"Really... absorbed too much Chakra, can even lose the ability to perceive?"
Uchiha Sasuke extended his palm, lightly touching Karin's messy red hair. His gaze fell on Karin's exposed arm, and the tooth-like scars on them made Uchiha Sasuke's eyes flash with complex emotions.
Because in the memories of the Grass Ninja...
Uchiha Sasuke knew the origin of those tooth-like scars.
Pain? Regret? Compassion? Heartache?
No, it's anger!
That red-haired girl, who lived recklessly and freely in the Root, treated everyone in the Root with a harsh exterior and a soft heart, liked to give her blood as a lifesaving medicine to her comrades, yet she lived a hellish life in this world...
I really don't know...
If Akihara Kagura were here...
What would happen in this world...
After all, Akihara Kagura has always been the one who doted on Karin the most.
"If that guy were here..."
Uchiha Sasuke pressed his hand on Karin's head, not wanting Karin to see his expression: "He would surely kill everyone here..."
"..."
The red-haired girl's body began to tremble.
Uchiha Sasuke sensed the fear of the red-haired girl. His chest was filled with overwhelming fury, yet he worried that the red-haired girl might be afraid, so he forced himself to maintain composure in front of Karin. His voice, which was usually pleasant, turned increasingly gentle and slow.
If that guy isn't here...
"Let me do this kind of thing for him instead..."
"Just now, seeing you in this condition actually made me a bit annoyed..."
"Maybe..."
"It's not just a little..."
Just as Uchiha Sasuke was murmuring here, another Grass Ninja realized the enemy coming from behind. He swiftly detached from the battlefield and shouted loudly at Uchiha Sasuke!
"You bastard! You dared to attack from behind!"
"..."
Uchiha Sasuke ignored his shout, only casually lifted his head, and layers of illusory skeletal structure suddenly appeared beside him and Karin. A half-body Susanoo emerged from him instantaneously!
The half-body Susanoo directly lifted its hand and grabbed the last Grass Ninja, the enormous palm firmly gripping his body!
"This is... this is..."
The Grass Ninja stared in terror at the ten-meter-tall half-body Susanoo, fearfully looking at Karin and Uchiha Sasuke inside the Susanoo: "What on earth... what on earth... what on earth is this ghostly thing!"
"What is that!"
Naruto Uzumaki couldn't help but widen his eyes: "What is emerging from Sasuke's body!"
"Sasuke-kun..."
Haruno Sakura was also staring nervously from a distance, stunned by Uchiha Sasuke's power. Her gaze involuntarily focused on the hand Uchiha Sasuke was using to touch Karin.
"That's..."
Kabuto's glasses flashed with a gleam, his heart racing slightly!
Compared to the Susanoo that these two kids were focusing on, Kabuto was more interested in another point. That was the speed of Uchiha Sasuke's sudden Instant Body, which he couldn't understand, how Uchiha Sasuke managed to instantly move over to the Grass Ninja's side!
How is it possible...
It's even faster than the Flying Thunder God Jutsu!
Even Kabuto couldn't detect even a slightest fluctuation!
"You... who the hell are you!"
The Grass Ninja struggled with all his might, his face full of fear wanting to break free from Susanoo's grasp, but was powerless in the face of Susanoo's terrifying strength.
"I don't know what role I play in this world..."
"I also don't know what I should do in this world..."
Uchiha Sasuke ignored the words of the Grass Ninja. His mind was still recalling Karin's memories, also reminiscing about the reality he had experienced.
This dark-haired boy spoke aimlessly, as if speaking to Karin: "I thought I could leave here at any time, I wouldn't care about the people here, only treating your world as a playground where I can act recklessly..."
"But..."
"I realize I seem to have been wrong..."
Uchiha Sasuke manipulated Susanoo's hand to grip tighter, lifted his head to look at the terrified Grass Ninja. Still speaking self-absorbedly with enigmatic words.
"This world is not a playground..."
"This world is a colorless hell..."
"Even for me..."
"I just can't understand..."
Uchiha Sasuke looked at that Grass Ninja, as if wanting to question the existence above the sky through this Grass Ninja: "Why is the world where he is absent like this?"
"..."
Karin's body was still trembling.
Karin didn't understand Uchiha Sasuke's words. The perception ability within her had already erupted between life and death, and she could clearly sense how terrifyingly frightening Uchiha Sasuke was behind her...
This terrifying chakra...
It's beyond anything Karin could ever imagine!
"Actually, I don't want to admit it either..."
Uchiha Sasuke slightly lowered his eyes, looking at the still trembling Karin beside him. His voice became increasingly calm, as if he had come to some realization: "That guy was right, he's the one who's bringing change to the Ninja World..."
"..."
Karin didn't understand who Uchiha Sasuke was talking about.
This poor red-haired girl still thought her life was in the hands of the enemy because a young hand was pressing on her head. She had seen with her own eyes how that hand had instantaneously extracted the soul of a Grass Ninja!
That hand...
Was trying hard to smooth out her messy, untidy red hair.
"Although the process he brought was ugly..."
"But at least that world is not painful."
Uchiha Sasuke was talking to himself while helping Karin tidy her hair, as if trying to express his resolution through his words to her: "Actually, I'm not sure what the best choice is, but I know what his path will eventually become. So I'll just start learning slowly from his example..."
"..."
Karin unconsciously nodded.
"Is that what you think too?"
Uchiha Sasuke couldn't help but let out a light laugh, raising his head again to look at the Grass Ninja held by the purple Susanoo. His eyes were filled with intense killing intent: "Heh, then let's slowly learn from his example..."
"The first thing to learn..."
"Is how he kills..."
In the next moment...
Uchiha Sasuke's hand instantly clenched into a fist!
The purple half-body Susanoo also clenched its fist in an instant!
"Ah..."
The painful groan of the Grass Ninja hadn't even escaped, and his body was already tightly crushed by Susanoo's hand, blood splattering from between Susanoo's fingers!
"Make the damned people..."
"Die painfully and ugly..."
"Only by letting these people die painfully and ugly can the living be warned!"
Uchiha Sasuke nonchalantly released his clenched fist, the half-body Susanoo also let go of its fist, and the remains of the Grass Ninja's flesh slowly fell to the ground from Susanoo's hand, as if discarding not a life but a pile of useless trash.
Perhaps...
That was indeed the trash that should be discarded.
A group of Hidden Rain Ninja, who had been still fighting, looked in terror at the drops of blood falling from Susanoo's hand, fleeing desperately into the distance, not daring to stay here!
"Don't kill me, don't kill me..."
Karin's eyes were vacant, her mouth murmuring unconsciously begging.
"You!"
Upon hearing this, Uchiha Sasuke's heart couldn't help but be filled with a repressive, painful, inexplicable emotion.
This girl...
When had she ever been in such a pathetic state!
She, who always proudly helped others, when had she ever pleaded so humbly!
However, Uchiha Sasuke had extracted the memory from one of the Grass Ninja using the Human Path, seeing the tragic fate that Karin and her mother had experienced, yet he couldn't blame the girl before him for losing her dignity...
"Don't worry."
"I won't kill you."
When Uchiha Sasuke spoke, it was as if he had become an adult.
This black-haired boy, suppressing the oppression in his heart, slowly crouched down to help Karin pull down her sleeve, covering the scarred arm that looked like exposed teeth.
Truly...
It made Sasuke somewhat unaccustomed!
Why did she have scars on her body!
How dare those little Ninja Village scum leave scars on her body!
"..."
Karin observed Uchiha Sasuke's action of covering her scars.
This red-haired girl's consciousness finally returned, as if she had finally seen someone other than her mother, someone willing to care for her image, and tears suddenly flowed from her eyes.
"Thank you..."