Within the Tsukuyomi space.
Itachi Uchiha drove his blade straight into Sasuke's body, then pulled it out and stabbed him again.
Squelch!
Squelch!
Squelch!
After stabbing him three times in a row, Itachi Uchiha finally stopped.
"Before the Mangekyō, even the most powerful Three-Tomoe is useless."
Hearing Itachi Uchiha's words, Sasuke fell silent. In the past, he had still refused to believe it, always feeling that his ocular power was no weaker than the Mangekyō's—especially since the self in his memories had killed Orochimaru and defeated Deidara. It could be said that his confidence had swollen to its peak.
But after experiencing this battle, he had completely understood the gap between the two. A single Genjutsu alone could instantly finish him.
Though he had witnessed the power of the Mangekyō, Sasuke still asked the question buried in his heart. This was also the true reason he had sought out Itachi. "So why did you massacre the clan?"
Looking at his younger brother, who was still clinging stubbornly to this question, Itachi Uchiha began to think deeply about how to resolve it.
There were several choices laid out before Itachi now. The first was to not tell Sasuke the truth and let him continue developing and growing on his own. He trusted that his self in the Ninja World would arrange everything properly. As the Future Self continued to merge with him, Sasuke would surely follow his arrangements, obtain the eternal Mangekyō, and protect Konoha.
He would receive a story Itachi had prepared for his younger brother, but the risk within it was whether the Ninja World would truly act according to his arrangements.
Although Itachi believed that he had considered very thorough fallback plans and countermeasures, after his own death, whether everything would proceed exactly as he had envisioned was