Watching Uchiha Sasuke get so worked up in front of him, Shinji felt his teeth ache and sucked air through them.
Oh, Itachi's Foolish Otouto, it was just a lucid dream. Did you really have to get this worked up?
What normal person took what happened in a dream as reality...
Uh, he suddenly remembered the story of Zhuang Zhou dreaming he was a butterfly, and the butterfly dreaming it was Zhuang Zhou.
But that wasn't important!
What mattered was that he couldn't say anything.
Inside an "Instance," he could naturally let loose without fear.
But he couldn't do that in the real world.
If he told Sasuke, "The ones who drove your entire clan to their deaths were actually the whole Konoha High Command. Your brother was just a scapegoat, a blade they discarded after using him..."
Wouldn't Uchiha Sasuke explode on the spot and turn dark immediately?!
When Uchiha Sasuke lost his reason, he really was capable of anything.
Shinji wasn't afraid of what he might do, only of getting dragged into it afterward.
Not only would he offend a whole bunch of people for nothing, but Itachi and Naruto might both come looking for trouble with him.
A deal that was pure loss simply wasn't worth it!
"Calm down first, Sasuke."
"So my guess was right! If it weren't for that night five years ago, how could you possibly know my name? According to what you said earlier, this should be our first meeting, and I haven't told you my name since coming through the door."
Oh, shit!
Shinji gave Uchiha Sasuke a startled look. Damn it, he'd slipped up.
But it wasn't a big problem. He could explain it away!
"Your name is Sasuke Uchiha, right? You're overthinking it. I only know your name because of