Shisui looked at Guy and slowly began to speak, his voice echoing across the empty mountaintop platform:
"Many years ago, the Shinobi World had no so-called One-Tail through Nine-Tails."
"There was only one tailed beast—the Ten-Tails."
"The Ten-Tails ravaged the land, and countless lives suffered."
"Later, the Sage of Six Paths appeared. He divided the Ten-Tails' chakra into nine parts and sealed them within different ley lines. Only then did the current One-Tail through Nine-Tails come to exist."
Guy frowned slightly. "So why are you telling me this?"
As for the legends of the tailed beasts and the Sage of Six Paths, he knew more than Shisui did—far more of the core details.
The vague fragments of myth Shisui was recounting clearly had not touched upon the true heart of the matter.
He had not mentioned the Ōtsutsuki or the God Tree either.
Perhaps he knew something, but he had not said everything.
Shisui looked at Guy, his tone calm yet carrying the weight of a declaration:
"I can tell you why the Uchiha clan chose to rebel."
"Because we obtained reliable intelligence—or rather, because we accepted a method capable of bringing permanent peace to the Shinobi World."
Guy's gaze sharpened.
Here it came!
What Shisui said next was the real point!
Shisui's eyes grew slightly distant, as though he had fallen into some memory.
"The current Shinobi World is a mess. The war has only just ended, but the seeds of hatred and conflict were planted long ago. Peace is unbearably fragile."
"To achieve true, eternal peace, we must gather all nine tailed beasts and recombine them into the Ten-Tails."
"Then, using the Ten-Tails' near-divine power, we can cast a powerful genjutsu capable of covering the entire Shinobi World."
"Make everyone... enter that genjutsu world."
"There, there is no