"You want to know who that person is, but I can't tell you yet."
Seeing Shisui Uchiha open his mouth to speak, Yechen waved a hand to cut him off.
"It's not that I don't want to tell you. There's far too much involved behind the scenes, and with your current strength, you aren't qualified to get involved."
Noticing that he wanted to argue, Yechen added,
"Not even if you awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan."
At that, Shisui Uchiha chose to keep quiet. He had calmed down as well.
After a moment of silence, he asked,
"Then what can you tell me?"
Yechen smiled appreciatively. At least the kid wasn't stupid.
"I imagine you already have some guesses about his identity."
"Yes..." Shisui Uchiha nodded.
"He should have some connection to us Uchiha."
This wasn't a random guess. No outsider could use the Sharingan to that extent. Only someone with their clan's bloodline could unleash its true power.
Shisui simply hadn't figured out who it was yet-or rather, he had never considered someone who was already dead.
"You can investigate his exact identity yourself. All I can tell you is that he is indeed a ninja of the Uchiha Clan, and his target is the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki."
"What?!"
Hearing that, Shisui Uchiha sprang to his feet in shock.
The first half of that statement didn't surprise him much, since he had already suspected as much.
What caught him off guard was the latter half: the man's target was actually the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
As a Jonin of the Uchiha Clan and someone the clan was focused on nurturing, Shisui naturally knew quite a few secrets.
After witnessing a tailed beast on the battlefield some time ago, he had specifically looked into Jinchūriki and learned that the village had the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
And