Shisui's fingers suddenly clenched around the bedsheet.
He looked up and stared at Yongye. His newly restored eyes went wide, their pupils contracting, then dilating.
He looked as though he'd seen a ghost in broad daylight!
Apologize?
Apologize to Yakushi Nonō?
Was this a joke?
That woman had poisoned his drinking water and dug out his eyes while he was unconscious. Two Mangekyō Sharingan—the Uchiha Clan's most powerful visual jutsu, which had taken him over a decade to awaken—she had plucked them from his sockets like fruit.
And now Yongye wanted him to apologize to her?
The nerve!
This turned everything upside down!
Shisui Uchiha was so furious he nearly leaped to his feet!
Yakushi Nonō stood behind Yongye. At those words, her body jerked.
She raised her head. Her pale yellow hair caught the light, and the wooden hairpin in it swayed gently. Her eyes opened wide, reflecting Shisui's face, flushed with anger.
She herself was utterly dumbfounded!
Apologize?
Shisui, apologize to her?
She had dug out Shisui's eyes, and he was supposed to apologize to her?
Had Shisui lost his mind, or had she?
Yongye watched Shisui, the mocking curve of his lips deepening.
"Yakushi Nonō suffered a lot of... that hardship because of your mess! Shouldn't you apologize?"
"You said it yourself: the culprit was the Masked Man! No one else had anything to do with it!"
"What, trying to go back on your word, Sarutobi Shisui?"
"You arranged this yourself. Even if the other party's the wrong gender, you've still got to man up and go through with it!"
Shisui's mouth hung open. A flood of excuses rose in his throat, but they stuck there. He couldn't get out a single word.
He had brought this on himself!
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