This emblem awakened her dormant memories, scenes of the past flashed before her eyes, depicting her battles on the battlefield.
The cold commands of her clansmen, the mournful wails of enemies... seemed to once again echo in her ears.
"You are from the Uchiha clan!!?"
As if some chain reaction had been triggered, her eyes widened in a startled manner, and her pupils in an instant transformed into the somber kaleidoscope of the Mangekyō.
"Amaterasu!" Thin blood vessels burst from her right eye.
A pitch-black flame ignited on Kamihane's back, spreading all over his body in the blink of an eye.
"Holy crap!" Kamihane screamed, shaking off Nameless's hand, and instinctively activated the Body Flicker Technique, darting out more than ten meters in an instant, resembling a monkey with its tail on fire.
Nameless rotated her eyes, and with a "whoosh," Uchiha Madara beside her was also immediately engulfed in the black flames.
Blood oozed from her eye sockets, streaming down Nameless's face. Her originally delicate and gentle visage now appeared fierce and menacing!
"I'm burning up!" Kamihane let out an undignified scream.
"Amaterasu," known as the black flame that can incinerate anything, will never extinguish until its target is completely burned.
Its temperature was terrifyingly high. Kamihane's clothes dissolved like marshmallows in water.
In less than a second, the skin on his back began to rapidly carbonize, and excruciating pain continuously stimulated his nerves.
He had never anticipated that the seemingly docile Uchiha Nameless would betray him and launch a sudden attack!
But his mind had no time to dwell on that.
Years of combat experience had honed his reflexes to extreme sensitivity. The moment he was injured, his eyes emitted a red glare, and the Mangekyō in both eyes began to rotate simultaneously.
Finally, summoning the last shred of reason, he rewound his entire state to two seconds prior. The black flames instantly extinguished as if they had never existed, and his body returned to its original condition.
Uchiha Madara also effortlessly neutralized "Amaterasu." A blue skeletal frame enveloped his body, blocking the flames entirely, and both the frame and the flames dissipated together.
Seizing the opportunity, Nameless pounced forward, her left eye's Mangekyō spinning eerily, locking gazes with Madara's cold, indifferent eyes.
Madara looked around, and the surroundings dramatically changed. The world was now bathed in a sea of blood-red. The forest that once existed was no more, replaced by a battlefield littered with corpses. Massive torii gates sprang up one after another from the ground, encircling Madara completely.
Countless figures of Senju ninjas emerged from the torii gates, their cold stares fixed on the figure in the center. Bloodthirsty, they moved forward, their swords gleaming with a chilling light.
The fear of death permeated every inch of the air. An ordinary person would have been scared out of their wits just standing there.
But... the man in the center was Uchiha Madara!
"Is this your understanding of despair?"
Not only did Madara show no sign of discomfort, but he also displayed a look of disdain. "Little girl, a real battlefield is ten times more gruesome than this. Your illusion can't even rouse my fighting spirit."
As the Senju ninjas charged towards him, he shook his head and let out a low chuckle.
"Fine, let me give you a proper lesson."
He slightly opened his eyes, and a darker, more profound, hellish power surged in all directions like a cold wave. This was the unique ocular power of the Eternal Mangekyō!
Under the gaze of these eyes, the illusion shattered like ice. The blood-red world vanished in an instant, leaving only a slender figure being flung backwards.
Nameless collided with a stone wall, bleeding from all seven orifices, almost on the verge of fainting.
"Never use genjutsu on someone with stronger ocular power than yourself. Even 'Tsukuyomi' can be counteracted."
Madara spoke leisurely, his demeanor calm and composed from start to finish, not even moving his feet.
Kamihane appeared instantly beside Nameless, and with a "swish," a chakra blade pressed against her pale neck.
But he underestimated Nameless's determination. She raised her head, coldly staring at him, blood once again gushing from her right eye socket.
The temperature soared. Kamihane, already sensing it, activated the Body Flicker Technique, moving behind Nameless, causing the black flame to miss its mark.
Even so, a wisp of flame grazed his finger, and the black fire swiftly engulfed his entire hand.
This time, however, he remained much calmer, his expression not as pained, merely frowning slightly, using the power of reversal to extinguish the flames.
Nameless attempted to turn her head, but a hand forcefully gripped it. Kamihane pressed close, his knee firmly against Nameless's back, using his weight to pin her down, rendering her unable to rise.
"Is this how you treat your savior?" he questioned.
"Savior? Heh, all you want is for me to continue being the Uchiha's weapon, this puppet-like fate! I refuse to accept it!"
Nameless's gaze was filled with hatred, "I will kill both of you, then flee to a place where no one can find me!"
Kamihane was slightly taken aback, "Perhaps you've misunderstood something?"
A pair of feet appeared in Nameless's field of vision.
Nameless froze, and upon hearing this name, every expression on her face solidified, as if an electric current had surged through her mind.
She looked up, her almond-shaped eyes wide with a mix of confusion and astonishment, reflecting the towering figure of Uchiha Madara.
The man before her was too powerful; she had just personally experienced his strength, the oppressive sensation like standing on the edge of an abyss, and the deep, sea-like terrifying ocular power, which were simply beyond her ability to resist.
"Mhm, this is the name your parents gave you, your true name," Madara responded.
"My... name..." She ceased her struggles and softly asked, "Who... are you people?"
"We are the same as you, people abandoned by the Uchiha," Kamihane said somewhat helplessly.
"No, it was we who abandoned them," Madara corrected from the side.
Nameless looked a bit dazed; from the moment she recognized the two as clansmen, she had subconsciously assumed they were here to pull her back into the war.
After all, to the entire Uchiha clan, she was merely a useful weapon.
Although the seals confined space and time, her consciousness remained clear! She didn't know how many days and nights she had been imprisoned, only that what was longer than her life was an endless void and torment.
Through her difficult years, she gradually came to understand one truth: to be free, to live again as a human being, she must fight!
She had secretly made up her mind at some point that if she could ever break free, the first thing she would cast off was the bondage called the "Uchiha clan"!
This was also the reason for her sudden violent outburst.
"You... didn't release me for the sake of war?" she asked in a daze.
Kamihane scoffed, "The war you speak of has already ended. Besides myself and Madara-sama, the Uchiha clan has been entirely subverted, blending into an iron pot called 'Konoha,' awaiting a slow death."
"Uchiha Hikari," Madara stood firm before the two, looking down from above, "in the name of the clan leader, I declare that from today onwards, you are no longer a weapon; live on as a human being."
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