"Was it really him...?"
Itachi's calm reaction left Tang Ping unable to make sense of it.
The way he acted, it was as though he had confirmed it long ago.
But the question was... after confirming it, why hadn't he gone after and killed him?
Had he been slacking off for the past few years?
Still, ordinary people truly couldn't understand the thought processes of the mentally ill.
"Forget it. I'm not Fugaku, and I won't discipline you on his behalf. You just need to atone for your sins."
Tang Ping felt a headache coming on.
He genuinely had no way to understand what this sick-minded fellow was thinking, so he simply made the decision for him.
"Atone...?"
Itachi looked over, as though asking how exactly he was supposed to atone.
"Ahem!" Tang Ping began with two tactical coughs before speaking in an encouraging tone. "Since you slaughtered the Konoha Uchiha nearly to extinction, you naturally have an obligation to rebuild them, right?"
You were duty-bound to restore the Konoha Uchiha.
Though phrased as a question, his tone was utterly resolute, leaving no room for refusal.
"Rebuild them?"
There was a hint of confusion in Itachi's voice.
He truly could not imagine how the Konoha branch of the Uchiha could possibly be rebuilt.
Note that the Uchiha were now divided into two branches.
One was the Konoha Uchiha, and the other was the Blazing Sun Uchiha.
Although both were Uchiha, internally they did not see things that way. They regarded themselves as two separate shinobi clans.
Thus, in Itachi's mind, the Uchiha Clan had been "wiped out."
"Just give birth to another Uchiha clan."
Tang Ping casually said something enough to make anyone's heart stop.
Did he even hear the outrageous thing he had just said?
Give birth to an