"Old Man Madara... He already knew there was something wrong with the stone tablet?" Asuka lay where Indra had just been lying, staring blankly at the sky with a face full of shock.
He had never expected Uchiha Madara to have known all along that there was something wrong with the tablet, and to have also guessed that the method for "Infinite Tsukuyomi" most likely had not come from the Six Paths Sage.
He had thought the other man had decided to carry out the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan because of the altered tablet, but now that he thought about it, Asuka suddenly sat upright and muttered in a low voice, "Assuming Old Man Madara knew there was something wrong with the tablet all along, why did he still carry out the plan described on it?
Could it be that he was too stubborn to admit he hadn't spotted the problem?"
"No, he wasn't lying!"
Indra gradually came back to his senses as well, and his gaze toward Uchiha Madara grew more complicated.
He had originally thought the man had merely inherited his Chakra. Who would have thought he had inherited that intelligence too?
Then, noticing Asuka looking at him in confusion, Indra took a deep breath and explained, "Back then, I fought Asura and his companions alone. Over those long years, neither side was ever able to gain the upper hand.
That required not only great strength, but also a flexible mind.
Asura was foolish, but his companions weren't!"
Hearing that, realization suddenly flashed through Asuka's eyes.
Having been forced to attend those clan meetings every month in recent years, where nothing ever got decided, he had nearly forgotten something extremely important.
The Uchiha Clan might have been extreme, but their average intelligence was a cut above that of other