I, Uchiha Yu, am solely focused on cultivating immortality

Chapter 61 So Clumsy...So Cute

Miwa Masayo struggled to paddle towards the surface of the water. As a sage, she had unlocked the talent of underwater breathing, but she still didn't like swimming by nature.

Having completed her mission, she wanted to get back to shore as soon as possible.

But Masayo Miwa really couldn't swim, and she was completely unaware that she had been caught in a whirlpool, which was created by the release of water.

It wasn't until Miwa Masayo surfaced and realized he was moving far from the shore that he discovered the whirlpool.

The tabby cat panicked immediately, completely forgetting that it could stand on the water, and began to paddle wildly, rushing towards the shore.

Her response was wrong, completely wrong, and terribly wrong.

It's like a landlubber falling into a pool. Because they can't keep their face above water by bracing themselves with their hands, they're sealed in a mere meter of water. No matter how hard they struggle, they can't stand up and just slowly walk towards death.

If Masayo Miwa knew how to swim, she would have swum outwards with the current of the whirlpool, waiting for it to spin her around once before easily breaking free. In reality, the tabby cat was only on the outer edge of the whirlpool, far from the point of no return.

Even if she doesn't panic, she can break free from the current and jump onto the surface of the water. In less than three seconds, she can jump to the shore.

Unfortunately, the tabby cat was already dazed. All her attention was focused on paddling, and she was gradually drawn to the center of the whirlpool, then entered a death spin and rushed into the three-meter-wide drainage culvert.

……

Uchiha Yu was resting on a boulder on the side of the river when Miwa Masase ran up to him. He suddenly remembered the scene of the dam releasing floodwater that he had seen in his previous life. The water rushing out of the culvert was extremely fast, and after hitting the riverbed, it could soar to a height of nearly fifteen meters.

He used his eyes to gauge the difference in elevation between his position and the riverbed: six meters.

Only six meters? That's the death line!

Uchiha Yu looked around and suddenly grinned. He had found the safest spot. To prevent falling rocks from blocking the exit, the culvert extended forty meters beyond the dam. The massive pipe was exposed on the riverbed, reflecting a ghastly white cement color under the midday sun.

Water can bounce back to the riverbed and rise more than ten meters high, but it's impossible for it to bounce back and impact the area thirty meters behind the outlet. Even if it did, it would only be a few individual droplets.

A few seconds later, Uchiha Yu was comfortably lying on the cement pipe.

The culvert has an inner diameter of three meters but an outer diameter of five meters, which is mainly to increase strength by increasing thickness.

The wide, round tube was warm from the sun; lying on it and feeling the warmth on my back, I immediately felt sleepy.

Soon, he felt the pipe vibrate, the water was being released. Uchiha Yu's lips curled into a smile. Miwa Masayo had moved the stone away. Things were going smoothly.

Wait, they moved away?

[With her small frame, how could Pear Blossom possibly move that rock?]

But the water did indeed come down from the culvert, and the boulder was indeed moved.

[Miwa Masayo is truly remarkable. As expected of my Daoist partner, she's incredibly intelligent. I'll have to ask her later how she managed to do it...]

Just as Uchiha Yu thought he was overthinking things, his heart started pounding wildly—a warning from his passive ability, "Spur of the Moment."

He suddenly stood up, looking around suspiciously, trying his best to find any signs of danger in his surroundings.

What details did I overlook?

[Wait, something's wrong with the sound coming from the culvert. This...this sound is...an impact? The impact of a hard object?]

Just as Uchiha Yu was feeling uneasy and anxiously trying to move away again, the thuds of hard objects hitting each other became more and more frequent.

Water sprayed out from the culvert outlet first, just like the scene in Uchiha Yu's memory. The water flowed onto the riverbed, stirring up a white streak that swept across the boulder where he had been standing.

The boulder was shattered without resistance by the water flow and disappeared with a splash into the white water.

Amazed by the close-up impact, relieved to have escaped harm, and proud of his own cleverness, the intense emotions interfered with Uchiha Yu's spirituality. The sudden warning he had was quickly dispelled, but he mistakenly thought that the danger had passed.

So he stood on the huge pipe and didn't get out of the way in time.

The roar of the splashing water masked the sounds of impact in the pipes, and Uchiha Yu didn't realize there was a problem until a sharp cracking sound came out.

Just when he was completely unprepared, the concrete pipe beneath his feet exploded.

The three-tomoe Sharingan activated instantly, and he saw the splashing water, the gray fragments from the broken pipe, and the sharp, blue rocks.

That stone... was the one I used to block the entrance...

Could it be that Miwa Masayo didn't move the stone, but instead blasted it open...?

[It's my fault. I shouldn't have been lazy and let that kitten go up and handle such a big rock.]

I hope that when I return, the entire culvert won't collapse because of this problem.

【Huh? What's that?】

The rushing water was propelled by the pressure of a drop of about fifty meters, powerful enough to split mountains and shatter rocks, but Uchiha Yu's body remained unharmed. This was because he was a ninja, not a massive rock; not only was he small, but he also possessed great agility. With just a slight movement, he could drift along with the rushing water, unlike a rock that bore the brunt of the impact.

However, Uchiha Yu was a ninja who weighed only a little over 70 kilograms. Without a stable foothold, once he started moving, he had no way to resist the water flow and could only be helplessly swept away by it.

This is similar to falling from the sky. As long as a ninja cannot fly, no matter how powerful he is, there are very few things he can do while falling from the sky.

Uchiha Yu could only drift downstream with the cascading water, waiting to merge into a larger river channel or enter a wider body of water where the current would slow down, so that he could find a way to escape his predicament.

Just as he was about to curl up and assume the most defensive posture, his Sharingan spotted a familiar figure in the murky water.

Although no color can be seen, the adorable triangular ears, the soft tail, the five-petaled paws like plum blossoms, and the tiny figure—every detail is so familiar.

【Mitsuyo Miwa? ?】

[This silly cat...it actually got sucked down?]

[That's incredibly stupid, so stupid...]

【……so cute.】

Uchiha Yu is indeed a qualified cat owner, and he doesn't harbor any resentment towards his cat.

No matter what, it was her own fault for assigning the wrong task, causing her own cat to fall into the water she hated most and suffer so much.

He no longer adopted a defensive stance, but instead spread his arms and legs and paddled towards Miwa Masayo.

Uchiha Yu is 183 centimeters tall. Thanks to the excellent genes of the Uchiha clan, he not only has a handsome face, but also a body with long legs, long arms, broad shoulders, and a slim waist.

Each powerful swing of those long, strong arms propelled the body forward a full body length.

Uchiha Yu was as fast as a swordfish. He nimbly dodged the debris in the water, quickly approached Miwa Masayo, and with a hook of his hand, pulled the dizzy cat into his arms.

After a brief check, confirming that the tabby cat was only dizzy and showed no signs of oxygen deprivation, Uchiha Yu curled up with relief, protecting Miwa Masayo in his arms and assuming his strongest defensive stance.

Outside the human body, which is spherically shaped, the natural energy of the earth element circulates continuously, offsetting the impact of all collisions.

Uchiha Yu drifted downstream and quickly approached the direction of Kumori Village.

(End of this chapter)