As Uchiha Shinji finished speaking, his Mangekyo Sharingan flared with a strange, ominous light!
"Your eyes..."
Enmu froze for a moment, the madness on his face slowly replaced by fear.
Although he didn't know what Uchiha Shinji's red eyes represented, as a demon skilled in mental abilities, he instinctively felt danger!
Uchiha Shinji smirked.
In the dreamscape, he indeed couldn't use ninjutsu, but a dream related to the mental world also fell within the domain of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
To be honest, he wasn't great at genjutsu.
If it had been another Uchiha skilled in constructing illusions with the Mangekyo, like Uchiha Itachi or Uchiha Shisui, they would've already figured out how to break Enmu's Blood Demon Art.
But even so, Uchiha Shinji had started to figure out a method.
He glanced at the surrounding streets, which were almost identical to reality, and chuckled: "This is great, but it's missing a little atmosphere!"
Then, with a snap of his fingers.
In an instant, the silver moon hanging in the night sky morphed into the pattern of a Mangekyo Sharingan, and the silver-white moonlight turned into a blood-red glow!
"How is this possible!?"
Enmu was dumbfounded.
He had never seen someone capable of altering his dreamscape before—never!
Uchiha Shinji withdrew his gaze from the sky and coldly looked at Enmu: "Dojutsu is far from being an inconvenient thing!"
As soon as he spoke, strange black flames suddenly ignited on Enmu's body.
"What is this? Ah... Ahh..."
Instantly, Enmu's agonized screams echoed throughout the entire dreamscape.
In reality.
Seeing the demon with several drums embedded in its body approaching, Karin's heart raced.
"Am I going to die?"
She backed away, still carrying Uchiha Shinji, even in this dire situation, refusing to abandon him, who remained unconscious.
The drum demon sniffed the air, its eyes suddenly bulging wide: "I can sense power in your blood. If I eat you, I will become even stronger!"
Karin's skin crawled. She tried to escape while carrying Uchiha Shinji, but when she pushed open the door, instead of finding the yard, she found herself in another unfamiliar room.
"!?"
Karin froze.
The drum demon hit one of its drums, closing in on her fast.
"This demon can manipulate space?"
Already terrified, Karin became even more horrified after realizing this.
Among the shinobi she knew, only the Fourth Hokage, who shone brightly in the Third Shinobi World War, had been able to manipulate space.
So, in her eyes, the ability to control space was a mark of immense power, something far beyond what a student at the ninja academy like her could contend with.
Thus, she desperately ran around the mansion, frantically carrying Uchiha Shinji as she stumbled through corridors and rooms, trying to escape but never able to find a way out, as if trapped in a labyrinth.
After running for a long time, Karin, still carrying Uchiha Shinji, finally collapsed from exhaustion.
The drum demon was in no hurry. It watched Karin with amusement: "Run, why aren't you running anymore?"
Karin, struggling to drag Uchiha Shinji, backed into the corner of the room.
The drum demon licked its lips, letting out a grotesque laugh.
Now cornered, Karin huddled on the floor, hands clutching her head: "It's over... I'm really going to be eaten this time!"
The drum demon soon loomed over her.
It gazed down at the trembling Karin, curled up in a ball: "I love it when my food is in despair. It makes them taste so much better!"
Drip... drip...
Listening to the sound of the drum demon's drool hitting the floor, Karin covered her ears in fear. At seven years old, she had no idea how to face such a dire situation.
"Ah, I can't hold back any longer!"
The drum demon opened its maw wide and lunged at Karin.
As she felt the sickening scent of blood closing in, Karin squeezed her eyes shut: "So, I'm really going to die? Maybe this way, I can finally be free..."
Boom!
Suddenly, the pain Karin was expecting didn't come. Instead, a deafening crash echoed in her ears!
Cautiously, she opened her eyes and found that Uchiha Shinji, who had been unconscious, was now standing.
Moreover, an orange-yellow chakra construct had emerged from Uchiha Shinji's body, forming into a massive skeletal arm that smashed the drum demon into the wall.
Relieved, Karin cried out in joy: "Leader!"
Uchiha Shinji waved his hand dismissively: "Sorry, I dozed off for a bit!"
Tears welled up in Karin's eyes: "I'm so glad you woke up!"
Uchiha Shinji glanced at the drum demon, now embedded in the wall, and reassured Karin: "Don't worry, the battle from here on out is mine to handle."
The drum demon crawled out of the rubble, glaring at Uchiha Shinji: "I'll devour you!"
Karin suddenly remembered something and shouted: "Leader, this demon can control space by beating its drums! Every room in this mansion is under its control, be careful!"
Uchiha Shinji smirked: "So what if it controls space? It's just one building!"
Roar!
With that, and a mighty roar, the previously single-armed Susanoo grew larger, quickly transforming into a towering, armored giant!
Boom!
In an instant, accompanied by an earth-shattering explosion, the colossal Susanoo smashed through the ceiling, tearing the entire mansion apart from the inside out!
Standing amidst the ruins of the mansion, the drum demon stared in awe at the godlike figure of the Susanoo: "Y-You... what are you?"
It wasn't the only one stunned; even Karin, standing beside Uchiha Shinji, was dumbfounded by what she was witnessing.
Uchiha Shinji then asked: "Where's Haku?"
Snapping out of her daze, Karin quickly replied: "He was holding off several demons by himself to cover for me earlier. I'm not sure how he's doing now."
"I see..."
Uchiha Shinji's face darkened. Without another word, he manipulated the Susanoo to grab the drum demon and then clenched its fist tightly.
Crack.
Under the crushing force of the Susanoo, the drum demon's struggles were in vain. It was instantly smashed into pieces.
Immediately afterward, Uchiha Shinji's eyes glinted, and a ball of black flames—Amaterasu—ignited on the drum demon's remains, burning them thoroughly.
The entire process took only a few moments.
Karin watched in disbelief. She hadn't even witnessed the supposed infinite regeneration ability of the demons—Uchiha Shinji had already turned it to ashes.
Thanks to her superior sensory abilities, she quickly realized that the black flames Uchiha Shinji had summoned weren't ordinary Fire Release.
Cough... cough...
After defeating the drum demon, Uchiha Shinji coughed twice, blood spurting from his mouth.
Seeing this, Karin immediately offered her arm: "Lord Shinji, let me heal you!"
Uchiha Shinji didn't hesitate. He pulled his mask halfway off and bit into Karin's arm.
When Enmu had dragged him into the dreamscape earlier, the demons' ambush had broken several of his ribs, leaving him severely injured.
Activating Susanoo and Amaterasu just now had been done through sheer pain.
After a brief recovery, Uchiha Shinji wasted no time. He grabbed Karin, lifting her under his arm: "Which direction is Haku in?"
Karin closed her eyes, sensing the area for a moment, and pointed into the distance.