The Strategist Takes the First Move with a White Stone!

Feather Emperor City, Golden Imperial Hall. Uchiha Itachi had returned and urgently requested an audience with the Feather Emperor to report something!

"You're saying... someone is secretly controlling an Impure World Reincarnation and trying to harm Sasuke Uchiha?"

"Yes. News came from one of my Crow-Hunt Clones stationed elsewhere. The scene from that time was recorded in this Crow..."

Yu took the black Crow from Itachi's hand and used his ocular power to read the intelligence recorded in its eyes.

A figure running beneath the night sky, a White Zetsu assigned to surveillance, a Shadow that suddenly appeared, and then... a coffin that collected the Shadow after it killed the White Zetsu!

Whoosh! The Crow scattered into falling black feathers. A ghostly light flickered in Yu's eyes. "It is indeed an Impure World Reincarnation... And the one following Sasuke is Sakura Haruno! She ran off again."

From an elegant seat before the hall, Uchiha Madara slightly furrowed his brow. Sakura Haruno... That name sounded familiar. He seemed to have heard it somewhere before, but he could not quite remember...

It was not that Madara had a poor memory. He had simply never cared much about the names of weaklings.

At that moment, Itachi said, "My clone entered Phantom City to investigate. The people there are living in misery, and order has completely collapsed. Sasuke, as the city lord, has utterly failed in his duties. That has nothing to do with the person controlling the Impure World Reincarnation—it was entirely caused by his own immaturity. And I... as the one who recommended him, bear an inescapable responsibility as well!"

"Itachi, there is no need for you to blame yourself. I bear half the responsibility too." After comforting Itachi, Yu turned to Saori. "Saori, bring me the letter Takeda Nobuo sent not