Chapter 231: Who’s the Ant?

Chapter 231: Chapter 231: Who’s the Ant?

Looking at the exhausted Uchiha brothers, who nevertheless still wore expressions as though victory was already in their grasp, a smile appeared on Hyuga Kagami’s face.

Then, slowly, he raised his hands and began forming seals.

At that very instant, both Uchiha Hideki and Uchiha Ryota felt an ominous premonition rise within their hearts.

Yet neither of them could understand why they would have such an absurd feeling.

In the minds of the two brothers, there was no one in the entire shinobi world capable of simultaneously standing against two Uchiha who possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan.

No one!

Suppressing the unease in his heart, Uchiha Ryota roared, "Stop wasting your strength! Why is it that you damned ants refuse to obediently crawl beneath the feet of us Uchiha?! Is it really so difficult to accept your own insignificant existence and kneel before the noble Uchiha?!"

Whoosh...

A gentle, sky-blue chakra surged out from Hyuga Kagami’s body.

In an instant, having completed his hand seals, he entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode!

"Want to know why?"

Hyuga Kagami slowly floated into the air.

Looking down upon the Uchiha brothers from above, he said indifferently,

"That’s because you never figured out...

"who the gods are—

"and who the ants are!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, Hyuga Kagami gently clenched his right hand.

In an instant, two Truth-Seeking Balls flew out from the center of his brow and converged above his right hand.

They transformed into a dazzling golden sword—

blazing as fiercely as the sun itself!

The golden sword radiated brilliant light in every direction, instantly driving away the surrounding darkness and turning the deep night into dazzling daylight!

"This...!?"

Uchiha Hideki and Uchiha Ryota stared blankly at Hyuga Kagami in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, then at the radiant golden sword in his hand.

As jōnin of the Uchiha Clan, the two brothers were no ignorant fools who couldn’t recognize true power.

Moreover, they had only just awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, giving them an understanding of the different levels of power far beyond that of ordinary shinobi.

And precisely because of that, they understood perfectly well—

the Hyuga Kagami before them was no ordinary shinobi!

They could also vaguely sense that the "Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion," formed from the two Truth-Seeking Balls in Hyuga Kagami’s hand, contained a terrifying power capable of threatening even their Susanoo!

Faced with this sudden turn of events, Uchiha Hideki shouted, "Y-You can’t possibly be a shinobi from the village! There’s no one this powerful in the village! Just who the hell are you?! And why do you know so many secrets of the Uchiha Clan?!"

Before Uchiha Hideki could even finish speaking—

Whoosh!

Hyuga Kagami vanished from the air!

Uchiha Hideki’s expression changed drastically. Just as he was about to command his Susanoo to attack, a dazzling golden light suddenly poured down from above his head!

"He flew above me?!"

It wasn’t until the brilliant golden light had already engulfed his entire body that Uchiha Hideki finally realized what had happened.

BOOM...!

At the same moment the golden light descended, a deafening explosion thundered into Uchiha Hideki’s ears!

Only then did Uchiha Hideki, exhausted and weakened to his absolute limit, barely manage to raise his head.

But the moment he looked up, he witnessed a scene that left him utterly stunned!

Susanoo!

The mighty dōjutsu that could only be unleashed after awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan!

The dōjutsu Uchiha Hideki had placed all his faith in—the power he had believed would guarantee their victory!

Yet at this very moment, beneath Hyuga Kagami’s dazzling golden sword, it couldn’t offer even the slightest resistance.

Accompanied by a series of cracking sounds—

Crack! Crack! Crack!

It was cleaved cleanly in two!

"H-How... How is this possible!?"

What shattered along with the Susanoo was Uchiha Hideki’s absolute confidence in his Mangekyo Sharingan!

When he had awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, Uchiha Hideki had felt omnipotent.

He had believed himself to be a demigod of the shinobi world, one foot already planted within the realm of the gods—a divine being descended upon the mortal world, capable of commanding the wind and rain at will.

But as his Susanoo shattered before his eyes, he suddenly realized...

perhaps he was still nothing more than the prisoner who had suffered endless torment inside that cell—

a prisoner who couldn’t even choose whether he lived or died.

Whoosh...

The sharp sound of something tearing through the air suddenly rang beside Uchiha Hideki’s ears!

Still somewhat dazed, Uchiha Hideki had only just snapped back to his senses when he discovered that Hyuga Kagami had already closed in on him.

There were barely three or four meters between them!

Uchiha Hideki’s face changed drastically as he stammered,

"You..."

The word "you" had barely left Uchiha Hideki’s mouth when his voice abruptly cut off.

An inexplicable force seized his entire body and dragged him through the air toward Hyuga Kagami!

Hyuga Kagami casually raised a hand and seized Uchiha Hideki by the throat.

Without the slightest hesitation, he swiftly and cleanly plucked the pair of Mangekyo Sharingan straight from Uchiha Hideki’s eye sockets!

Then, he tossed Uchiha Hideki aside and placed the newly acquired Mangekyo Sharingan into a small nutrient tank he had prepared beforehand.

"AAARGH!"

Only after Hyuga Kagami had finished everything did Uchiha Hideki’s agonized scream finally erupt!

By now, Uchiha Ryota was also staring in utter shock.

From the moment Hyuga Kagami made his move to the moment Uchiha Hideki’s Mangekyo Sharingan were taken, the entire sequence had lasted only a few seconds.

It had simply happened too fast—

far too suddenly!

Even now, Uchiha Ryota was still wondering whether he had fallen under a genjutsu.

Was what he had just witnessed real...

or merely an illusion?!

At that moment, after slipping the small nutrient tank containing Uchiha Hideki’s Mangekyo Sharingan into the ninja pouch at his waist, Hyuga Kagami turned his head and looked toward the bewildered Uchiha Ryota.

Despite succeeding in a single strike, there wasn’t the slightest hint of smugness on Hyuga Kagami’s face.

The moment he had attacked, he had already noticed that Uchiha Hideki’s reaction speed and perceptive abilities had both deteriorated to nearly the level of a chūnin.

Although the utterly exhausted Uchiha Hideki possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan in his eye sockets, his physical condition was already so poor that he couldn’t bring out even one-tenth of the Mangekyo Sharingan’s true power.

He had nearly even lost the most basic perceptive ability expected of a dōjutsu Kekkei Genkai shinobi. During the battle, his entire consciousness had constantly drifted between lucidity and delirium.

Therefore, Hyuga Kagami’s success wasn’t truly because he was overwhelmingly powerful.

Rather, Uchiha Hideki had already been reduced to nothing more than an empty shell.

All it took was the slightest push...

and he collapsed.

Watching Hyuga Kagami walk toward him, Uchiha Ryota asked in fear, "Just what the hell are you... a man or a monster?!"

Hyuga Kagami didn’t lower his guard in the slightest. He replied indifferently, "Weren’t you calling yourself a god just a moment ago?"

Clutching the Kusanagimaru that Hyuga Kagami had deliberately left behind earlier, Uchiha Ryota roared, desperately trying to hide his fear behind his fury, "Give my brother’s Mangekyo Sharingan back to us!"

As he spoke, two streams of bloody tears flowed from Uchiha Ryota’s eyes.

At the same time, his Mangekyo Sharingan began to distort!

Realizing that Uchiha Ryota was about to activate the unique dōjutsu of his Mangekyo Sharingan, Hyuga Kagami didn’t dare take him lightly.

He lunged toward Uchiha Ryota while simultaneously activating Wheel of Will, dragging Uchiha Ryota straight toward himself...