Sasuke approached from the side-rear. When he was about ten meters from them, the Three-Tomoe patterns in his eyes glowed slightly.
The two guards' eyes grew dazed.
Sasuke appeared, his movements still clean and efficient.
Their bodies shook slightly before stiffening in place, their pupils dilating as they slowly slid down against the doorposts.
Sasuke followed the mansion's outer wall to the side below the study window, which was open a crack for ventilation.
He could hear the scratching of a pen across paper inside, and the occasional slight cough of the elderly woman.
He looked up, watching the two guards in the courtyard with their backs to him, walking toward the other side, calculating their pace and visual blind spots.
That was the moment.
Sasuke's hands formed seals simultaneously, his movements so fast they were mere afterimages.
"Shadow Clone Technique."
A Shadow Clone, identical to him and also wearing a cloak, appeared beside him. Its figure flashed, rushing toward the guards at an incredible speed.
That guard seemed to sense something wrong with the airflow behind him and subconsciously tried to turn around.
But a cold hand had already clamped over his mouth and nose like a steel vice from behind, while the other hand's palm-strike, carrying condensed lightning, struck hard against the side of his neck.
"Ugh!" The guard only had time to let out half a muffled groan before his neck bone shattered. The Lightning-natured Chakra instantly paralyzed and destroyed his nerves, killing him on the spot.
Almost at the same moment, Sasuke appeared inside the study, behind Utatane Koharu.
The elderly Konoha Leadership member was about to reach for her teacup when she suddenly felt a cold sensation on the back of her neck.
She was startled, her Chakra instinctively about to erupt while she tried to turn her head and call for help.
However, when she turned around, all she saw was a pair of crimson, terrifying Mangekyo.
Sasuke invaded her mind with the simplest, most direct fear.
The moment she turned, all she saw were those crimson Sharingan right in front of her, and the cold, heartless killing intent within them, magnified a hundredfold, slamming into her consciousness like a heavy hammer, torturing her.
She subconsciously tried to break the Genjutsu, but Sasuke was no longer that green boy; how could the Genjutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan be so easily broken?
Her body stiffened, her pupils shrinking to pinpoints from extreme fear. Her Chakra flow instantly became disordered and stalled. She didn't even have time to break the Genjutsu; at such close range, even a stall of a few tenths of a second was fatal.
Sasuke's kusanagi sword was raised, hovering above the back of her neck.
"Die. The souls of the Uchiha will torture you for eternity."
There was no earth-shattering sound, only a faint "thud," like a ripe fruit hitting the ground.
The fear in Utatane Koharu's eyes froze instantly. Her body collapsed, and her head fell onto the desk with a dull thud before rolling to the floor, her life force extinguished in an instant.
Sasuke looked at her, no warmth in his eyes, only the pleasure of revenge and a crazed smile.
Then, he flicked his sword and carved an Uchiha clan crest.
Having finished all this, Sasuke's figure vanished, just as he had come.
The entire process took less than three minutes, and no one was alerted.
The night wind blew, carrying a faint scent of blood, which was soon covered by the scent of vegetation.
Utatane Koharu's mansion still stood quietly in the night. The light in the study shone lonely, as if no tragedy had ever occurred.
Only the bloodlust and dead silence gradually spreading through the air signaled that a storm was brewing, one that would soon sweep through the Konoha Leadership.
About half an hour later, the Anbu squad on routine rotation sensed something abnormal—it was too quiet. The guards at the door looked like they were asleep, but their postures were unnaturally stiff.
When they cautiously entered the mansion and saw the scene in the courtyard and the study, a bone-chilling cold instantly gripped everyone's hearts.
The news, like a giant boulder thrown into a stagnant pond, stirred up monstrous waves in the middle of the night.
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