Evening, in the Uchiha clan territory, the current Uchiha Clan Chief Uchiha Homura residence, in a certain underground basement.
A sharp whipping sound rang out.
The stooped Uchiha Homura stood under the candlestick, watching coldly as a six-year-old girl in front of her received the punishment of whipping.
The girl was none other than Uchiha Chizuru, and the one who was whipping her with a whip was the middle-aged man Kirito had seen, whose name was Uchiha Kari.
Under Uchiha Kari's control, the leather whip mercilessly struck Chizuru's back, leaving a whip mark on it that oozed blood.
"Chizuru, do you know why you are being punished today."
After Uchiha Homura completed 20 lashes, Uchiha Homura instantly opened his Sharingan eyes and stared at Chizuru with his 3-tomoe Sharingan eyes and stated.
"Because I lost."
Chizuru replied with a stubborn face as she held back her tears, facing Uchiha Homura's 3-tomoe Sharingan eyes with her one-tomoe Sharingan eye fearlessly.
"Wrong, very wrong."
Uchiha Homura exclaimed, the 3-tomoe Sharingan in his eyes spinning rapidly.
In the next moment, Chizuru instantly let out a miserable scream, holding her head and kneeling on the ground, her eyes revealing deep fear.
"Stand up, I'll ask you one more time, why are you being punished?"
Uchiha Homura ignored the pitiful appearance of a six year old girl at that moment and said coldly.
Chizuru sniffed, struggled to get up from the ground, stared at Uchiha Homura with hateful eyes, and answered, "Because I'm not strong enough."
"That's right, right answer, you're not strong enough, as a genius of the Uchiha, you actually lost to an orphan in an orphanage, what a disgrace."
Uchiha Homura said sarcastically.
"What did you say?"
Chizuru said in surprise.
Uchiha Homura didn't answer the question she wanted to know and simply whisked his sleeve away.
A lack of reply was an answer.
Chizuru instantly sat down on the floor in a state of disbelief, she had thought that Kirito would be a genius ninja secretly cultivated by some shinobi clan and that she had lost in a moment of carelessness, but the truth was surprisingly so cruel.
As a genius carefully cultivated by the Uchiha, she had actually lost to a nameless orphan.
It was indeed a disgrace.
An intense shame suddenly surged into Chizuru's heart.
"Miss, a momentary success or failure does not represent the future, the important thing is to know the shame, your talent is not inferior to that person, in the future ..."
Uchiha Kari somewhat unable to bear this appearance of Chizuru, stepped forward to comfort.
But before the words were finished, Chizuru looked at him angrily and chided, "Shut up, are you underestimating me, let me out."
A loss is a loss, she, Uchiha Chizuru, did not need the comfort of others.
Uchiha Kari obediently left, but his face wasn't the least bit unhappy, instead, a small smile appeared.
"Next time, I will never, never lose, never, dad, mom, I ..."
Waiting for Uchiha Kari to leave, Chizuru lowered her head and muttered to herself with a stubborn face, but as she said that, tears involuntarily dripped down from her chin.
Meanwhile, above the basement, Uchiha Homura looked at Uchiha Kari who came out of the basement and said expressionlessly, " How is the condition?"
"Miss will pull herself together."
Uchiha Kari replied respectfully.
"Very well, have a medical ninja come over later to treat Chizuru, and also, the medicinal bath cannot be stopped today."
Uchiha Homura said coldly.
"Ha~"
Uchiha Kari bowed and replied.
In the next moment, he used his Body-Flicker Technique to disappear in front of Uchiha Homura's eyes.
Uchiha Homura continued to look in the direction of the basement for a moment before coming outside and raising his head to look at the kind of poignant curved moon in the night sky with his Sharingan eyes.
"Chizuru, you will be the pillar of the Uchiha and lead the clan to continue to live tenaciously ..."
...
Inside the clan grounds, the clan leader's family compound, in the land of the Thousand Hands, Nawaki was struggling to punch and kick a wooden stake, judging by his already bruised fists, he had been training here for quite some time now.
Soon, he couldn't hold on any longer, and lay on the ground panting heavily while his mouth kept yelling, "Darn it darn it darn it darn it darn it ..."
A strong sense of shame was spreading in Nawaki's heart at the moment.
Thinking about what happened this afternoon, he was so ashamed that he couldn't wait to find a crack to drill into, he had the audacity to ask Kirito to become his subordinate in the future, obviously he was super weak.
After being teased from start to finish by the black-haired girl from the Uchiha clan, Nawaki finally realized just how weak he really was.
Although he was called a loser by the other party, he couldn't find a single rebuttal.
As the grandson of the First Hokage, Nawaki was favored by thousands of people since he was a child, of course he was proud and proud in his heart, and he was also very proud, although because of his good tutelage and personality, he usually did not put up any kind of a stance as the grandson of the Hokage, but he truly believed that he would definitely become a Hokage in the future.
However, today's incident completely shattered that pride in his heart.
Kirito and Chizuru were clearly both the same age as him, but compared to the two of them, he was really too useless, perhaps even inferior to Inuzuka Mou, who wanted to become hokage as much as he did.
"I can't continue like this, I must become stronger, I'm a man who wants to become a Hokage in the future, I absolutely must do it."
Nawaki suddenly exclaimed.
Although he wasn't quite sure exactly what he was going to do when he became Hokage, he knew that the Hokage's responsibility was to protect everyone in the village, and for that reason, he couldn't do it without being powerful enough.
"Hmph, someone who only talks big and can't even do his best in his usual training is not qualified to become a hokage."
Suddenly, a voice appeared from the nearby shadows.
When Nawaki heard this voice, he instantly jumped up from the ground and looked somewhat fearfully at the red-haired woman in front of him who was coming out of the shadows.
This was a very beautiful woman, she had two ball hair tied on both sides of the back of her head, her eyebrows had a diamond shaped mark, her eyes were deep and vicissitudes, she looked very young, but her body revealed a kind of twilight characteristic of the elderly.
She was none other than the current most prestigious senior citizen of the Konoha ninja, the pinnacle of the Senju clan, the wife of the First Hokage, Uzumaki Mito.
"Grandma, why are you here, it can't be that you've been here since just now."
Nawaki shrunk his head, trembling like a mouse seeing a cat.
The person he was usually most afraid to see was Uzumaki Mito, it wasn't that Uzumaki Mito didn't love him, on the contrary, She loved him very, very much.
However, the way of love makes him unable to endure, every day let him learn how to learn the sealing art, but also said that this is the name of love.
As a result of a long period of time, he will now have a headache when he looks at the sealing art, and then cried and cried, and this only from the sea of sufferings.
He was now afraid that Uzumaki Mito had just listened to his words and then forced him to learn sealing arts.
Sealing jutsu or whatever, let it go to hell, he, Nawaki, could still become an outstanding hokage even if he didn't know any sealing jutsu.
" who has time to keep watching a moron spouting nonsense, I heard someone say you hadn't been eating, so I came over to take a look, I didn't expect to hear someone talking a big game."
Uzumaki Mito said with a disgusted look at Nawaki.
"I'm not talking big words, grandma, I will definitely become Hokage in the future."
Seeing that Mito didn't mention the sealing jutsu, Nawaki felt that he was good again and said defiantly.
Seeing this, Mito's eyes narrowed and did nothing but flick his finger against Nawaki's forehead.
"Thud."
In the next moment, Nawaki's entire body spun in the air and flew out, eventually collapsing a wall in the courtyard.
"It hurts!"
Nawaki shouted as he climbed out of the pile of rocks and covered his reddened forehead with both hands.
Then, Mito's voice came to his ears, "Starting tomorrow, the sealing jutsu will have to start practicing again."
"Daaaaah!!!"
When Nawaki heard this, his headache intensified and he let out a pig-killing scream.
Mito didn't care about Nawaki's miserable screams, and directly turned to leave, she raised her head to look at the waning moon in the night sky, and sighed softly, "Hashirama, I can't hold on much longer, but I'll hold on until the end ..."