The Sharingan Hyuga

Time flew by. As Asta and his team were busy with missions, Shuichi was summoned to the clover castle to meet King Lemiel formally.

As he stands before the king and greeted him in the throne's room, The nobles, as well as royals who were standing aside, looked at him curiously as it was the first time, they saw this captain who is rumored to be the strongest magic knight with his creation magic and time magic as well as unique eye magic.

Although they heard he was only 16 years old but seeing him personally surprised them as his demeanor is that of an a_d_u_l_t from a royal family even though he was a foreigner like Yami.

Only two people have a sour mood while staring at him. One is an elder from Silva family who controls the finances of the kingdom and the other is Damnatio Kira, former prince, and cousin of the previous dethroned king who is the chairman of Magic Parliament which oversees criminal trials.

Lemiel spoke, "We got an invitation from the Heart Kingdom to attend their festival. I'm assigning you as the envoy of our Kingdom as the princess personally requested for you since you saved her life twice".

Shuichi bowed and accepted King's decree for formality and stood aside with others. After all of them are over, Lemiel requested to talk to him alone. He asked, "so, that matter I asked before, did you manage to find it?".

Shuichi replied, "I found their hideout but I'm sorry I can't tell you the location. There are things which can't be known until it is the right time. But in the meantime, I will pass on some information.

They aren't planning to summon the devil but resurrecting all the elves which died that day. As Elves were highly blessed with mana, I guess they will resurrect in the magic knights or nobles who were blessed with mana if they manage to collect all the 10 stones.

So far, I think they have already collected 7 of them. One is with Julius and the other one is with House Kira, the last one is at Seabed Temple. If I give this information to Julius, he will just ask me to collect it since I have already located it. That's why I'm mentioning it to you.

Just pass the info to him when I was gone to the Heart Kingdom". Lemiel replied, "fine, I won't ask you why since you probably have your reasons. I guess I'll just trust you.".

Shuichi looked at him and thought, "well, I'm sorry but I can't tell you that the Devil will also be unsealed when the elves resurrect. As for whether he will summon his physical body from the underworld depends on the willpower of Yuno".

A week later, He departed to the Heart Kingdom. After he was gone, Lemiel passed the information to Julius suspected that it has something to do with Shuichi for a second but removed that thought away and later thought it just a coincidence and gave the mission to Black Bulls.

Meanwhile, Asta, Noelle, and Xerx reached the entrance of Grace town which is in the border of Clover kingdom and Diamond kingdom. When they stepped into the town, Asta and Noelle immediately covered their noses and Xerx frowned as it reeks of blood.

Royal Capital, Heart Kingdom.

As everyone is working hard at their missions, Shuichi leisurely walking while accompanying the princess who is in disguise around the streets. He found a zero stage mage who is also her childhood friend following them in shadows.

Loropechika apologized, "please, don't think bad. It's not that we don't trust you. It's just she's my childhood friend who is a bit protective of me. Ever since she found out about the incident, she began to follow me everywhere for my safety".

Shuichi sighed, "your water spirit Undine is already glaring me warily, now this... ". Then, she concentrated and contacted Undine which normally stays when she was away from the grimoire protecting the kingdom from outside invasion at all times.

A while later, as the feeling disappeared, Shuichi thought the princess resolved the matter. Then, both of them began to roam around to check out the stalls. After enjoying a peaceful date till the evening, just like everyone else, He laid on the grass while looking at the sky.

He looked at her and gestured her to sit beside him, which she did while blushing as she found out there are only couples everywhere in the park.

He silently stared at the stars and thought, "before I didn't care about it much but seeing these stars make me think are they all different worlds? might be so. Who knows".

As Loropechika laid down beside him, as she is silently staring at the stars, she asked, "do you enjoy staring at the sky and the stars peacefully?". He replied, "not really". Then, she asked, "Then, what are you thinking while gazing at them?".

Shuichi mumbled, "nothing, just wondering whether I can reach them or not". She replied, "huh? what are you talking about?". He shook his head and silently stared at the sky and closed his eyes.

He activated his Tensei-RinneSharingan and looked into the Naruto world.

He saw Ino and Sakura sparring. Both were fighting intensely destroying everything in the surroundings without any care of training grounds dumbfounding Konohamaru and his friends who were spectating the spar.

In the end, Sakura won by a slight margin as Ino admitted she lost as her chakra reserves got empty. Sakura spoke, "Nah, you just held back. If you had used that mind control jutsu. I might have been defeated at the start". Ino replied with a smile, "well, it's not like you used that Strenght of a Hundred Seal. Never thought there would come a time when I feel jealous of you".

As they were talking about various things, Hinata reached there. "Hey Hinata, what are you doing here?". Hinata replied, "Hokage sama summoned me for a mission. She also told to bring the two of you along".

Shuichi stared at Ino for a while and blurted out, "not bad. This girl has changed a lot in various ways". As he shook his head after remembering a disturbing thing, He deactivated the eye and shook his head while smiling, then suddenly he felt chill in the surroundings,

he woke up, "it seems temperature dropped quite a bit. Princess. Let's go back....". As he turned towards her, he was taken back as she asked, "Who was that?".

As he was confused, she suddenly calmed down and flushed by the changed of her behavior and apologized, "I'm sorry about that. Something came up urgently. We'll talk later". As she dashed off hurriedly, she slipped and fell".

As he asked, "are you okay?". She nodded and stood up and ran away quickly leaving Shuichi in confusion, "huh? what is this?". In the shadows, a girl who was observing them until a while ago shook her head while she followed her, "she is hopeless...".

Meanwhile at Grace town, as Asta, Noelle ad Xerx roamed around the town which reeks of blood, Noelle spoke, "It's strange. I can't see anyone here. It is so empty but where is this smell coming from?"

Xerx then said, "Judging by the smell, It seemed to be fresh and If I'm not wrong....Careful.." suddenly as they jumped sideways, vines erupted from the ground and caught Noelle while the other two dodged the trap successfully.

A Giant Plant with a monster head also erupted while trying to eat her as Asta successfully rescued her by cutting into half easily with his Anti-magic sword. Noelle just within these few seconds became pale as her blood got absorbed by the vines earlier at a rapid rate.

Else where in the town, in an open place, a young boy who was just as old as Asta and his hands are filled with blood standing before a statue which resembles a strange monster and there are more than a hundred corpses spread around which all of them are dried as their blood got completely s_u_c_k_e_d by the statue.

Just then, he stopped and stared in some direction, "intruders? well, it doesn't matter but the blood I received this time sure seems like very high quality. It is possible to awaken it by sacrificing them". he was smiling big evilly while l_i_c_k_i_n_g the blood to clean his hands full of blood