"During the last Great Ninja War, you were kicked into critical condition and fled like a stray dog, humiliated. Even until her final breath, you lacked the courage to challenge the junior who defeated you and stole your Ninja Blade. Ha!"
Sasuke chuckled softly, a mocking smirk curving his lips.
"Now you can only assert your so-called 'strength' by slaughtering miserable miners and ordinary villagers."
"Strength?"
"Do you even deserve the title?"
Having arrived in this world and set his goals, Sasuke never hesitated to use violence when necessary for his plans, unburdened by its so-called "morality" or "bonds."
But violence was merely a means to his ultimate goal. What he truly sought was power, not senseless carnage.
In Sasuke's eyes, those who flaunted their so-called "ruthless efficiency" by slaughtering ordinary people were utterly laughable.
Such actions not only failed to demonstrate their strength but exposed the emptiness and weakness within their hearts.
In his previous life, Sasuke had always resonated with the words of an elder: "The strong draw their blades against the stronger; the weak against the weaker!"
Pointless slaughtering of those far weaker than oneself—taking it out on the so-called weak—essentially reveals that one is fundamentally a weakling!
"You—you! How do you know all this?!"
Kurosuki Raiga's face contorted in shock, his eyes wide with horror.
Every word Sasuke spoke, every truth he revealed, pierced Raiga's vulnerabilities like a razor-sharp sword.
The deepest, most humiliating secrets of his heart were being laid bare, exposed without mercy!
Sasuke's nightmarish words flooded Raiga's eyes with blood, driving him to the brink of madness.
The veins on his hands, gripping the Raiga Blade, bulged menacingly, making it seem inevitable that he would suddenly lunge forward like a berserker.
Yet Sasuke merely met his gaze with unwavering calm, utterly unfazed by Raiga's growing, frenzied bloodlust.
"Because everything about you has been laid bare before these eyes!"
Kurosuki Raiga stared blankly into the boy's crimson, eerily mesmerizing eyes.
Under that piercing gaze, Raiga felt utterly exposed, as if every part of his being had been stripped bare.
"Raiga, watch out!"
Ranmaru's frantic cry snapped Raiga out of his trance. He saw Sasuke step onto the water's surface, sending massive ripples spreading outward, and hurtling toward him like a blur.
A flash of lightning-infused sword light accompanied Sasuke's charge, carving massive waves through the water. The sword tip, crackling with golden electric sparks, aimed straight for Kurosuki Raiga's heart.
Still dazed, Raiga instinctively raised his twin Blades into a defensive stance, failing to execute any Thunder Blade Techniques or Ninjutsu.
Unexpectedly, halfway through his charge, Sasuke abruptly released the Thunder God Sword. With a powerful surge of chakra through his palm, he hurled the blade forward.
The thrown sword emitted a piercing, air-shattering shriek accompanied by a blinding flash of lightning.
Bang!
At the critical moment, Raiga's twin blades intercepted the Thunder God Sword. But in the next instant...
A deafening gale-force whistle assaulted Raiga's ears. He barely glimpsed a blurry shadow before a powerful kick sent him flying.
Leaf Whirlwind!
Crack!
Raiga managed a clumsy flip in mid-air to protect Ranmaru, but he crashed heavily into the water, head first. Shaking his throbbing head, he felt his skull throb and his ears ring incessantly, as if he had suddenly gone deaf.
"Raiga, watch out! He's coming again!"
Ranmaru's urgent voice cut through the din. Raiga barely caught the warning before a shadowy figure leaped into the air, descending with a brutally simple downward slash aimed directly at him!
Desperate, Kurosuki Raiga ignored the dizziness in his head and the blood seeping from his ears.
He crossed his dual Thunder Blade: Kiba, channeling chakra to their tips. A massive lightning ball erupted, hurtling toward the approaching figure.
Lightning Release: Lightning Ball!
But then, Sasuke's blade suddenly flared crimson. Kurosuki Raiga's lightning ball proved utterly ineffective, shattering into nothingness.
'What?!'
Kurosuki Raiga's eyes widened in shock. Sasuke's downward slash descended like a volcanic eruption, the air compressing into palpable pressure. The searing heat made his clothes flap wildly.
Boom!
Another clash of blades, but Kurosuki Raiga's hastily erected defense offered little resistance, leaving him utterly passive.
Sasuke, descending from above, harnessed momentum, gravity, and inertia to unleash overwhelming force.
Kurosuki Raiga grunted, his legs buckling and numbing. Sasuke's single strike had physically forced him to his knees on the water's surface.
"A strong warrior?" Sasuke asked coolly, Kagutsuchi in hand as he looked down at the kneeling Kurosuki Raiga. "A strong warrior kneeling?"
Kurosuki Raiga braced his Twin Blades against Kagutsuchi, his face contorted with fury.
Since becoming a ninja, when had he ever been forced to his knees?
And by a half-grown boy, no less!
In that instant, an unprecedented sense of shame and fury filled his heart.
Ignoring the shock Sasuke's earlier words had caused him, he now only wanted to kill this boy!
"Damn you!"
Kurosuki Raiga roared, unleashing a surge of tremendous power that propelled him to his feet.
Sasuke frowned slightly. Realizing he couldn't overpower him with raw strength, he retracted the Kagutsuchi from his hand and retreated a few steps.
After all, Sasuke was only twelve years old, barely entering puberty. His physical strength naturally couldn't match the full force of Kurosuki Raiga.
"You bastard! I'm going to kill you!" Raiga snarled through clenched teeth, but instead of attacking immediately, he also retreated a few steps, mirroring Sasuke's movements.
"Ranmaru, did that guy use a genjutsu on me earlier?"
Ranmaru shook his head gently. "No, Raiga," he replied. "I didn't sense any trace of him using a genjutsu."
'Then how did he know...?'
Kurosuki Raiga stared intently at the distant youth, but he dared not meet those crimson eyes again.
'Could his Sharingan really see through everything?'
Raiga was incredulous. After a moment of silence, he formed a hand seal: "Ninja Art: Mist Concealment Technique!"
Instantly, a dense fog surged across the sea, obscuring Sasuke's vision. The fog grew denser until visibility was reduced to zero.
Sasuke's expression remained unchanged. Using the silk threads wrapped around his fingers, he retrieved the Thunder God Sword he had thrown earlier, drawing it back into his palm.
Using Kagutsuchi earlier had been a temporary measure.
After all, they were currently on the open sea, where environmental factors were unfavorable for Fire Release techniques and Kagutsuchi.
"Throat... spinal column... eight vital points..."
Raiga's voice, thick with murderous intent, seemed to echo from all directions.
"You want me to attack those places, huh? Heh..."
Now, he dared not underestimate Sasuke, nor did he dare meet those Sharingan eyes—those eyes that seemed to see through his very soul!
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