"Dojutsu, huh?"
Hearing this, Uchiha Sōgetsu seemed to realize something.
He lowered his head and looked at the back of his hand, where a pale violet mark was clearly visible.
"Your body and mind, Chakra, memories, perception." A cruel look appeared in the girl's eyes. "I'll take them away bit by bit and make you taste the most terrifying pain in this world, just like how you treated me back then!"
One second. Two seconds. Three seconds.
Yet even after waiting for quite a while, Uchiha Sōgetsu seemed to have no reaction at all.
The girl's confident expression gradually began to change.
"You can't control me, can you?"
Under the blood-red moonlight, Uchiha Sōgetsu remained calm and composed. "Question: knowing that you can manipulate other people's wills, why would I deliberately approach you?"
"Why... Why can't I control you?"
His calm gaze stung the girl. Unable to believe it, she desperately activated her Mangekyo Dojutsu. "That's impossible. Yachihoko clearly marked you. Why... can't I control you?!"
"The answer is simple, isn't it?"
Uchiha Sōgetsu adjusted his glasses and said, "Because I was deliberately guiding you into using that ability."
"Guiding... me?"
Suddenly, the girl seemed to realize something, and her face gradually turned pale. "You were affecting my emotions?"
Only now, after calming down, did she recall everything that had happened and notice what was wrong.
She had been angry all along, to the point that her reason and judgment had been affected.
"That's right. From the very beginning, I was disrupting your mind."
Uchiha Sōgetsu smiled faintly, lightly pushing up his glasses with a finger. "Sorry, but my main profession is Psychologist. Unlike those shinobi, I don't possess such powerful strength, so I can only resort to a few little tricks."
He had been laying the groundwork from the very start.
Through constant words and suggestions, he had continuously provoked the girl's mind, allowing anger to cloud her judgment.
And once the last remnants of the girl's reason had been completely consumed by rage, all he needed to do was exploit the advantages of the Spectator Pathway, using words, movements, eye contact, and other actions to lead her into a series of Psychological Suggestions.
Every one of her actions, decisions, and even thoughts had been influenced by Psychological Suggestion.
This... was how the Spectator Pathway fought.
"The battle is already over." Uchiha Sōgetsu added, "Release your control over Tsunade. Perhaps we can talk."
"Don't even think about it!"
The girl stomped the ground and charged straight at him. "You only cracked Yachihoko, that's all! Don't forget, you're still in my Tsukuyomi Space. It's not certain who'll win or lose!"
"Ah."
Watching the girl refuse to give up, Uchiha Sōgetsu sighed. "Didn't I tell you? The battle is already over."
He slowly took a talisman from the inner layer of his clothes.
Sizzle!
The talisman burned quietly.
In an instant, a sound so utterly evil and filthy entered the girl's ears.
That tearing wail was overwhelmingly piercing!
"What... is this?!"
The girl clutched her eyes in agony, veins bulging across her delicate face.
The sound shrieked, wailed, roared, like countless red-hot steel needles stabbing directly into the depths of her mind and viciously stirring within it!
"You mean this?"
Uchiha Sōgetsu shook the talisman in his hand and chuckled. "I call it 'Filthy Babble.' You can think of it as... the voice of a madman."
Filthy Babble could make enemies hear terrifying howls and could even infect them with madness.
A True Rap Master production, quality guaranteed!
The girl was in extreme pain. Bloody tears streamed from her eyes, while veins and blood vessels bulged all over her body like writhing insects and serpents, seemingly about to break free from her flesh. The evil, whispering howls surpassed the limits of what humans could endure.
Crack!
The entire Tsukuyomi Space became like a shattered mirror, covered in countless cracks.
The next moment, the mirror shattered with a bang.
Looking at the girl who had been tortured beyond recognition, Uchiha Sōgetsu put away Filthy Babble. "Can you calm down now and talk to me?"
"Do you know... what it felt like for me, who had been... always... always... always trapped in darkness?"
The Nameless Uchiha Girl revealed a look of hatred. Covering her delicate face, twisted by rage and resentment, she glared through those scarlet Mangekyo eyes. "Don't... look at me with that kind of pity! You don't understand me at all!"
Uchiha Sōgetsu said nothing, and ripples swirled within his pupils.
Hypnosis!
The girl's gaze first became confused, then her thoughts grew exceedingly muddled.
Uchiha Sōgetsu directly entered her Consciousness Island, delving deep into that deathly silent sea of the mind.
Fragments of the girl's memories flooded directly into his mind.
She had neither parents nor friends.
There was no one she could rely on, nor anything to place her hopes in. She lived like a tool, mechanically obeying those people's orders.
"Your birth exists only to continue the prosperity of the clan!"
"Nameless, embrace the resolve to die and eliminate our enemies for us!!"
"You don't need emotions!"
"Don't forget, Nameless. You are merely one of our weapons. Do your best to survive until the end on the battlefield!"
"You, who have no family, must fully unleash your strength for our Uchiha Clan, understand?!"
Those people's voices echoed endlessly in her mind.
Pairs of cold Sharingan stared at her as though she were a tool, ordering her without the slightest emotion to enter one bloody, brutal battlefield after another.
However.
Even after her emotions had been forcibly erased, even after she had become a tool that won victories for the Uchiha...
Her final fate still could not escape being abandoned by the Uchiha Clan and sealed away in the darkness underground.
Alone.
She harbored pain and resentment as she was sealed within boundless darkness.
There was no sound, no light, only silent and terrifying darkness. That despair was like maggots burrowing into bone, constantly devouring the girl's sanity.
Bit by bit, it dragged her down into the abyss of destruction!
Why?
Why could the shinobi who had tortured her live carefree lives instead?
Why?
Why did she have to bear all the pain and hatred?
Why?
Why was no one willing to help her?
It was as though everyone had been born to loathe, reject, and fear her.
In the end, amid that boundless darkness, her spirit ravaged and tortured, the Nameless Uchiha Girl became like a vicious ghost in the abyss where hatred and fury intertwined.
Revenge was the only belief sustaining her!
She would destroy every shinobi who had once inflicted pain and torment upon her, along with the entire Shinobi World!
"Whew."
Uchiha Sōgetsu rubbed his brow, feeling somewhat weighed down.
Just as the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, had once evaluated them.
The Uchiha were born lunatics, and also the clan with the strongest "love."
Yet that excessively intense love also concealed the risk of losing control. Once an Uchiha experienced the loss of that intense "love," it would be replaced by an even stronger "hatred," inevitably sending them down an extreme path.
"I lost."
The girl's eyes were hollow, devoid of even a bit of life. "Now, you can seal me away, or... kill me."
Only when she mentioned being killed did a faint ripple appear in those hollow eyes.
Or perhaps she hoped that he would kill her.
"Nameless Uchiha Girl, do you believe that our meeting has meaning?"
Uchiha Sōgetsu took off his glasses. His calm gaze was like a deep pool, rippling with a mesmerizing allure.
Those profound eyes seemed to contain a special kind of magic, gently soothing the girl's shattered heart.
At that moment, something seemed to stir within the Nameless Uchiha Girl's heart.
"I believe that people meeting one another is the work of fate."
Uchiha Sōgetsu slowly walked in front of the girl and raised her delicate face with one hand.
His gentle, magnetic voice seemed to possess magic. "Just as with our meeting, if we must find a reason for it, then I believe it may be fate's guidance."
December 12th, sunny.
Two scratch cards, won ten yuan. What a pity...
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