Making sin visible

Hearing the whispers around him, Uchiha Jin frowned and cast a cold glance at the people speaking.

"The Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force enforces the law impartially. Everything we do follows the village's rules and regulations."

At those words, the gossiping villagers immediately fell silent.

"If you're dissatisfied with our law enforcement, you can file a complaint with the Third instead of gossiping behind our backs.

If there really is a problem with how the Konoha Military Police Force Troops enforce the law, we can apologize to those involved. If there isn't, you're spreading rumors about Konoha's public officials, and we can arrest you in accordance with the law!"

Everyone present stared at Uchiha Jin in disbelief.

They had often bad-mouthed the Uchiha Clan behind their backs, and the Konoha Military Police Force Troops had never said anything.

Why was this boy reacting so strongly today?

And what did he mean by spreading rumors about public officials?

They had only exchanged a few words in private. Did he really have to make such a big deal of it and arrest them?

Since when had the Uchiha Clan become so petty?

Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi also looked at their captain in shock.

Neither had expected their captain to reprimand the villagers in public. Normally, weren't they supposed to ignore these people?

That had also been emphasized during their earlier Konoha Military Police Force Troops induction training.

They were not to get into direct conflicts with villagers who had not broken any rules.

After all, villagers were the vulnerable group in the village, and ninja would be punished for bullying them!

"I've already warned you. If I hear any more rumors like that, I won't mind letting you find out what a stint in jail feels like!"

Uchiha Jin nodded in satisfaction at the villagers' shocked expressions.

Back when he watched the anime, he had never thought much of it.

Only after experiencing it firsthand did he understand just how formidable Konoha's troublesome villagers were.

In Konoha, the strong were bullied for being too strong, and the weak were bullied for being too weak.

Talented ninja were bullied, and untalented ninja were bullied too.

In some respects, the village really was very tolerant of its villagers!

But Uchiha Jin was not a native of the Shinobi World. He couldn't possibly let himself be bullied like a fool the way the locals did.

If Konoha's troublesome villagers dared to bully him,

he would let them experience the methods of the Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force.

One baton strike to the legs to prevent escape, then another to the mouth to prevent pleas for mercy!

Fortunately, his words had intimidated the troublesome villagers before him. None dared step forward and stick their neck out.

It seemed their Will of Bullying wasn't pure enough!

He wondered whether he would encounter anyone with a pure Will of Bullying in the future.

The sort who would bully someone even knowing they would die for it.

Just like Sunagakure's villagers. They knew Gaara would kill when he was in a bad mood, yet they still bullied him without fear of death.

Always draw your blade against the strongest, never soften because someone is weak, and never stop because of fear!

If you stopped bullying out of fear of death, how was that any different from actually being dead?

Perhaps that was the underlying code of the Naruto world.

Before Uchiha Jin had transmigrated, he had often cursed at the plot of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

But public opinion had gradually improved later on.

It was just like Konoha's troublesome villagers, who had initially treated Naruto with malice, then gradually come to regard him as the village's hero.

Perhaps the viewers, like the natives of the Naruto world, also had the underlying code of the Will of Bullying.

Returning his thoughts to the present, Uchiha Jin ignored the stunned Konoha villagers and continued patrolling the shopping street with his two team members.

Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi exchanged a glance, each seeing the shock in the other's eyes.

The same thought occurred to them both: was it really all right for their captain to do this?

"Listen, you two. Anyone who dares slander the Uchiha Clan's reputation can be treated as a traitor sent by an enemy nation."

Uchiha Jin stopped and instructed the two of them.

The clan's reputation had already rotted away over the years.

Especially after Madara Uchiha had defected, attempted to destroy Konoha, and been "killed" by Hashirama Senju.

The Uchiha Clan's reputation in the village had only grown worse.

Anyone who didn't know better would have thought they had committed some unforgivable atrocity.

On top of that, impartial law enforcement was bound to offend plenty of people, and over time, things had become what they were today.

The Uchiha Clan's reputation in the village was already terrible. After the Nine-Tails' Rampage, they would become utterly infamous.

If they didn't salvage it now, they would lose their chance.

"Yes!"

Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi nodded earnestly, their eyes filled with admiration for their squad captain.

If villagers gossiped about them, they would generally choose to remain silent.

They had never even considered explaining themselves in front of everyone.

The rest of the patrol went smoothly, with no incidents on the shopping street.

They had a two-hour break at noon.

Their normal finishing time was four thirty, but they had to work overtime if there was an assignment.

"Boss, I want more, meow!"

The fat cat held a skewer of candied hawthorn in his mouth, his eyes shining as he stared at the candied hawthorn in the vendor's hands ahead. His drool nearly dripped onto Jin's shoulder.

Uchiha Jin bought another skewer of candied hawthorn from the vendor and handed it to the Fat Cat on his shoulder with a helpless sigh.

"Can't you eat a little less?"

The fat cat had been tiny when he first adopted him.

Who could have imagined he would grow this fat a few years later?

Enjoying his candied hawthorn, the fat cat ignored him. There was no telling whether he hadn't heard or was deliberately pretending not to.

Just as they were about to finish work, a villager came running up in a panic.

"Lord Uchiha Clan, there's a fight at the tavern up ahead!"

Uchiha Jin: "..."

There had been no problems all day on patrol, yet trouble arrived just as he was about to clock out.

Did it have to be so true to life?

Inside the tavern.

A crowd had gathered at the entrance, watching the spectacle without caring how bad it got.

Some were even egging the fighters on to hit harder.

"Stop!"

Uchiha Jin surveyed the chaotic tavern, his gaze settling on the two people grappling in the middle.

Two drunks had gotten into an argument after drinking, then started fighting at the urging of the people around them.

"Sirs, you have to get justice for me!"

The tavern owner was an old man past fifty. Seeing the law enforcement officers arrive, he immediately approached them.

"Once we've established what happened and determined responsibility, we'll have them compensate you for the damage to your tavern."

Uchiha Jin waved a hand, and Xuan and Xi stepped forward from behind him and hauled the two men away.

Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force.

In the interrogation room.

The situation was not complicated at all. The two men quickly sobered up after being brought in.

They chose to settle with each other and compensate the tavern owner for his losses.

[Ding! The host has completed a daily patrol and impartially resolved a dispute, earning a total reward of ten Justice Points.]

[As this is the host's first completed task, the title "Clear-Sighted" is awarded as a special bonus.]

[Equipping this title makes sin visible!]

Uchiha Jin froze for a moment when he heard the system's rewards.

Making sin visible?

I didn't expect a special reward too!

He quickly figured out how the [Clear-Sighted] title worked.

It allowed him to see a color above everyone's head, divided into white, yellow, red, and black.

They represented no sin, no substantial harm caused, substantial harm caused, and heinous sin, respectively.

The shade of each color indicated the degree of severity.

After equipping the title, Uchiha Jin looked at his two teammates.

In his eyes, Uchiha Xuan and Uchiha Xi each had a pale yellow health bar above their heads.

This was presumably what the system meant by making sin visible.

From his observations, more than seventy percent of the people in the village were yellow. Occasionally, he spotted someone with a red health bar above their head.

Uchiha Jin summed up the pattern.

White indicated the rare good person, yellow an ordinary person, and red someone who had committed a crime.

Black indicated someone guilty of heinous sins.

Based on this, he could focus on observing those with red health bars.

He believed arresting them would earn him Justice Points.

Uchiha Jin looked at himself in the mirror. The health bar above his head was pale yellow.

That suggested killing enemies probably didn't count toward sin.

Those ninja with red health bars had probably killed their comrades or slaughtered innocent people indiscriminately...