Chapter 53: Justice Will Gaze Upon All Waiting Villains
Izumi’s impure Uchiha Bloodline and her personality that is completely different from other Uchihas doomed her to have basically no peers her age within the vast Uchiha Clan.
It could be said that she is Uchiha Itachi’s only friend; Uchiha Itachi is also her only friend.
However.
Izumi now realized that the friend she trusted had become too unfamiliar; she had never imagined that Itachi would harbor such extreme ideas.
She had once naively believed that a person who loved the village and loved peace might have a personality similar to her own.
One who, even after awakening the power of the Sharingan, was not the kind of Uchiha with an extremely pathological personality.
Izumi hadn’t expected herself to be wrong.
Terribly wrong.
Even after slapping Uchiha Itachi hard across the face just now, she felt no regret whatsoever.
She even wished she could slap the other side of Uchiha Itachi’s face as well.
That way, the palm prints on both sides of his face would look more balanced.
After all…
The future Uchiha Itachi, for the sake of his so-called beliefs and magnanimity, would kill the mother she depended on for survival, would even kill her, Uchiha Izumi, and would kill everyone in the Uchiha.
“…Izumi, you’re too naive.” Uchiha Itachi did not cover his face, even though it stung with burning pain.
He stared at Izumi and said: “The 「Absolute Justice」 that you and Uchiha Ikeizumi believe in is not absolute. If you truly want to carry out justice with thorough means, then you should stop the people within the Uchiha Clan right now. Everyone can clearly see the faces of those who want to launch a coup.”
“A coup will only plunge Konoha into civil unrest and allow external enemies to take advantage of the weakness. There are only two means to stop all of this. Someone once wanted to try the first method, but unfortunately, before they could truly take action… they were eliminated.”
“Only he could accomplish the first method. After his death, only one option remained. What I’m doing is simply becoming the one who bears everything.”
“And my actions are what truly protect Konoha’s justice.”
Izumi wiped away a tear.
She was almost laughed into anger.
“You really don’t understand anything, yet you spout off in front of me and Senior Ikeizumi, saying things you think are right.” Izumi’s eyes had lost the last remaining hope she held for Uchiha Itachi.
The way she looked at him was like looking at a mentally ill patient who had just escaped from Konoha Hospital.
That was a gaze mixed with anger, sorrow, disappointment, sarcasm, and various other emotions, forming something even she couldn’t quite describe.
“You didn’t even finish six years at the Ninja Academy,”
Izumi sighed: “Yeah… it should be like this. I shouldn’t have any expectations of you, Uchiha Itachi.”
She took a few steps back.
Pulling away from Uchiha Itachi, standing beside Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Izumi pressed her lips together and said seriously: “You and I are already strangers, Uchiha Itachi. Your extreme ideas are, in my eyes, the enemy of 「Absolute Justice」’s future.”
“I finally understand why Senior wanted Fugaku Clan Head to take you to see a psychiatrist; he is indeed always right.”
“You’re an incorrigible illiterate, a self-indulgent chuunibyou delusion patient, a twisted-thinking Uchiha.”
She gritted her teeth and said in a deep voice: “I remember you claiming that you were completely different from other Uchihas, and that you became friends with me because you felt I was also completely different from other Uchihas.”
“But…”
“In my eyes, you are no different from those extreme clan members who want to launch a coup; you are one of them.”
After finishing this long rant, Izumi fell silent.
She no longer wanted to say a single word to Uchiha Itachi.
She was utterly disappointed and planned to sever this friendship.
Their worldviews were incompatible.
No need to associate.
Uchiha Itachi did not refute much. When he believes something is correct, no matter what happens, he will always think his initial decision was not wrong.
From the moment he says his first sentence, he takes it as his core and steadfastly believes he is right.
No matter how others refute him.
He sticks to his own views.
Unshakably.
Uchiha Itachi also took a few steps back. He ignored Izumi and said to Uchiha Ikeizumi: “I hope you don’t become my enemy. Even though your justice is not pure in my eyes, I must admit that Konoha needs you.”
“If you don’t stand on their side, the future me won’t lay a hand on you. The premise is that you trust the village, trust the Hokage, and trust Konoha’s true justice.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi, who seemed to be pondering something, suddenly lifted his eyelids and asked in a eerie tone: “Are you done?”
Itachi was stunned.
“Not yet.” Uchiha Itachi turned around, leaving everyone with a lonely back view, his cheeks still bearing the earlier tear stains.
“Although I have no issue with you, our stances differ, so you are also my future enemy, Uchiha Ikeizumi.”
Uchiha Itachi walked outward.
And at this moment.
Uchiha Fugaku, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly stepped forward two steps, standing in front of Uchiha Ikeizumi.
A pair of eyes had turned scarlet, and weird patterns completely different from the Three-Tomoe Sharingan appeared in his pupils. An indescribable powerful Eye Power seemed to solidify the surrounding air, instantly tensing the atmosphere.
“Ikeizumi…”
Fugaku revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan as the Uchiha Clan Head in front of Uchiha Ikeizumi.
“Sorry, Itachi… is ultimately my child. If you move against him, I will stop you even at the cost of my life.”
“I can’t see where the future Uchiha can go. What Itachi does in the future might truly be the only choice.”
Fugaku said apologetically: “Perhaps you also possess legendary power, but stopping you and giving Itachi some leeway is enough.”
“Since Itachi has chosen his path, let him walk it. Time will prove who is right and who is wrong.”
Izumi looked stunned at Fugaku Clan Head, who had spoken such shocking words.
She vaguely understood why Uchiha Itachi was so off.
It’s hereditary…
Right?!!
Uchiha Ikeizumi spoke: “I’ve realized that stubborn, selfish people all have one trait—they think they can guess others’ intentions and then act in self-indulgent ways. Your eldest son is like this, and so are you.”
Fugaku fell silent.
“Judge by actions, not intentions—this is a required lesson for justice. I used to be ignorant too, but normal people grow after trial and error; only beasts stubbornly cling to their views unchangingly.”
“If justice is executed by intentions, 「Absolute Justice」 becomes the Ninja World’s greatest evil. From elders to infants, killing everyone in the Ninja World clean would maintain justice.”
“If I did that, I’d be no different from Uchiha Itachi, and 「Absolute Justice」 would be stained with disgusting filth.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi seemed to be speaking to Fugaku.
And also seemed to be speaking to Izumi.
“Fugaku, pray you can protect your precious son, and pray today’s conversation brings a sliver of change to the future.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi stared unabashedly at that pair of Mangekyo Sharingan and said: “One second before he acts, in my eyes, he will become this world’s evil, become someone who must die. 「Absolute Justice」… will utterly eradicate him.”
“Justice will gaze upon all villains awaiting sin.”
“Including him.”
“Including you.”
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