Awareness of His Own Shortcomings (Please Vote, Collect, and Invest!)
When Itachi's forceful words rang through the room, Mikoto subconsciously glanced at her husband, her heart filled with worry.
In her memory, this was the first time Itachi had openly challenged his father, and he had even said that his father was wrong.
Strangely, however, Fugaku did not fly into a rage. Instead, he calmly glanced at Shisui. "Is what Itachi said true? Did he really lose to a child his own age?"
Shisui sighed inwardly. He already knew what Itachi intended to do, so he could only say, "That's right. The conditions of the duel were that both sides could only use taijutsu. When the other party delivered the final blow, I intervened and stopped him, but by then Itachi had no chance of turning things around unless he broke the rules. So according to the rules of the duel, Itachi did indeed lose."
"Moreover, the other party seems to possess a special Kekkei Genkai that can form an extremely tough layer of keratin over his body to protect himself."
Fugaku's expression had already become extremely grim, but when he heard that the brat also possessed a Kekkei Genkai—and a defensive one at that—he could not help but freeze for a moment.
"What kind of Kekkei Genkai is it?"
"I don't know, but it doesn't seem to exist in any records. It may be an entirely new Kekkei Genkai that has yet to be discovered."
Upon hearing this, Fugaku's expression finally softened somewhat.
In his view, losing to a war orphan living in the civilian district and losing to a genius who possessed a Kekkei Genkai were two completely different outcomes!
The former would make him deeply disappointed in Itachi, while the latter provided sufficient justification for this defeat.