Chapter 19: Parting is for a Better Meeting

Uchiha Gin, who had rushed over, looked at the two kids' operations with a strange expression. It wasn't until Senju Itama was about to pass out that he reminded them.

If Uzumaki Mito played this Senju kid to death, he would have to follow suit.

"Ah! You're back? How is my brother?"

Seeing that the person who came was Uchiha Gin, the girl threw away the branch in her hand, circled him twice, and then reached out to touch him all over.

"You're not hurt at all. Did you not go?"

Uchiha Gin extended a finger and flicked the forehead of the chattering girl.

"Ouch, what are you doing?"

Holding her red and swollen forehead, Uzumaki Mito said with tears in her eyes.

【Men and women should not touch, except for older sisters in black silk】

Ignoring the girl's nonsense, he pulled out the black-red bead that was still trembling and handed it over.

The girl, still with tears in her eyes, was dumbfounded when she saw it, and couldn't even speak clearly,

"You... you actually succeeded?"

Even without using perception, Uzumaki Mito could distinguish from the aura emitted by the bead that her eldest brother, Uzumaki Hanado, was sealed inside.

"How do you plan to deal with him?"

The girl, pouting, asked nervously. She really didn't expect her brother to actually lose to this unreliable Uchiha in front of her.

Although her talent could perceive that the other party was definitely not an evil person, sometimes the conflict of camps was above human nature.

Squinting, Uchiha Gin rubbed the bead in his hand for a few times, and without thinking, threw the bead in his hand to her amidst the girl's worried expression.

"Uh?"

Uzumaki Mito, who hurriedly caught the bead, looked at Uchiha Gin in disbelief,

"Are you just giving it back to me so casually? My brother is an important figure in the Uzumaki clan. If you hand him over to your clan, you will definitely get a generous reward."

"Little kid with big thoughts."

Uchiha Gin looked at the girl in front of him. Although following her suggestion and going back would definitely lead to being arranged clearly by the clan leader, this would forge an irreconcilable feud with the Uzumaki clan.

"As the saying goes, 'More friends, more paths; more enemies, more walls.' In case I can't make it in the Uchiha clan in the future, I can still find you to take me in."

Uchiha Gin rolled his dead-fish eyes and said indifferently.

After hearing this, Uzumaki Mito looked at him with a strange expression. First, she put the bead back into her bag, then walked to Uchiha Gin's side and took his left hand.

Uchiha Gin, who was suddenly grabbed by a hand by the girl, was a bit stunned. He found that the hand she was holding was emitting blue light. Just as he wanted to pull it out, the girl stopped him,

"Don't move, I'll use the Uzumaki clan's secret technique to place a chakra mark on you. In case you really have nowhere to go, you can seek help from the Uzumaki clan with this mark."

Just as the girl was seriously performing the technique, she was caught off guard and bounced away by a burst of powerful red light.

"What's going on, how could it fail?"

The girl, interrupted by a strange force, leaned over again, grabbed Uchiha Gin's left hand and checked it repeatedly, but even using perception, she didn't find any clues.

It actually failed? Uchiha Gin pulled his left hand, clenched his fist, and tested it repeatedly. He didn't feel any discomfort. Maybe the girl wasn't proficient in using the secret technique yet,

"If it really doesn't work, change hands? Or feet are fine too?"

Uchiha Gin made a gesture to extend a foot, scaring Uzumaki Mito into grabbing his right hand and doing it again. This time it went very smoothly.

As a cool feeling entered his left hand, Uchiha Gin saw a swirl-shaped mark appear on the back of his right hand. It was the Uzumaki clan's emblem, which disappeared after a few seconds.

"What are your plans next?"

Uchiha Gin, who had been branded with the Uzumaki clan's mark, lowered his head and stared at the girl's two swaying buns and asked.

"My brother's seal can only be undone by my father. I've been out playing for so long, it's time to go back."

Knowing the importance of her brother to the family, even if she wanted to continue wandering the world, she had no way to stay out any longer.

"Then we part here?"

Uchiha Gin, raising his eyebrows, said.

"In the world of martial arts, one cannot help oneself."

Uzumaki Mito made a grown-up face and sighed seriously.

"Uh... you're happy."

Uchiha Gin, with black lines all over his head, waved goodbye to Uzumaki Mito, who was carrying a huge burden again.

At parting, the girl, who had walked a few steps away, stopped and tilted her head in a 45-degree angle, saying with wandering eyes,

"Mr. Human Trafficker, we will meet again, right!"

"Definitely."

Uchiha Gin, who knew the girl's future fate, nodded without hesitation.

"Oh."

Hearing this, the girl turned her head, the corners of her mouth slightly raised behind her back, and she walked toward home with brisk steps.

Watching Uzumaki Mito's departing back, Uchiha Gin turned and returned to the cave, kicking the unlucky little brother Senju Itama, who was lying on the ground with his eyes closed,

"Don't pretend to be dead, little brother, it's time for us to go too."

Senju Itama, who was exposed, opened his eyes helplessly, his eyes full of pleading.

"As long as you guarantee not to talk nonsense on the road ahead, I'll take out the sock."

Uchiha Gin, who understood what the other party meant, said.

The kid nodded repeatedly, his tears almost rushing out.

Taking the smelly sock out of his mouth, Senju Itama greedily breathed the fresh air, then, as if remembering something terrifying, began to curl up and retch wildly.

After waiting for this kid to vomit until he almost had no bile left, Uchiha Gin picked him up and started to rendezvous with Uchiha Liang Yi and the others' battlefield.

Walking like the wind on the way, he was a completely different person from when he was panting while carrying this kid at the beginning,

"The Uzumaki clan's bloodline is really practical, worthy of being the clan that inherited the Sage Body in the original work."

Feeling the explosive power and majestic chakra contained in his body, Uchiha Gin sighed in his heart.

"Ding! Mission to save the Uchiha Fenghuo squad in a desperate situation successful, obtained 50 points, 4 random orbs."

The sudden prompt made Uchiha Gin, who hadn't arrived yet, pause. He hadn't arrived yet, so how was the mission completed?

Without stopping, he rushed toward the battlefield as if his feet were born with wind.

By the time Uchiha Gin arrived carrying Senju Itama, only the people from the Uchiha squad remained at the scene.

Uchiha Fenghuo was on guard, Uchiha He was bandaging Uchiha Liang Yi's injured arm, and Uchiha Da Lang didn't have any serious skin injuries and was meditating to recover chakra on the side.

"Uchiha Gin! You're still alive?"

Uchiha Liang Yi, who learned from Uchiha Fenghuo that Uchiha Gin chose to drag down Uzumaki Hanado, couldn't help but open his Sharingan to scan when he saw the other party appear in front of them unscathed.

"Just lucky."

Uchiha Gin replied. Now he was also very curious about how the battle ended. There were no Uzumaki clan corpses at the scene,

"Where are the people from the Uzumaki clan?"

"That long-haired Uzumaki clansman seemed to perceive something during the battle and suddenly erupted with a weird ability." Uchiha Da Lang opened his eyes and explained.

"What's weird?" He was a bit curious.

"He suddenly rose up, and many chakra-cast chains emerged from his body, which were very difficult to deal with, but the other party didn't seem to want to fight, and took the opportunity to roll up the injured Uzumaki clansmen and flee."

Uchiha Fenghuo walked over and continued to explain.

"Gin, how did you escape?"

Uchiha Fenghuo, who had fought Uzumaki Hanado head-on, knew very well that with Uchiha Gin's strength, he would be blasted into slag by the other party in one encounter.

But looking at Uchiha Gin, who was not only unscathed but in excellent condition, he felt more doubt than relief in his heart.

"That Uzumaki clansman didn't want my life; his main goal was his sister. It just so happened that the girl I caught was his sister. I told him that when I escaped for the first time, I hid his sister in a hidden place, and cast a genjutsu on her. If he didn't say the corresponding password, she would die on the spot."

Uchiha Gin calmly told the excuse he had thought of on the way.

"And then he let you go?"

"That's right!"

"The Uzumaki clan is really as stubborn as the legends say!"

Uchiha Fenghuo recalled the reputation of the Uzumaki clan and couldn't help but complain.

"Alright, from now on, rush with all your strength, try to reach the clan land tomorrow!"

Uchiha Fenghuo waved his hand and ordered.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 20 =====