Through the mask, Obito Uchiha looked at him with some surprise and suddenly asked softly, "How did you know Uchiha Shin was still alive?"
Uchiha Itachi replied calmly, "Since you call yourself Uchiha Madara... and I now believe it, then if you could survive safely until now and remain active, there was no reason for another Uchiha ancestor from your era to have left this world first. Simple logic... isn't it?"
"Oh!" Obito's gaze narrowed slightly. "Then how can you be certain that I'm truly 'alive'? I could very well exist in some special state beyond your understanding. That is also possible."
Uchiha Itachi said calmly, "So what? Clever people sometimes like to think too highly of themselves. They make all kinds of guesses about truths they have yet to learn, then treat those guesses as fact, but the result is often the complete opposite of the truth.
"I do not wish to be that kind of clever person, so I chose to believe that Uchiha Madara survived until now."
"Ha... an interesting junior." Obito chuckled, but his tone turned cold in the next instant. "What if I refuse to let you see him?"
This reaction was both a test from Obito and an expression of his attitude. After all, he was not the real Uchiha Madara. He had always held his own misgivings toward the unfathomable Shin, and from the standpoint of his own interests, he did not want anyone from the Uchiha Clan to come into contact with Shin.
Especially when that person was Uchiha Itachi.
The short blade on his back slid from its sheath. In an instant, his Three Tomoe Sharingan changed, and the blood-red, sinister Mangekyō Sharingan opened. "Then there's nothing more to say... let's speak by the rules of the Ninja World. Even with