"Well then, I'll be going back. Goodbye, Teacher Chiba."
Itachi gave the teacher before him a deep bow. When he raised his head, his face had returned to its usual emotionless expression, but the confusion was gone, and his eyes shone with a dark, lively gleam.
After saying goodbye, he took a firm, confident step forward and gradually disappeared from Chiba's sight.
If you did nothing, you would get nothing.
If you acted, you still might not get the outcome you wanted...
He did not know whether doing this was right or wrong.
Watching that small figure vanish from his view, Chiba pressed his lips together lightly, his brow furrowing slightly.
He did not know whether he should have encouraged Itachi like this.
Ending war and bringing eternal peace to the world? Ever since mankind had developed civilization, war had accompanied human civilization, entangled with it through thousands of years of history.
How many civilizations had been destroyed by war, and how many had grown powerful because of it?
Human history was the history of war. The replacement of civilizations had almost always begun with war.
Even in the original story of Hokage, there had been no mention of eternal peace in the end.
Without a doubt, Chiba had encouraged his only disciple to accomplish something that he had never seen anyone achieve in either of his lives.
And Chiba knew this disciple's fate in the original story. What he was doing now was undoubtedly guiding his disciple toward the fate that belonged to him.
But if he did not say such things, what else could he say? Could he just stand by and watch his disciple develop dark thoughts that he himself might not even be able to control? No matter what, Itachi was a member of the Uchiha