Konoha: Offer your heart to the Hokage!

This matter needs to be considered carefully.

For quite some time now, there's no need to consider the Eternal Kaleidoscope.

"That day will come."

"I will notify you in advance, just like I did this time. Until then, please protect your eyes."

"Row."

Uchiha Yan gradually calmed down from his initial ecstasy and deactivated his Mangekyou Sharingan.

Her tone was sincere:

"Thank you... Masked Man. I know you have ulterior motives towards me, but it's a fact that you gave me the power of the Kaleidoscope. I will remember this favor."

Shen Er listened silently, his heart unmoved.

Now that things have come to this, his relationship with Uchiha Yan is no longer simply one of exploitation.

Shen Er is more like a demon who believes in equivalent exchange, while Uchiha Yan is a gambler who made a pact with the devil. Knowing that everything will be taken back someday, they still exchanged everything without hesitation in order to change their fate and break free from the shackles of the Mangekyou Sharingan.

I don't seek longevity, I only seek fleeting beauty.

but……

She was lucky.

Even so, he rejoiced in his own kindness.

As long as Uchiha Yan remains obedient and useful, he might allow her to use these Mangekyou Sharingan peacefully until the end of her life, at which point he can calmly take her eyes away.

"Words of thanks mean nothing to me."

"Developing the Akatsuki ninja group in the Land of Rice Fields and becoming a demigod in the ninja world is the best way to repay me."

"Demigod..."

Uchiha Yan immediately understood, his heart burning with excitement.

Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju are considered the gods of ninja.

Having the same Mangekyou Sharingan as Madara Uchiha, she truly possesses the qualities of a demigod!

A demigod in the ninja world, how impressive!

She suddenly asked, "Speaking of which, I still don't know your name. Since you're part of an organization, you should have your own code name, right?"

Code name...

Shen Er suddenly realized that he had never told her his code name.

This is indeed a problem.

Should we use "Xia Youjie"? That was the name he used when he was traveling in the ninja world.

But he immediately rejected the idea as soon as it came to mind.

The bounty on him from Takigakure is still hanging in the underground exchange. If Uchiha Yan knew about the code name "Xia Youjie," it would increase the risk of exposure, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Perhaps one day in the future, someone with ulterior motives or some organization will follow this lead and trace it back to him.

Even though he thought he had cleaned up all the traces almost perfectly, he still couldn't be too careful about plot-induced deaths and unexpected disasters.

"My code name is..."

"Diavolo".

Between the codenames Sukuna and Diavolo, both carrying connotations of "two sides," Shinji ultimately chose the latter. The origin of the name was also directly changed from Eastern to Western, completely severing all ties with the past.

"Diavolo?"

Uchiha Yan silently thought to herself, "Passion, Diavolo... it sounds like the pronunciation of the northern part of the Land of Water. Is the masked man from the Land of Water?"

"I think I've heard this word before in the Land of Water."

"Diavolo, symbolizing the devil..."

Shen Er was somewhat surprised that Uchiha Yan actually knew the meaning of the name. Did such a language really exist in the ninja world? But then she thought about it and realized that considering the racial composition of the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning, it wasn't so strange.

Without much hesitation, he casually tossed Uchiha Yan a ring engraved with the character "Zhu".

"This is your code name."

"Zhu? Why this one?"

“You are similar to the previous ‘Zhu’. He died, so you inherited his code name.”

...

Chapter 54 Madara Uchiha Attacks

Uchiha Yan opened her eyes again in the tree hole in the Forest of Death.

She leaped onto the treetop and looked once again in the direction of Nanga Shrine.

A year later, she finally obtained the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan. But she still had to endure until she stabilized the Mangekyou Sharingan before facing off against Uchiha Chiri.

This is not cowardice, but a rational judgment based on reality.

"Anyway, let's become demigods first!" Uchiha Yan's figure flashed, and under the cover of night, he disappeared into the Death Forest.

...

A light rain was falling from the sky over the Land of Lightning.

Dark clouds covered the sky, and thunder rumbled.

A man clad in crimson armor and carrying a flaming fan stepped into the underground gold exchange, carrying a ninja corpse in one hand. When he emerged, he was carrying a heavy money bag in one hand and an intelligence scroll in the other.

This person is none other than Uchiha Madara.

He returned to the cave where he lived, leaned half his body against the edge of the wall, and slowly spread the scroll out on the ground.

The scroll records the movements and secret reports from various parts of the ninja world during this period.

Information in the ninja world is highly confidential and slow to be transmitted, making it time-consuming and laborious to collect. Even someone as powerful as Madara Uchiha, when alone, could only purchase information from underground exchange shops, and if he wanted detailed information about a particular country, he had to pay an extra price.

Madara Uchiha paid extra to buy additional information about Konoha and the Tailed Beasts.

After reading the contents of the scroll, he burst into laughter, laughing so hard he almost cried:

"Hahaha... The Will of Fire? Hashirama, you're getting more and more naive."

"A designer? A doctor?"

"It seems that Konoha has become increasingly boring since I left."

Madara Uchiha had been secretly observing Konoha's developments. From the Evangelion Hospital and the Ninja Academy a couple of years ago, to now incorporating the Will of Fire into the graduation exam...

Perhaps on some quiet, deserted night, he had hoped that Hashirama could change those naive ideas.

But the reality is that Konoha is developing into the very thing he despises.

Who would agree with the idea of ​​building true peace through strength in a village that talks about benevolence and maintains a false peace through mutual understanding?

Madara's eyes turned cold, and he turned to look at another volume of information on tailed beasts.

His gaze fell on a line of text: [Nine-Tails: Coordinates, Land of Lightning...]

"Finally found it."

Madara Uchiha smiled wickedly, holding a fan, and slowly stood up.

Before leaving Konoha, he saw the words of wisdom left by the sage on the underground stone tablet at the Naka Shrine.

Two forces, mutually exclusive yet mutually unified, give rise to the myriad phenomena of the universe.

From that moment on, he had already laid out a chessboard in his mind.

Seven years have passed since he defected from the village. Today, he is almost at the peak of his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan's power and is about to prepare for another battle with Hashirama Senju.

But this time, things are different from before.

No more Uchiha clansmen stood by his side; he had to face Hashirama Senju and the entire Hidden Leaf Village alone.

Madara Uchiha was arrogant, but he wasn't stupid.

Of all the ninjas in the world, only Hashirama was someone he wasn't confident he could defeat.

Having learned from his defeat in the first battle at the Valley of the End, Madara decided to find an ally this time: Kurama, the strongest of the tailed beasts.

With his current Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, controlling the Nine-Tails is just a matter of a glance.

With the complete Susanoo and the Nine-Tails, if Hashirama Senju had been preoccupied with the development of Konoha and neglected his training during those seven years, and his strength had remained at the level of the first battle at the Valley of the End, then he certainly wouldn't have been his match.

"Hashirama, it's been seven years. I hope you can bring me some more joy."

As soon as he finished speaking, Madara Uchiha vanished into the cave in a flash.

The habitats of the tailed beasts are not fixed.

Under the pursuit and harassment of humans, they will only continue to migrate and change their hiding places.

Take the Nine-Tails for example. Madara Uchiha had been searching for it for a long time, and only today did he finally obtain the exact location information.

...

In the deep mountains and secluded valleys.

The enormous Nine-Tailed Lama was resting at the bottom of the valley.

Three or four years ago, a group of ant-like ninjas tried to capture it, but it swept them all away with a single tail.

However, two of them were particularly disgusting, taking the opportunity to burrow into its body and devour its chakra, staying inside for a full two weeks. Helpless, Kurama had no choice but to spit out these two humans who had devoured its chakra.

With its chakra empowerment, the two humans' strength increased dramatically, and they miraculously survived its attack and even escaped.

The Nine-Tails wanted to hunt them down and wipe them and their allies from the ninja world.

However, the Sage of Six Paths' teachings still taught Kurama what kindness is.

It chose to remain silent and moved to a more secluded habitat, where no more annoying creatures came to disturb it.

suddenly

The Nine-Tails, which had been sleeping, suddenly opened its eyes, its vertical pupils revealing a fierce glint. It sensed an extremely evil and oppressive chakra rapidly approaching.