Only after Shisui's reading scroll had been sealed did Itachi enter the secret chamber from the isolation room.
He did not know which sentences Shisui had seen.
Nor had he been given access to the full contents of the old transcription.
All that lay before him was the stone tablet and a blank sheet marked with the range he was to read.
His Three-Tomoe Sharingan activated.
The text visible to the naked eye first receded to either side.
Sentences about dreams emerged from deep within the stone, but the complete Moon's Eye Plan that Shisui had seen with his Mangekyo did not appear.
Itachi could read only two layers of strokes pressing against each other.
The lower layer read, "Dreams can reveal what has been lost."
The surface layer added "replace" after "reveal."
Both sets of text shared the first half of the sentence.
An ordinary Sharingan could easily read them as one continuous sentence: "Dreams can reveal and replace what has been lost."
Only by separating the strokes one by one along the direction of the chakra could the reader discover that "replace" came from the cracks at the tablet's base.
Itachi did not speculate about the meaning.
He traced the lower and surface layers separately onto the blank sheet, then marked the order in which they had appeared.
Only after his record had been sealed was Shisui's scroll brought back into the secret chamber.
The two records were placed on opposite sides of a transparent board.
Shisui's scroll contained three additional passages from the deeper layers Itachi could not see.
Infinite Tsukuyomi.
The Rinnegan.
And the method of completion that would draw everyone into a single dream.
Yet both men had seen the same anomaly.
The text that appeared later entered from below, following the black cracks at