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“Good morning, Yuto.”
Yuto looked at Shisui Uchiha in front of him and began to mutter inwardly.
Since transmigrating, he had never had anything to do with Shisui.
They shared only a surname.
They were practically from two different worlds.
So why had he run into Shisui the moment he left home today?
And why was the other boy greeting him so warmly, as if he had been waiting here on purpose?
Could it be…
Yuto suddenly remembered what Fugaku had said yesterday in the meeting room while patting his shoulder.
His coup declaration yesterday must have infuriated Fugaku, a dove faction Uchiha, to the point where the man’s nose nearly crooked from rage.
Yet Fugaku had smiled and praised him.
That alone was suspicious.
There was a saying for this kind of thing: being so angry you laughed.
Yesterday, Fugaku Uchiha’s fury must have reached its peak, which was why he had smiled while praising him.
And the Shisui Uchiha standing before him had definitely been sent by Fugaku.
As for the purpose, Yuto was fairly certain it was not to guide him.
It was assassination.
Based on the scattered bits of Naruto plot he knew from his previous life, Fugaku Uchiha was an extremely cold-blooded man.
For the sake of the village, he had actually tolerated his own child slaughtering the entire clan.
In that case, sending Shisui to assassinate Yuto made perfect sense.
Someone had actually come to assassinate him.
This was…
Fantastic.
The moment he thought of returning to his original world with a cool hundred million after death, Yuto was overjoyed.
A smile immediately appeared on his face, and his tone toward Shisui became much warmer.
“Hey, Shisui.
Did you need something from me?”
Seeing a smile appear on Yuto’s face, Shisui’s nervousness faded a little.
He was not an Uchiha who was good at interacting with others.
It was only after he saw Yuto leave his house and greeted him that he realized how rude he had been.
He had come to visit someone else’s home empty-handed, without bringing a gift.
If this had been a hawk faction Uchiha, they probably would have snorted coldly and ignored him outright.
Yuto truly was just as Lord Fugaku had said, a good young man who inherited the Will of Fire.
He had not minded Shisui’s rudeness at all.
Not only that, he had even greeted him so warmly.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Shisui said,
“Yuto, Lord Fugaku assigned us to the same team.
We are responsible for patrolling the northwest side of the village.”
The northwest side of the village.
Hearing the area they were about to patrol, Yuto’s heart jolted.
There was a dense forest on the northwest side of the village.
There used to be a training ground there, but it had since been abandoned.
Aside from ruins, there were no other buildings in the area.
Because of that, almost no one went there on purpose.
The northwest forest of the village was an excellent assassination site.
That settled it.
Shisui had come to assassinate him.
As expected of Shisui Uchiha, a former Anbu.
He had found such a perfect place for assassination.
You have my respect, Shisui Uchiha.
With that thought, he nodded excitedly.
“Then what are we waiting for?
Let’s go.”
Yuto’s answer deeply moved Shisui.
There was no mistake.
Yuto really was an heir to the Will of Fire who cared deeply about the village.
The defenses around the northwest forest were lax.
It was exactly the kind of place where spies could slip in.
The area was clearly dangerous, yet Yuto did not care at all.
To protect the village as soon as possible, he was even urging Shisui to hurry up and patrol.
This bastard was about to make him cry.
The two walked together, and their surroundings grew quieter and darker with every step.
The dense forest blocked out the sunlight completely, leaving everything dim as night.
At some point, Yuto stopped seeing any passing villagers.
He and Shisui had already gone deep into the northwest forest.
The farther they went, the more obvious the smile on Yuto’s lips became.
Come on, Shisui Uchiha.
Hurry up and kill me.
I am just a little weakling, very easy to kill.
Just as Yuto was shouting in his heart, Shisui suddenly stopped behind him.
A faint scrape of metal rang out.
Shisui had drawn a weapon.
Yuto stopped and waited for him to attack.
He could not simply stand there and die.
He needed to go all out against Shisui’s attack.
Whoosh!
The sound of a kunai being thrown came from behind him.
On the right.
He spun around and slashed at the flying kunai with the weapon in his hand.
Clang!
Yuto’s ninja blade knocked the kunai away.
Before he could feel pleased, the deflected kunai made a wet sound, as if it had stabbed someone hidden in the grass.
While Yuto was still stunned, Shisui’s shout suddenly rang in his ears.
“Yuto, move!”
His body reacted instinctively.
He flashed to the side.
A wind blade tore through the afterimage he left behind, and a ninja dressed like a civilian from the Land of Fire leaped out of the grass.
The man clutched his chest, his face twisted in pain.
A kunai was stuck there.
This guy was clearly a spy.
Seeing the situation, Yuto understood what had happened.
Shisui had not been trying to attack him just now.
He had actually been attacking the spy hidden in the grass.
It was all his fault for being too impatient.
When he heard Shisui speak, he had immediately dodged.
Judging from the path of that wind blade, if he had not moved just now, his neck definitely would have been cut open.
Yuto gritted his teeth.
It was all this spy’s fault.
Couldn’t he predict Yuto’s movement a little better?
Could he at least aim properly?
With skill like this, how did he have the nerve to work as a spy?
Hatred rose in Yuto’s heart.
Holding his ninja blade, he charged forward and shouted viciously,
“Damn spy, can’t you aim a little better?”
Seeing Yuto charge at him, the spy hurriedly defended himself.
On top of that, he also had to keep an eye on Shisui, so he could not display even half his true ability.
Even Yuto, an apparent genin, could trade blows with him.
Still, weak was weak.
Before long, Yuto gradually fell into a disadvantage.
The more he fought, the more excited he became.
A bloodthirsty smile curled on his lips.
“Come on.
Come on, that’s it.
Attack me harder, damn spy!”
Shisui was stunned.
He could not imagine what level of love for the village would make Yuto hate a foreign spy this much.
No wonder he had knocked away Shisui’s thrown kunai earlier.
He had wanted to kill the spy who had been spying on Konoha with his own hands.
Yuto was the one who truly loved the village.
To personally kill the spy, he had even blocked Shisui’s attack.
But now, it looked like Yuto was falling behind.
Shisui could not just stand there and watch someone who loved the village this much die at the hands of a spy.
He charged at the enemy with the Body Flicker Technique, ready to save Yuto from his disadvantage.
When Yuto saw Shisui preparing to join the fight, panic surged through him.
Damn it, don’t come steal my enemy.
I was so close.
I was about to be defeated.
As long as he lost to the spy, he would have a chance to return to his original world.
To get himself killed before Shisui could interfere, Yuto ignored the wounds the enemy was leaving on him and attacked with everything he had.
Come on, come on.
Mr.
Spy, don’t you want to escape?
Then hurry up and kill me.
Yuto’s fighting grew more and more frenzied.
His ninja blade blurred in his hands.
The spy was frightened by his reckless momentum.
In a moment of carelessness, Yuto’s blade cut across his throat.
Blood sprayed out, and the man died on the spot.
Yuto stared at the fallen spy, dumbfounded.
It seemed he had missed his insurance payout again.
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