Opening Eyes

"It looked like things were progressing well."

In the forest not far from the cliff, Uchiha Kei and Uchiha Fugaku stood atop a large tree.

The two of them watched the pair of brothers in the distance, observing their performance.

To be honest, Uchiha Kei found it quite entertaining, but Uchiha Fugaku felt exceptionally miserable.

Having read the "script," he naturally knew what Shisui was going to tell Itachi.

Without exaggeration, those things were truly crushing Uchiha Itachi's beliefs and destroying his worldview!

Words like vicious, sinister, and unimaginable surfaced in Uchiha Fugaku's mind once more.

But in the end, he could only sigh softly, because all of this was for his children. And in the end, it wasn't as though they would never tell them the truth.

Closing his eyes, Uchiha Fugaku did not want to watch any longer. He recalled the pain and despair he had felt when he awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan—it had truly been unbearable.

"I hope Itachi can endure it," Uchiha Fugaku said softly. "Honestly, the script you wrote is really too cruel."

"Cruel?" Uchiha Kei smiled and shook his head. "Perhaps. But you and I both know that what is truly needed to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan isn't killing the person closest to you, isn't that right?"

"You mean that Stone Tablet?" Uchiha Fugaku pondered for a moment. "Indeed, I don't think it's necessary either. Neither you nor I ever did that, so..."

"Don't say it was written incorrectly. Do you think something like that could contain an error?" Uchiha Kei shook his head, interrupting Uchiha Fugaku's train of thought. "I'm more inclined to believe that someone altered the Stone Tablet. As for who it was, I don't know—but I had you investigate it."

Someone had altered the contents of the Stone Tablet?

Uchiha