"So, did you kill that clan genius?"
Looking at the young man before him, who suddenly wore a smile at the corners of his mouth while his eyes remained icy cold, Chiba took a slight breath, as if suppressing some intense emotion within him, then spoke indifferently.
However, although he had suppressed something, the first two words he spoke still seemed to carry a different kind of emotion.
Although Uchiha Nobuhiko's story had been told concisely and in broad strokes, Chiba understood very clearly what he was talking about.
Clearly, Uchiha Nobuhiko was not speaking of the present, but of a time far back in the era of war. Back then, he had been an utterly mediocre member of the Uchiha Clan, not even qualified to be cannon fodder. In the end, during a mission, he was betrayed by a genius of his clan, awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and saw the secret within the mind of the genius who had betrayed them.
His closest friend had died before his eyes, and his companions of more than ten years had all died. After such brutal fighting, even without awakening the Sharingan, that grief alone would have been enough to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan.
Moreover, judging from Uchiha Nobuhiko's emotional shift when he spoke of this incident, he probably had not let go of it even now. One could imagine just how deeply that battle had affected him.
It was possible to go directly from not awakening the Sharingan to awakening it, and then to the Mangekyō Sharingan.
However, whether it was possible or not, since Uchiha Nobuhiko had said so, only he himself knew whether it was true. Still, judging from his emotional changes, the matter was basically true.
And afterward, with both of them having awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha