Itachi Uchiha fled Setsuna's courtyard with a pale face.
He swore that he would never step foot into that courtyard again in this lifetime, nor would he ever use Tsukuyomi to launch an attack on Old Man Setsuna again. Even with a mental fortitude as strong as Itachi's, and even after breaking free from the illusion space, he still did not recover immediately at that moment.
Because his mind was overly agitated and panicked when he fled from Setsuna's courtyard, he did not have time to pay attention to the outside world. However, Itachi's terrifying combat instinct triggered; the sharp sound of piercing air by his ears and the heavy footsteps made his gaze turn cold. He activated the Body Flicker Technique, shifting his body sideways by several positions, and then retreated his body with lightning speed.
"Thud!"
With a samurai-era sword technique called Swallow Return, Itachi stabbed his short blade straight into the kidney of the person who ambushed him. With a cold expression, Itachi pulled out the short blade. A white blade light flashed through the air, and the neck of the person who had just ambushed him was expressionlessly slit by him. Crimson blood mist sprayed from the wound, continuously making a rustling sound.
Just as Itachi finished off the enemy and was about to observe the surrounding situation, he suddenly heard a sorrowful cry: "Hoseki!"
Itachi was stunned for a moment. He looked at the short blade in his hand, then looked at the person lying on the ground behind him, and instantly froze in shock. He saw that the person lying on the ground was a young man wearing a blue-black outfit with a flame-patterned fan on the back, and the word "Uchiha" immediately surfaced in his mind.
Those words Wang Ming had said to