"What price?"
Obito waved a hand. "No need to rush.
My condition is simple. As long as you can regain your former strength, it definitely won't be difficult.
No—not merely regain it."
A soft chuckle came from beneath Obito's mask.
"Stronger than before."
Itachi frowned slightly but said nothing, waiting for Obito's explanation.
He understood the man before him. Obito would stop at nothing to achieve his goals—sinister and cunning, accustomed to hiding every secret and emotion beneath his mask.
There was only one circumstance in which he would reveal such a smug tone.
That was when Obito had come prepared and was about to show off in front of others.
"There is an eye."
Obito said, "An exceptional one. It has already awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and it won't cause you the slightest rejection reaction."
The Sharingan was, ultimately, a human organ. Transplanting it into a body would more or less cause some rejection.
To deal with that rejection, one could either endure it head-on—like Kakashi, whose chakra became insufficient after receiving an implanted eye, affecting his original potential.
Or one could use special methods to neutralize the rejection, like Danzo, who used Hashirama cells.
But there was one other situation where no rejection would occur.
The eyes of a blood relative.
Itachi Uchiha's gaze became incomparably dangerous.
Now that Akatsuki had been destroyed and the world knew why he had slaughtered his entire clan, Itachi no longer needed to conceal his feelings.
"You're going after Sasuke?"
By Uchiha tradition, siblings killing each other was indeed the best way to gain power.
"Sasuke?"
Obito froze for half a second, then shook his head. "Do you think I'm insane?
Going to Kirigakure—Lin Qing's base—to capture a Sasuke who has awakened the Mangekyō and can erase my intangibility with a single