'A long-lost clansman?'
When he first heard the other's words, Shisui didn't believe it. But after seeing the three swirling tomoe in the other's eyes, his suspicion lessened slightly.
He didn't suspect that Lexon's Sharingan was transplanted.
Because he knew that without Uchiha blood, a transplanted Sharingan could not be freely deactivated or activated.
And he had already seen the scene of the other's ordinary eyes changing into the Sharingan just now.
So Shisui felt that the other was indeed a member of the Uchiha clan.
But even so, he did not let down his guard.
The other's stance was still unclear, so he couldn't rashly relax his vigilance.
"What do you want to do?" Shisui asked.
"Return to the Uchiha clan," Lexon said directly.
Shisui considered it.
'If he is a clansman, bringing him back to the clan is certainly not a problem... but I'm afraid he might be a spy from another village...'
'But I should still take him back and let the people in the village judge... If he has no special purpose, he can return to the clan. If he has bad intentions, there will be people in the village to stop him.'
"No need to think so much. You should be able to tell that I'm stronger than you. If I had malicious intent, you wouldn't still be standing here unharmed," Lexon said flatly, looking at the pensive Shisui.
[Heart of a Child] activated.
The skill he had signed in for from Tanjiro, which enhanced the sincerity and credibility of his words to others, finally came in handy.
'He has a point.'
Listening to the other's words, Shisui couldn't help but think so in his heart.
Immediately, he put the kunai back into his pouch and said to Lexon, "Follow me. I'll take you back."
Lexon and Shisui moved through the dense forest...
Shisui used the standard ninja tree-leaping posture, and Lexon, finding it interesting, copied his movements. Although his posture was far from standard, his speed was not the slightest bit slower than Shisui's.
'Uchiha...'
As they traveled, Lexon's gaze fell on Shisui out of the corner of his eye.
'Judging by Shisui's current physique and the fact that his Sharingan hasn't awakened the Mangekyo yet... there should still be some time before the Uchiha plan their coup and get wiped out.'
'Then what time is it now? The Third Shinobi World War?'
'It should be.'
Lexon's thoughts turned, roughly determining the current time point in Naruto.
'Then I'll stay with the Uchiha for a while first...'
'I'll sign in for chakra and stuff first...'
Just like that, he decided on his course of action for the near future.
After about ten minutes of travel, Lexon followed Shisui to a gathering point.
"Shisui!" A ninja standing outside the gathering point acting as a lookout greeted Shisui upon seeing him. Then, seeing the unidentified Lexon behind him, he asked, "Who is he?"
"I encountered him while on a mission. According to him, he's a long-lost clansman," Shisui replied.
"Long-lost?" The lookout ninja frowned. "Our Uchiha clan has no long-lost members, unless they are traitors."
Clearly, this ninja was also from the Uchiha clan.
Rather, this gathering point should be entirely composed of Uchiha clan members.
Ever since the Nine-Tails rampaged in Konoha a few months ago and the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, died, although the Uchiha clan was a part of Konoha, a rift had formed between them and the other clans and ninjas of the village.
Because, up until now, only the Sharingan had been known to be capable of controlling the Nine-Tails, which inevitably cast suspicion on the Uchiha clan.
Therefore, the Uchiha clan's gathering points were mostly filled with Uchiha members.
"I don't belong to any ninja village," Lexon said to the lookout ninja.
His eyes also instantly changed to the three-tomoe Sharingan, confirming that he was an Uchiha.
He currently had no chakra and was relying solely on his physical stamina to maintain the Sharingan state. However, his physique was terrifyingly strong, and his stamina abundant, so even keeping it active for several hours wouldn't be a problem.
The ninja couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw the three swirling tomoe in Lexon's eyes.
Currently, not many Uchiha clansmen could awaken their Sharingan to three tomoe. Most clansmen his age were still at the one or two tomoe stage.
And for someone Shisui's age to have awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan already made him an absolute genius of the Uchiha.
"His strength is much greater than mine," Shisui spoke up at this moment.
He had witnessed Lexon's speed, which was far superior to his own. He hadn't even seen any trace of chakra flow, which meant that the other had achieved such speed purely through taijutsu. Therefore, in Shisui's heart, his assessment of Lexon's strength was very high.
But Shisui had actually overestimated Lexon, because he didn't have any chakra at all.
The lookout ninja was surprised again. 'Much stronger than Shisui?'
Shisui had already made a name for himself in the war and was known as "Shisui of the Body Flicker." He was solidly at the level of a special jonin. To be much stronger than Shisui meant he had to be at least a jonin?
'Awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan, has strength and talent...'
'As long as he's not a spy or didn't defect for a major crime... the clan should accept him...'
And so, his wariness lessened slightly. He said to Shisui and Lexon, "Go on in. Go find the jonin leader first."
After he let them pass, Lexon followed Shisui to the outside of a tent.
"Are you there, Mr. Genka?" Shisui called out to the tent.
"Shisui..." A steady voice came from inside the tent, and immediately after, a middle-aged man with a resolute face walked out.
"Who is this?" Uchiha Genka stared at Lexon and asked. He remembered the face of everyone in the gathering point clearly, but not Lexon's.
Shisui repeated his earlier words, and Lexon once again displayed his Sharingan.
"Is that so..." Uchiha Genka carefully examined Lexon's face, then said, "He's not one of the defectors."
He was already over forty years old, considered relatively old in the Uchiha clan. At least in his memory, there was no one with Lexon's face among the Uchiha defectors.
"But he is indeed our clansman," Uchiha Genka looked at the sinisterly swirling three-tomoe Sharingan in Lexon's eyes and concluded. "We'll take him back to the village together later. If he really is a long-lost clansman, he should return to the clan."
Because Lexon also possessed the Sharingan, Uchiha Genka did not use the Sharingan's hypnotic method to cast genjutsu on him. After all, Lexon's Sharingan could also see through illusions and break genjutsu.
Of course, if Uchiha Itachi were to use the powerful genjutsu "Tsukuyomi," which he would gain after awakening his Mangekyo Sharingan in the future, on Lexon, it was likely that the current Lexon would fall.
After all, his mental resistance was not strong right now.
And in Lexon's estimation, his current normal combat power was probably on the verge of jonin level. Even if he activated his Mark, he should only reach the lower-to-middle jonin level. If he further activated his demonization, he should be able to reach the peak jonin level, similar to mid-series Kakashi without the Mangekyo. Furthermore, relying on his immortal characteristic, he might even be able to fight against the lowest level Kage-class powerhouses, but that would be the most he could do.
The power gap between the world of Demon Slayer and the world of Naruto was still quite large.
The top-tier strength signed in from Demon Slayer was destined to not be enough to dominate the world of Naruto.
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