Answer?
Or not?
As the voice by his ear fell silent, he stared fixedly at Taki Chiba's face right before him. Under the insight of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, he missed not a single change in Taki Chiba's expression.
At this moment, Taki Chiba had already run out of options. The trace of resolve in his eyes clearly showed that he had prepared himself to die. Taki Chiba was ready for death.
In a sense, it meant that Taki Chiba had already given up resisting and accepted the current hopeless situation.
Yet Uchiha Nobuhiko began to hesitate.
Or rather, it was precisely because he saw Taki Chiba so calmly accepting death and defeat that he hesitated.
Honestly, there was no harm in telling Taki Chiba the answer to his question. It would have absolutely no impact on him.
However, judging from their battle just now and the intelligence he knew, Taki Chiba was definitely the kind of enemy who, as long as he still had one breath left—even if he had no Chakra remaining and every drop of blood in his body had drained away—would crawl over and bite you fiercely with his teeth, making you remember the pain for the rest of your life.
He was also the kind of enemy Uchiha Nobuhiko feared and hated most.
Such calm resignation instead made him feel that there was a trick to it.
And from the losses he had suffered in their battle, Taki Chiba truly was someone especially adept at catching people off guard—or rather, at creating surprises.
For all he knew, this resignation was the beginning of the next wave of attacks.
And this attack would certainly be one that could allow Taki Chiba to escape with absolute certainty, perhaps even causing him to suffer another major loss.
Moreover,