At that moment, Katsuya Uchiha called out from the rooftop, "I never expected you to come here in person, Kazemori Masaki. We were bound to fight sooner or later, but honestly, I didn't want to fight you here."
"Do you think I wanted to fight here? If it weren't for you, none of this would have happened," Kazemori Masaki called back.
"It seems we don't always get to choose," Katsuya Uchiha said, his blood-red eyes glancing aside. An inky figure took shape beside him, then extended a hand in front of him. In it lay one of Uchiha Ken's Mangekyō Sharingan.
A flicker of delight appeared in Katsuya Uchiha's eyes. He hurriedly put the blood-red eye away and sealed it, maintaining his Susanoo throughout to guard against a sudden attack.
Although he had failed to capture Uchiha Ken, acquiring a Mangekyō Sharingan meant he hadn't come away empty-handed. Indra had inherited the Sage Eye, so the power of Indra contained within the Sharingan was particularly concentrated.
"You bastard!" Uchiha Ken stared fixedly at the blood-red eye, gritting his teeth.
The Dōjutsu housed within that Mangekyō Sharingan was Amaterasu. Without that eye, Uchiha Ken could no longer use Amaterasu, greatly reducing Kagutsuchi's usefulness. Although Kagutsuchi, a Dōjutsu named after a fire god, could manipulate any Fire Release technique, Amaterasu itself was the highest form of Fire Release. Without it, no amount of shape manipulation could bring his Fire Release to its greatest destructive potential.
Uchiha Ken immediately guessed what the inky figure was. Asuna had mentioned him, and everyone had remained on guard against him. But since even Sage Mode couldn't sense him, they had never managed to find any trace of him.
Now he had finally appeared and taken control of Ken's body when Ken was too occupied to fend