Sasuke closed the small scroll and pressed a fire seal down at the closure.
"Record and archive, do not make public for now."
Shikaku immediately understood his meaning, "Kisame's words will cause panic within the village."
Sasuke looked at Itachi, who was already blind, "Leave the panic to the enemies; Konoha only needs to see the verdict."
Itachi lay on the ground, his empty eye sockets still bleeding, repeatedly muttering in his mouth, "I can't see, Sasuke, I can't see..."
Neji stood at his side, his fingers resting on the wrist pulse, "Execute the crippling now?"
Sasuke nodded, "Execute, record the whole process."
Yamada Naoto hugged the array disc and knelt to the side, gritting his teeth as he aimed it at Itachi, "The recording angle is fixed."
Shizune wanted to speak, then swallowed her words back, only telling the medical ninja behind her, "Keep up the hemostatic line, don't let him go into shock."
Tsunade stood outside the trial line, her brow tightly knit, "Sasuke, destroying his meridians will make him worse than an ordinary person for the rest of his life."
Sasuke looked over, "He made the children of the Uchiha have no rest of their lives at all."
The medicine box in Tsunade's hands was closed by her, and she did not try to persuade him further.
Neji's two fingers fell, and Gentle Fist chakra drilled into Itachi's wrist meridians. Itachi's originally loose body immediately arched, and a distorted scream squeezed out of his throat.
"Don't move." Neji pressed down on his arm, "When you attacked the corpses of the branch family back then, no one spoke up to tell you to stop either."
Hiashi stood in the outer circle, closed his eyes upon hearing this sentence, and when he opened them again, only cold hardness remained,