Chapter 439: Eye Technique

"Your eyes, I've taken them!"

His body hidden in the Kamui space, his right hand wielding a knife swept toward Shisui's waist, his left hand again placed on Shisui's shoulder.

As long as he traps Shisui in the Kamui space, the Mangekyō in the opponent's eye will be his to take.

Pfft!

A sound of a blade piercing flesh came, followed by a series of coughs from Shisui.

Cough cough cough!

Accompanied by the sharp coughing, a mouthful of bright red blood spurted from Shisui's mouth.

Not only did blood begin to spray from his mouth, but streams of bloody tears also flowed from his eyes, and his spirit instantly waned.

"What… just… happened?"

Lowering his head, looking at the ninja knife lodged in his own chest, Obito also spat a mouthful of blood, and with difficulty lifted his head to look toward Shisui.

"Why… would I…"

He didn't quite understand; he had clearly intended to plunge his own ninja knife into Shisui's heart, so why did he end up stabbing himself?

"This is my eye technique!"

Shisui turned his head, looking at the already dying Obito, panting as he explained.

"Eye technique…?"

"Really… extraordinary!"

After a difficult breath, Obito did not panic from the ninja knife in his chest; instead, he began to recall his recent change.

Just as his ninja knife was about to pierce Shisui, he suddenly recalled Lin's death, and a thought of having nothing left to live for welled up in his heart.

With a single thrust, he pierced his own heart, intending to join Lin in the Yellow Springs.

"Mm… hm…"

Moreover, this death-seeking thought still lingered in his heart, urging him to stir and pull the ninja knife in his hand sideways.

"Altering the opponent's will… what a terrifying eye technique!"

After a difficult assessment of Shisui, the crimson light flashed in Obito's left eye beneath his mask, then faded.

"You…"

Seeing Obito reappear before him unharmed, a look of surprise flashed in Shisui's eyes, then his expression turned grim.

"Izanagi!"

"Ah!" his venomous eyelids drooping: "Good thing I had prepared Izanagi in advance; otherwise… I would really die this time!"

After feeling his intact chest, Obito felt that standing beside Shisui wasn't safe enough, so he once again pulled back some distance.

The Izanagi in his left eye has been exhausted; if he gets hit by the opponent's eye technique again, he'll really be done for.

"Really being cautious!"

Seeing the opponent pull away, Shisui knew he likely faced more misfortune than fortune today.

Ignoring the opponent's presence, Shisui took out hemostatic spray, soldier's pills, blood-boosting pills, bandages, and the like from his ninja tool pouch, and began to treat his wounds himself.

It seemed he had no guard against Obito at all.

"Really reckless!"

Watching Shisui busy there, Obito was very torn.

He wanted to go up and kill Shisui, but feared being hit by his eye technique, and for a moment he hesitated.

But retreating like this left him feeling unwilling.

"If you keep hesitating like that, I'll just leave!"

After treating his wounds, Shisui had no intention of continuing to stare down the opponent.

Because he had already heard faint footsteps in the distance; judging by their density, they were likely Danzo's men.

If his current condition were to be surrounded again by the enemy, it would truly be the end.

Having realized this, Shisui turned and left directly, not minding at all that this would expose his back to the enemy.

"Obito, you're just going to watch Shisui leave like that?"

Bai Jue emerged from beside Obito, watching Shisui disappear into the night, and turned his head with some confusion toward Obito.

"……"

What if we don't let him leave? Should we go up and entangle with him, only to be taken out by his eye technique?

Just thinking about the terrifying consequences of being hit by his eye technique, Obito's beating heart involuntarily clenched, as if the pain from being pierced by his own ninja knife just now had not faded.

"Bai Jue, follow behind Shisui, leave traces along the way, and let Danzo's people deal with him!"

Letting him escape like this is obviously impossible, but Shisui's eyes are simply too dangerous; he cannot be allowed to live.

Moreover, Danzo must not be allowed to obtain his eyes; at the very least, we must not let him have both eyes.

……

"Already at the limit!"

Disordered footsteps, the wound under his left rib bursting open again, his chakra exhausted, even his vision began to blur faintly.

As for the Sharingan, with chakra and mental strength exhausted, it could no longer be maintained.

Shisui looked at the 'companions' surrounding him, seeming to have given up resistance.

"Shisui Uchiha, give up resistance!" Danzo stood before him: "This way, the power in your eyes can still create value for the Leaf Village."

In Shisui's eyes, the former brightness and vigor were gone, turned dim and lusterless, like a dust-covered black pearl.

Therefore, he dared to meet Shisui's gaze head-on.

"Why aren't you a high-ranking official of the Leaf Village? Why do you covet the power of the Uchiha, and moreover, all these years you have harbored malice toward the Uchiha?"

Looking at the blurry figure before him, Shisui never understood why the other party was so hostile toward the Uchiha.

His own family had countless ninja who sacrificed for the Leaf Village—his father, uncles, and the ninja of the Military Police Force; most of them died for the Leaf in the successive Ninja World Wars.

Is this still not enough for them to accept the Uchiha Clan?

Why… do they harbor malice toward the Uchiha?

Hearing Shisui's question, Danzo staggered slightly, then his whole mind sank into memories.

At first… it seemed to be because of his teacher's instructions; the Second Hokage, while making the monkey become Hokage, also gave him a task, telling him to keep a close watch on the Uchiha Clan.

Later, it was due to political considerations; the Uchiha Clan had always wanted to return to the village's core, but the core positions were limited—if they added another Uchiha, who would have to step out?

Moreover, the Uchiha's power was too great, so they—those who had formed an alliance and occupied all the high positions in the Leaf—jointly decided to suppress the Uchiha Clan, pushing them out of the center of power.

And he was the best choice for carrying out the suppression and exclusion of the Uchiha.

Gradually, this suppression also became a habit, a form of political capital—until… that night, when the Nine-Tails' seal broke and Yuzhibo Dongshilang appeared.

Then came Shisui, and Izanagi.

These things brought about today's outcome.

"These don't matter anymore!"