"Yu!!"
Similarly, upon seeing Inari unexpectedly throwing shurikens from his hand.
Looking at Yu standing there in front of him, as if he were in shock and not reacting.
Beside him, Mai and Momoka, the two girls, couldn't help but feel their hearts tighten.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
However, soon, three crisp metal collisions sounded.
Urushi, Mai, Momoka, and all the other kids present widened their eyes.
Facing the three shurikens flying toward him in anger from Inari.
Yu, who stood still, calmly reacted.
In the same way, three kunais appeared like magic in Yu's hands and were quickly thrown.
In the amazed eyes of all the children, Yu's thrown three kunais reached their target before Inari's shurikens.
They miraculously hit the center hole of the three shurikens thrown by Inari, forcefully nailing Inari's shurikens to a nearby tree trunk!
"My shurikens were actually...?!"
Seeing Yu's incredible kunai skills right in front of him, Inari's eyes widened almost round.
"Ninja Academy students using ninja tools against ordinary villagers in the village."
"For such an accusation, the punishment should not be small."
As if not aware of the incredulous looks of all the children present.
Looking at Inari, who wore an expression of disbelief, Yu's lips curled up slightly.
To achieve this kind of effect...
It seems that all the training he did following Inari's kunai throwing technique from the original work was not in vain...
...
"These brats! How could they possibly do something like this?!"
Coming back to his senses from shock.
Hearing the words spoken calmly by Yu in front of him.
Imagining the punishment he might have to face next.
Inari's anger surged even more, and he raised his chakra, charging toward Yu like a cheetah.
Facing Yu, who appeared to be two years younger than himself, Inari was confident that he could knock down this little brat just as he had done to Urushi and the others a moment ago.
Bang!!
A dull collision sound.
Inari was once again shocked when Yu, with one hand, firmly grabbed his fist.
"This is... chakra?!"
Facing Yu, who was firmly gripping his fist, Inari noticed the flowing chakra within the white-haired little brat.
Inari widened his eyes, realizing that this small child, who clearly wasn't a student from the Ninja Academy, had already refined chakra!
You should know that starting to refine chakra at such a young age is a privilege only granted to children from the Uchiha, Hyuga, and some other major clans in the entire Leaf Village.
"If we're talking about chakra..."
"I'm not necessarily weaker than you."
With one hand firmly holding Inari's fist as it erupted with chakra, Yu stood still.
Although he was two or three years younger than Inari, the amount of chakra inside Yu's body was already close to the level of a Genin.
And, with the modification of the Devil Fruit.
Yu's body, though still not fully developed, was already much stronger than Inari's.
A Devil Fruit user, a superhuman, naturally surpassed regular people.
"Don't get too cocky!"
Facing Yu's calm and indifferent expression.
Inari felt an intense rage welling up for no apparent reason.
The top student of the Ninja Academy was unable to deal with a four or five-year-old child.
If word got out, those guys in the Ninja Academy would surely make fun of him.
Bang!!
Accompanied by a crisp explosion.
A cloud of white smoke dispersed.
Inari, whose fist was grabbed by Yu, suddenly turned into a piece of wood!
It's a substitution jutsu!!
Seeing this abrupt change in front of him.
Yu was momentarily taken aback. Actually, this was the first time he had witnessed ninja techniques being used.
Substitution jutsu—one of the most basic ninja techniques taught at the Ninja Academy, allowing one to instantaneously switch places with an inanimate object or another living being to avoid an attack.
"Die, you little brat!!"
With a furious roar.
Inari had already appeared behind Yu.
In his hand, he held a kunai that he had snatched, slashing fiercely at Yu's delicate face.
"No!!"
Seeing this perilous situation.
Urushi, who was nearby, was suddenly horrified.
They never expected that a simple fight among children would escalate to this extent.
"Why..."
"Why..."
Turning to face the sharp kunai coming at him.
For some reason, a sudden feeling of annoyance and anger welled up in Yu's heart.
"Like the headmistress, who travels to various countries..."
"How many times has she risked her life to bring back intelligence for the village..."
"Clearly, we have already been pushed to the outskirts of the village..."
Recalling the gentle yet determined face of Yakushi Nono.
In Yu's eyes, the prosperity of Konoha before him was obtained through the sacrifice of countless individuals like Yakushi Nono.
"Why do you guys, who clearly know nothing, trample on this hard-won peace like this?!"
His amber eyes gradually took on a tinge of red.
Looking at Inari's face, which had a trace of a smirk.
Yu could clearly feel the power of the devil raging within him.
"Bang!"
A distinct sound of rupture.
With blood splattering, everyone present froze.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
Along with a scream akin to a slaughtered pig.
Inari's body collapsed on the ground.
The hand holding the kunai had been forcefully pierced by an unknown object, turning into a mass of bloody flesh.
"If you make another sound..."
"The next strike will go through your head."
A calm and indifferent voice echoed.
Inari's pig-like screams suddenly stopped.
Seeing Yu standing in front of Inari.
The index finger of his right hand was gently raised, aiming at Inari's forehead like a gun.
String Line—an essential ability of the String String Fruit.
By raising the index finger and retracting the other fingers, it allowed for the high-speed firing of threads created from the fingertip, much like shooting a gun.
Its destructive power was strong enough to penetrate bones with a single strike, even if the opponent was at a distance.
With further training, it could even generate a force that could make a building explode.
"No, don't!"
"Don't kill me!"
Although Yu making a gun-like gesture with an empty hand might seem ridiculous.
But faced with Yu's index finger aimed at his forehead, Inari's face was filled with fear.
Just a moment ago, Yu fired a thread from his empty hand that pierced his palm like a bullet.
Accompanied by Inari's terrified expression, an unpleasant smell permeated the air.
A pool of yellowish liquid flowed out from between Inari's legs, wetting the ground beneath Yu's feet.
Although he was a student at the Ninja Academy, he was still just a seven or eight-year-old child.
Inari had... wet himself.
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