After Kidomaru disappeared, his words echoed in Sasuke's mind. His expression turned extremely grim, and he slid down weakly to sit on the tree trunk.
Just then, two somewhat anxious shouts came from the distant forest.
"Sasuke!?"
"Sasuke, where are you!?"
Hearing the familiar voices by his ears, Sasuke merely glanced in that direction with a dazed, bewildered expression, then remained silent on his own.
At that moment, he could not shake the words Kidomaru had left him with.
"A weakling like you? Forget dealing with the lord you keep talking about—you probably couldn't even handle an ordinary child from Las Noches..."
Sasuke could tell that the Otogakure ninja had not been joking. Precisely because of that, he began to doubt himself!
He had trained tirelessly under the former White Fang of the Leaf for only one purpose: to catch up to and kill that man!
Yet all the effort he had poured in day and night had now been casually dismissed by someone else!
Most importantly, the one who had easily defeated him and could not even be bothered to kill him was an Otogakure ninja!
Someone who did not even belong to the Five Great Ninja Villages had dismissed him with such contempt... This turn of events, which completely overturned Sasuke's habitual way of thinking, left his mind in utter turmoil!
After remaining silent for a long while and carefully recalling what that man had said earlier, a cold glint gradually flickered in his dimmed eyes as he thought, There must be something strange about that Otogakure bastard...
Whether or not he had come into contact with Itachi, he definitely knew something!!
I have to find a way to get information about Itachi out of him!
At the thought of Kidomaru saying that he could not even defeat