pleasure in battle, he seemed unable to stop himself from laughing maniacally. He became even more brutal when attacking his enemies, like a mad demon, laughing without restraint in a thoroughly savage sight.

"Damn it! Uchiha Clan's 'star' can even activate Dead Bone Pulse. What in the world is going on?"

"The Kaguya Clan was nearly wiped out by the Uchiha Clan. The last survivors only escaped to the Land of Water with the Hyuga's help. It's impossible for a Kaguya clansman to have married into the Uchiha Clan."

"Besides, if I remember correctly, Uchiha Shangwu is only nine at most. He hasn't even reached ten yet. Even if the Kaguya Clan had intermarried with the Uchiha Clan, it would be impossible for him to activate two Kekkei Genkai at this age."

"A child's body cannot bear the cost of activating two Kekkei Genkai at the same time!"

Tobirama Senju analyzed the situation calmly, but the more he forced himself to remain calm, the less he could truly do so. Watching the bone-clad figure brutally slaughter his clansmen one after another, a nameless rage rose from the depths of his heart.

There were ninja in the ninja world whose bodies contained the powers of multiple Kekkei Genkai, but using two Kekkei Genkai at once was something a young body simply could not sustain. Even if a ninja child under ten possessed unmatched talent, his body could not possibly have developed to rival that of an adult.