Caw, caw!
Inside the classically styled courtyard, a pitch-black crow flew down and landed on Itachi's shoulder. In the crow's eye socket was an eye with a peculiar pattern.
The eye locked onto the area where Wang Ming stood, and an unfathomable power surged toward Wang Ming through that line of sight.
"Is that Shisui's Mangekyo?" Wang Ming muttered to himself, his eyes then plunging into a daze.
At that moment,
Itachi's body relaxed, as though all his strength had been drained away. "Setsuna! You are completely right. The conflict between the Uchiha Clan and the village is indeed the fault of Brother Shisui and me."
"It is a mistake caused by the narrow-mindedness of Brother Shisui and me."
"However..."
"The mistakes made by Brother Shisui and me, I, Itachi Uchiha, will go all out to make amends for and atone for."
"Yet..."
"I absolutely cannot tolerate your existence. You are too evil, and you are too terrifying."
"Knowing full well that Shisui and I were committing a grave mistake, you never once stepped forward to stop our actions."
"Brother Shisui and I brought about this current situation out of ignorance, but Old Man Setsuna, you deliberately condoned it and allowed such a scene to unfold."
"Your mindset is too extreme." Itachi tucked away the crow on his shoulder, listening as the human voices outside the courtyard grew closer. "Old Man Setsuna!"
"I admit I was too arrogant before, always thinking you were just an old man waiting to die, not expecting your scheming to be so formidable."
"However..."
"After being altered by Shisui's Kotoamatsukami, your previous extreme mindset will no longer exist. You will live with the ultimate goal of protecting the village." Having said this, just as Itachi was about to leave—
"Bang!"
A burst of white smoke