Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

Tailed Beast Cards

Before the attentive Uchiha Gin, the gaunt Shukaku spoke with great enthusiasm, his words flowing freely as he boasted loudly and confidently.

"Even if that person is the reincarnation of Asura, I, Old Shou, am not afraid of him. I'll start by firing two practice rounds to warm things up, and then..."

"Wait, you?"

Uchiha Gin looked Shukaku up and down with suspicion. Shukaku was such a weakling that Hashirama could easily refine it with a wave of his hand in prison.

Still spraying blanks?

Shit, you're lucky you didn't get it out of your hand.

"Ahem. Baldy and Blue Crawler did help a little bit, but if I were to fight them one-on-one, it would be at least a 50/50 chance."

Shukaku, interrupted by Uchiha Gin, looked displeased. Who did this human think he was? He was the King of Tailed Beasts!

"A 50/50 chance? You think you can get cut into five pieces in five seconds?"

"Nonsense! I, your humble servant, am talking nonsense!"

Uchiha Gin pouted and raised his hand to stop Shukaku from trying to argue.

"Can you just pick out the important parts for me? Shamen Prison is about to kick the bucket."

He then pointed to the unconscious Shamen outside.

"Where did that thing on his stomach come from?"

"Ugh, that strange guy used Asura's secret technique to control the bald guy and then forcibly stuffed a seed into his stomach."

As Shukaku finished speaking, he couldn't help but tremble a few times, a faint fear hidden deep in his eyes.

"As soon as this thing entered the bald guy's body, it started to frantically absorb my and the blue crawler's chakra."

"You just stood by and watched yourselves get sucked dry?"

"That's definitely not possible. I cut off the connection with the bald guy directly, and as a result, that thing started to drain his life force."

With its life force being frantically drained, the Shamon prison was certainly unable to maintain consciousness. After falling into a coma, it was misdiagnosed by Chiyo and subjected to a series of incorrect treatments, which directly caused the seed to hatch prematurely.

Just as he was about to be drained dry, Shukaku and Ryūpai decisively intervened, gritting their teeth and offering up their own chakra to delay the monk's death from exhaustion.

"roar!"

Just as Uchiha Gin was sorting out the cause and effect, a weak roar sounded behind him. He saw a very thin blue dragon looking at him with anxious eyes.

"You want me to save the monks from prison?"

Despite the language barrier, Uchiha Gin could clearly sense the message the dragon vein was trying to convey.

"Roar~"

Upon hearing Uchiha Gin's words, Ryumai immediately jumped up and down excitedly, while Shukaku stood silently to the side, arms crossed, his face filled with worry.

"No problem, leave it to me."

Uchiha Gin nodded toward the dragon vein; his purpose in coming here was to rescue people.

"Stop talking big. Unless the bald guy dies, that plant will never stop absorbing chakra."

Seeing Uchiha Gin's confident expression, Shukaku curled his lip in disdain.

It also tried to force the plant out of Shamon's body, but as soon as it touched it, it felt an extremely violent aura that was eager to devour it, which frightened Shukaku so much that it tucked its tail between its legs and ran away.

"It's just a minor surgical procedure, watch me!"

Under Shukaku's questioning gaze, Uchiha Gin exited the space of the Tailed Beast Card.

"Hmph! I'd like to see what abilities you, a human, have!"

Back to reality, looking at the strange plant that was growing vigorously, Uchiha Gin already had a solution in mind.

He drew the black wooden sword from his waist with a backhand motion. Although this weapon had been with him for many years, it mostly served as an ornament, to the point that many people around him thought that this unassuming wooden sword was a discounted prop from Uchiha Gin's TV shopping channel.

"That's... huh?"

Shukaku, who was watching Uchiha Gin make a fool of himself through the Tailed Beast Cards, suddenly changed his disdainful expression upon seeing the black wooden sword in Gin's hand. His frail body transformed into a streak of red chakra and vanished from the spot.

"There's nothing I can't cut!"

Uchiha Gin brandished his wooden sword and began to gesture at Shamon's body.

Suddenly, the dim Tailed Beast Card beside him burst forth with golden light, followed by a surge of violent chakra.

Attracted by this scene, Uchiha Gin stopped what he was doing, looking at the violent tailed beast chakra landing in front of him.

"ha?"

The chakra coalesced and transformed into a cute, chubby tanuki, only a few centimeters tall, resembling an exquisite doll.

"How did you get out?"

Uchiha Gin blinked in disbelief; he didn't recall ever creating such a setting.

"Stop arguing. I've always sold what I wanted. Let's not talk about that now. Where did you get this thing from?"

The chibi-style Shukaku hopped over to Gin Uchiha, touched the black wooden sword with its paw, and felt the familiar aura, causing it to shed large tears.

"How come you have the old man's sword?"

With a sob in his voice, Shukaku grabbed Uchiha Gin's leg and questioned him repeatedly.

"Huh? I found this."

"Waaaaah, you're talking nonsense! The Heavenly Spear isn't a cabbage, you can't just pick it up like that."

Looking at the snotty-nosed Shukaku, Uchiha Gin shook his leg with a look of disgust, but the fat tanuki was like a magnet, tightly gripping his pants and refusing to let go, as if to say, "I won't let go until you explain yourself."

"My new pants! If you don't let go, believe me, I'll beat you up!"

Seeing that his newly bought pants were about to be defiled by Shukaku, Uchiha Gin was instantly enraged.

"I don't believe it!"

"It seems the other beasts haven't told you about my heroic deeds. In that case, based on the principle of fairness, I'll cut off your roots now."

Uchiha Gin lowered his head with a cold smile, his gaze sinister as he looked at Shukaku's high-raised tail.

"Gah!"

Upon hearing this, Shukaku froze, only then remembering the gossip it had heard in the Tailed Beasts chat room.

There's a pervert who wields the old man's magical weapon, specializing in cutting off the tails of tailed beasts, and each time he only cuts off the most sensitive tip.

Was that not a horror story but a real event?

Shukaku, stiff as a board, slowly released its grip, its short legs taking several steps back, its face full of vigilance as it stared at Uchiha Gin.

"If it weren't for your effeminate appearance, I would have castrated you long ago."

Having shaken off the burden, Uchiha Gin smirked, uttered a threatening remark, and then turned back to continue searching for a suitable spot to strike Shamon.

"If you cut him like that, won't you slice the bald guy in two?"

Although somewhat afraid of Uchiha Gin, Shukaku, whose heart was with Shamon, still mustered up the courage to approach. However, this time it was much more well-behaved and did not continue to make a ruckus.

"Don't doubt my medical skills; I've performed more circumcisions than you've ever seen a man."

Having chosen his dagger's point, Uchiha Gin looked up, pulled out a surgical mask, put it on, and held the black wooden sword horizontally in front of his eyes.

The thought arose, and the black wooden sword emitted a faint glow. To Shukaku's astonishment, the originally thick and long wooden sword gradually shrank, finally transforming into a sharp, gleaming surgical scalpel.

"The things our ancestors used are really useful."

After testing the feel of the scalpel, Uchiha Gin nodded in satisfaction.

"Next, it's time to cut it."

Holding the scalpel, Uchiha Gin tentatively cut the grayish-brown branch of the plant. The hard thorn snapped in two and fell to the ground, turning into a lifeless piece of dead wood.

feasible!

Uchiha Gin nodded secretly, then began to confidently and boldly carry out the trimming work.

Click!

click-

After careful pruning, the once lush plant was reduced to a bare trunk. But as if sensing a crisis, it began frantically absorbing the dwindling chakra remaining in Shamon's body.

The monk's already emaciated body became even more bloodless.

"What are you waiting for?"

Shukaku, who had been quietly observing the surgery, saw Shamon's life hanging by a thread and immediately began to urge him on anxiously. But when he looked up, he froze on the spot.

Uchiha Gin's eyes had transformed into something Shukaku had never seen before; his blue-white pupils emanated an aura that made Shukaku tremble.

"What kind of eyes do you have?"

Shukaku asked with surprise and uncertainty,

It had seen many strange eyes before, including circular eyes, conjunctivitis, and cataracts, but this kind of blue and white pupil was truly a first for it.

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"Found it!"

Uchiha Gin, his eyes bulging with mutated Byakugan, roared, his tightly gripped scalpel transforming into a black lightning bolt, striking Shamon three inches above his abdomen, the tip completely burying into his skin. Shukaku watched in horror.

"Pfft!"

As blood splattered, a round root shimmering with an inexplicable light was picked out by Uchiha Gin and landed steadily in his hand.

The branches clinging to the abdomen of the monk, as if they had lost their life, began to curl up and wither, eventually turning into a small section of dead wood and falling down.

"Surgery successful!"

After smoothly completing a series of procedures, Uchiha Gin wiped the sweat from his forehead, which wasn't actually cold sweat, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"ha?"

Is this over?

Shukaku, whose heart was in his throat, was completely bewildered. Didn't they say they were going to do an external excision? How did it turn into removing the tumor?

"Don't look at me like that, this surgery is quite difficult."

Uchiha Gin shook his head seriously, his gaze falling on the round root in his hand.

While he was pruning the branches of the mysterious plant, he keenly noticed that it exhibited a biological stress response; its chakra absorption rate suddenly increased after being injured.

If all branches are rashly cut off at this point, the roots firmly planted in the body of the sand dune will definitely choose to perish.

Therefore, the cautious Uchiha Gin chose to activate his mutated Byakugan and conduct an internal check.

The results showed a complete rhizome network inside the plant, with one end connecting to the external branches, while the other end was where the real treasure lay.

All the chakra absorbed by the plant is drawn into its most prominent circular rhizome through its extensive network of roots and stems, while the external branches and stems merely serve to demonstrate the progress of absorption.

If Uchiha Gin's guess is correct, after this plant has drained Shamon Prison and Shukaku dry, a fruit transformed from a round root will grow at the top of its branches.

"This thing"

Squeezing the round, life-filled root, Uchiha Gin's gaze sharpened, his eyes piercing through the thick outer skin to see the chakra core compressed into the size of a bullet inside.

However, it is not yet mature and still looks irregular in shape.

After a moment's thought, Uchiha Gin picked up a black scalpel and made a gentle cut, from which an irregularly shaped, dark red pill fell out.

"Is this their goal?"

Looking at the chakra pills that resembled QQ candy, Uchiha Gin frowned slightly. This thing gave him a sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

"That's my chakra!"

By this time, Shukaku had recovered from its shock. Seeing the bouncy, dark red pill in Uchiha Gin's hand, it immediately began circling around him anxiously.

It could clearly sense that the candy-like thing was formed from its chakra.

"This is payment for the surgery."

Ignoring the frantic Shukaku, Uchiha Gin took out a small box, placed the chakra pill inside, and prepared to take it back for further study.

"You robber!"

"It's just chakra, it'll come back after you take a break."

Looking down at the fat tanuki pounding its calves, Uchiha Gin squatted down, grabbed its large head, switched to his crimson Sharingan, and began to reason with the tailed beast, appealing to its emotions and emotions.

It's just a tiny bit of tailed beast chakra. You can make up for it by getting more sleep.

"Hmm"

Startled by the chilling aura, Shukaku, who had been furious just moments before, immediately fell silent.

It almost forgot that the man in front of it was a descendant of Indra.

"A good tailed beast is one that obeys orders."

Seeing that Shukaku had stopped jumping around, Uchiha Gin patted its head with satisfaction, then got up and tossed a ball of chakra brimming with life force to the dying Shamon, giving the prisoner, who had nearly died from exhaustion, a much-needed boost.

Nourished by Uchiha Gin, Shamon's pale complexion, which had just been ashen, was visibly recovering, and his withered body began to swell like an inflated balloon.

"Huff, huff."

In the blink of an eye, the previously barely perceptible breathing gradually grew louder. Upon hearing this, Shukaku jumped to the bedside. After confirming that Shamon's vital signs had returned to normal, a genuine smile finally spread across its chubby face.

"Thank you, human."

"How can I stand idly by while someone is in jail?"

Upon hearing Shukaku's sincere thanks, Uchiha Gin immediately waved his hand, demonstrating his deep sense of loyalty and righteousness.

"I'll go tell Chiyo and the others the good news first."

Now that the treatment was complete, Uchiha Gin had no reason to stay any longer. He turned and pushed open the door of the hut.

"Uncle Yin! Are you done with the checkup?"

The anxious villagers of Sunagakure saw the tightly closed door suddenly open, and Chiyo rushed forward before them, her large, watery eyes filled with worry.

"It's over."

Uchiha Gin nodded, and Chiyo felt a slight surge of joy. Since Uncle Gin hadn't said he was powerless, it meant there was still hope for her teacher.

"When are you scheduled for surgery? Do you need our help?"

"I've said my piece. No need to prepare, and no need for help."

"ha?"

Thump!

Upon hearing this, Lie Dou, who was behind him, swayed a few times and collapsed to the ground, his aged face filled with sorrow.

"Is Shamonta truly finished after all?"

"Waaaaah"

"Lord Kazekage died a terrible death."

"Leave the tonics behind, Lord Kazekage!"

As if infected by the intense emotions of the fierce battle, the Sand Ninja present began to wipe away tears one by one, starting to prepare for the funeral of the great Second Kazekage in advance. The sound of sobbing instantly filled the entire tower.

"I'm sorry to have made you come all this way for nothing."

Belatedly realizing what was happening, Chiyo's eyes were also red. Suppressing her grief, she bowed deeply to Uchiha Gin, the exaggerated scar so striking she couldn't look away.

"Um, you might not have understood what I meant. What I meant was, 'That's all.'"

Uchiha Gin then realized that his words had been misunderstood and quickly pulled Chiyo up to explain. However, a trembling figure emerged from the small house behind them first, its shiny bald head gleaming brightly under the light.

Faintly hearing the cries of mourning for Lord Kazekage coming from outside, Shamon, who had just woken up, leaned on the threshold and asked with a face full of emotion,

"The First Lord has finally passed away? When is the feast? I'm starving!" (End of Chapter)