"Then let's wait and see."
Arisu left behind that light sentence. He slowly stood up from the frozen riverbank, the straw raincoat brushing against the falling snow, his whole demeanor still calm and unbothered.
Arisu sighed silently in his heart.
He had originally wanted to wake Uchiha Katsu up with a few words and make him stop this war that was poisoning the lives of countless people.
But the other party's obsession was already too deep. His mind was filled with his so-called great cause of unification, and no advice could get through to him.
Since he couldn't persuade him, then he would just wait for the reincarnation of Ashura to appear personally and end all of this.
Arisu's thoughts shifted.
The invisible force that had been restraining Uchiha Katsu quietly dispersed like drifting smoke.
"This old man will take his leave…"
Arisu was just about to turn and leave.
Suddenly, an angry shout exploded from behind him.
"Old man, stop right there!"
"Explain yourself! Who exactly are you?"
Uchiha Katsu tightened his grip on the flame fan and revealed his Sharingan.
The more Katsu thought about it, the stranger it seemed. This old man had appeared out of nowhere, called out his name immediately, casually told him to stop the war, and even used mysterious, unfathomable methods. There was no way he could be an ordinary mortal.
If he just let him leave like this, the mystery would never be solved, and it would surely cause endless trouble in the future.
If he didn't figure it out, he wouldn't even be able to sleep.
"The more you know, the worse it may be for you. It's better not to ask anymore…", Arisu said calmly without turning around.
"F*ck your mother!"
Before the angry curse had even finished...
Uchiha Katsu stomped hard on the snow, his body shooting forward like a bolt. The flame fan in his hand was wrapped in fierce chakra as he swept it viciously toward Arisu's back.
Arisu frowned slightly. No wonder Senju Tobirama believed all the Uchiha were mentally unstable.
In the past, this Uchiha Katsu had been extremely calm and steady. Why was he now revealing killing moves the moment a disagreement appeared?
Could it be that awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan really changed a person's personality?
But thinking about it, it made sense. After personally killing the person you loved, anyone would develop some psychological problems…
Arisu kept his back to him and didn't even glance behind, as if the attack was nothing more than an irrelevant gust of wind.
Bang!
When the flame fan came within three feet of Arisu, it was suddenly blocked by an invisible barrier. The hard edge of the fan froze in midair and could not press down even a tiny bit.
It was like an unseen wall of air.
Every attack was completely cut off.
Uchiha Katsu's arm was shaken numb, and shock surged through his heart. These methods were far too strange.
"Too much killing intent isn't good…"
Arisu's mind moved slightly. He had already comprehended the techniques of Universal Pull and Almighty Push to their limits. Gravity and repulsion moved according to his will, forming the most unsolvable defense in the world.
The earlier restraint on Uchiha Katsu had also been done through this method.
It was simply using the attraction and repulsion of those two forces to imprison him.
Shock and anger mixed together. The scarlet light in Uchiha Katsu's eyes suddenly flared brighter. The three tomoe spun rapidly, and in an instant complex and eerie patterns bloomed within his pupils...
The Mangekyo Sharingan opened with a burst of power.
"Oh?"
Only then did Arisu glance back faintly, his gaze landing on the Mangekyo.
Each reincarnation of Indra had a different Mangekyo ability. As for the ocular power of this Uchiha Katsu, Arisu had never seen it before.
"Since that's the case, let me experience your Mangekyo Sharingan.", Arisu spoke slowly, his tone calm, carrying the feeling of someone looking down on everything.
Uchiha Katsu's whole body stiffened.
The shock in his heart nearly overturned his reason.
The Mangekyo Sharingan was the deepest secret of the Uchiha clan. Even the clan's higher-ups only had vague knowledge of it. Aside from him, no one else knew about it.
Yet this man had spoken of it in a single sentence.
The person before him was absolutely a terrifying existence who knew the ultimate secrets of the ninja world.
"Then you deserve to die even more!"
Fear instantly turned into cruelty.
The killing intent in Uchiha Katsu's eyes surged. He attacked immediately.
Fire Release, blade techniques, kunai... various attacks rushed toward Arisu.
But Arisu calmly blocked and absorbed them one by one.
These attacks were nothing more than child's play to him.
"Young man, if you don't use your Mangekyo ability, I'm afraid you won't be able to do anything to this old man.", Arisu kindly reminded him.
Hearing this, Uchiha Katsu trembled inwardly.
Not only did he know about the Mangekyo, he even knew it came with a special ability.
In order to keep his power hidden, Katsu had never used his Mangekyo ability in front of anyone until now.
Katsu stopped hiding.
He suddenly chose a suicidal style of attack.
Chakra exploded wildly throughout his body.
The flame fan was in his left hand, and a sword in his right.
He charged at Arisu recklessly, tearing toward him without any regard for his life.
Even Arisu paused slightly at this desperate fighting style. Clearly he hadn't expected Uchiha Katsu to become this crazy.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Uchiha Katsu's body turned into a blur of afterimages as he attacked Arisu repeatedly.
Suddenly, Uchiha Katsu formed hand seals.
In an instant, explosive tags appeared all over the ground around them. There were even explosive tags on Uchiha Katsu himself.
"Explosive Tag Flame Formation!", Uchiha Katsu shouted fiercely.
Arisu's expression didn't change.
BOOM!!!
A deafening explosion erupted in the snow. Flames shot into the sky, the frozen river cracked apart, and the snow was blasted everywhere by the shockwave.
When the smoke finally cleared, only a charred and ruined scene remained.
Uchiha Katsu's body lay in the snow, his clothes torn apart, no breath left. It looked exactly like he had died from his own explosion.
"This…"
Arisu looked at the corpse on the ground and raised his eyebrow slightly, surprised.
'Did this Uchiha Katsu really kill himself?'
'A suicidal attack? It was actually a suicidal attack?'
In the next instant, Arisu's sharp perception spread outward.
A familiar aura suddenly entered his senses.
Arisu looked at Uchiha Katsu's corpse.
Then, the corpse began slowly disappearing.
Arisu immediately understood. A trace of realization flashed through his eyes.
'So that's it.'
'This was the ability of Uchiha Katsu's Mangekyo Sharingan.'
'Izanagi!'
It could turn his own death and injuries into a dream, reversing life and death. As long as the Mangekyo had not gone blind, it could be used repeatedly, making him almost immortal.
At that moment, a dark shadow suddenly rushed out from behind Arisu. Uchiha Katsu's voice carried fierce excitement.
"Got you!"
Using Izanagi to reverse his death, he had hidden himself and circled behind Arisu, preparing to deliver a fatal surprise attack.
Arisu still had his back turned to him and didn't even move.
The next second, an extremely brilliant white light suddenly burst forth.
The eye of a crow appeared.
Uchiha Katsu suddenly felt his entire body freeze. All his chakra instantly stagnated, his movements completely locked. His body lost control and collapsed...
With a "thump," he fell straight to his knees in the snow, completely unable to resist.
In the final moment before the boundless white light swallowed his senses, Uchiha Katsu only saw the shadows of countless crow feathers filling the sky and a pair of cold crow eyes looking down at him.
In the next moment, he suddenly sat up from his bed, his chest rising and falling violently. Cold sweat instantly covered his forehead as he looked around in shock.
Warm yellow curtains.
A familiar tiger-skin cushion.
A battle map spread out across the table.
This was clearly the main command tent of the Uchiha clan.
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