Chapter 227: The Slacking Itachi x The Transparent World Shows Its Power
The white short sword, wreathed in Lightning attribute Chakra, shone brightly... so blinding that one couldn't open their eyes...
Shisui and Itachi were nearby, fighting back their curiosity, wanting to look but afraid of being punished by Roy. While hesitating, Shisui took a peek, and two more stones bounced out of the basket.
"Two thousand more each."
A faint voice came over. It was understandable for his silly little brothers to be curious and excited, but... their focus on practicing the sword was still lacking.
Roy coldly dropped those words, faced the lightning and White Fang, and looked deeply at the man in front of him. As one of the "Eight Colors of Konoha", like the "Yellow Flash" Minato Namikaze, the higher-ups of various ninja villages had long instructed their ninjas...
If they encountered them, they could abandon the mission directly without punishment, showing... how powerful the man in front of him was. Not to mention the descriptions in the Character Data Book and Formation Data Book: one saying "the Sannin are but hazy existences in front of Konoha's White Fang, Sakumo Hatake", and the other explicitly stating "the skill of Konoha's White Fang, Sakumo Hatake, surpasses that of the Sannin."
Facing such a figure...
Roy slowly drew the Asauchi as it vibrated with excitement... until it let out another sharp sword cry...
The boy's black hair moved without wind, the sword tip pointing straight at Sakumo Hatake's throat, and he said slowly, "Should I say it's my honor, Uncle White Fang?"
"At least if Father found out, he might scold me for not respecting you enough."
"Daring to draw your sword against me is the greatest respect you can show me." Sakumo Hatake held his sword in one hand. The Lightning Style coursed through it, a sliver leaking from the tip, which instantly poked a hole in the ground.
This scene reminded Roy of someone: a child with medium-length blond hair, pure and kind-hearted, cowardly and negative in personality, terrified of dying alone, but who, when nervous to the extreme, would fall asleep into a semi-awakened state, thereby wielding lightning to kill his senior disciple and avenge his grandfather... Zenitsu Agatsuma!
"Here I come." A sudden flash of lightning pierced through... accompanied by a gentle warning...
With "White Fang" in hand, Sakumo Hatake turned into lightning. Using [Lightning Style] to drastically stimulate his muscles and increase his speed, he flashed right in front of Roy, swinging a fast slash toward his chest!
The man clearly held back on this strike. If he were facing an enemy instead of Roy, this slash wouldn't just be aimed at the chest, but... at the neck!
"So fast!" A great battle was imminent. Shisui swore he wasn't intentionally disobeying Nii-san. The blood-red color surfaced in his pupils as he immediately activated his Sharingan to try and capture Sakumo Hatake's movements. However, the man was too fast—so fast that Shisui could only see a trace of Lightning attribute Chakra flash by before he was out of his line of sight. His hand couldn't help but tremble, and two more stones fell to the ground. "Itachi, another two thousand!"
"Dividing your attention, boy, you're not focused enough either." Sakumo Hatake's words followed closely after Roy's.
But then, a crisp "Ding~" was heard...
As the sound of clashing metal passed, Roy had struck later but arrived first, blocking vertically with his sword. He perfectly blocked Sakumo Hatake's strike and said calmly, "Uncle White Fang worries too much, I can still manage."
The clash took only a breath... sword against sword, man against man. Shisui noticed a cold feeling from the back of his head; it was Itachi looking at him. He opened his mouth to say sorry, but unexpectedly... Itachi just threw away all the stones in his basket and sat down cross-legged, quietly acting as a spectator on the side.
"Shisui, add ten thousand!"
Solar Eclipse vibrated, turned red, ignited, and then violently burst into a cluster of Sun Flames, forcing White Fang back in an instant!
Roy looked expressionlessly at Sakumo Hatake, not even turning his head as he spoke... Shisui looked at Itachi, then at the sword in his own hand, and the basket hanging from it, and simply copied Itachi's slacking, sitting down cross-legged next to him...
Today, he didn't plan on walking home, even if his arms were tired to the point of dislocation, he couldn't miss this... "swordsmanship" contest that he might never see again in his life!
Whoosh~ The rising flames even outshone the bright sun overhead!
With White Fang in hand and enhanced by Lightning Style, Sakumo Hatake also erupted with a blinding electric light!
Looking down from high above, the clash of red and white, the battle of auras, had already frightened away the birds in the forest, who couldn't avoid it fast enough. "Fire Style... and not just ordinary fire."
The fact that the boy could destroy the Ninja Academy wall with a Fireball Jutsu the day before yesterday showed his Fire Style attainment was quite extraordinary, which Sakumo Hatake had anticipated.
But now... what truly surprised him was—
The strike he had initiated just now, even though he deliberately held back, was still blocked by Roy's subsequent move, and... without him activating the Sharingan. Sakumo Hatake gripped White Fang tightly and smiled... a very happy smile...
This was only the second time he had failed to defeat an opponent with a single strike. The first time... was when Kazuya blocked that slash for him back in the day.
Sizzle~ More electric light was injected, White Fang flashing with white light. A gust of wind blew, swaying Sakumo Hatake's white hair... The man stared fiercely at Roy, held White Fang in a reverse grip, narrowed his eyes, and asked, "You're not activating the Sharingan?"
The Uchiha's most powerful weapon, the Sharingan, not only possessed powerful abilities like observation, copying, and hypnosis. The wielder also possessed superhuman insight, able to observe Chakra flow, cast and see through Genjutsu, and copy Taijutsu and non-Kekkei Genkai Ninjutsu.
By not activating his eyes, Roy was giving up his greatest advantage as an Uchiha.
"We're comparing swords, not eyes."
"Moreover," the boy held the sword in one hand, twirled a beautiful sword flourish, and then looked at Sakumo Hatake. His eyes fwoosh ignited into two great suns. In that instant, he was both Jin Uchiha and Eiichiro Kamado, carrying two worlds on his shoulders. He stepped forward in his geta...
It was like the New Year, returning to the Demon Slayer world, to that mountain, that small courtyard, that heavy snowfall, and his barefoot dancing father Tanjuro, and his brother Tanjiro... while his sister Nezuko, mother Kie, two brothers Takeo and Shigeru, and youngest sister Hanako snuggled in their grandmother's arms...
As the heavy snow fell, keeping up with their father's rhythm, dancing the "Hinokami Kagura" together to celebrate the New Year. Roy gripped the sword in a reverse grip again, suddenly blowing a long stream of vapor from his nose, and said with a hint of infinite memories and tenderness, "I have the 'Sword Eye', I don't need the Sharingan."
[Eye of Revelation], open!
The eyes, born from the [Transparent World], bloomed with a scorching red glow... A delicate gray suddenly spread from under Roy's feet... spreading... and spreading...
Until it submerged Sakumo Hatake, along with Shisui and Itachi. When they recovered their senses and looked around to measure the world, the surrounding green trees, bluestones, flying birds, white clouds, and clear breeze... had all vanished...
It was as if, at this moment, the entire world had completely lost all its colors, leaving only Roy and the three of them, isolated and excluded from the world...
Sakumo Hatake: "..."
Shisui: "..."
Itachi: "..."
For a moment, they were all rendered speechless.
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