He had only just passed the Chunin Exams earlier today.
No.
It wasn’t just a simple pass.
He had successfully utilized the absolute advantages of his Sharingan and the Body Flicker Technique to drag the Special Jonin proctor into a prolonged battle of attrition.
This inherently proved that Shisui’s combat prowess was already far superior to that of an ordinary Chunin!
This strike was absolutely guaranteed to succeed!
But in the very next instant, Shisui’s body violently stiffened as an inexplicable, overwhelming sense of fatal crisis washed over him.
Crap!
The exact moment this thought flashed through his mind, his wrist was seized in a vice-like grip.
“Couldn’t hold back anymore, could you?!”
“Little rat!”
Shingen’s voice rang right next to Shisui’s ear, making him break out in a cold sweat.
Immediately after, Shisui felt a terrifying, monstrous surge of physical strength erupt from the hand crushing his forearm, violently lifting his entire body and smashing him brutally toward the ground.
Like swinging a heavy broadsword!
This was the terrifying physical amplification provided by his Level 3 Taijutsu Mastery.
Whether it was raw strength, bodily flexibility, or sheer resistance to physical blows, Shingen’s body had undergone a massive, qualitative mutation.
Right now, in terms of pure physical conditioning alone, Shingen was not a single bit weaker than an adult Chunin specifically specialized in Taijutsu.
In this particular aspect, the not-even-eight-year-old Shisui was at a catastrophic disadvantage.
With his current physical build, if he were to take this blow head-on, the battle would instantly be over!
Shisui originally thought he had overestimated Uchiha Shingen sufficiently, but he never imagined that the gap in raw physical stats would be this cartoonishly massive!
Captain Shingen actually specializes in Taijutsu?!
I’ve never heard of a single Uchiha who excels primarily in Taijutsu!
Despite the shock roaring in his mind, Shisui’s reactions weren’t slow in the slightest.
In the exact fraction of a second before Shingen’s brutal slam could connect with the earth, Shisui flawlessly switched the kunai into his other hand.
Instantly twisting his waist in mid-air, Shisui unleashed a vicious, ferocious slash aimed directly at Shingen’s chest.
From the very edge of the kunai’s blade, blazing flames erupted, illuminating the surrounding darkness!
“Hmm?!”
The lazy expression on Shingen’s face finally vanished, replaced by a glint of surprise in his eyes.
“Halo Dance?!”
“Which bastard from the clan is trying to murder me?!”
“Whatever.
I’ll beat them into submission first!”
With that thought.
Shingen’s gaze instantly turned incredibly dangerous.
He released his grip on Shisui’s wrist and instantly triggered his Body Flicker Technique, perfectly evading Shisui’s lethal, flaming slash.
Having barely managed to free himself, Shisui raised his head to look at Uchiha Shingen.
To his absolute horror, within Shingen’s eyes, three blood-red tomoe were slowly spinning!
“The Three-Tomoe Sharingan?!”
“Captain Shingen’s ocular prowess has actually reached this terrifying stage!”
Shisui’s pupils shrank to pinpricks.
The hairs on his arms stood on end.
Shisui had considered the possibility that Uchiha Shingen might be strong, but he figured that strength would, at most, be roughly on par with his own.
After all, the gap between the so-called “talent” Shingen displayed to the public and Shisui’s own widely recognized genius was incredibly massive.
But the moment they actually crossed blows, Shisui finally realized just how absurdly exaggerated the gap between him and the man standing before him truly was.
The number of tomoe directly represented the raw tier of one’s ocular power.
Even a difference of a single tomoe equated to absolute, insurmountable suppression.
And right now, Shisui was the one being utterly suppressed.
What was even more troublesome was that terrifyingly oppressive Taijutsu that had nearly crippled him in a single exchange!
Realizing the severity of the situation, Shisui’s eyes turned dead serious.
His hands blurred through a rapid series of hand seals, preparing to unleash the Great Fireball Technique.
But to his despair, his movements had been perfectly seen through by Shingen long before he even started.
Before Shisui could even finish the posture to expel the flames, a colossal ball of fire completely dominated his entire field of vision, aggressively expanding into an exaggerated, terrifying sphere nearly ten meters wide in a split second!
“Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!”
Shisui felt his scalp go completely numb.
A Great Fireball of this monstrous scale…
he had only ever seen it unleashed by the veteran Jonin of the Police Force!
Achieving this required a staggeringly massive chakra reserve and flawless chakra control.
In other words…
In terms of raw chakra capacity and manipulation skills alone, Uchiha Shingen was already no less capable than the clan’s veteran Jonin.
Add to that the monstrous physical Taijutsu he had displayed earlier, and the fully matured Three-Tomoe Sharingan…
Does Captain Shingen already possess the combat power of a Jonin?!
The moment this terrifying conclusion formed in his mind, even Shisui couldn’t help but feel profoundly shocked.
A thirteen-year-old Chunin was perhaps nothing special.
But a thirteen-year-old Jonin…
the political and martial implications of that were completely different!
It practically tied the highest historical records in all of Konoha!
Big Brother Shingen…
is actually a monstrous genius too?!
Crap, if that fireball actually hits me, I’m genuinely going to die!
With absolutely zero time to spare.
Shisui rapidly completed his hand seals, and a Great Fireball erupted from his mouth as well.
In a fraction of a second, Shisui’s Great Fireball was effortlessly devoured and overwhelmed by Shingen’s.
It was the brutal, undeniable result of the massive disparity in their chakra reserves and control.
However.
Buying that single fraction of a second was already more than enough for Shisui.
What he was truly, absolutely confident in wasn’t his Kenjutsu, nor his Genjutsu, but the simplest, most fundamental technique of all: his Body Flicker!
The hand seal for the Body Flicker Technique was formed instantly.
Shisui practically saw the vision of his own successful escape.
But in the very next second, his body violently froze, and the corner of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
“Isn’t this way too reckless?!”
In mid-air, the colossal, ten-meter-wide fireball suddenly collapsed.
Like a popped bubble, it dissolved into countless sparks that scattered in all directions, quickly swallowed by the night.
He clamped a hand firmly over Shisui’s fox mask and brutally slammed him straight down into the earth!
Bang—!
The exaggerated, monstrous force granted by Level 3 Taijutsu directly shattered the stone pavement.
Shisui felt his back go completely numb, and a sickeningly sweet taste of blood instantly welled up in his throat!
My ribs are broken, and my internal organs have suffered varying degrees of damage.
If this continues, I’ll actually be killed!
“It’s me!”
“Captain Shingen!”
That familiar voice caused Shingen’s killing intent to halt instantly.
He ripped the fox mask off the boy’s face, his body freezing slightly:
“It’s you?!”
“Don’t do something this incredibly stupid and dangerous next time.
It’s very easy to accidentally get killed!”
Shisui let out a miserable, bitter laugh, unable to express his grievances.
The brutal beating he had successfully avoided during the Chunin Exams had been thoroughly and flawlessly delivered by Uchiha Shingen tonight.
“I never imagined that your strength, Captain Shingen, had actually reached this terrifying level!”
Cough!
Cough!
Shisui couldn’t help but cough up a few mouthfuls of fresh blood, a wave of lingering fear gripping his heart.
The exchange just now had been extremely brief, yet unspeakably lethal.
From the very first second to the last, he had been absolutely and flawlessly suppressed by Uchiha Shingen in every single conceivable aspect.
This seemingly utterly unremarkable, perpetually slacking Police Force Squad Captain genuinely possessed a monstrous combat prowess that was absolutely not inferior to an elite Jonin.
This wasn’t just a “genius.” This was an absolute, thoroughbred monster.
If you combined this terrifying level of combat power with the masterful, utterly manipulative way he handled political crises…
“It seems the Uchiha have truly birthed an incredibly formidable figure.”
In the dead of night.
A raspy, sinister voice echoed.
Immediately following, several figures wearing bizarre animal masks materialized from the shadows, completely surrounding Shingen and Shisui.
“This is…”
Shingen swept his gaze around the perimeter, his brows knitting tightly:
“Did you arrange this too?!”
Shisui shook his head blankly, an intense feeling of dread rising in his heart:
“That uniform…
they must be from the Root organization!”
Shingen’s heart, which had just relaxed, instantly shot back up to his throat.
Although he hadn’t heard much about a ‘Root’ organization existing in Konoha, for them to appear so late at night, having fully infiltrated the heart of the Uchiha compound…
Shingen’s pupils constricted violently.
In a flash of terrifying clarity, he finally realized exactly what he had overlooked.
The battle between him and Shisui had caused a massive commotion.
Logically speaking, the shinobi patrolling the clan compound should have noticed it ages ago and swarmed the area.
Yet, until this very moment, there hadn’t been a single sign of movement!
Something was incredibly wrong!