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Chapter 441 The Night of Extermination Under the Control of Kotoamatsukami

Uchiha clan territory, main gate.

Dozens of torches burned the night sky red, illuminating the shadow of the round fan on the clan emblem.

Two hawkish elders, Uchiha Inahashi and Uchiha Hachidai, led dozens of Uchiha ninjas to block the entrance, their scarlet eyes shining frighteningly in the darkness.

Opposite him, Danzo stood with his hands behind his back, with Root assassins dressed in identical animal masks behind him.

"Shimura Danzo, are you still dreaming? What nonsense are you spouting? I pledge my allegiance to you!"

Uchiha Inahi drew her sword, the tip pointing directly at the other side. "You led your troops into the Uchiha clan's territory in the dead of night. Are you trying to start a war?"

Danzo did not answer, but simply walked forward slowly.

"Halt! Take another step forward, and you will be killed on sight!"

However, Danzo did not stop.

The Eighth Hokage of Uchiha laughed in fury: "Fine, so this is the Root of Konoha. Since you insist on tearing off the mask, we'll see it through to the end! Everyone, prepare—"

Before he could utter the word "take action," Danzo suddenly raised his head.

In that instant, everyone's gaze froze.

Danzo's eyes transformed into scarlet Sharingan, the lines spinning rapidly and converging into a bizarre windmill-like pattern.

"That's... a kaleidoscope!"

"Impossible! How could Danzo possibly have the Sharingan!"

"Whose eyes did he gouge out?"

Exclamations rose and fell, and the Uchiha clan was thrown into disarray.

Uchiha Inahi was the first to react, shouting angrily, "Danzo, what did you do to Uchiha Momoshiki?"

Danzo said, "Uchiha Mamoru? I didn't do anything to him. These eyes aren't his."

"Whose is that?" The Eighth Elder had no idea that Shisui had awakened his eyes, let alone that another genius had appeared in the junior high school. Unfortunately, Danzo didn't give him a chance to continue asking. He raised his hands, interlocked his fingers, and his kaleidoscope eyes spun rapidly, unleashing a surge of immense ocular power.

He spoke again, repeating the same sentence, but this time in a definitive statement.

"Gentlemen, pledge your allegiance to me!"

Kotoamatsukami activated!

An invisible genjutsu wave spread outwards from Danzo, like an invisible net, enveloping most of the Uchiha clan members.

The person enveloped instantly became vacant, Danzo's shadow reflected in his three-tomoe Sharingan, and something was being forcibly rewritten deep within his pupils.

"Oh no, he's using illusion magic to control our people!"

Uchiha Inahisa bit the tip of her tongue, using the pain to resist the erosion of her eye power.

He was the strongest and most determined among the hawkish elders. His three-tomoe Sharingan spun wildly as he barely managed to maintain his consciousness, but the others were not so lucky.

The dozen or so Jonin closest to Danzo were completely dazed, their bodies trembling slightly, as if they were experiencing a silent storm.

Just then, the space behind Danzo suddenly distorted.

A vortex appeared out of thin air, and an orange mask emerged from it. A scarlet Sharingan pierced through the hole in the mask, locking onto Danzo.

"Oh dear, I can't let you succeed!"

Obito Uchiha raised his hand, and the same immense power of his eyes surged forth, colliding head-on with the genjutsu fluctuations of Kotoamatsukami.

As the eye powers canceled each other out, Shimura Danzo's spiritual quality and quantity were both defeated. His body shuddered violently, and the coverage of Kotoamatsukami was forcibly compressed, ultimately only covering a few people in the front row.

"It's you." Shimura Danzo took a step back, blood streaming from his eyes. He stared at the masked man wearing an orange mask, his face filled with astonishment.

But he quickly turned to the Uchiha group and said, "There really is something between us. You still say these aren't people from your clan?"

At this moment, Shimura Danzo was secretly delighted. He had been worried about not finding any evidence against the Uchiha clan, but now someone had handed him a pillow just when he was dozing off. This time, even if the matter was brought up to the whole village, he would still be in the right.

At this moment, Obito Uchiha said, "Long time no see, old man Danzo."

His tone was as relaxed as if he were greeting an old friend, "You're still as insidious as ever, even trying to steal the eyes of your own people."

He then turned to the Uchiha clan, his voice suddenly rising: "Wake up, all of you! You were almost controlled by this old man! As for the origin of those eyes—"

Obito Uchiha raised his hand, and a scene appeared in his palm: Danzo setting a trap, using poison and a barrier to ambush Shisui, and gouging out his eyes.

"Stop the water!"

"Danzo killed Shisui!"

"You beast! He killed Shisui and gouged out his eyes!"

An angry roar erupted within the Uchiha ranks. Uchiha Inahime's eyes widened in fury, his three-tomoe Sharingan blazing with intense killing intent: "Shimura Danzo, today it's either you or me who dies!"

Danzo's face darkened completely.

He didn't look at Uchiha Inahi, but stared intently at Obito: "The mastermind behind the Nine-Tails' rampage, an S-rank rogue ninja on the wanted list. I never imagined he'd be hiding within the Uchiha clan all this time, daring to claim I'm on the side of justice!"

Danzo sneered, his voice suddenly rising: "My fellow Konoha colleagues, you've all seen it clearly! The Uchiha clan colluded with the Nine-Tails' mastermind to plot a coup! The evidence is irrefutable!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

A young Uchiha clansman stepped forward to refute him. Before he could finish speaking, the Eighth Hokage of Uchiha suddenly raised his hand, and a kunai flew out, accurately piercing the young man's heart.

Blood splattered.

The young Uchiha clansman lowered his head in disbelief, staring at the kunai in his chest, before slowly collapsing to the ground.

"Eighth Elder, what are you doing!"

"Uchiha Hachimoku, you're insane!"

Before the exclamations had even subsided, something even stranger happened. The Uchiha clan members who had just been enveloped by Kotoamatsukami suddenly began to move as if a switch had been flipped.

They were expressionless, their eyes vacant, as they drew their weapons and swung them without hesitation at their relatives and friends.

"Stop! It's me! I'm your brother!"

"No—!" Screams echoed one after another.

A controlled Jonin severed his brother's head with a single strike, blood gushing out and staining his face red, but his expression remained unchanged.

A chunin lunged at his wife, gripping her neck tightly with both hands until she stopped struggling.

A low-ranking ninja bit through his mother's throat, knelt on the ground, and mechanically gnawed at her.

In fact, not many people were controlled, less than half. Most of them were only one-tomoe or two-tomoe, and a small number of three-tomoe who were very close to Danzo were controlled.

However, those controlled by illusions could not withstand the deadly attacks, and those who were not controlled ultimately faced their beloved family and friends.

Not all Uchiha were filial sons who dared to turn against their parents, relatives, brothers, and sisters. However, in the end, they all died at the hands of the people they loved most.