"Akaseki!" Minato hurriedly stopped Akaseki, who was already flying into a rage.
Sasuke, who had been tied up, shouted as well, "It was all this woman's fault!"
"Hm?" Akaseki looked at him.
"According to the stories... Clan Leader Akaseki died fighting this woman fifteen years ago, and took her with him. But eight years ago... I saw her. She appeared with Itachi, the killer who murdered Dad and the others..." Sasuke glared furiously at Hikari as he spoke.
"Sasuke, you..." Naruto froze at his words, finally realizing that Sasuke had recognized these people's identities long ago.
Sasuke had also been the one to suggest "splitting up to follow them."
Now it seemed that Sasuke hadn't followed Hikari to investigate anything. He had already recognized her and wanted to "assassinate" her, while keeping Naruto and Konoha out of his hatred and the danger it brought!
"Fifteen years ago? Eight years ago?" Akaseki frowned, then understood. Naturally, Sasuke was counting from his own time.
He was only fifteen or sixteen this year, so he could only have heard stories about something that happened "fifteen years ago."
But although he had still been a child during the massacre "eight years ago," he had been old enough to remember it. He had experienced it himself.
And another thing...
"Clan Leader Akaseki?" Akaseki's expression shifted, then he grew even more furious.
After I became Clan Leader, not only did I die, but the Uchiha Clan was wiped out too...
How does that make me any different from that Ashura?
"That's right! Clan Leader Akaseki... Dad said... Clan Leader Akaseki was the strongest Uchiha. He changed the clan crest to its current design because he was determined to rebuild Ninshu." Sasuke looked at Akaseki, his eyes shining.
If he hadn't already learned about the massacre, Akaseki