Rewards

After watching the video, Uchiha Itachi's expression looked like this: Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ

How had the sister-in-law he had only just acknowledged died already?

Sasuke.

Had his dear little brother really become like this in the future?

Instead of finding a way to save the person who had just saved his life, he had simply run her through along with the enemy!

Meanwhile, the diary's owner, Luo Mang, was also watching the video, treating it as a chance to revisit the anime.

The video had now reached Sasuke's most satisfying moment since awakening his Mangekyo.

Danzo was gravely wounded and unable to resist. Every step damaged his body further, and his breathing was so labored that he looked ready to breathe his last at any moment!

Sasuke simply followed behind him, savoring the sight of prey that could not escape!

"What a psychopath..."

Although Luo Mang now possessed Uchiha blood and the Sharingan, he did not consider himself a psychopath.

As a young man with aspirations, he had no intention of sinking to the level of this extremist Shinobi World.

Beautiful women were an exception, of course... =ᗜωᗜ=

The footage ended with Danzo sacrificing his life to seal away half the bridge, while Sasuke and the man posing as Madara Uchiha remained unharmed.

Outside an unnamed house.

Sasuke Uchiha, the very person shown in the footage, stood with his expression frozen, though his pupils trembled rapidly.

Although he wanted revenge, he had never thought of harming innocent people.

Otherwise, with Sakura chattering around him every day and distracting him, there was no way he would never have so much as sworn at her.

At this point, Sasuke was still relatively normal. He did not hate everyone and everything.

"Is that what I'm like in the future?"

Watching Karin help him analyze his enemy's weaknesses during battle, then step forward to heal him when he was injured, Sasuke felt his heart stir a little. He was not made of stone.

Seeing himself in the footage stab her to death shocked him so badly that, if he had still been losing his baby teeth, at least two would have fallen out...

"Whew. No, definitely not. My future self definitely won't be like that. I only want to kill that man. I've never thought about killing anyone else."

After taking a moment to collect himself, Sasuke breathed rapidly, trying to steady his racing heart.

Even the Sasuke in the footage felt a little guilty about killing Karin and offered a supposed excuse. As for the present Sasuke, he had already begun thinking about how to make it up to her when they met.

The Hatake clan grounds.

Kakashi had lived through war, the loss of his friends, and his teacher's death. His mental fortitude was not so easily shattered.

Still, he was shocked.

He had never imagined that the arm Shimura Danzō kept concealed held such an enormous secret.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle~

Watching the video again, those red eyes spinning on the arm looked like demonic stares. They were utterly chilling.

"I never imagined Sasuke would turn out like this!"

The sight of Sasuke hurting his teammate in order to kill Danzo left Kakashi stunned.

Much like Uchiha Itachi, he assumed Karin was Sasuke's girlfriend. She helped analyze the enemy and direct the battle, then came forward to heal him, only to end up like that.

But it seemed he had no right to say anything. Hadn't Rin, who loved him, also been run through by his hand?

It seemed his future self had failed to guide Sasuke properly. He was too weak. Kakashi knew that, as he was now, he was absolutely no match for the abilities Sasuke had displayed.

He might not be a match in the future, either.

Without the diary's appearance, Kakashi would have kept reading Icha Icha Paradise every day without making much progress.

His father's death, his comrades' deaths, and his teacher's death made him feel like a walking calamity. Those losses had dealt Kakashi a devastating blow. Combined with the Sharingan's constant drain, they left him perpetually listless. The fact that he had no desire to kill himself was already a testament to his resilience.

"It seems Sasuke needs guidance."

After watching that scene, Kakashi tapped lightly on the table. He needed to make changes. Someone as powerful as Sasuke could not simply be left unchecked, but he could not be controlled the way Naruto was, either. Guidance was the only option.

He was also curious. Judging by the video, Sasuke Uchiha's Sharingan seemed more advanced than his own. That purple armored figure did not seem to result merely from a difference in bloodline, but rather from a difference in the eyes' level.

As his future teacher, meeting him a little early did not seem like much of a problem.

Inside the protagonist's house.

Luo Mang knew nothing of the changes in the others. Right now, he was performing reverent gestures with an expectant look as he prepared to draw his reward.

"Please give me something good! Please!"

He clapped his hands together and shook them up and down, looking as devout as could be.

Open!

Blue light flashed~

Luo Mang: (≧▽≦)/!!

[Byakugan] Evaluation: If you want to build a harem, surely you should check on your future happiness in advance!]

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Was he that kind of person?

How could he possibly use the Byakugan for something like that?

Blatant slander!

"But can I really unlock two kinds of ocular techniques?"

Would he have one Sharingan and one Byakugan? That would look a little ugly.

Still, since he had already drawn it, he could hardly leave it unused. He absorbed it immediately.

Adapting to the energy took roughly eight hours, and dawn was nearly upon him.

When Luo Mang opened his eyes again, the sky outside was hazy. It was five in the morning.

But this was no time to admire the sky. It was time to test his ability.

Activate!

Veins bulged at the corners of his eyes, but the eyes themselves did not change at all. They remained their original black.

Despite the lack of any visible change, the ability worked normally.

"So this is the world through the Byakugan?"

Once he activated it, Luo Mang's vision turned gray.

He turned toward the cupboard.

"Holy crap, I really can see through things."

Looking toward the cupboard, his gaze passed straight through its handles and revealed the cans stored inside. It really did let him see through things, leaving Luo Mang deeply astonished.

He turned and picked up a mirror to check.

"It's this convenient?"

Since there was no visible change, he could keep it hidden. That meant the Byakugan could serve as a trump card at a critical moment, occasionally supporting him in battle and catching his enemy off guard.

Fortunately so. If he really had ended up with one of each eye, he would have looked rather strange. If someone from the Hyuga Clan discovered him, he would surely face an interrogation.

Had the Hyuga Clan broken its rules, or had the Uchiha Clan been unfaithful? How else could both clans' kekkei genkai appear in the same person?

Or if Danzo discovered him, he would be sliced up for research.

Even if he escaped being studied, he would be trained into a puppet.

"Better to be cautious."

He certainly could not write about this in the diary.

A thought flashed through Luo Mang's mind. It was strange that the diary could preserve videos from his memories. And why did he even need to post them? It felt deliberate, as though they were being posted specifically for certain people to see.

Whether that was true or not, caution was always best. Who knew whose hands the diary might fall into?

For now, though, the most important thing was completing missions. He had only just finished today's mission, and tomorrow he would have to take another. After all, cats belonging to nobles or the Daimyo's wife did not go missing every day.

Well-paying missions were rare. Sometimes a single mission did not even pay enough for two days of meals, only one.

What a pain. He needed them every day.