What Is Wrong With Me, an Uchiha, Punching Above My Weight Class?

"Let me handle it! You can't even finish off a wounded soldier, what useless trash!"

The crowd parted to make way, and a shirtless Kaguya stepped out. By this time, dozens of people had already surrounded Uchiha Yuan.

Hoo...

Uchiha Yuan's eyes were half-open, his face caked with blood and dirt, and his Sharingan looked eerie in the firelight.

Even facing such a desperate situation, he didn't have the slightest thought of retreating; instead, the fighting intent in his heart grew stronger and stronger.

It looks like my clansmen are in grave danger. To be able to spare this many people to deal with me, the Kaguya must have sent their entire clan.

Uchiha Yuan thought this secretly, his heart like stagnant water as his mind spun at high speed.

"Take this!"

The Uchiha clan's shurikenjutsu was famous throughout the ninja world. Not giving Uchiha Yuan the slightest chance to put some distance between them, the Kaguya with giant bones charged straight in with a lunging strike.

The moment they made contact, Uchiha Yuan's expression changed!

This strength!

Bang!

Uchiha Yuan was directly sent flying into a nearby house by the impact.

Cough! Damn it, he's a Jōnin!

There was no mistaking this power. With his current understanding of chakra, this level of control was definitely at the Jōnin level.

"Hehehe, kid, resign yourself to your fate."

The Kaguya Jōnin wore a cruel smile. He was not in a hurry to finish off this half-grown child before him.

Now the Uchiha Clan was utterly depleted, and they had already seized an absolute advantage. Furthermore, according to intelligence reports, the main force of the Uchiha had been pinned down by the Senju, so launching a raid at a time like this was undoubtedly a fatal blow.

"Hoo... Then let's find out."

Amidst the ruins, a huge Great Fireball was unleashed. The Kaguya Jōnin made a nimble leap to dodge it, the playful and smug look in his eyes intensifying.

"Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Claw Red!"

"Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Technique!"

"Fire Release: Great Flame Bullet!"

In an instant, Fire Release techniques erupted simultaneously from three directions, completely blocking all possible escape routes for the Kaguya Jōnin!

"Hmph! Child's play! Ninjutsu: Dance of Clematis, Ninjutsu: Dance of Larch!"

In an instant, bones sprouted simultaneously from all over the Kaguya Jōnin's body, and these bones rapidly curved and wrapped around his exposed parts, forming a suit of bone armor.

"Go to hell, brat!"

Facing the incoming Fire Release head-on, the Kaguya Jōnin did not dodge or evade, surging forward to meet it as he charged straight out of the sea of fire.

"What!"

Uchiha Yuan had never seen this kind of ninjutsu before. He didn't remember Kimimaro using this sort of thing?

Clang!

The web of his hand went numb, and the kunai almost slipped from his grip!

A Kaguya bone spike lunged toward his face, growing closer and closer in his Sharingan. Swish!

The bone blade pierced right through him, driving deep into the wood as Uchiha Yuan transformed into a puff of smoke.

Substitution Technique? Not bad seal-weaving speed.

Uchiha Yuan was panting heavily, fatigue etched across his face. He wasn't in peak condition to begin with, and having to rush into battle meant his mental and physical stamina had already dropped by more than half.

"Die!"

"Earth Release: Dust Cloud Technique!"

Saying it was an Earth Release, Uchiha Yuan instead kicked down at the ground with his foot, instantly stirring up a cloud of smoke.

The Kaguya Jōnin grew annoyed and ashamed, boosting his speed by another notch.

Uchiha Yuan struggled bitterly to hold on, and before long, a few more wounds were added to his body.

"Pfft!"

Blood spurted out. Uchiha Yuan felt a chill in his body as his vital signs began to slip away.

Yet his mind grew clearer and clearer, and his Sharingan spun faster and faster, the two tomoe actually adding a third tomoe under these circumstances.

Seeing this, the Kaguya Jōnin felt a shock in his heart. As expected of an Uchiha, geniuses popped up one after another, and this one had actually broken through in the middle of battle.

Troublesome!

The Kaguya Jōnin lost all inclination to play around. The Uchiha before him had already made his must-kill list; a genius capable of breaking through in combat had to be eliminated as early as possible, or else he would become a major enemy in the future.

Uchiha Yuan raised a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, remaining calm and composed as he watched the Kaguya Jōnin's face draw closer and closer.

Whoosh!

At this moment, as if resigning himself to his fate, he threw the kunai in his hand, and the Kaguya Jōnin casually twisted aside to dodge it.

"Blame your luck for being born an Uchiha!"

"Got you."

What?

A barely perceptible whisper escaped Uchiha Yuan's lips, but the Kaguya Jōnin no longer had the chance to hear it clearly.

Thud!

The six-foot-one frame collapsed to the ground, his face still bearing the ferocity and bewilderment of slaughter, while his collar had been pierced right through by a kunai.

"What! The Jōnin-lord was!"

"What did that Uchiha just do?"

The surrounding Kaguya onlookers were utterly shocked. Wasn't this supposed to be an overwhelming massacre? How did the tables suddenly turn completely?

Yet no one answered their question. Uchiha Yuan's face had begun to grow numb from blood loss, and leaving a trail of bloody footprints with every step, he walked right up to the fallen Kaguya Jōnin and grabbed the kunai, slicing open the flesh around his collar.

Creak! Creak!

The sound of writhing flesh made one's spine go cold.

Because Uchiha Yuan had yanked the spine right out of the Kaguya Jōnin's back!!

It made the scalp of every Kaguya ninja tingle, even though everything had happened in the span of just over a dozen seconds.

The Kaguya ninjas who snapped out of it hurriedly charged toward Uchiha Yuan to kill him.

Ninjas really do have high offense and low defense~

The chakra-infused bones wrapping the Kaguya Jōnin's entire body were truly not easy to find a gap in, and the move he had just used was out of sheer necessity. It was a concept still only in theory; he hadn't expected it to actually work.

Uchiha Yuan raised his head, looking with a half-smile at the surrounding Kaguya ninjas charging in, and tightened his grip on the spine. This thing was vastly more useful than kunai and shuriken.

On the other side, outside the Uchiha Shrine, corpses were piled high. Counting them up, the majority belonged to the Uchiha, and all of them bore wrappings over their injuries.

These were all the wounded Uchiha left behind in the clan. The garrison clansmen who had stayed behind had already fought to the death, leaving these wounded soldiers with no choice but to step up.

Behind these Uchiha wounded, over a hundred children and women were huddled in the shrine's main hall, infants resting in the arms of many of the women.

"As expected of a great clan, the Uchiha. I didn't expect even the remaining old, weak, sick, and disabled to be so hard to deal with."

The Kaguya Patriarch stood amidst the battle line formed by his clansmen, sighing with such emotion as the clansmen around him chimed in agreement.

"We must finish them off quickly, or we'll be in danger once the main Uchiha force returns."

"All forces advance, annihilate them in one fell swoop, leave none alive!"

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Hearing the order, the surrounding Kaguya ninjas successively activated their chakra and drew out bone spikes, hundreds of ninjas swarming forward as one.

Only a few dozen wounded Uchiha remained guarding the front of the shrine. Facing so many enemies, they did not retreat; instead, they let out a roar, expending their final chakra to unleash a wall of fire, purely to buy a little more time.

Facing the wall of fire unleashed by the Uchiha, even the Kaguya Clan, whose bodies were covered in bones, did not dare to force their way through.

This was merely the final dying embers of these exhausted Uchiha. Looking at the ignited wall of fire, the Kaguya Patriarch wore a look of utter disdain—nothing more than a pitiful struggle on the brink of death.

Sure enough, within mere minutes, the wall of fire shrank noticeably.

Gradually, the wall of fire completely vanished. The remaining Uchiha were now reduced to lambs for the slaughter, collapsing onto the ground one by one, completely drained of strength.