"It seemed he needed to find an undercover agent first."
That night, while his body rested, Hawking projected his soul and thoroughly refined his plan for luring Otsutsuki Isshiki into revealing himself.
The next day, he entered the Naruto World once again.
"Flying Thunder God Technique."
With a flash, he followed the Flying Thunder God Mark he had previously left on Sasuke and appeared directly inside one of Akatsuki's secret bases.
"It's you!"
Seeing Hawking suddenly appear beside him, Sasuke was immediately alarmed. He swiftly drew the Kusanagi Sword from his waist and activated his Mangekyo Sharingan, as if facing a formidable enemy.
He still vividly remembered how easily he had been injured back in Konoha.
"So this is the Kusanagi Sword? It looks pretty good."
Yet in the next second, cold sweat broke out across his forehead.
The Kusanagi Sword in his hand had already appeared in Hawking's hand.
"He's so much faster than last time. I couldn't react at all. If he hadn't been taking the Kusanagi Sword but trying to kill me, wouldn't I have been unable to resist at all? This person is simply too terrifying!"
Ever since absorbing the Mangekyo Eye Power of his Older Brother Itachi, his strength had undergone another fundamental increase.
He was not even afraid of the masked man calling himself Uchiha Madara or Nagato, Akatsuki's nominal leader.
That was because he did not believe either of them was truly that much stronger than him.
The only person who had ever made him feel impossible to defeat was Konoha's mysterious Hawking.
However, back then, he had merely felt that he could not win. He had not felt completely powerless to fight back. After all, he had only just absorbed his Older Brother Itachi's Eye Power on the day he went to