Naruto: Uchiha's Absolute Justice

Chapter 27: Absolute Justice's New "Believers"

Inuzuka Maki vaguely recalled the young boy who, years ago, had turned Lord Orochimaru's research base into a sea of lava.

Back then… many of his colleagues had died by that boy's hands.

If Hokage-sama hadn't appeared in time to stop that Uchiha boy with Lava Release and Sharingan.

He, Inuzuka Maki, might have died that very night!

Inuzuka Maki had thought he would never meet that terrifying Lava Release ninja, who was like a demon, again in his life.

But he never expected…

The man was standing right in front of him tonight!

He had met him again!

Inuzuka Maki swore he couldn't possibly mistake that face.

Even if the other person had aged several years; even if his face was more mature than before, with much less of a youthful look… the basic outline remained unchanged.

Inuzuka Maki hurriedly snapped back to reality, not even having time to think about how the other party had managed to sneak in so silently. He swiftly reached for the wall to his left, attempting to pull the alarm.

"Eh?"

But suddenly, his vision blurred, and he saw an arm thrown high into the air, dominating his sight and blocking the alarm.

That looked like…

His own hand!

As the splashing blood splattered onto his terror-stricken face, a clear line of blood simultaneously appeared on Inuzuka Maki's neck, the blood staining his neck red like an unstopped faucet.

A head with a frozen expression rolled down from his neck.

Uchiha Ikeizumi had, at some point, already stepped over the headless corpse.

He said to Izumi, whose pupils were slightly trembling behind him, in an indifferent tone, "Newbie, this is the iron-blooded method required to uphold absolute justice. You need to possess a more thorough killing intent than 'evil' itself to purge the 'evil' of the ninja world, one by one."

"And… you must be merciless!"

As Uchiha Ikeizumi's words fell, he flicked a sharp kunai towards his left.

The kunai sliced through the air, and in an instant, precisely hit a ninja who had noticed the commotion and was coming to investigate.

"Ugh!!!"

The ninja, struck in the neck by the kunai, frantically clutched his throat, the intense feeling of suffocation bringing him endless terror.

He couldn't even fathom why there were "enemies" attacking today?

Why hadn't the ANBU on lookout duty outside sounded the warning?

Uchiha Ikeizumi paused slightly, then said to Izumi behind him, "Newbie, give him a quick end. Let me see if your resolve for justice is as firm as you claim. I can remind you, this person participated in inhumane human experiments and has the lives of war orphans on his hands."

Izumi's cold, sweating hand gripped the kunai tightly.

She walked towards the ninja, who was struggling on the ground, biting her lip and saying, "Senior… at first, I was very afraid of you, because there were many bad rumors about you in the Police Force. The first time I met you, I had many misunderstandings about you."

Izumi reached the ninja clutching his neck, her sparkling eyes gazing into his horrified, pleading ones.

"But after interacting these past few days, I know that Senior is completely different from the rumors. Senior is never the 'murdering demon' they speak of; everything Senior does is for justice."

She gripped the kunai with both hands and raised it high.

Her arm trembled slightly.

"The [Absolute Justice] that Senior believes in has shown me the true 'light' of goodness in this world. Senior's justice is the justice I, Uchiha Izumi, wish to follow."

Izumi's arm stopped trembling, and the pupils of her eyes regained their stability.

Senior said this person had the lives of war orphans on his hands, and that this person participated in inhumane human experiments.

Then…

Before [Absolute Justice].

He…

Must be purged!!!

Izumi slammed the kunai in her hand into the forehead of the ninja on the ground with such force that it even pierced the thin metal plate of his Konoha forehead protector, embedding itself into his skull with a "thud."

[Ding! The [Absolute Justice] Believers you cultivated has successfully killed a "red-named" villain! Your chakra has received a slight boost! Congratulations, you have successfully dropped: New Skill "Dog Training"]

[At the same time, Uchiha Izumi also received a slight chakra boost!]

Uchiha Ikeizumi looked unexpectedly at the gasping girl's back.

This was the first strange change in his golden finger in many years.

Was this Izumi's resolve gaining the golden finger's approval?

Or…

Watching the girl stumble uncertainly to her feet, and then seeing her staring blankly down at the blood on her hands… Uchiha Ikeizumi had already found the answer to the doubt that had sprung into his mind.

"Uchiha Izumi."

"Here!!!" Izumi instinctively shouted, then suddenly realized, her small face turning instantly pale, knowing she had messed up.

Oh no!

Would her thoughtless shout ruin Senior Ikeizumi's infiltration plan?

However.

When she frantically snapped back to look at Senior Ikeizumi, bracing herself for a furious scolding from him… she found that the anticipated anger and reprimand from Senior Ikeizumi did not come.

She heard Senior Ikeizumi say to her in an utterly unperturbed tone, "Newbie, your stupidity alerted the enemy. You've been deducted one thousand and one points."

Izumi's face instantly went bloodless.

Senior said the full score was a thousand points, and she had once only received a rating of ten points. Now, deducting one thousand and one points… Hiss! That meant it was a negative score, didn't it?

A negative score, surely…

She wouldn't be killed by Senior, would she?

"Your current score is zero." Uchiha Ikeizumi's vision already showed ANBU ninja arriving, drawn by the sound.

Izumi was stunned.

She stared blankly as Senior Ikeizumi, alone with his blade, unhesitatingly charged towards the three ANBU ninja who had rushed to the scene. In her mind, Senior's words "zero points" still echoed.

"So… for a moment just now…"

"I had a perfect score?!"

She found that her initial psychological trauma from killing for the first time instantly dissipated.

....

"You're Uchiha Ikeizumi?" An ANBU ninja recognized the well-known Uchiha Ikeizumi at a glance. Upon realizing the newcomer's hostile intent, he immediately drew his ninja blade and confronted him: "Why are you here? I warn you, stop immediately!"

Beside him, another ANBU ninja's pupils constricted, and he immediately warned, "Be careful! His blade has blood on it! Don't look at his eyes!"

Unfortunately.

It was too late.

Two of the three ANBU ninja who had rushed to the scene had suddenly frozen, clearly affected by the Sharingan's genjutsu.

The remaining ANBU ninja's face turned pale with alarm.

Fortunately, he was an elite ANBU. His reaction was swift. Before Uchiha Ikeizumi closed the distance, he immediately formed hand seals and muttered a low command.

"Genjutsu: Release!"

The ANBU ninja simultaneously drew two shuriken and threw them at his comrades—not because he had lost his head, but because he lacked the confidence to break the Uchiha clan's Sharingan genjutsu himself, and thus tried to inflict pain on his comrades to forcibly break the genjutsu.

He succeeded.

The other two ANBU ninja slowly regained consciousness.

At this moment, Uchiha Ikeizumi, with his crimson eyes, had already arrived in an instant, closing in on them.

Uchiha Ikeizumi swept his ninja blade across the throat of one of them.

Clang!

The sound of metal clashing was extremely sharp.

It was blocked.

"Huff, huff…" The ANBU ninja gripped his ninja blade, his arm slightly bent, sweat pouring down: "Sharingan genjutsu… it's truly terrifying. Thankfully… we are a three-man ANBU team with perfect coordination. It's a good thing one of us could help break the genjutsu."

"Is that so?"

Uchiha Ikeizumi's voice now sounded from behind the three of them: "What illusion made you think the genjutsu was broken?"

What!??

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