Chapter 88: There Is No Difference in Status Before Absolute Justice (Two-in-One, Seeking Subscriptions)
When Uchiha Chisen withdrew his arm, Nanwu's eyes had already lost their light. He collapsed limply onto the ground, a gaping hole that almost severed him at the waist on his chest.
Uchiha Chisen's expression didn't change. This Twelve Guardian Ninja, he felt, wasn't even as strong as an elite Jonin from Root.
Then, his gaze fell upon the group ahead, whose backs were all that remained.
Yes.
The moment Nanwu made a move against Uchiha Chisen, a strong survival instinct caused the retainers to hastily flee with Genin Kosuke.
In just this short while, they had already run over a hundred meters, their mouths shouting for help.
"Murder! Murder! An assassin is trying to assassinate the envoy sent by the Daimyo to Konoha! Someone help!!!"
"A ninja from the Uchiha Clan has gone mad! He's trying to assassinate the Daimyo's son!"
"Where are Konoha's ninjas? Hurry and save us!"
"Hokage? Where is Konoha's Hokage?!"
"..."
The loudly shouting retainers appeared exceptionally terrified and panicked.
They formed a tight circle around Genin Kosuke in the middle of the crowd.
They wanted to protect the Daimyo's son in this manner.
"Madman… he's completely mad…"
Genin Kosuke was drenched in cold sweat, his young face deathly pale.
As he was being pushed by the retainers to flee in a hurry, his lips trembled as he muttered, "How… how dare he… I am the Daimyo's son! Even Konoha's Hokage has to treat me as an honored guest. How dare he, an Uchiha ninja…"
Genin Kosuke racked his brain, but could only come to one conclusion.
—He's met a lunatic!!!
Suddenly.
Genin Kosuke was shocked to see a head flying high, appearing in his left field of vision.
Immediately after, another head appeared in his right field of vision.
He recognized the owners of these two heads at a glance.
They were his two retainers!
When he hastily looked back in panic while fleeing, he was instantly so terrified that his soul was shaken—the necks of the two headless corpses were spurting blood over two meters high. Uchiha Chisen, holding his ninja sword, stood between the two headless corpses, the blade of his ninja sword stained with crimson blood!
Especially that pair of scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan, which seemed capable of evoking the deepest fears within a person's heart.
And at the moment Genin Kosuke's terrified gaze met Uchiha Chisen's Sharingan.
Genjutsu…
began.
"Waaahhhh!!!" Genin Kosuke's terrified scream, sharper than a woman's voice, erupted from his mouth. His legs tangled, tripping himself, and he fell flat on his face.
The other retainers beside him were startled and stopped to help.
They were shocked to find Genin Kosuke slumped on the ground.
And shouting hysterically at the air in front of him with a face full of terror and collapse.
"Don't come near! Don't you come near! It wasn't me who set the fire! I only sent people to set the fire! I… I didn't know the fire would get out of control, I didn't know it would burn you all to death!"
"You… aren't you all already dead?"
"Don't come near meeeee!!!"
His frantic, desperate demeanor was as if he had gone mad, or as if he were seeing something they couldn't see.
This sent chills down the spines of the remaining retainers.
It was the first time they had seen the Daimyo's son, Genin Kosuke, so scared that tears and snot were streaming down at the same time.
And…
When a foul odor permeated the air.
"Lord Kosuke… he, he seems to have…" one retainer muttered dazedly, "…wet himself from fear!!!"
…
For some reason.
Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly had a bad premonition, especially when he realized he was about to meet the Daimyo's envoy. That strange feeling grew stronger and stronger until his heart began to feel uneasy.
Several possibilities immediately popped into his mind.
—The funding allocated to Konoha by the Land of Fire next year would be significantly reduced.
—The Daimyo was preparing to hire Konoha ninjas for a very tricky mission.
—"Genin Kosuke," the second son of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, might not be a polite young man, and his meeting with him might not be particularly pleasant.
——The Daimyo's envoy has met with an accident!
Sarutobi Hiruzen was startled, and a name flashed through his mind.
"Chisen!"
He finally realized what he had overlooked.
Could the Daimyo's envoy have encountered Chisen? That young man shouldn't have done anything evil, right? After all, as the second son of the Land of Fire's Daimyo, he basically had everything he wanted. Why would he commit evil?
But Sarutobi Hiruzen's expression grew even stiffer.
Because he knew that the thoughts above were just him comforting himself.
He knew very well that those pampered elites would never take the law seriously from beginning to end.
The laws of the Land of Fire...
Were only meant to restrict ordinary people.
"Keep up with me!" Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a stern face to the two Anbu guards beside him. The next second, he vanished from his spot, reappearing dozens of meters away.
The Anbu guards immediately followed.
Before long, Sarutobi Hiruzen saw a group of people gathered in the distance ahead. Based on the location reported by the Konoha ninja earlier, the group ahead should be the envoy sent by the Daimyo.
It was also at this moment that a string in Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart snapped, and the heavy stone that had been hanging in his heart immediately sank to the bottom.
Because he saw Uchiha Chisen!
His old face suddenly darkened considerably.
"...This is bad!" Upon seeing Uchiha Chisen holding a ninja sword, Sarutobi Hiruzen's last shred of hope that "maybe Chisen was just passing by" completely vanished.
Sarutobi Hiruzen panicked immediately.
"Chisen! Stop!!!"
He tried to shout to stop him.
Puchi— Although it was hundreds of meters away, Sarutobi Hiruzen felt like he heard an auditory hallucination of a blade decapitating a head. He even saw from afar a young man being beheaded by Uchiha Chisen with a single sword strike! Judging by the young man's luxurious and noble clothing, which was distinctly different from the others, he was very likely the Daimyo's son!
Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned.
He was completely dumbfounded, and even his rapid forward momentum stopped. The man was petrified on the spot as if struck by lightning.
"...Hokage-sama?" one of the Anbu guards swallowed nervously and couldn't help but ask.
Sarutobi Hiruzen did not respond.
His expression was vacant.
"That's..." A strange, painful anger made Sarutobi Hiruzen's figure falter. A hoarse, dry voice came from Sarutobi Hiruzen's throat: "That's the second son of the Land of Fire's Daimyo!"
"What... what is he doing!!!"
...
"Meow, newcomer, this is what I told you. In Lord Chisen's eyes, the so-called elites have no special privileges. The [Absolute Justice] that Lord Chisen believes in will not grant special pardons to the elites."
Kijiro said to Izumi, "Whether it's an ordinary person, a ninja, a noble, or even the Daimyo's son. In Lord Chisen's eyes, they are all people. If a person commits a crime, they must pay the price."
"And this guy called 'Genin Kosuke' committed sins that could not be atoned for by decades of confinement. Death is the judgment of [Justice] for his crimes."
Although Izumi had some psychological preparation.
She was still somewhat dumbfounded at this moment.
After all... the villain's identity was too special. Izumi had never seen any of the Land of Fire's privileged class outside of Konoha in her life. The most distinguished person she had ever seen was the Hokage.
However, on second thought, Senior Chisen had even killed the Hokage's eldest son, so what was the Daimyo's son in comparison?
"Um..."
Izumi looked back behind her with some confusion: "Senior Kijiro, did you just hear someone shouting 'Stop' from behind?"
Kijiro replied without looking back, "I heard it. It was Third-Hokage's voice. He witnessed Lord Chisen killing the Daimyo's son with his own eyes."
Izumi suddenly realized: "So it was Hokage-sama..."
"...Huh?!"
She was shocked: "Hokage-sama? He saw everything!?"
...
Drip...
Drip...
Drops of bright red blood slid down the blade to the tip, then dripped onto the ground, splashing like blooming blood plums.
Genin Kosuke's head had already fallen to the ground and rolled a few times. The expression frozen on his face was one of lingering terror, and his lifeless eyes still held a trace of shock.
The headless body swayed from side to side in place before losing all support and collapsing.
Blood sprayed from the neck, splattering the ground.
[Ding! You have successfully killed a "Red Name" villain! Your Chakra has gained a small increase! Congratulations, you have successfully dropped: "Gambling Skill" Experience Book ×10!]
"Kosuke... Lord Kosuke!!!"
With an incredulous scream, a retainer rushed forward, frantically picking up Genin Kosuke's head and trying to place it back onto his headless body.
Another retainer, his eyes bloodshot, pointed at Uchiha Chisen with a trembling finger and shouted, "You, you, you... do you know what you've done?!"
"Lord Kosuke, he's the second son of the Land of Fire's Daimyo! He's one of the highest-ranking individuals in the Land of Fire! He's a son greatly beloved by the Daimyo! He's one of the sons most likely to become the next Daimyo of the Land of Fire!!"
"You... why did you do this to Lord Kosuke! Is your Konoha village trying to rebel!?"
Uchiha Chisen lightly flicked his wrist.
The blood staining his ninja sword was flung away.
He spoke with a blank expression, "I am the one who executes justice upon evil people, not Konoha. What kind of misconception led you to believe I was acting for Konoha when I executed this villain on the spot?"
Uchiha Chisen's gaze was very calm, as if he hadn't killed the Daimyo's son, but merely an insignificant pest of the ninja world.
His indifferent voice continued, "Arson, direct murder, indirect murder, disposing of bodies... crime after crime piled upon him. If he doesn't die, justice cannot be served."
"Madman... you're a madman!"
A retainer yelled in utter despair, "Even if the crimes you speak of are true, you have no right to execute Lord Kosuke! The Daimyo's heir holds the highest authority in the Land of Fire! So what if he killed someone? So what if he committed arson?"
"The laws of the Land of Fire clearly state! Nobles of the Land of Fire who violate the law have immunity and special pardons! Lord Kosuke's minor mistakes from when he was young would at most result in a period of confinement!"
"You... how could you kill him, what right do you have to kill him? All you Konoha ninjas have gone mad!!!"
"I don't know if other Konoha ninjas have gone mad, but Senior Chisen is someone who possesses absolute rationality!" Izumi gritted her teeth and stepped forward, saying to the distraught retainer, "Besides, the so-called laws of the Land of Fire are themselves laws so weak they're nauseating!"
A hint of anger appeared on Izumi's fair little face. She didn't know why she was so angry.
Especially when she heard the words, "Nobles of the Land of Fire who violate the law have immunity and special pardons."
Izumi couldn't suppress the rising irritation in her heart at all.
Her voice gradually grew louder, "You ask what right Senior Chisen has to kill this villain, then I ask what right the laws of the Land of Fire have to pardon nobles who commit crimes?"
"So that's how it is, then I understand... it's precisely because of this unfair existence that so many evildoers in the ninja world go unpunished, and it has even become a terrible, ingrained consensus."
"I'll tell you on behalf of Senior! [Absolute Justice] will not be restricted by the laws of the Land of Fire from beginning to end! [Absolute Justice] will not bow down to any powerful figure with special status!"
"There is no difference in status before [Absolute Justice]! If a person does evil, they must pay the price! If justice is absent, someone must stand up and bring justice to the victims!"
"You followers of the ninja world's evil are the most unqualified insects to question [Absolute Justice]!"
Having spoken so much in one breath, the Uchiha girl's voice became a little hoarse.
At this moment, she vaguely came back to her senses, realizing she had again spoken on behalf of her senior without permission, saying things he might not have wanted to say.
She cautiously raised her head to glance at her senior's profile.
She found that her senior's expression showed no abnormality.
Izumi suddenly realized—her senior simply couldn't be bothered to say useless things to these insects that they wouldn't listen to anyway.
But Izumi felt it was her duty to say these words for her senior.
Because...
She wasn't saying these words to the followers of the ninja world's evil, but to the Konoha residents around them!
This way, more people would understand her senior's absolute justice.
The girl immediately convinced herself in her heart.
"Meow, you're quite eloquent, newcomer," Kijiro glanced at the group of stunned individuals in front of him and said to Izumi, "You're getting closer to Lord Chisen's passing grade."
"Eh? Really?" Izumi's irritation immediately vanished, and her tone suddenly carried a hint of pleased excitement.
She awkwardly scratched her head, "I feel alright, I just said what was on my mind..."
Kijiro showed a half-moon eye expression and teased, "Control your mouth, meow."
...
Just then. Figures instantly appeared before everyone.
It was none other than Sarutobi Hiruzen and a group of Anbu ninjas who had arrived.
In fact, Sarutobi Hiruzen had regained his senses five minutes ago.
But upon realizing it was Uchiha Chisen ahead, he forcefully suppressed the urge to immediately question Uchiha Chisen—because he had only brought two Anbu guards with him.
With so few people, Sarutobi Hiruzen lacked the confidence to directly confront Uchiha Chisen.
The previous lesson was Shimura Danzo!
Even though Sarutobi Hiruzen believed he himself possessed no so-called evil.
He still had someone send a signal to gather nearby Anbu ninjas, and only after more than a dozen Anbu ninjas had arrived did Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Anbu group come to the scene.
A headless corpse on the ground, and two headless corpses in the distance, now came into view.
Making Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyelids twitch wildly.
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