After leaving Konohagakure, the split body immediately found a secluded place outside the village.
Using the Transformation Technique, it changed into Tomie Kawakami's appearance.
There were many different versions of Tomie, but the split body did not model itself after any of those.
Instead, it took on the exact appearance shown in the system's template.
It had to be said—
She was stunningly beautiful.
She looked like an upgraded version of Tomie from the most perfect interpretation imaginable.
After taking on that appearance, the split body activated Desire of Beauty on the gate guards while also amplifying their desires.
With those two abilities combined, slipping out of Konoha became absurdly easy.
As for what happened after they came back to their senses, so what?
The one they would be looking for would be a split body wearing Tomie Kawakami's face.
What did that have to do with Uchiha Fujie?
Only after confirming several times that no one else was nearby did the split body take out a kunai.
Wind Release chakra flowed into the blade.
Her eyes hardened, and she swung the kunai down at her own left hand.
The kunai, enhanced with Wind Release chakra, was frighteningly sharp.
Thanks to Absolute Control, the Mangekyo Sharingan ability, she had already mastered the nature transformation of both Wind Release and Fire Release chakra.
In a single slash, four fingers were severed.
Only the thumb remained.
The cut fingers dropped straight to the ground.
They were connected to the heart by pain, and naturally it hurt horribly.
The split body forced herself to endure it.
Making noise and drawing attention would only create trouble.
This was for survival.
For strength.
For revenge.
For standing above everyone else.
If she could not endure even this much pain, then she might as well give up entirely, follow the protagonist's path, and spend the rest of her life hiding behind her immortality.
After all, with Tomie's abilities, she could survive until the destruction of the ninja world without ever needing to seek strength.
But that was not what Uchiha Fujie wanted.
The split body did not bother to bandage the wound.
At first, blood poured freely.
But very quickly, it stopped.
In less than twenty seconds, the four severed fingers had already regrown.
Her hand looked completely unharmed.
That was the terrifying power of Hyper Regeneration.
As for the four severed fingers on the ground, they also began growing rapidly.
Within a few minutes, each of them had turned into a brand-new split body.
And each of those four new split bodies possessed eighty percent of the original body's power—not eighty percent of the split body that had created them.
That was what made this ability truly terrifying.
It completely ignored all normal laws of reality.
"Split up and act separately," the Tomie split body said seriously. "Remember this—do not use the original body's appearance, and do not use the Sharingan. To be precise, anyone who sees you activate the Sharingan must die. We're still too weak right now."
The moment she finished speaking, the other split bodies all began using the Transformation Technique.
The Tomie split body glanced over them and the corner of her mouth twitched.
What the hell was wrong with them?
Using the Transformation Technique was one thing, but why had two of them turned into women?
"Forget it. I don't even feel like dealing with you idiots. Besides, I can't command you anyway. More importantly, we need to create a ninjutsu. If any of us gets captured and someone extracts information about the original body, that could become a real problem."
Tomie Kawakami could not command the split bodies.
Only Uchiha Fujie, the original body, held absolute authority over them.
The other split bodies would not kill each other, but beyond that, none of them could truly command the others.
One split body spoke up.
"Then let's develop a move like the Ultra Bomb. A self-destruction technique using Fire Release chakra. It's perfect for taking the enemy down with us."
Another immediately nodded.
"That's a good idea. We can make different versions based on the situation. If the enemy is too strong and even blowing ourselves up won't kill them, then we use a total incineration method that turns us completely to ash. But if we think the explosion can kill the enemy, then we use a version that leaves flesh behind. That way we can revive afterward and create even more split bodies."
The Tomie split body frowned.
"The problem is that both versions would take time to develop, and the original body doesn't have time for that. So who's going to do it?"
The moment she said that, she noticed that all the other split bodies were staring at her.
It was as if they were saying, You're the original body's favorite. This job is yours.
The Tomie split body's face darkened.
In the end, she still agreed.
Even if she contacted the original body and let everyone vote, she knew she would lose anyway.
It was better to just accept the task.
After discussing things for a while, the five split bodies finally headed off in different directions.
One of them had a particularly strange assignment.
It was to find a small village with very few ninja and hide there.
The purpose was simple: avoid the possibility of them all being wiped out at once.
The chance of that happening was low, but it also showed that after dying once, Uchiha Fujie had become a little more afraid of death.
The other split bodies had different goals.
They would target wandering ninja and missing-nin.
This was not the time to challenge the great hidden villages.
Without exposing the Sharingan, even though they could cast ninjutsu without hand seals, their combat strength still was not especially high.
At best, they could reach the level of a special jonin.
Their real goal was to master more ninjutsu.
They needed to learn the nature transformation of the other chakra types as well.
Swordsmanship, taijutsu, and genjutsu could not be neglected either.
Just because they did not possess Earth Release chakra affinity did not mean they could not learn Earth Release nature transformation through training.
It would simply be much harder.
But the split bodies, blessed with Absolute Control, did not care at all.
As far as they were concerned, all five elemental releases could eventually be mastered.
For anyone else, a Mangekyo Sharingan ability like this would be far too dangerous to use so frequently.
Their eyes would go blind.
Sasuke Uchiha in the original story was the perfect example.
After awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, he threw himself into repeated battles and lost his vision even faster than Itachi Uchiha had.
Fortunately, he later transplanted Itachi Uchiha's eyes and awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, avoiding total blindness.
The Tomie split body found an uninhabited wilderness and began developing the self-destruction technique modeled after the Ultra Bomb.
The concept was simple in theory.
Use Fire Release chakra to set one's own body ablaze.
Gather and compress that energy into a single point.
Then release it all at once in a violent explosion.
But instead of immediately experimenting, the split body first activated the Mangekyo Sharingan and used Absolute Control.
Her plan was to first develop the Shadow Clone Technique.
Then she would use shadow clones to test the new ninjutsu.
There was no way she would succeed on the first try.
And if she blew herself apart into chunks of flesh and happened to attract attention midway, that would be troublesome.
After developing through the entire night, the split body successfully created the Shadow Clone Technique.
In theory, once the Tomie Template was fully fused, neither the original body nor the split bodies needed sleep anymore.
Uchiha Fujie could sense that the number of split bodies had increased.
That was a good thing.
After all, he held absolute control over them anyway.
For the next several days, Uchiha Fujie spent his time refining chakra during class and training his body every night after school.
He soon discovered something.
His chakra refinement speed was dozens of times faster than the original owner's.
That was likely because of the Tomie Template fusion.
Though he still possessed Uchiha blood, his body had undergone mutation.
His cells had become incredibly active.
On top of that, the awakening of the Mangekyo Sharingan had greatly enhanced his spiritual energy.
Under those conditions, it was only natural that his chakra refinement speed had skyrocketed.
After all, chakra was a form of energy created by perfectly merging physical energy and spiritual energy.
In simple terms, it was the union of bodily vitality and mental power.
Both Uchiha Fujie's physical energy and spiritual energy were now far stronger than before.
At this rate, he estimated that after refining chakra like this for a full year, even if he still did not reach true Kage-level reserves, he would not be far from it.
In truth, Kakashi Hatake's chakra reserves had never actually been low.
They were greater than those of most jonin.
The problem was simply that his Sharingan drained him too heavily.
Just look at how different he became after losing it—he could throw up rows of Earth Release walls without seeming to tire.