Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 88 [Absolute Justice] There is no distinction of rank before it (Two chapters combined, please subscribe)
When Uchiha Ikezumi pulled his arm out, Nanwu's eyes had already lost their luster. He collapsed weakly to the ground, with a large hole in his chest that looked like it had been cut in half.

Uchiha Ikezumi's expression didn't change much. He felt that this Guardian Ninja Twelve was not as strong as the elite Jonin of Root.

His gaze then fell on the group of people in front of him, whose backs were now the only visible figures.

Yes.

The moment Nanwu attacked Uchiha Ikezumi, a strong will to survive caused the retainers to hastily flee with Goenin Kyusuke.

In just a short while, they had run more than a hundred meters away, and they were all shouting for help.

"Murder! Murder! An assassin is trying to kill the envoy sent by the Daimyo to Konoha! Help!!!"

"The Uchiha clan ninja has gone mad! He wants to assassinate the daimyo's son!"

"Where are all the Konoha ninjas? Come quick and save us!"

"Where's the Hokage? Where's the Hokage of Konoha?!"

"..."

The group of retainers, who were shouting and yelling, appeared extremely panicked and flustered.

They surrounded Yuyan-in Kyusuke in the middle of the crowd.

I want to protect the daimyo's son in this way.

"A madman...he's completely insane..."

Yuyan-in Kyusuke was drenched in cold sweat, his young face deathly pale.

As he was shoved and pushed by his retainers as he hurriedly fled for his life, he muttered, his lips trembling, "How...how dare he...I am the son of a daimyo! Even the Hokage of Konoha treats me as an honored guest. How dare he, a mere Uchiha ninja..."

After much deliberation, Goen-in Kyusuke could only come to one conclusion.

—I've encountered a madman!!!

Sudden.

To his astonishment, Kyusuke Goenin saw a head thrown high into the air appear in his left field of vision.

Immediately afterwards, another head appeared in the field of vision on the right.

He recognized the owners of the two heads at a glance.

These are his two retainers!

As he fled, he glanced back in a panic and was immediately horrified—blood was spurting more than two meters high from the necks of two headless corpses. Uchiha Ikezumi, wielding a ninja sword, stood between the two headless corpses, the blade of his sword stained with crimson blood!

Especially those scarlet Sharingan eyes with three tomoe, which seem to evoke the deepest fears in the human heart.

It was also at the moment when Kusuke Uen'in's terrified gaze collided with Izumi Uchiha's Sharingan gaze.

Illusion...

And so it began.

"Waaaaaah!!!" Yuyan-in Kyusuke screamed in terror, his voice sharper than a woman's. He tripped over his own feet and fell hard on flat ground.

The other retainers nearby were so frightened that they stopped the attack.

They were shocked to find Goenin Kyusuke slumped on the ground.

And he was screaming at the air in front of him with a face full of fear and despair.

"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!" I didn't start the fire! I only had someone start it! I... I didn't know the fire would get out of control, I didn't know it would burn you all to death!

"You...you weren't already dead?"

"Don't come any closer!!!"

His frantic and desperate demeanor made him seem like he had lost his mind, or as if he had seen something they couldn't see.

This sent chills down the spines of the remaining retainers.

When they first meet the son of the daimyo, Goenin Kyusuke, they are so frightened that tears and snot flow from their noses at the same time.

and……

When a foul odor permeates the air.

"Lord Kusuke... he, he seems..." a retainer murmured blankly, "...he lost control of his bladder from fright!!!"

……

Do not know why.

Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly had a bad feeling, especially when he realized that he was about to meet the daimyo's envoy. The strange feeling grew stronger and stronger until he began to feel uneasy.

Several possibilities immediately popped into his mind.

—The Land of Fire will significantly reduce the funding allocated to Konoha next year.

—The Daimyo is preparing to hire Konoha ninja to handle a very difficult task.

—"Kyusuke Oenin, the second son of the daimyo of the Land of Fire, may not be a polite young man. Meeting him might not end pleasantly.

—The daimyo's envoy encountered an accident!
Hiruzen Sarutobi was startled, and a name flashed through his mind.

"Chiquan!"

He finally realized what he had overlooked.

Could the daimyo's envoy have encountered Ikezumi? That young man, he shouldn't have done anything wrong, right? After all, as the second son of the daimyo of the Land of Fire, he basically has everything he wants, so why would he do anything evil?
But Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression grew increasingly stiff.

Because he knew that these thoughts were just him comforting himself.

He knew very well that those pampered and privileged people would never take the law seriously.

The laws of the Land of Fire...

It's just something used to restrict ordinary people.

"Stay close to me!" Hiruzen Sarutobi said to the two ANBU guards beside him with a stern face. The next second, he disappeared from the spot and when he reappeared, he had already teleported dozens of meters away.

The secret guards immediately followed.

Before long, Hiruzen Sarutobi saw a group of people gathered in the distance ahead. Judging from the location reported by the Konoha ninja earlier, the group ahead should be the envoys sent by the Daimyo.

At that very moment, a string that had been taut in Hiruzen Sarutobi's heart snapped, and the heavy weight that had been hanging over his heart immediately sank to the bottom.

Because he saw Uchiha Ikezumi!
His old face suddenly turned dark.

"...Damn it!" When Hiruzen Sarutobi saw Uchiha Ikezumi holding a ninja sword, his last glimmer of hope that "Ikezumi might just be passing by" was completely extinguished.

Hiruzen Sarutobi panicked immediately.

"Chi Quan! Stop!!!"

He tried to shout to stop him.

*Thud*—Even though they were hundreds of meters apart, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt like he was hallucinating as a blade severed a head. He even saw a young man being beheaded by Izumi Uchiha with a single stroke! Judging from the young man's extravagant clothing, which was completely different from the others, he was most likely the son of a daimyo!

Hiruzen Sarutobi was stunned.

He was completely dumbfounded, even his rapidly running steps stopped, and he froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

"...Lord Hokage?" An ANBU guard swallowed hard and couldn't help but ask.

Hiruzen Sarutobi did not respond.

He looked dazed.

“That is…” A strange, agonizing pain and anger surged through Hiruzen Sarutobi, making him feel dizzy. A hoarse, dry voice escaped from his throat: “That is the second son of the daimyo of the Land of Fire!”

"What...what is he doing?!"

"Meow, newbie, this is what I told you. In Lord Chiquan's eyes, the so-called powerful and wealthy have no special privileges. Lord Chiquan's belief in 'absolute justice' will not grant special pardons to the powerful and wealthy."

Tachibana Jiro said to Izumi, "Whether you are an ordinary person, a ninja, a nobleman, or the son of a daimyo, in Lord Izumi's eyes, you are all human. Humans must pay the price for their crimes."

"And this guy named 'Kyusuke Goenin' has committed sins that cannot be atoned by being imprisoned for decades. Death is [justice]'s judgment on his crimes."

Quan had already made some mental preparations.

But at this moment, he was still somewhat dumbfounded.

After all… the villain's identity is too special. In all her years, Izumi had never seen any members of the Fire Country's elite class outside of Konoha. The most distinguished person she had ever met was the Hokage.

But then I thought, if Senior Ikezumi even killed the Hokage's eldest son, what's so bad about the Daimyo's son?

"that……"

Izumi turned around with some confusion and asked, "Tachibana Jiro-senpai, did you hear someone shout 'Stop!' from behind?"

Without turning his head, Tachibana Jiro said, "I heard it. It was the Third Hokage's voice. He witnessed Lord Ikezumi killing the daimyo's son."

Quan suddenly realized: "So it's the Hokage..."

“…Huh?!”

She exclaimed in shock, "The Hokage? He saw it all with his own eyes!?"

……

Tick-tock...

tick...

Drops of bright red blood slid down the blade to the tip, then dripped to the ground, splashing up like blood plum blossoms.

Yuyan-in Kyusuke's head had fallen to the ground and rolled a few times. His face was frozen in a look of terrified disbelief, and a trace of astonishment remained in his lifeless eyes.

The headless body swayed from side to side for a moment before losing all support and collapsing.

Blood spurted from his neck, staining the ground with crimson.

[Ding! You have successfully killed a "red-name" villain! Your chakra has received a slight boost! Congratulations, you have successfully obtained: 10 "Gambling Skill" experience books!]

"Kusuke-sama...Kusuke-sama!!!"

With an incredulous scream, a retainer rushed forward and hurriedly picked up Goenin Kyusuke's head, trying to put it back on his headless body.

Another retainer, his eyes blazing with fury, pointed a trembling finger at Uchiha Ikezumi and shouted, "You...you...do you know what you've done?!"

"Lord Kusuke, he is the second son of the daimyo of the Land of Fire! He is one of the highest-ranking people in the Land of Fire! He is the daimyo's most beloved son! He is one of the most promising sons of daimyo to become the next daimyo of the Land of Fire!!"

"Why...why did you poison Lord Kyusuke?! Is your Konoha Village planning a rebellion?!"

Uchiha Ikezumi flicked his wrist lightly.

The blood on the ninja sword was flicked away.

He spoke expressionlessly, "It is I who uphold justice against evil, not Konoha. What misconception makes you think that I am doing this for Konoha's sake, and that I am executing this villain on the spot?"

Uchiha Izumi's eyes were very calm, as if he had not killed the son of a daimyo, but only an insignificant parasite in the ninja world.

His indifferent voice continued: "Arson, direct murder, indirect murder, dumping a body... one charge after another has been leveled against him. If he doesn't die, justice cannot be served."

"You're insane...you're insane!"

One of the retainers, his face contorted with rage, shouted, "Even if the crimes you speak of are true, you are not worthy to execute Lord Kyusuke! The daimyo's son possesses the highest power 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 that nobles of the Land of Fire are entitled to exemption from punishment and amnesty for violating the law! Lord Kyusuke's minor mistake due to his ignorance will at most result in a period of confinement!"

"You...how could you kill him? What right did you have to kill him? Have all the Konoha ninja gone mad?!"

“I don’t know if the other Konoha ninjas are crazy or not, but Izumi-senpai is the kind of person who has absolute rationality!” Izumi gritted his teeth and stepped forward, saying to the collapsing retainer, “Besides, the so-called laws of the Land of Fire are laws that are so weak they’re disgusting!”

A hint of anger appeared on Quan's fair face; she didn't know why she was so angry.

Especially when they heard the statement that "nobles of the Land of Fire are granted immunity and pardon for violating the law."

Quan simply couldn't suppress the anger welling up inside him.

Her voice gradually rose: "You ask what right Senior Chi Quan has to kill this villain, then I also ask what right the laws of the Land of Fire have to pardon a noble who has committed a crime?"

"I see, I understand now... It's because of this unfairness that so many evildoers in the ninja world go unpunished, and it has even become a terrifying, ingrained consensus."

"I'm telling you on behalf of my predecessors! [Absolute Justice] will never be bound by the laws of the Land of Fire! [Absolute Justice] will never bow to any powerful or privileged individual!"

"There is no distinction of rank before absolute justice! People who do evil must pay the price! If justice is absent, someone must stand up and seek justice for the victims!"

"You supporters of the evils of the ninja world are the least qualified insects to question [Absolute Justice]!"

The Uchiha girl's voice became somewhat hoarse after speaking so many words in one breath.

At this moment, she also came to her senses in a daze, realizing that she seemed to have taken it upon herself to say some things that her senior might not have wanted to say.

She cautiously raised her head and glanced at the senior's profile.

I noticed that my senior's expression didn't seem unusual.

Quan suddenly realized that his senior was simply too lazy to talk nonsense to these insects, which they wouldn't listen to anyway.

But Izumi felt obligated to speak these words on behalf of his senior.

because……

She wasn't saying these words to the supporters of the evil in the ninja world, but to the Konoha residents around her!

This will allow more people to understand the absolute justice of their predecessors.

The girl immediately convinced herself.

"Meow, you're quite the talker, newbie." Tachibana Jiro glanced at the group of astonished people in front of him and said to Izumi, "You're getting closer and closer to the passing grade in Izumi-sama's mind."

"Huh? Really?" Izumi's annoyance vanished instantly, and his tone suddenly held a hint of smugness.

She scratched her head sheepishly: "I feel fine, I just said what was on my mind..."

Tachibana Jiro gave a half-moon eye expression and said sarcastically, "Hurry up and control your mouth, meow."

……

Just then, figures appeared in front of everyone.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and a group of Anbu ninjas had arrived.

In fact, Hiruzen Sarutobi had come to his senses five minutes earlier.

But when he realized that it was Uchiha Ikezumi ahead, he forcibly suppressed the urge to rush over and question Uchiha Ikezumi immediately—because he had only brought two ANBU guards with him.

With so few people, Hiruzen Sarutobi lacked the confidence to face Izumi Uchiha directly.

The last example to learn from is Danzo Shimura!
Even though Hiruzen Sarutobi believed that he had no evil within him.

However, he still sent a signal to gather the nearby Anbu ninjas. It wasn't until a dozen Anbu ninjas arrived that Hiruzen Sarutobi led a group of Anbu to the scene.

A headless corpse on the ground and two headless corpses in the distance came into view.

This made Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyelids twitch wildly.

……

……

(End of this chapter)