Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 178 Fugaku: "I feel betrayed by my family!"

After Sasori released the two strangely shaped puppets from the scroll, invisible chakra puppet threads emerged from their bodies and connected with Hiruko, who was controlled by Sasori.

They resembled multi-legged spiders, covered with spikes and holes, with a ninja sword protruding from each hole, totaling more than a dozen.

The other one resembles an upright praying mantis, with its arms replaced by huge steel scythes, and a long tail with a small scythe at the end trailing behind it.

Imperceptible to the naked eye, chakra threads composed of highly condensed chakra instantly sprang from Hiruko's body, precisely connecting to the key points of the two puppets.

"Let me see why you can make those few people in the organization so wary of you."

Sasori's voice came through Hiruko: "I suggest you use your full strength directly. I don't want to wait for you to beat around the bush with me here."

"I don't like waiting for others, nor do I like others waiting for me. This is my principle in life, and also one of my ways of ninjutsu."

As soon as he finished speaking confidently, the two strangely shaped puppets, under his skillful control, became killing machines imbued with evil life.

The puppets' joints made a "crackling" friction sound as they rushed toward Uchiha Izumi's wood clone and Biwa Juzo at an astonishing speed!

This scene made Hibiki Juzo's eyelids twitch and his face turn extremely ugly.

Cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

"Damn it! Does 'Yu' really consider me a traitor to Akatsuki? Didn't he see I was about to turn around and leave?"

"Sending out two puppets, are you planning to use one to deal with Uchiha Ikezumi, and the other to eliminate me?!"

Pipa Juzo cursed inwardly.

A multi-legged spider-like puppet slithered towards them as swiftly as a real venomous spider.

The sharp limbs struck the ground with a chilling "tap-tap" sound.

Regardless of whether the puppet was charging towards Uchiha Ikezumi or towards him, Biwa Juzo gritted his teeth, his facial muscles twitching, unleashing the ferocity of a rogue Kirigakure ninja!
"Don't underestimate the Blood Mist Ninjas! You bastards!!"

He let out a roar, and swung the massive decapitation blade with both hands, creating a heavy whistling sound that tore through the air.

With a force as powerful as splitting mountains and shattering rocks, it slashed heavily at the spider puppet.

Keng——! ! !
A piercing clang of metal clashing rang out! Sparks flew everywhere!

Juzo Biwa's powerful strike did indeed cleave one of the dozen or so ninja swords protruding from the spider puppet's body.

But the other dozen or so intact ninja swords held off the heavy guillotine like a steel jungle.

"Humph!"

Scorpion, not far away, let out a disdainful snort. His voice, coming through Hiruko, was full of indifference: "Looks like you're trying to meddle in other people's business. Well then, I'll eliminate you as an enemy too!"

The next moment, a series of mechanical clicking sounds suddenly came from inside the spider puppet's body.

The part struck by the decapitation blade contracted sharply, while the rest of the body spun wildly like a high-speed rotating blade wheel.

A dozen sharp ninja swords transformed into a death storm, tearing through the air with a sharp, piercing whistle, and fiercely attacked Pipa Juzo, who was right next to him.

Pipa Shizang's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints.

A strong sense of impending death sent his adrenaline soaring. Without hesitation, he abandoned the stalemate, stomped his feet on the ground, and stumbled backward in a disheveled manner!

Tsk-!
Despite his lightning-fast reflexes, the spinning blade edge still narrowly grazed his clothing around his abdomen.

The sturdy ninja outfit was easily torn open with a long gash, as thin as paper.

The cold wind from the blade even caused a stinging sensation on his abdominal skin.

Pipa Juzo landed with a start, glancing down at his tattered clothes, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

Damn!

If I had retreated a fraction of a second later, I probably would have been disemboweled on the spot!

This bastard is serious!

He gripped the decapitation sword tightly, his eyes growing even more solemn and fierce as he stared intently at the spider puppet that had adjusted its posture once more, poised to strike like a venomous snake.

……

Meanwhile, the other mantis-scythe puppet controlled by Sasori ignored Juzo Biwa and continued to rush at an extremely fast speed toward the Uchiha Izumi clone who remained standing still.

Its two massive, gleaming steel scythes were dragged behind it.

Two deep furrows were carved into the sandy ground.

Swish! ! !
Swish! ! !
As it approached the wooden clone, the mantis puppet suddenly crossed its arms and swung them out.

Two enormous scythes, accompanied by a piercing whistle that seemed to tear everything apart, drew two deadly silver arcs in the air, clashing as they slashed toward the wood clone's neck and waist.

The wooden clone remained calm.

Just as the scythe was about to strike, it pushed off with its feet and leaped back lightly as if its body were weightless.

They skillfully avoided the crisscrossing strikes that were powerful enough to shatter even boulders.

At the same time, the sleeve of its right arm twitched.

A scroll emerged from its forearm as if it were alive.

It was firmly held in the hand by the wooden clone.

Then, under Sasori's somewhat astonished gaze through Hiruko, this "Uchiha Ikezumi" completely ignored the puppet behind him who raised its scythe again, preparing to launch a second round of attacks.

Then, the opponent made an extremely bold, even crazy, move—it left itself completely unguarded, exposing its entire back to the powerful scythe puppet.

It charged desperately toward the scorpion's main body without any regard for anything else!
"Ignoring my artwork... trying to catch the kingpin first? How naive!"

Scorpion snorted coldly, feeling that the opponent's tactics were an insult to his puppetry art.

At the same time, the mantis puppet behind the wood clone immediately caught up like a ghost.

The massive scythes on its arms rose again, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, and slashed fiercely at the back and lower back of the wooden clone!
puff!

puff!

This time, the wooden clone did not dodge.

Two enormous scythes sank deep into its body almost without resistance, carving two gruesome wounds on its back that nearly severed it at the waist.

If it were a normal person with flesh and blood, such injuries would have been fatal, as the spine and internal organs would have been completely destroyed!

however……

"Um?!"

Scorpion immediately sensed something was wrong!

The tactile feedback from the chakra threads was completely devoid of any resistance as if cutting through flesh and bone; instead, it felt like cutting into a tough wooden structure!
And... no blood spurted out!

"No blood? It's a puppet too?"

Scorpion instantly became alert, but immediately denied it: "No... this feeling... is more like some kind of special bloodline limit clone! It hasn't dissipated after such a heavy blow, it's definitely not an ordinary clone technique!"

Sasori immediately realized that the "Uchiha Izumi" in front of him was not the real person at all!

I was completely distracted by a clone!
been played!

In the blink of an eye that he realized this, the wooden clone, which was almost broken into three pieces, had already used its last momentum to rush into a range of less than twenty meters from the scorpion!
It suddenly pulled the scroll it had been holding tightly open completely.

—That's the Fire Sealing Seal Scroll!
Sealed inside is Itachi Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan eye technique!

Amaterasu's Black Flame!
This terrifying flame was sealed by Uchiha Izumi in two scrolls.

One copy was given to Uchiha Izumi, while the other was given to the Wood Clone to carry.

"Amaterasu!!!"

The wooden clone used its last strength to issue a cold declaration.

At the same time, the mantis puppet behind caught up again and mercilessly slashed down with two more blades!

Bang——! ! !
The wooden clone could no longer maintain its form and instantly exploded into a thick cloud of white smoke, disappearing without a trace.

At the very instant the wooden clone disappeared!

At the center of the fully unfurled fire-sealing scroll, the black incantation patterns lit up as if they had been ignited.

A ball of pitch-black flame, no bigger than a fist, yet radiating an aura of extreme malice and destruction, resembled a demon that had broken free from the depths of hell.

With lightning speed, it shot towards Hiruko, who was not far ahead.

"Huh, what a small skill."

Scorpion let out a disdainful sneer through Hiruko.

Although surprised that the opponent was just a clone and by the bizarre way it attacked.

But he had absolute confidence in his defense and his puppet. He didn't even move Hiruko's main body; with a thought, he manipulated Hiruko's scorpion-like steel tail to whip forward!
The chain-like tail instantly extended, and it pierced straight towards the incoming black flame with precision!

In Scorpion's view, this inconspicuous black flame would be easily dispersed or blocked by the sturdy puppet's tail.

puff!
The black flames made contact with the metallic tail of Hiruko.

There was no explosion, no violent energy conflict.

The black flame, like a living, viscous tar, actually adhered firmly to the metal surface of Hiruko's tail!

"Ok?"

The scorpion paused slightly, then tried to shake off the strange flames by flicking its tail.

However, no matter how hard he waved or shook Hiruko's tail, or even slammed it against the nearby rocks, the black flames clung to it like a leech.

There is no sign of it going out or even weakening!
Instead, it continued to spread slowly along the tail towards the main body of Hiruko's body.

The metal tail began to glow slightly red and deform under the heat of the flames!
"Lord Sasori! It seems that Uchiha Izumi just released this flame using the Fire Sealing Technique. We can use the Fire Sealing Technique to seal it again!"

"Issuer Kabuto suggested in a very fast-paced manner."

"..." The already somewhat gloomy expression on the face of the Hiruko puppet suddenly became even more unpleasant.

Scorpion ignored Kabuto.

Just as the black flames were about to scorch Hiruko's main body, at the critical moment...

click!
A soft click came from inside Hiruko's chest.

A scroll was instantly ejected from Hiruko's body and automatically unfolded in mid-air with a "whoosh"!

boom!
A cloud of white smoke exploded, and a strangely shaped puppet holding a huge broken sword appeared out of thin air.

The first thing this newly appeared puppet did after it appeared was not to attack the distant enemy, but to swing the huge broken sword without hesitation under Scorpion's control.

With a piercing whistling sound, the broken sword slashed down fiercely at the joint of Hiruko's burning black flames!

Clang——! ! !
Click! ! !

A piercing sound of metal snapping rang out! The massive broken sword shattered a section upon colliding with Hiruko's sturdy body.

But it also successfully severed the burning tail of Hiruko, along with the black flames that clung to its bones, all the way to the root!

The severed tail, burning with black flames, fell onto the sand and continued to burn silently, scorching and melting the surrounding sand and stones, causing them to crystallize.

Meanwhile, Scorpion quickly manipulated the remaining half of Hiruko's body, retreating somewhat awkwardly for more than ten meters.

They stared in disbelief at the black flame that was still burning on the sand.

He only looked away when the flames had completely disappeared.

Then, he coldly said to Kabuto Yakushi, "If you make such meaningless suggestions again, I'll kill you first."

Kabuto: "???"

no……

Is this guy crazy? He was just trying to be helpful... wait a minute, does he not know the Fire Sealing Seal?

The pharmacist's lips twitched subtly.

I know these guys, one or two of them, their personalities are really peculiar.

Why don't you just say it directly?

The undercover mission Orochimaru gave me is really difficult!
At that moment, Kabuto seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. He discovered that the puppet that had attacked Juzo Biwa had been destroyed at some point, and Juzo Biwa's figure had vanished without a trace.

It seems that Scorpion was too busy dealing with the strange black flames to control the puppet.

This gave Juzo Biwa the opportunity to destroy the puppet directly.

Then the other party ran away.

Kabuto thought for a moment, but decided against saying, "It seems we messed up the hunt."

otherwise……

This guy with an extremely strong sense of pride might really be going to kill himself.

"Humph!"

Scorpion watched helplessly as the black flames completely incinerated half of Hiruko's body into ashes before disappearing from sight.

He coldly uttered a single sentence.

"go back!"

……

"The puppeteer... it seems to really be Sasori of the Red Sand from Sunagakure. I didn't expect this guy to be one of the core members of Akatsuki. As a ninja skilled in taijutsu, I hate puppeteers who hide their heads and tails the most. It's wise not to get entangled with him."

In the distance, Pipa Juzo, who had already fled, found a rather plausible reason for his escape.

no way.

Uchiha Izumi's wood clones have all been destroyed. If the fight continues, he will truly be fighting the entire Akatsuki organization alone.

Pipa Juzo has no suicidal tendencies at the moment; he feels that his life is sometimes quite important.

Especially when one sees that the ninja world might one day be truly changed by absolute justice.

Pipa Juzo longed to witness that day arrive.

Sometimes I even want to get involved myself.

"It seems there's nowhere else to go! We definitely can't stay in the Akatsuki. And there's no need to go back to the Blood Mist Village now."

Pipa Juzo, carrying the Executioner's Blade, looked around.

He ran straight in one direction.

That direction...

It's in the direction of the Land of Fire!

Now that things have come to this, what other choice do I have but to seek refuge with that man, Uchiha Izumi?
……

The next day.

Konoha.

As usual, Fugaku Uchiha woke up early.

As always, I washed up, changed clothes, ate breakfast, and went out.

But when he was halfway there, Fugaku suddenly froze, his steps halting. He stood rooted to the spot like a block of wood, drawing puzzled glances from many Uchiha clan members.

The reason why Fugaku Uchiha was acting so strangely was that he suddenly remembered that he had been forced to abdicate by his clansmen yesterday.

He is currently neither the head of the Uchiha clan nor the captain of the Konoha Police Force.

So why did I get up so early?
Where should I go now?

Suddenly lost in thought, Fugaku couldn't very well turn back home. So, with a blank expression, he left the Uchiha clan's residence, bought a bouquet of flowers at a flower shop run by the Yamanaka clan, and then walked to the Konoha cemetery, arriving at Itachi Uchiha's cenotaph.

Gently setting down the white flower in his hand, Fugaku slowly straightened up. With a stern face, he said expressionlessly to the tombstone, "Itachi, it seems that we, father and son, have both failed."

"For the future of Konoha, you were willing to take that extreme path; for the future of the Uchiha, I have been enduring humiliation. But in the end, we were both defeated."

"What defeated you and my son was Uchiha Ikezumi's absolute justice. His justice has even extended into our home and affected our family."

"Your brother, your mother. One is a believer in absolute justice, the other has a slight affinity for it. They betrayed everything you and I believed in."

"The two of them are completely contrary to you and me. If they were still alive, perhaps things wouldn't have come to this."

"call……"

Fugaku Uchiha let out a deep breath. In that brief moment, some terrifying thoughts had flashed through his mind, making him realize that it was the extreme ideology of the Uchiha clan at work.

……

the other side.

Uchiha Izumi and three Uchiha Jonin have returned to Konoha.

……

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(End of this chapter)