Sasuke frowned. In his memories, Black Zetsu had never shown any ability to control tailed beasts.
For a thousand years, Black Zetsu had been plotting to resurrect his mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and had always relied on others' power to carry out his plans.
Back on the battlefield of the Fourth Shinobi World War, after the Allied Shinobi Forces had freed the tailed beasts from Obito's body, none of them had shown any signs of going berserk.
It had taken Madara Uchiha's own combat prowess to capture them again.
Even after gaining Six Paths power, Sasuke himself had used the Rinnegan and Planetary Devastation to restrain the tailed beasts.
They could drive the tailed beasts into a frenzy using Eye Power, but according to what the Hokage had said earlier, they had already ruled out the possibility that the beasts were being controlled by Eye Power.
Black Zetsu... could the Black Zetsu of this timeline be different from the one in mine?
The Nine-Tails, whose memories reached further back than his own, had been reborn in this era.
The Sasuke of this timeline had awakened a Mangekyō Sharingan in one eye that possessed his abilities and seemed to share his Eye Power.
Urashiki Otsutsuki's arrival in this timeline had revealed that other Ōtsutsuki were active here as well...
Could there be some connection between these seemingly unrelated events?
"Besides, if the message on the Stone Tablet really was left by Shisui, it reveals something else."
"What?"
Itachi looked at Sasuke and said with certainty, "It means he had no other choice at that moment."
"Shisui rarely did anything he wasn't confident about. If he really was being controlled, and wasn't even willing to tell me...
"Then how could he fail to realize that Black Zetsu, who was controlling him, could also