Seeing Sasuke like this, Mikoto did not know how to persuade him.
She wanted to tell Sasuke the truth, to tell him that Itachi had had his reasons.
Itachi had not deliberately wanted to wipe out his own clan.
The Uchiha massacre was complicated, nowhere near that simple.
The Uchiha were not entirely victims.
If Itachi had not destroyed the Uchiha that day, they would have launched a coup against the Leaf Village the next day.
That would have risked triggering the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Itachi had chosen the village's side, letting his own future perish along with the Uchiha.
But could she say something like that to Sasuke?
Sasuke's values had not yet fully formed.
His thinking was simple now: grow stronger at any cost and take revenge on Itachi.
That was precisely what Itachi wanted.
In this world, good people might not be rewarded, and bad people might not be punished.
But the strong were certain to be rewarded.
The strong were the people who changed their surroundings, and also the people who destroyed them.
The circumstances that brought tragedy upon people had no effect on the strong.
Only the strong would be rewarded.
It did not matter whether they were good or bad.
Even if he were a demon, as long as he was strong enough, this world would still favor him.
Mikoto also hoped Sasuke could become strong.
The Uchiha had been too weak back then, which was why that tragedy had happened.
Yes, without Itachi and Shisui, the Uchiha were weak.
If they had been strong enough, they could have rewritten their clan's fate.
Mikoto talked with Sasuke at length, and Sasuke wondered why his thoughts were so clear.
There was also that young man beside them, reading Kakashi's Smut Book.
He looked very