Sasuke Uchiha stared in surprise at the ashes that had once been Uchiha Shin.
"Naruto, didn't you say you wouldn't let this guy off easily?"
"Why did you kill him outright?"
A faint smile appeared on Naruto Uzumaki's face.
"Sasuke, do you remember Tsukuyomi?"
Sasuke Uchiha went rigid.
Tsukuyomi...
An eye technique that felt both familiar and distant.
Back then,
Uchiha Itachi had used Tsukuyomi on him several times to provoke him.
In the Tsukuyomi World, the caster controlled everything.
Sight, touch, matter, time—everything.
Only an instant passed in the real world, but seventy-two hours could pass in the Tsukuyomi World.
It was an incredibly powerful Genjutsu.
"Looks like Tsukuyomi left quite an impression on you."
Naruto Uzumaki patted Sasuke Uchiha on the shoulder.
"I used Divine Tsukuyomi on Uchiha Shin."
"It's an evolved version of Tsukuyomi."
"Inside it, I can make time stretch on forever if I want, while no time passes in the real world."
"From your perspective, Uchiha Shin was struck by All-Killing Ash Bones and crumbled to ash almost immediately."
"But from Uchiha Shin's perspective, he endured torment in Divine Tsukuyomi for far longer than you can imagine."
Sasuke Uchiha sucked in a sharp breath at Naruto Uzumaki's explanation.
That was brutal.
Naruto was a smiling devil!
He could never afford to cross him.
"Then what do we do with the remaining clones?"
Sasuke Uchiha pointed at the clones standing there in a daze after Uchiha Shin's sudden death.
"They..."
"Take them all back to Konoha."
"After all, their bodies were cloned from Uchiha Shin's cells. They're rare experimental material."
Naruto Uzumaki spoke calmly.
"But they..."
Sasuke Uchiha hesitated.
Uchiha Shin had always treated these clones as tools.
Now that he was dead, would they only be used as tools somewhere else?
"Don't worry."
"Orochimaru has