Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

Chapter 53 Lost Memories: Naïve Talk-no-Jack

At the entrance of the clan leader's residence, the Kaguya clan members, who were being controlled by Uchiha Hikaru, stood with blank stares. Following the girl's orders, they lined up in an orderly fashion, waiting for the battle outside the clan to end.

The girl was still a bit clumsy at releasing eight thousand spears at so many people for the first time. The absorbed chakra had nowhere to go, making her head dizzy and disoriented.

"Give me your excess chakra."

Seeing the girl's adorable, tipsy appearance, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but chuckle and made a suggestion.

Knowing that Uchiha Gin wanted to help him share the burden, Uchiha Hikaru activated his Mangekyou Sharingan. A flash of blue light appeared, and a surge of powerful chakra slowly emanated from the mark left when he used the combination technique.

Nourished by chakra, Uchiha Gin's body, which had been weakened by using the Mangekyou Sharingan, was fully revived as if he had been injected with adrenaline.

"Thank you, Gin."

Uchiha Hikaru smiled faintly, her slightly flushed face showing a hint of shyness, while her aunt looked at the two of them with a maternal smile.

Uchiha Gin, unsure how to respond, was still trying to find the right words, but he had only uttered half a sentence when…

"Xiao Guang, you're being too polite with me, Ning."

"Hmm"

Suddenly, the girl, who had been blushing shyly just a moment ago, suddenly unleashed a terrifying aura from her frail body.

His clear eyes were quickly shrouded in a layer of black mist, and the powerful pressure emanating from his body made the people around Uchiha Hikaru hold their breath.

Sensing something was wrong, Uchiha Gin was about to step forward when, just as he raised his hand, a strong agitation suddenly emanated from the mark on the back of his hand, causing him to involuntarily stop.

Having lost control of his body, Uchiha Gin felt his chakra rapidly dissipating. Unable to speak, he struggled to move his eyes.

Only then did he realize that, besides himself, Uchiha Tajima's wife had also been marked at some point, and was having her chakra extracted while her eyes were glazed over.

But this wasn't the most terrifying scene. As the black aura spread from the girl's eyes, the consciousness of the Kaguya clan members who had been controlled by her began to recover.

"What's going on?"

Kaguya Sousuke, having regained consciousness, looked at his clansmen with suspicion and uncertainty. Their last memory of being trapped by the black flames was the red full moon rising in the sky.

"Elder, I can't move!"

Kaguya Takuya, who had been following Kaguya Sosuke, also regained consciousness. He found himself as if he had been frozen in place, unable to move an inch.

"Me too!"

"Me too!"

The other members of the Kaguya clan who had awakened spoke up one after another.

The only girl who could move in the room glanced at the people around her with her lifeless eyes, and finally fixed her gaze on the Kaguya clan surrounded by black flames.

With a flick of her eyelids, Black Flame obediently opened a gap, and the bewitching patterns in her eyes began to slowly rotate. With the enhancement of her pupil power, the Kaguya clan members she controlled found that their bodies, which had been unable to move, began to move involuntarily.

A Kaguya clansman conjured a white, bone-like blade from his palm. With a look of utter terror, he swung it down, cleaving his colleague in two. Crimson liquid splattered all over him.

"No!!!"

The Kaguya clansman he had killed was his own younger brother. Before he could even grieve, he looked down at the bone blade protruding from his chest, blood gushing into his lungs. Unable to speak, he collapsed onto his brother's corpse.

"!!!"

Under control, Uchiha Gin could only watch helplessly as the massacre unfolded. Members of the Kaguya clan wept, cursed, and brandished their weapons, killing each other in a bloodbath.

"Elder Cangjie! No!"

Compared to the formidable physical strength of ordinary Kaguya clan members, Kaguya Takuya, who awakened the mutated Byakugan, had only average physical abilities. Without the Shikotsumyaku (Corpse Bone Pulse), he was naturally no match for the other clan members with his bare hands.

Especially Kaguya Sosuke, who was like a hedgehog in front of him, had pierced him through the heart in just one glance.

【Corpse Bone Pulse: Dance of the Willow】

"Don't blame me, Takuya."

Controlled, Kaguya Sousuke was unable to stop himself from slaughtering his own kind and could only watch helplessly as Kaguya Takuya, who trusted him greatly, died under his Shikotsu-pair.

"Evil Uchiha! I will tear you to pieces!"

Kaguya Sosuke grows bone spurs all over her body, trying to regain control of her body through intense pain.

"To be able to do that is truly terrifying."

The old man, who had been watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but sigh as he watched the girl control the Kaguya clan to kill each other.

Previously at the research institute, he used the ability of the Mirage to possess the girl, injecting many negative emotions into her mind and leaving a pupil technique in her brain.

He could activate his pupil technique anytime, anywhere, to unleash the girl's negative emotions and turn her into a weapon in his hands.

"Why...why are you doing this to me!"

At this moment, Uchiha Hikaru's mind was filled with images of being tortured, imprisoned, and studied by his clansmen.

In this memory, there is no Uchiha Gin. After awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan, he was treated as a merciless weapon by his clan and used indiscriminately.

The dark aura in the girl's eyes intensified with the fluctuations of her emotions, and the expression on her small face became extremely ferocious. A line of bloody tears flowed from the corner of her eye due to overuse of her Sharingan.

As the controlled Uchiha Gin watched the girl's pained expression, his muscles twitched all over. With a surge of intense emotions, a cold aura enveloped Uchiha Gin's eyes.

"Move a little!"

boom!

By overdrawing the power of his eyes, Uchiha Gin managed to break through the shackles of the Eight Thousand Spears.

Upon regaining his freedom, he felt a wave of dizziness, and everything before his eyes suddenly became very blurry.

However, Uchiha Gin couldn't care less about that. Despite his severe nearsightedness, he rushed to the girl, grabbed her shoulders, and tried to bring her back to her senses.

"Wake up, Xiao Guang!"

Unsure why the girl suddenly went berserk, Uchiha Gin could only try to use the prince's most proficient persuasion technique to bring her back to her senses.

Upon hearing the familiar voice, a flicker of struggle crossed the girl's lifeless eyes, and her body began to tremble slightly, as if she were resisting something.

"Hikaru, it's me, Gin. We made a promise to go to the Land of Water to eat seafood, to the Land of Hot Springs to soak in the hot springs, and to the Land of Snow to enjoy the snow together."

Seeing that things were going well, Uchiha Gin softly recounted the promise they had made since childhood.

"Waaaaah~~~"

As Uchiha Gin recounted these childhood promises one by one, the dark aura in the girl's eyes was suppressed, and her gaze gradually returned to clarity.

"A-Gin, what have I been doing?!"

The girl, regaining her senses, looked at the disheveled Uchiha Gin before her, her body went limp, and she collapsed into his arms. Her pale lips breathed out weakly as she asked, "What do you mean?"

"It's okay, I'm here."

Uchiha Gin could no longer see the girl's face clearly. He reached out and touched her head, making a firm promise.

"It's back to normal!"

Gasping for breath, Kaguya Sosuke suddenly stopped, the bone spur in his hand halting in front of a clansman who had closed his eyes and was waiting to die.

The surviving members of the Kaguya clan escaped death, but controlled by the red moon, they slaughtered their comrades and became utterly dejected. Some even went insane and scattered in all directions.

(End of this chapter)