Konoha: Uchiha’s Absolute Justice Chapter 028

The sound from behind made the three Anbu ninjas feel a sudden sense of unease, their internal alarm bells ringing incessantly.

As their pupils contracted, they wanted to immediately scatter.

But their field of vision suddenly skewed.

The figure of an Uchiha girl appeared in their gradually blurring sight, but before they could clearly see what she looked like, three heads had already rolled off their necks.

[Ding! You have successfully killed three “red-named” villains! Your chakra has received a small boost! Congratulations, you have successfully dropped: ① “Shuriken Throwing Technique” experience book × 7; ② “Water Release: Flowing Blade Technique”; ③ “Brothel Appraisal Technique” experience book × 4!]

The red frames hovering above the heads of the three Anbu ninjas slowly dissipated.

But killing them was just the beginning. The previous commotion had already alerted the entire secret base.

But that was good.

It saved Uchiha Ikeizumi the trouble of having to ferret everyone out.

…

When more Anbu ninjas rushed over.

They found several corpses on the ground and saw an Uchiha ninja holding a blood-stained ninja blade, their killing intent permeating the air.

Though shocked and unaware of what exactly had happened, they immediately pulled the base’s alarm.

“Woo—woo—woo—”

The piercing alarm startled even Sarutobi Shinnosuke.

“Enemy invasion?!”

Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s brows furrowed under his Anbu mask. Since this secret experimental base was established, there had never been an external enemy invasion.

How did such a mess happen the moment the old man entrusted this secret base to his care?

What puzzled Sarutobi Shinnosuke even more was who had the guts to invade a secret base near Konoha Village?

A base built near Konoha Village implied a secret and close connection to Konoha.

Did the invaders not know this?

Or rather…

Did the other party simply not care about Konoha?!

“All combat personnel, assemble!” Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s expression gradually became solemn. He issued the order: “Immediately proceed to the location where the alarm was triggered in the base. The invaders…”

Thinking that once this secret base was exposed, it might bring a certain degree of reputational risk to the old man.

A flash of killing intent gleamed in Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s eyes.

“No matter who the invaders are, once found, kill them without mercy!”

“Yes!!!”

Under Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s leadership, an entire Anbu squad moved out collectively—this secret base was originally guarded by two Anbu squads.

One Anbu squad’s mission was to stand guard outside the base, patrol inside, and transport supplies; the other Anbu squad was responsible for eliminating threats to the base.

Both of these Anbu squads were at Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s disposal.

Sarutobi Shinnosuke felt that the first squad might have already encountered trouble!

Moreover, the invader’s strength should not be underestimated!

Otherwise, the enemy would never have been able to sneak into the base so silently.

“Wait!”

Sarutobi Shinnosuke called out to an Anbu, ordering him: “You don’t need to follow. Go back to Konoha immediately and inform the old man about this. If no news from the base reaches the village within fifteen minutes, it means something has happened here. It’s best to have the old man bring more people over.”

“Yes!”

Just as Sarutobi Shinnosuke was about to continue heading towards the alarm’s location, a sudden sense of crisis made his heart leap.

He instinctively roared, “Stop!”

At the same time, he suddenly noticed a faint orange-red glow appearing on the metal-reinforced wall to his right, and he could feel a scorching temperature emanating from that direction.

—Boom!!!!

Terrifying high temperatures instantly melted a huge hole in the metal-reinforced wall. A volcanic impact sent molten iron splashing everywhere, and an invisible heatwave rushed towards them.

The Anbu ninjas immediately bent their knees to steady themselves, their eyes filled with horror as they stared at the melted hole in the wall.

“That’s…”

Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s pupils constricted. He saw “half” a person lying beside the hole in the wall.

The other half of that “half” person’s body was nowhere to be found.

But from the clothing and attire, the other party was also an Anbu ninja.

Their mask had fallen off, and half their face was frozen in an expression of indescribable terror, chilling anyone who looked at it.

Drip—

Drip—

Strange dripping sounds entered their ears.

The smell of sulfur filled their nostrils.

A name of an Uchiha clan ninja, one he intensely disliked, suddenly popped into Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s mind—Uchiha Ikeizumi!

As the thought just ended, a figure with magma slowly flowing on their body stepped out from the other side of the wall hole.

“—It’s Uchiha Ikeizumi!!!” An Anbu ninja behind Sarutobi Shinnosuke exclaimed, shocked, saying the other’s name.

“Long time no see. Shinnosuke… sensei.”

Magma dripped from Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body, the molten glow it emitted barely concealing the scarlet blood-red of his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

He looked directly at Sarutobi Shinnosuke and said, “As one of the Third Hokage’s right-hand men, you’ve been untraceable for the past two years. I thought you were dead. I didn’t expect Sensei Shinnosuke to be stationed here by the Third Hokage.”

Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s fists instantly clenched.

His expression under the mask darkened, and he gritted his teeth, saying, “The moment you killed two of your comrades, you stopped being my student, and I stopped being your Jonin instructor! Uchiha Ikeizumi! What exactly do you want by coming here?”

Looking at the half-corpse on the ground, Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s mood worsened. He stared intently at Uchiha Ikeizumi: “You still couldn’t suppress the demon in your heart, and now you’re planning to go on a rampage in Konoha, to kill these innocent people?!”

The other Anbu ninjas behind him were quite surprised.

So, Senior Shinnosuke and Uchiha Ikeizumi had such a past; he was once his Jonin instructor!

Uchiha Ikeizumi calmly asked, “Too many evils of the ninja world have died by my hand. Which two are you referring to?”

Sarutobi Shinnosuke almost stopped breathing.

“You… have you completely forgotten your comrades?”

“I don’t intentionally remember the villains who have died by my hand.”

A vein throbbed on Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s forehead.

“Shimura Reiya! Uzuki Saku! You must remember these two names! They… were my Genin students, just like you back then!”

Sarutobi Shinnosuke couldn’t help but recall the “fratricide” incident that had shaken his heart back then.

It was after that incident that he no longer served as a Jonin instructor for any Konoha Genin.

“Oh… I think I remember now.”

Uchiha Ikeizumi said, “Shimura Reiya, he bullied others in the Ninja Academy, causing the bullied person to commit suicide after their complaints went unanswered; Uzuki Saku, Shimura Reiya’s accomplice, spread rumors about the bullied person in the village even after their death.”

“It’s true that I killed those two. However, they were the ones who attacked first, which led the Fourth Hokage to classify it as excessive self-defense on my part, and I was not held accountable.”

Sarutobi Shinnosuke listened to Uchiha Ikeizumi’s emotionless tone, as if “comrades” were expendable in his heart.

A surge of anger welled up in his heart: “Their crimes weren’t punishable by death!”

Uchiha Ikeizumi asked, “Then should the bullied person have died?”

With every step he took forward, a molten pit appeared on the ground.

“In my eyes, those two students of yours have been corrupted by the ‘evil’ of the ninja world into unforgivable villains. I merely used scorching magma to cleanse the unforgivable ‘evil’ of the ninja world. That is all.”

“Sensei Shinnosuke.”

Uchiha Ikeizumi’s scarlet eyes landed on a crimson red frame hovering above Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s head.

“The current you…”

“Has also fallen into the abyss.”

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