"So, where is Kagami Uchiha now?"
"He died during the Second Shinobi World War," the youth answered subconsciously.
Hearing his reply, Qiuxia let out a cold sneer. "That's right, he died in the war. All of Tobirama Senju's other students became part of Konoha's high command, but the only student from the Uchiha Clan just happened to die in the war. Do you really think that was an accident, or was it someone's deliberate design?"
Qiuxia's words caused the youth to break out in a cold sweat. "Are you suggesting it was the Third Hokage and the others? No, impossible. It couldn't be like that... you simply have a misunderstanding of the leadership."
"I have a misunderstanding? Fine, let me ask you another thing. What about the Senju Clan, who founded this village alongside the Uchiha? The First Hokage had the Senju members discard their names and scatter throughout Konoha.
I doubt there are many left now. The only ones who inherited the Senju name were Tsunade and Nawaki; one died on the battlefield, and the other left the village. How do you explain that?"
"You might not know the specifics of the Senju's disappearance, and you certainly can't investigate it. But let me give you something you can verify. You know of the White Fang of the Leaf, don't you? The hero who abandoned his mission to save his comrades.
Given his rank, that mission should have been top-secret. Why was the entire village informed of its failure? What do you have to say to that?"
"At its core, the upper echelons of Konoha are rotten to the bone. Shisui Uchiha, you have always aligned your perspective with the village leadership, observing the Uchiha from their standpoint. All you see is the clan's dissatisfaction and their rejection of the village's authority."
"If you shifted your stance to that of the Uchiha Clan, you would realize that ever since Tobirama Senju took power, the Uchiha have faced nothing but exclusion. Whether it was the 'boiling frog' treatment within the Konoha Military Police Force,
the lack of recognition for battlefield achievements, or even the Third Shinobi World War, where the clan was sent to deal with Kirigakure amidst a web of conspiracies and schemes."
Indeed, this youth was none other than Shisui Uchiha, one of the many fools of the Uchiha Clan. It was precisely because Qiuxia knew Shisui's identity that he felt such malice when the boy jumped over his wall. At that moment, his only thoughts were how to kill this brat and how to gouge out his eyes.
Qiuxia's words, delivered with cutting precision, left Shisui Uchiha speechless. He didn't know how to respond. He might not be able to investigate everything else, but the matters regarding the Konoha Military
Police Force and the White Fang of the Leaf were exactly as Qiuxia described. He simply hadn't connected the dots before, but now, with Qiuxia pointing them out, everything clicked into place in an instant.
Seeing Shisui's silence, Qiuxia said softly, "To be honest, I really despise people like you in the Dove Faction. You're always demanding the Uchiha do more for Konoha, yet you never fight for the clan's interests. Even if you raise a dog, you know you have to give it a bone if you want it to bite someone. In your hearts, the Uchiha Clan probably doesn't even rank as high as a dog."
This final, killing blow caused Shisui Uchiha's Chakra to surge. His eyes turned blood-red as he directly manifested his Mangekyo Sharingan. Seeing this, Qiuxia immediately protected himself with magical power, simultaneously activating the Heart-Cleansing Protection Charm among the many talismans he had prepared.
"What's wrong? Can't win the argument, so you want to kill me?"
"Your thoughts are too dangerous. I'm sorry, but I must modify your will." Driven to a state of mental frenzy by the undeniable truth of Qiuxia's words, Shisui Uchiha could not and would not believe that the leadership he served was so corrupt. In this state, he chose to rewrite Qiuxia's mind. After all, those words were too perilous; if they spread, both the Uchiha and Konoha would fall into total chaos.
"Kotoamatsukami? Quite impressive. If I didn't know about your Dōjutsu, I might actually have had my will altered by you."
Shisui's expression changed drastically. "How do you know my Mangekyo's Dōjutsu? I told no one after I awakened it not even the Third Hokage or the others."
"Simple. Because I have a Mangekyo too!" As he spoke, Qiuxia opened the eyes he had kept narrowed since Shisui arrived. Two Taiji Diagrams appeared within his pupils.
"How is this possible? You're only six years old! How could you awaken the Mangekyo?" Shisui froze in shock once again.
"If your Dōjutsu is Kotoamatsukami, why don't you guess what mine is?" Qiuxia looked at Shisui with a cold, mocking smile.
Shisui tried to speak, but he realized his body was growing weaker by the second. His strength was failing, and he could feel his life force rapidly vanishing. This eerie sensation made him desperate to flee and report to the village leadership.
However, in that moment, Qiuxia moved. He appeared before Shisui like a phantom, his fingers forming a sword-hand as he struck several Acupoints on Shisui's body. Shisui's Chakra instantly ground to a halt, becoming as stagnant as dead water.
Having struck the Acupoints, Qiuxia did not wait for Shisui to react further. He reached out and gouged Shisui's eyes out of his head.
"Ahhh...!" The agony of having his eyes ripped out alive forced a scream from Shisui, a man who had survived battlefields and served in the Anbu.
But the scream had barely begun when Qiuxia's fist slammed into his throat, silencing him. Qiuxia then intensified the power of his Mangekyo. In moments, Shisui Uchiha collapsed to the ground, reduced to a withered, ancient-looking corpse.
In truth, had Shisui fought Qiuxia in a direct, fair battle, Qiuxia might not have won; he might even have been killed. But it was a case of the calculating mind against the unsuspecting. From the moment Shisui jumped over the wall,
Qiuxia had activated his Mangekyo, slowly devouring Shisui's life. To keep Shisui from noticing, Qiuxia had bombarded him with the dark secrets of Konoha, ensuring he couldn't maintain a calm state of mind.
If there had been a mirror or a pool of water nearby, Shisui would have seen himself aging bit by bit, his hair turning white. But there was nothing, and the shock of Qiuxia's information was too overwhelming. By the time Shisui tried to erupt, Qiuxia had already devoured more than half of his life force.
He then increased the drain to freeze Shisui for a split second, using the opening to drive magical power into Shisui's Acupoints to seal his Chakra. Gouging the eyes, crushing the throat, and consuming the remaining life force completed the absolute kill.
"I didn't plan on moving against you this early. It would have been fitting for a fool like you to die at the hands of the high command you're so loyal to. But you just had to come poking around my home. Looking at you makes me sick, so just go ahead and die."
After killing Shisui, Qiuxia burned the body to ash and meticulously erased all traces and scents of the struggle. Then, he scattered Shisui's ashes across the Uchiha Clan compound, ensuring that every member of the clan would trample them underfoot.
With that finished, Qiuxia returned to his courtyard and took out Shisui's eyes. "My Mangekyo can devour life and death... I wonder if it can devour bloodlines as well?" With that thought, he aimed his devouring ability at Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan.
As the ability activated, Shisui's eyes began to shrink in Qiuxia's palm. Strands of bloodline power flowed into his own eyes. If Qiuxia were to look at his status panel now, he would see the experience points for his Mangekyo rising rapidly, only stopping once they hit the critical threshold.
After reviewing his data, Qiuxia used a bit of Origin Power to give his eyes the final push, beginning the transformation from the Mangekyo to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
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