Black Zetsu's face, like black clay, had its two yellow eyeballs flare brightly in the gloom.
It had assumed Sasuke's earlier words were merely the stubborn pride of a Uchiha brat.
It thought that if it stoked the flames a little more, the brat would completely lose himself in his thirst for power.
It was about to continue embellishing the lies it had prepared.
But before it could make a sound—
Sasuke turned his head and spoke coldly.
"I know better than you how strong my brother is."
Sasuke brushed the muddy sludge from his pant leg and sneered.
"If he wanted my eyeballs, would he need to cooperate with a rotten rat like you, hiding at the bottom of a gutter?"
"Y-You... what do you mean?!"
Black Zetsu's yellow pupils trembled violently in the darkness.
Its black-mud-like body abruptly shrank back on the ground. Instinct told it that things were slipping out of control.
"And don't tell me you really think my brother never mentioned you to me?"
Sasuke slid the bladeless steel sword in his hand back into his belt, revealing a contemptuous sneer as though he were looking at trash.
"The will of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya. Black mud."
Boom!
Those words exploded in Black Zetsu's mind like a bolt from the blue.
Its two golden-yellow eyeballs shrank to pinpoints from sheer shock.
"Y-You... How do you... How do you know Mother's name?!"
It screamed, its pitch-black body beginning to tremble wildly across the ground like melting asphalt.
That was the top-secret scheme it had plotted for a thousand years!
Other than its sealed mother, no one knew where it had come from!
"In my world, there are no secrets."
Sasuke calmly repeated Yoru's favorite catchphrase.
"My brother even told me the inside story of those two old men,