My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 022

Moreover, Uchiha Qilin had previously attacked the Anbu codenamed “Mountain” multiple times, even though he received the highest kill reward.

However, after multiple hunts, the rewards had inevitably begun to decay. If he continued to hunt, the attribute points he gained would likely decrease further. One must remember that activating the simulation also consumed a certain amount of time in the real world. He couldn’t waste precious time for increasingly smaller attribute points. In that case, it would be better to change targets.

“I remember that guy seemed to use Water Release. I even copied a C-rank Water Release from him with my Sharingan before. His codename should be ‘River,’ I’ve decided, it’s you!”

Time waited for no one. Looking at the clock on the wall, Uchiha Qilin placed the summoning contract scroll on his lap and, with a thought, began the simulation.

[Simulation Start]

[Hunting Target Set: Root Ninja – River]

[ 4:00 AM]

You take out the summoning scroll. After unfolding it, besides the name of Boss Black Cat, it is blank. However, you don’t believe Boss Black Cat would trick you with a fake, because your Sharingan clearly senses the chakra flowing along the complex patterns on it.

You bite your finger as per memory, squeeze out a drop of fresh blood mixed with it, and press your thumbprint onto the summoning scroll.

A burst of white smoke suddenly billows out, followed by a piercing cat’s yowl!

As the white smoke disperses, a frantic black cat appears in the center of the scroll. This is Boss Black Cat, whom you met in the last simulation, but now it doesn’t recognize you at all.

Sensing the gradually solidifying atmosphere in the room, you proactively open the conversation, recounting how you met it in the last simulation and gained its approval. But Boss Black Cat doesn’t listen to a word, instead leaping up and constantly trying to scratch your face with its claws, demanding that you release the contract.

Boss Black Cat speaks in human tongue, threatening that if it weren’t for you being a brat from the Uchiha clan, it would have killed you immediately!

You feel the pain and immense force on your arm. If you hadn’t gained nearly 500 points in Strength, a power strong enough to be considered formidable among Chunin, you probably wouldn’t have been able to withstand Boss Black Cat’s attacks. Even with this strength, you find it difficult to completely suppress it.

And Boss Black Cat is equally shocked by your strength. A seemingly five or six-year-old brat actually possesses such power. Is this the legendary monstrous strength?!

Although being forcibly contracted is infuriating, the monstrous strength and the two-tomoe Sharingan you display make Boss Black Cat increasingly curious and interested in you.

However, as the cat master, it naturally cannot humble itself and admit the fact that you have already formed a contract. It can only continue to entangle with you.

Fortunately, the Sharingan, the Uchiha’s proud dōjutsu, although not as powerful as the Byakugan in terms of long-distance vision and X-ray vision, its ability to capture emotions and movements as a true bloodline dōjutsu is unparalleled. You activate your Sharingan during the struggle, keenly observing Boss Black Cat’s emotional changes.

To appease the increasingly frantic Boss Black Cat, you frantically grab a bar of soap and throw it, then unethically use the Body Replacement Technique to swap places with it. You then slowly back out of the bathroom, maintaining eye contact with the pouncing Boss Cat, walk to the bedside drawer, and pull out a box of dried fish to bribe it.

[ 5:00 AM]

Grandma Yukina hears the commotion and knocks on your room door. You make a “shush” gesture at the black cat, signaling it to be quiet.

Fortunately, with the dried fish, Boss Black Cat temporarily calms down. You tell it about what happened in the last simulation while attempting to stroke its fur. Nice, very smooth.

[ 6:00 AM]

Under your dried fish offensive, Boss Black Cat grudgingly accepts the fact that it has been contracted by you. After all, in its eyes, your aptitude is quite good.

However, Boss Black Cat adamantly refuses to believe the news of Itachi Uchiha betraying the clan. After all, Itachi Uchiha was watched growing up by the ninja cat clan. Whether it was rescuing stray cats as a genin or completing cat-catching missions with his younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha, it all proves his good nature. How could such a well-behaved and diligent child have thoughts of betraying the clan?

Seeing that you can’t persuade it, you instead ask if the village’s stray cats have gathered any intelligence regarding Root. Boss Black Cat is shocked that you know stray cats are the ninja cat clan’s eyes, but thinking about how you could contract it without it knowing, it shrugs it off.

According to Boss Black Cat, the intelligence from the stray cats has always been “nothing happened.”

So you bring up the matter of Shisui Uchiha’s demise. However, in the ninja cats’ records, there is only “Shisui Uchiha missing,” no mention of his demise.

At this point, you realize something is amiss, so you ask Boss Black Cat to inquire with the stray cat responsible for delivering the intelligence at that time. Boss Black Cat agrees to your request and tells you to wait for an hour.

Before leaving, you learn the Summoning Jutsu with Boss Black Cat’s help.

[ 7:00 AM]

After eating breakfast as usual, you go out to train. In reality, you go to a secluded training ground. After modifying several mice to self-destruct, you load stones into a basket on your back for strength control and endurance training.

[ 8:00 AM]

You bite your finger, clap your hands on the ground, and a summoning array is drawn. After a burst of white smoke, Boss Black Cat appears in the center with a nervous expression.

According to him, all the stray cats who delivered messages consistently reported Shisui Uchiha as missing, but not a single stray cat could clearly state the location or manner of Shisui’s disappearance. It was as if a non-existent memory had been forcibly implanted. However, after Granny Cat’s inspection, these stray cats showed no signs of being under genjutsu.

You suspect this was done by Itachi Uchiha or Obito, and Boss Black Cat also suspects it was done by the Sharingan.

So Boss Black Cat tells you to wait here for a while; he’s going to find a witness cat for you to examine with your Sharingan.

You continue your weighted training.

[ 9:00 AM]

During your rest, Boss Black Cat runs over with a large yellow fat cat and signals you to use your Sharingan’s genjutsu eye to control this large orange cat.

So you cast your genjutsu eye, attempting to enter the fat orange cat’s mental world. Since the fat orange cat is not a ninja cat like Boss Black Cat, capable of human speech and possessing chakra, but merely an excessively obese orange cat, you easily enter its mental world.

This is your first time entering another creature’s mental world. You feel that the fat orange cat’s mental world is very fragile, as if it could shatter with just a gentle touch. Therefore, you also understand why the mice, even after being released from your complete Sharingan control, remained very sluggish—creatures without intelligence have fragile minds, and even a slight heavy hand can destroy their mental world.

You cautiously navigate the fat orange cat’s mental world, attempting to decipher information from the blurry images:

The little flower across the street rejected me for being too fat, so sad…

Granny Daoxiang gave one more dried fish than yesterday, happy…

Accidentally annoyed Pochi at the end of the street, chased from noon to afternoon, good thing I can climb trees…