Chapter 285: Uchiha Akira's Absolute Dominance
All the high-ranking Kirigakure officials present—Jōnin commanders, clan heads, and elders—suddenly stood up, their faces a mixture of shock, fury, and outright disbelief!
Mei Terumī's announcement had hit them like a thunderbolt.
An Elite Jōnin with fiery white hair slammed his hand on the table and roared.
"Mei Terumī! Have you lost your mind?!"
"Our Kirigakure is one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages! We have our own honor! Our own dignity! Our own history!"
"Let us become dogs for Konoha?! I'll be the first to refuse! We will fight!"
This person, named Kirishima Jin, was a senior elder in the Village, known for his volatile temper and his military prowess.
Beside him, another seemingly refined clan head also darkened his face and said coldly.
"Lord Mizukage! This joke is not funny! You mock our ancestors!"
"My Suiren Clan has guarded the Hidden Mist for generations, shedding blood and making sacrifices! Not so that the Village would wag its tail and beg outsiders!"
This person was Suiren Kenji, the head of the Suiren Clan, a powerful water affinity clan.
"Exactly! We would rather die in battle than surrender our sovereignty!"
"Mei Terumī! Have you already made some dirty deal with Konoha's Uchiha tyrant?!"
"You are betraying the entire Village! You are unfit to lead!"
In an instant, emotions ran dangerously high! The tension in the room was boiling!
Insults, curses, and doubts rose and fell in a chaotic, deafening storm.
Countless angry gazes, sharp as drawn swords, shot directly at Mei Terumī.
They had just promoted her to Mizukage—risking their lives to do so—but in the blink of an eye, she was going to sell out the entire Village! This kind of betrayal, this complete lack of dignity, was unacceptable!
"Everyone, shut up!" Elder Gensui slammed his ancient hand on the table, trying to impose order.
But at this moment, the enraged crowd could not hear anything. Their pride was shattered.
Kirishima Jin even pointed a trembling finger directly at Mei Terumī's nose and cursed loudly.
"Mei Terumī! You shameless woman! You don't deserve to be Mizukage at all!"
"Get down! Get down!"
Mei Terumī's face instantly turned pale. She bit her lip tightly, her body trembling slightly. She had anticipated resistance, but she had not expected it to be this intense, this unified.
Just as the situation was about to completely spiral out of control, descending into internal combat...
A cold, utterly indifferent voice echoed leisurely in the conference room.
"Are you done talking?"
Everyone looked towards the source of the voice.
In the deepest shadows of the conference room, at some unknown point, an extra person had appeared.
It was Uchiha Akira. He stood leaning against the wall, his arms crossed, his entire posture radiating contempt.
"Who are you?"
"This is a Hidden Mist high-level meeting! Who let you in, outsider!"
Kirishima Jin, seeing Uchiha Akira's casual, dismissive posture, immediately redirected his fury. He pointed his finger at Akira, roaring.
Akira ignored him. He only let out a cold sneer, a sound of absolute disdain.
"If anyone is unconvinced," Akira's gaze slowly swept over everyone present, "you can step forward. You can come find me."
Silence.
Everyone was visibly intimidated by the invisible, oppressive aura emanating from Uchiha Akira. They were shocked by his casual intrusion. They dared not move.
But there are always hot-headed fools fueled by wounded pride.
"I... I'm not convinced!"
Kirishima Jin gritted his teeth and was the first to step forward, his bloodshot eyes glaring fiercely at Akira.
"The Kirigakure only has shinobi who die in battle! Not cowards who surrender!"
"You want us to submit?! Only by stepping over our corpses!"
"Exactly!" Suiren Kenji also stepped forward, his expression arrogant, though his eyes betrayed fear.
"My Suiren Clan will never bow to Konoha! We are not like the Sunagakure weaklings!"
Following their lead, three or four other short-sighted Jōnin also stood up, their faces flushed with adrenaline, clamoring to fight Konoha to the death.
"You...!" Mei Terumī trembled with helpless rage.
"All of you, sit down!" Elder Gensui shouted sharply, his voice cracking. "Do you want to kill the entire Village?! He just showed us the alternative!"
But these fools were no longer listening. Pride, not logic, ruled them.
Uchiha Akira's smile grew even colder. It was predatory.
Sizzle—!
Blinding blue electric light suddenly erupted from Akira's body! The sound of a thousand birds chirping (Chidori no Oto) filled the air!
Raiton Chakura Mōdo! (Lightning Release Chakra Mode!)
A wildly violent, suffocating aura of pure power instantly filled the entire conference room!
Under everyone's horrified gaze, Uchiha Akira's figure instantly vanished.
Extremely fast!
So fast that even the Elite Jōnin present couldn't catch Uchiha Akira's movements with their eyes!
The next second, he had already appeared directly in front of Kirishima Jin.
"You..." Kirishima Jin only managed to utter one word. Reflected in his pupils, just before impact, was a fist enveloped in searing blue electric light.
That fist, in his vision, rapidly expanded!
Bang!!!
A dull, visceral thud like a drum being struck with full force!
Uchiha Akira's fist landed squarely on Kirishima Jin's abdomen!
Kirishima Jin's body instantly bent into a sickening, shrimp-like shape.
Then, he crashed directly through the stone conference room wall and flew out into the fog-filled Kirigakure streets, his life unknown!
Just one punch!
A battle-hardened, senior Hidden Mist Elite Jōnin... instantly, brutally, defeated!
The entire conference room instantly fell silent. So quiet you could hear the terrified thumping of their hearts.
But this was only the beginning.
Uchiha Akira's figure once again transformed into a blue streak of electric light.
Bang!
Immediately after, half of Suiren Kenji's face instantly caved in. Teeth mixed with blood sprayed out wildly, and his body spun seven hundred and twenty degrees in mid-air! He joined the wall-crashers.
Then, the systematic, one-sided crushing began.
Akira's figure flickered rapidly around the conference room.
Each flicker was accompanied by a dull thud of bones breaking and a figure flying backward, slamming into the walls or furniture.
Those Jōnin who had just been clamoring to fight to the death were more fragile than infants in front of Uchiha Akira's power.
One punch, one down!
Clean. Decisive. Merciless.
In a few breaths of time, the entire confrontation was over.
Everyone who had said they were unconvinced, everyone who wanted to resist, was lying on the ground, groaning in profound, excruciating pain.
Uchiha Akira slowly retracted the lightning from his body. His clothes were unruffled.
He looked around the ruined conference room, then floated up to the massive hole he had created in the ceiling.
"Shinra Tensei!" (Almighty Push!)
Buzz—!!!!
An invisible, irresistible, terrifying repulsive force erupted instantly, centered on Akira!
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE—!!!!
The entire top of the Mizukage building, along with several floors above it, was completely blown away by this terrifying force in an instant! Debris flew everywhere, carried by the massive repulsion wave!
Akira then used Shunshin no Jutsu to fly away, coming to a halt at a spot not far outside the Kirigakure. He hovered in mid-air above the roofs.
"Just defeating a few leading fools isn't enough," Akira thought to himself, looking back at the scarred Mizukage tower.
"I need to make them feel fear to their very bones. To make them understand that resisting me is equivalent to resisting a god. Their pride is broken, now their faith must be broken."
"The Hidden Mist needs a complete baptism. With absolute power, crush all unwanted, rebellious thoughts!"
In the Village below, all the shinobi and civilians were startled by the sudden, deafening noise and the violent tremor. They all looked up at the sky in terror.
Then, they saw a scene that would be unforgettable for the rest of their lives: the massive, gaping hole in the top of the Mizukage tower.
And the small, dark figure of the foreign Hokage, Uchiha Akira, floating calmly in the sky.
The fear, heavy and absolute, descended upon Kirigakure.
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