Madara Uchiha smiled calmly, convinced he had figured everything out.
That smile left Tetsuya completely baffled.
What was going on? Had he pushed him too far and driven old Madara crazy?
Surely not. Had the mighty Asura of the Ninja World really been driven mad by a little needling?
While Tetsuya was still puzzling over it, Madara Uchiha spoke.
"I know now."
"Wait, old Madara, what exactly do you know?"
Madara Uchiha said with absolute confidence,
"You must be an Uchiha abandoned by the Uchiha Clan."
"Huh?"
Tetsuya's head was full of question marks. He had no idea what had gone wrong in Madara Uchiha's brain to make him think that.
Yet Madara Uchiha continued.
"I imagine you were abandoned by the Uchiha Clan. Being cast aside by your family led you to deny your identity as an Uchiha, and your hatred for those who abandoned you awakened your Mangekyō Sharingan. Am I right?
"You poor child. After your clansmen abandoned you, you thought of me, the man who once abandoned all his clansmen. That was why you came here to see me, wasn't it?"
"I..."
Tetsuya's CPU was about to burn out. He had no idea what Madara Uchiha was playing at.
"And the reason you know so much must be that you returned to the Uchiha Clan's grounds after awakening your Mangekyō Sharingan. You saw what was written on that stone tablet, didn't you?"
After thinking for a long while, Tetsuya finally managed to make some sense of Madara Uchiha's reasoning.
Apparently, he had taken Tetsuya for an Uchiha abandoned by his family who had awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan through a chance encounter and read the stone tablet.
That was why Tetsuya had come looking for him, Madara Uchiha. He must have wanted to work together, but the