Chapter 30: Volcanic Eruption Outside the Village!
Sarutobi Shinnosuke was truly terrified. The countless secrets he had buried deep in his heart were laid bare before Uchiha Chizumi, as if he were a naked man with nowhere to hide.
It felt as though, whenever he had done those things, this Uchiha Chizumi had been silently watching him from the shadows the entire time!
He even thought that might really be possible.
How else could Chizumi know so much?
After all…
The "secrets" Chizumi spoke of were things Sarutobi Shinnosuke had never told anyone—not his wife, not the old man, not even some of his subordinates.
"Uchiha Chizumi! You—"
But before Shinnosuke could finish the sentence, a choking sensation of imminent death surged up inside him.
A ball of magma the size of a human head suddenly shot toward him!
He instantly shut his mouth, gripped the hilt of his ninjatō with both hands, and wrapped the blade in a layer of bright‑blue chakra.
"Hah!!!"
With a single slash he split the oncoming magma sphere in two.
Just as he raised the sword to strike again, something felt wrong.
He glanced down—his pupils contracted.
The sword…
Had snapped!
Even chakra‑coating the blade couldn't withstand the terrifying heat of Uchiha Chizumi's Lava Release?
He looked forward and saw that Chizumi had not charged at him. Instead, Chizumi was half‑crouched, one hand lowered, fingertip lightly touching the ground—as though he had finished a hand sign in the blink of an eye.
"Lava Release…
Volcanic Swamp."
A menacing gurgling reached their ears. Before the wide‑eyed Shinnosuke and the surrounding Anbu, the earth centered beneath Chizumi's feet began to melt under searing heat and turn to magma from some unknown source!
In almost the blink of an eye—though more than twenty meters separated Shinnosuke from Chizumi—he saw a faint crimson glow spreading under his own feet.
"Bad move! Fall back!!!"
The moment he barked the order, he and the nearby Anbu leapt backward.
One Anbu was half a step slow.
He moved, but when his feet touched down again he suddenly lost his balance, his face twisting in horror.
"Ah—sss!!!"
Indescribable pain shot up from his ankles. He grabbed the wall for support and looked down in panic.
"My feet… they're gone…"
Both of his feet had vanished without his noticing! Wisps of smoke curled from the severed ankles, carrying the stench of scorched flesh.
"Captain Shinnosuke, I—"
The Anbu panicked.
But Sarutobi Shinnosuke could no longer worry about his subordinate, for he saw that Uchiha Chizumi's terrifying Lava Release was rapidly wrecking the entire secret research facility!
The scorching magma was not just melting the floor—it was eating through the surrounding walls.
Huge holes had formed in the corridor walls.
Even the metals embedded in those walls blazed with roaring flames.
Though some distance away, Shinnosuke and the others were already drenched in sweat.
The temperature here was unbearable!
"Captain Shinnosuke! The magma's moving!" one sharp‑eyed Anbu cried. The bubbling lava ahead was swelling upward, as if something dreadful were about to surge out.
He was right.
The next moment—
BOOM!
A torrent of magma erupted like a volcanic blast, instantly melting everything overhead.
Before the stunned Anbu, the secret base was punched open by raw lava into an immense cavity!
From outside, a pillar of crimson magma burst through the forest floor and shot skyward.
Only after climbing a hundred meters did it explode into a rain of molten drops that scattered in every direction.
Those drops were anything but harmless.
A fist‑sized lump of lava hit—
The impact, like an exploding tag, blasted a massive hole in the rock above the base, exposing the structure beneath.
And there were hundreds of such lethal lava bombs.
…
It was a little after 8 p.m., just as evening life in Konoha was beginning.
Many villagers, having finished dinner, stepped out for a stroll to digest their food.
Suddenly they saw—
Outside the village a glaring crimson beam shot into the sky.
Moments later it scattered like fireworks,
illuminating half of Konoha with a faint red glow.
"What's that?" a civilian asked, peering into the distance. "Fireworks outside the village? They're huge…"
Someone beside him disagreed: "Do fireworks look like that? It looks more like a volcanic eruption."
"Come on, there's no volcano near Konoha!"
"Has to be fireworks! But what festival is it? I've heard nothing. And why set them off outside the village?"
"…"
Many ninja in the village noticed the anomaly as well.
…
Inside the Uchiha compound
Uchiha Mikoto's beautiful eyes flashed with surprise. "Fugaku, that looks like… magma. Almost like a sudden volcano."
"…Mm."
Fugaku gazed at the night sky in the distance, his face dark. "If I'm right, it's Chizumi. With his temperament he'd never make such a scene without reason. He must have met a formidable enemy outside the village."
"Hah… I have to go. You stay home with Sasuke."
Turning back inside, he began putting on his Police Force combat gear.
As he dressed he explained: "Chizumi and I disagree on many things, but I respect him for one: he can always see the evil a person has committed—and he's never been wrong, never falsely accused anyone."
"All these years, neither the Fourth Hokage nor the Third could lay a finger on him, because they've never found an excuse against Uchiha Chizumi."
"After he kills, he dumps the bodies with us. We pass them to the Yamanaka clan, and they always uncover unspeakable crimes from the corpses' memories."
Mikoto hesitated. "So right now he's probably fighting evildoers?"
"Mm."
Fully equipped, Fugaku's voice was steady. "Whatever the case, he's still a member of the Police Force. As its chief, I have to take men to support him."
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