"Yes."
Itachi looked at Asura atop the Wood Human, bit his thumb, and used the Summoning Technique to retrieve a nutrient tank.
Then, under Fugaku's bewildered and shocked gaze, he began swapping out his eye with exceptionally smooth, practiced movements.
*???*
Wait, my boy!
Where did you get that Mangekyō???
Did you dig up our ancestral graves?
No, that can't be right. Our ancestral graves don't have treasures like Mangekyō in them.
If they did, your old man would have dug them up long ago.
Itachi finished replacing his eye. The newly implanted eye was still closed, and blood flowed from its socket.
He looked at his father with his other eye and explained somewhat apologetically.
"Well, Father, this is Shisui's eye."
Realization flashed through Fugaku's eyes, but then he thought again. That wasn't right. Hadn't both of Shisui's eyes gone missing back then?
"I secretly kept Shisui's Mangekyō. He entrusted it to me, so I didn't tell you, Father."
As the nerves finished connecting, Itachi opened his right eye.
For an instant, Fugaku seemed to see Shisui's figure appear behind Itachi.
"The control exerted by Impure World Reincarnation is itself a form of Genjutsu, and the talisman within it also primarily controls the soul through Yin Release."
Itachi wiped away the bloody tears and explained to Fugaku as he felt the Dōjutsu Power contained in his dear friend's eye.
"And Shisui's eye possesses the strongest Genjutsu, capable of changing a person's will."
"It was a means he left me at the cost of his life."
"Kotoamatsukami."
In the sky.
The purple Susanoo kept swaying, dodging one massive wooden hand after another as they reached out from the Wood Human.
"What a pain."
Sasuke looked at Asura, who had become vacant-eyed across from him, and realized that the mastermind