Itachi's body flew through the air, blood spraying wildly, but the pain in his heart was a hundred times greater than the pain in his body.
"Everything was my fault!"
"My stupidity and ignorance harmed those companions in the village!"
"My self-righteousness harmed the Third Hokage!"
Itachi's body crashed heavily onto the ground. Like a skipping stone, he bounced several times before slamming into a shop.
"Ah, they're fighting again! Run out of the village!"
The people inside the shop fled in alarm, while Itachi slumped weakly in a corner, not wanting to move at all.
At that moment, all hope drained from Itachi's heart, leaving it filled with thoughts of self-destruction.
"Why resist anymore?"
"I might as well let the Third Hokage kill me!"
"How could trash like me deserve to live in this world?"
"I should just die alongside the companions 'killed' by those resurrected people—"
But that thought lasted only a moment before the reappearing Third Hokage "Satori" crushed it.
"Ah—"
A customer who had just run out the door collided head-on with the Third Hokage "Satori," who was pursuing Itachi. In the blink of an eye, he was torn to pieces and tossed back into the shop like garbage.
"Stop!"
"If you want to kill someone, kill me! Don't hurt the other people in the village!"
Itachi struggled to his feet and spread his arms, trying to exchange his life for everyone else's chance to survive.
But the Third Hokage "Satori" let out a shrill, grotesque laugh. His attacks were swift as the wind as he slaughtered every panicked person running about.
Blood splattered everywhere, turning the once orderly shop into a slaughterhouse.
"Everyone must die!"
The Third Hokage "Satori" shrieked hoarsely, his enormous monstrous eyes brimming with killing intent and hatred.
"Stop it!"
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