His words landed with a resounding force!
Hozuki Mangetsu's purple eyes beneath his mask widened slightly.
"What the hell are you talking about?!"
The next moment, his expression turned fierce, anger rising in his eyes as he slammed a fist viciously toward Uchiha Ci's face.
Boom!
Instead of panicking, Uchiha Ci smiled.
That meant he had found an opening!
This kind of rhetoric was what that old man Uchiha Setsuna had used on him before blowing himself up with a forbidden technique.
Because Setsuna had seen through Uchiha Ci's desire to die, he had confidently inferred Uchiha Ci's Behavioral Logic and forcibly stuffed it full of reasons that sounded logical.
They clearly had nothing to do with each other.
Yet somehow, Uchiha Ci had been unable to refute them.
It was entirely an Outrageous Theory pieced together from the available information.
And since Uchiha Ci had already confirmed that, in the Original Work,
Hozuki Mangetsu would ultimately choose to follow Yagura in establishing a new Kirigakure, and after Yagura was controlled, would boldly join Zabuza in launching an assassination and coup.
Then he could work backward from that conclusion and devise a set of words to attack Hozuki Mangetsu's heart.
Shake his heart and refute his will!
The possible outcome might not match reality, but as long as it struck a sore spot, it could very well create a perfect chance for Uchiha Ci to turn the tables!
And now, the chance had come!
During the opening before that punch, Uchiha Ci had already prepared himself.
At once, his expression twisted fiercely.
Facing the sandbag-sized fist, he neither dodged nor evaded, directly taking it head-on with his face.
His right hand swiftly pulled a needle pouch filled with fine senbon from the sleeve guard around his left wrist.
With a