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

Chapter 95 Did they really think I was holding back my strength?

"Sins? They're countless by now!"

Uchiha Tajima, a man of decisive and ruthless nature throughout his life, scoffed at Uchiha Yao's words, his lowered brows and fierce eyes fixed on the strange old man before him.

"However, I, Uchiha Tajima, have never done anything that would be a disgrace to my clan."

"Heh, stop with your hypocritical rhetoric."

Uchiha Yao sneered, raised his withered hand, revealing a jar containing Sharingan eyes, gently wiped it, and said...

"Do you think you can keep what you did to Jin a secret forever?"

"What are you saying?"

Upon hearing the other person suddenly mention Uchiha Kin, who had passed away many years ago, memories of the past flooded back. Uchiha Tajima frowned, his voice tinged with bitterness.

"My sister and brother-in-law sacrificed themselves to save me, and I truly feel guilty towards them."

"Still putting on an act even now, Ah Yin, is this what you call a good uncle?"

Upon hearing Uchiha Tajima's words, Uchiha Yao's gray eyes revealed a mocking expression. He turned to look at the silent Uchiha Gin and said coldly.

"What? Ah Yin! You two?"

Surprised to see the strange old man strike up a conversation with Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Tajima, sensing something amiss, instantly turned around and asked with an incredulous look in his eyes.

"Gintoki, Gintoki, what happened?"

Comfortably curled up on Uchiha Gin's broad back, the girl, completely bewildered by the current situation, poked his back with her little finger and whispered in his ear.

"Sigh~"

Not having time to explain to the girl behind him, Uchiha Gin sighed. What should he do? He needed to find a way to clear up this misunderstanding.

"Grandpa, Uncle, why don't we sit down and have a proper talk?"

Caught in the middle, Uchiha Gin tried to mediate, but was met with piercing stares from both sides, leaving him completely bewildered.

"Ah Yin, take out the headband I gave you and put it on Wuming."

Uchiha Yao ordered with a displeased expression, "This grandson clearly made an agreement with me, but now he wants to betray me. I can't let him ruin my revenge plan."

"I'm sorry, I refuse."

Taking out the plain-colored headband that Uchiha Yao had given him a few years ago, Uchiha Gin replied with a resolute expression.

With that, he squeezed hard, and the plain-colored hairband shattered instantly, a wisp of black energy rising from the shards on the ground.

The black mist circled around him once before disappearing silently. Behind him, unseen by him, a flash of black light appeared in the girl's eyes.

"this one?"

Frowning as he watched the disappearing black aura, Uchiha Gin had a feeling that this thing wasn't as simple as it seemed.

"Sigh, Ah Yin, I gave you a chance, yet you still chose to stand against me. How can you do this to your parents who died unjustly?"

The old man was heartbroken by his eldest grandson's unconventional behavior. He stared at the only eye that still had a sliver of light in it and shouted excitedly.

"Tsk, I don't know how to explain it to you. Don't you realize that something's wrong with you right now?"

With a slight headache, Uchiha Gin scratched his messy curly hair and said wearily.

"You've been brainwashed by Uchiha Tajima's eye technique; you can't tell good from bad at all."

Ignoring the betrayal of Uchiha Gin, the old man turned to look at Uchiha Tajima, who was deep in thought, and said resentfully.

"Wang Liang, make your move!"

Does Old Deng have a backup plan?

Upon hearing the old man's voice, Uchiha Gin, who was carrying the girl on his back, felt a chill run down his spine. He had already betrayed the old man, yet this old man still wanted to fight back.

"I can't wait."

Unexpectedly, Wang Liang behind Uchiha Yao revealed a human-like expression, grinned wickedly, and transformed into a black shadow that quickly swept towards them.

Is he really that reckless? Was this filial son always this brave?

Recalling the various underhanded operations that this dark, indistinct thing would carry out in the future, he was a completely different person compared to his current reckless self.

Protecting the girl behind him, Uchiha Gin raised a hand, activated his Sharingan, and warily watched the rapidly moving black mud.

"Don't move, they're fighting!"

Sensing the girl behind him suddenly begin to wriggle mischievously, Uchiha Gin, who had no intention of having any impure thoughts, spoke up to warn her.

"Fighting? I love it the most!"

Upon suddenly hearing the girl's tone, which was completely different from before, Uchiha Gin, who was on high alert, broke out in a cold sweat, followed by countless goosebumps crawling up his skin.

Before he could think any further, the girl behind him suddenly sprang up, stretching out her fair, bare foot and kicking him several meters away.

"Hikaru?!"

Uchiha Gin suffered a heavy blow to his back, causing his internal organs to churn violently. He barely managed to steady his staggering body.

Turning around in surprise, he found the girl barefoot on the grass, her cloak removed, revealing her delicate and charming face.

Gone was her gentle and serene expression from moments before; now, the girl's lips curled into a morbid smile, her clear, dark eyes turned crimson, and her entire being radiated an aura of madness.

"Hehehehe, finally out! Finally free from this wretched seal!"

The corrupted girl covered her face and lowered her head, letting out a few horrified laughs before looking up at Uchiha Gin, who had revealed his Sharingan.

"I ran into my dear A-Gin as soon as I came out, really..."

The girl excitedly covered her face with her hands, her tone revealing excitement and joy, but her scarlet eyes were filled with an unconcealable morbid madness.

Is this also the work of Wang Liang?

Uchiha Gintoki looked at the girl who had transformed into Yuno Gasai with a sour expression. This kind of dark and yandere personality was something he, at his age, really couldn't handle.

"I love Gintoki the most!"

The girl looked at the wary Uchiha Gin with delight, uttering sweet words as her body slowly rose into the air.

The cherry-red skeleton reappeared, slowly enveloping the girl. As the power in the girl's eyes grew stronger, a thick layer of armor gradually appeared on the skeleton, and its height increased.

In no time, the girl's skeleton had transformed into a half-giant wielding a wood-chopping knife.

The second stage of Susanoo had consumed a considerable amount of energy. The girl stood inside the giant's body, slightly out of breath, and smiled sweetly at Uchiha Gin in front of her.

"Ah Yin, why don't you come looking for me?"

Without any warning, the girl silently swung her machete down.

"Host detected to be in combat; Heart Steel Chest begins to accumulate."

The cleaver, imbued with the power of Susanoo, slashed down, but Uchiha Gin, disregarding the need to reveal his true strength, slammed his hands on the ground, unleashing a torrent of chakra from his body.

[Earth Escape·Earth Flow Wall]

With a loud rumble, a massive earthen wall several meters thick rose from the ground, with a cute Shiba Inu emoji meticulously carved on it.

The girl's red woodcutter's axe, imbued with immense force, slammed into the ground, generating a powerful gust of air and a deafening explosion, sending dust billowing across the entire battlefield.

As the smoke cleared, the grinning girl searched for Uchiha Gin's whereabouts with her eyes darting around. She believed that the attack just now wouldn't kill her beloved; at most, he would lose an arm or a leg, and then he could stay by her side forever.

"Hehehe, huh?"

The girl, who was laughing strangely, was about to pick up her wood-chopping knife again when she discovered that the Susanoo she was controlling could not pull out the weapon that was stuck on the earthen wall.

Upon hearing the familiar voice, the girl was shocked to discover that her Susanoo's hatchet was tightly bound to the raised earthen wall by a thick tree branch that had grown out of nowhere.

A curly-haired man, who had somehow ended up sitting on her Susanoo's shoulder, picked at his ear, rolled his dead fish eyes, and said in a slightly arrogant tone,

"A mere second-stage Susanoo dares to raise his voice at me?"

Sorry I was late coming back from the site today.

(End of this chapter)