Using Itachi's younger brother as bait.
Would be enough to make him resolve himself completely to eliminate the Uchiha.
The next moment.
Uchiha Itachi turned around.
The two began facing each other expressionlessly.
"If a coup breaks out, your younger brother will learn about it... Seeing Konoha's shinobi destroy the Uchiha Clan he belongs to right before his eyes, your younger brother will develop thoughts of revenge against Konoha..."
Uchiha Itachi loved his younger brother dearly.
His feelings for him even surpassed those he had for Uchiha Shisui, who was like an elder brother to him.
So...
After Itachi accepted the fact that his clansmen would be wiped out, the question of how to save his younger brother became his greatest concern.
"If that's really the case... then your younger brother can only die alongside the clan..."
Itachi: "Is this a threat?"
"No... This is a multiple-choice question."
"Will you stand with the Uchiha and follow the clan into total destruction? Or will you stand with us, leave only your younger brother alive before the coup begins, and help kill every member of the clan..."
Judging from Itachi's performance over the past few years.
He had naturally never considered standing on the side of the clan.
What Itachi was puzzled about was this.
Why was Shimura Danzō still hesitating over such a matter?
Was he worried that Itachi was not the sort of person who would shoulder the crime of exterminating an entire clan?
"To protect the village, a shinobi who accepts the mission of eliminating the Uchiha must become a double agent for both the Uchiha Clan and Konoha. Itachi, no one else is suited for this mission."
Itachi himself understood this very clearly.
If someone outside the Uchiha Clan eliminated the Uchiha.
Then the other clans in the