The next morning, Shen stormed into the Uchiha Kendo Academy carrying his modified Chakra Channeling Blade, radiating an aggressive aura.
"Don't waste my time. Bring out your real weapons," he declared, drawing his sword and pointing it at the fifty Uchiha clan members present.
"Shua!"
Illuminated by sunlight filtering through the window glass, fifty uniquely crafted blades simultaneously gleamed with a silver-white luster.
"Shiny? Sure. But none of you shine brighter than me!" After speaking, Shen activated his Sharingan and charged forward.
He swung his blade, turned around, then struck again.
Five or six weaker opponents in the front row had their weapons cleanly severed in one motion.
Shen slid his Chakra Channeling Blade back into its sheath and pointed at the remaining forty or so Uchiha clansmen. "Hate. Hate your own powerlessness and weakness, for even your weapons failed to withstand my strike."
"ROAR!!!" The roar of rage instantly filled the entire kendo dojo.
Seeing his goal achieved, Shen took up a ready stance for drawing his sword. After three years, his kenjutsu surpassed even that of the academy's master, Musashi.
[Drawing Slash!]
From himself as the center point, he slashed a semicircle in front of him at incredible speed.
"Ka!" He slid the sword back into its sheath.
Of the forty who desperately resisted, only about thirty still held intact weapons.
The Drawing Slash relied purely on explosive physical strength rather than speed to release a blade aura.
Without flashy elemental enhancements, it was a simple yet devastating technique.
"Your strength is still far from sufficient," Shen expressed dissatisfaction that merely thirty-some managed to block his attack.
These fifty individuals were all part of the younger generation of the Uchiha clan, with the oldest already twenty-six years old.
A ninja must fight repeatedly on the battlefield to truly improve combat prowess.
But if one lacks fundamental skills, they're just cannon fodder on the battlefield.
Perhaps when it came to genjutsu and ninjutsu, Shen couldn't match these fifty clan members, but in kenjutsu, with his extraordinary memory and physical control abilities, he could claim to be among the top three, if not number one, in Konoha.
"Again!" Ignoring the thirty resentful red eyes glaring at him, Shen once again took up a drawing slash stance.
Several minutes later, only twelve people remained standing.
"Haah... haah... Brother Wuzhe, did he swallow an Explosive Tag? Why's he hitting this hard?" Wheezed Wen, exhausted to the point he couldn't even maintain his usual deadpan expression.
"Sensei, I don't think he's gone all out yet," even Musashi's apprentice, the laid-back Uchiha Kage, seemed to have his competitive fire lit.
Wuzhe tightened his grip on his obsidian-black longsword, ignoring the words of the other two.
"You have time to chat, better focus on recovering energy," suddenly Shen's voice appeared beside Wen.
Remaining completely alert, Wuzhe swiftly brought down his sword.
"Good reflexes."
In Wuzhe's eyes, a powerful white light descended sharply from above onto his left shoulder.
"Clang!" Wen barely blocked in time, intercepting the Chakra Channeling Blade crackling with white lightning.
"Is that the ability to channel elemental chakra into his blade?" Watching from afar while sitting cross-legged, Musashi instantly recognized Shen's technique.
The remaining ten saw an opening and swung their swords toward the figure bathed in lightning.
"From the moment you allowed me to close the distance, the outcome was already decided." Shen's words had barely left his lips when he returned the Chakra Channeling Blade to its sheath.
His crimson Sharingan instantly predicted the trajectories of all ten incoming blades. With a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, he swiftly drew his sword again and then resheathed it.
"Crack!"
In the next instant, the ten blades swinging through the air sliced apart like butter being cut through, each cleanly snapped in half.
Unlike the blue and purple hues of Sasuke's lightning-imbued chakra, Shen, who favored white and black, chose white as it came more naturally to him.
"You two — are you ready to concede?"
"No way!"
"Then why aren't you attacking yet?"
Shen's question reignited the fighting spirit in Wuzhe and Wenzhe.
The two rapidly slashed toward either side of him with such force that ripples formed in the very air.
"This is the power of the Uchiha Clan!" [Overclock activated.] The moment Shen shouted this aloud, his Sharingan eyes widened, and his thoughts accelerated infinitely.
[Overclock!] This newly developed ability had emerged only recently. By stimulating his brain and body with large quantities of identical attribute chakra, he could greatly boost all of his physical abilities for a short time.
Of course, there were serious side effects too.
Wuzhe and Wenzhe didn't even see him move. As they swung their swords at each other, suddenly their strikes felt like they hit nothing but air.
Shen moved so fast that even the additional forty-seven Sharingan pairs couldn't track him—his sword had already cleaved theirs in half.
And now, the unavoidable side effect appeared: a numbness spreading across his entire body, unaffected even by Wind Natures Chakra.
"What amazing speed. This technique alone could rival Konoha's finest sword art," Musashi silently observed.
"Let's continue tomorrow," Shen said, as he slowly made his way toward the entrance of the kendo dojo while enduring intense numbness.
As he departed, the fifty Uchiha warriors collectively exhaled in relief.
"The Second Young Master really is this strong. But then... why did he act up so much when he was little?"
"Who can say? Maybe genius minds just work differently."
"Sigh, I wonder when we will finally have the strength to defeat him."
"Keep pushing yourselves. If all fifty of us combined still can't take down one child... how can we hold our heads high around the village afterwards?"
Rather than discourage them, Shen's overwhelming display of swordsmanship only ignited their fighting spirit even further.
Outside the Uchiha Kendo Academy, two Anbu agents were deep in conversation.
"That final slash—I'm not sure I could block it cleanly, even at my best."
"I suspect among everyone currently in Konoha, only Lord Third and Lady Mito might stand a chance. Truly a terrifying individual."
"Qing, was he really as incredible as you described?"
"Xiang, I'm merely drawing conclusions from the available intelligence," Qing replied, handing over a small notebook to the other.
Xiang reluctantly opened the notebook despite the frown hidden beneath his mask, and as he read on, his expression became increasingly odd.
"Qing, what exactly do you mean by 'might gather followers and attempt to overthrow Lord Third's government'?"
Even though DJ Shen had been called the Konoha Troublemaker since childhood, could he really do something like this?
Qing gave no explanation, only a quiet "Take it or leave it."
Xiang, clearly disgusted behind his mask, chose to hand the booklet back without a word, while internally rejecting—ten thousand times over—the so-called great DJ Shen's attempt to undermine the Third Hokage.
It was clear that the allure of electronic music had already seeped into many key corners of Konoha.
Seven years after the first beats hit Konoha, no one could say for sure how many had fallen under the spell of electronic music.
After all, even the Third Hokage sometimes played hooky and slipped on some headphones to lose himself in the beat.
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