Chapter 81: Are You Questioning Absolute Justice, Kakashi!
Kakashi saw a patch of burning flames behind Uchiha Ikeizumi, with the flames spreading dozens of meters backward in a straight line.
A ninja sword with only half its blade remained lay dropped at the other’s feet.
This made him even more certain that Uchiha Ikeizumi had definitely fought someone just now.
Wait! This location seems to be…
Kakashi suddenly jolted in shock. Wasn’t this the location of Rin’s gravestone?
His gaze quickly shifted to a gravestone beside Uchiha Ikeizumi. Only after discovering that the gravestone was intact did he breathe a sigh of relief.
However, a bunch of fresh White Flowers placed beside the gravestone made Kakashi’s gaze linger for half a second, with a hint of doubt in his eyes. He looked at Uchiha Ikeizumi again with shocked eyes, feeling as if he had discovered something extraordinary.
But that doesn’t make sense… Rin and Uchiha Ikeizumi weren’t from the same school year; Rin was three years older than Ikeizumi!
He had never noticed any connection between the two before!
Before Kakashi could speak, Uchiha Ikeizumi’s voice rang out faintly: “The flowers were placed by Uchiha Obito.”
In the next second after Kakashi suddenly realized, he abruptly froze.
Kakashi: “???”
“…Obito?!” Kakashi instinctively directed his gaze to another gravestone not far away.
That was Obito’s gravestone.
“You wouldn’t fail to recognize Uchiha Obito, would you, meow? Kakashi?” Kijiro’s sharp and weird tone rang out at this moment: “If I remember correctly, you and he were both disciples of the Fourth Hokage.”
Kakashi recognized Kijiro; this was Uchiha Ikeizumi’s ninja cat. Several of his ninja dogs had once been beaten up by this ninja cat.
When the topic turned to “Obito,” Kakashi temporarily set aside the purpose of this meeting with Uchiha Ikeizumi and said, “You might have misunderstood something. Obito… he died at the hands of enemy village ninjas during the Third Shinobi World War.”
“Then let me ask you, is his corpse in the grave?” Kijiro’s counterquestion made Kakashi instinctively shake his head.
Because this was a cenotaph, Obito’s corpse had long since been unfindable.
There wasn’t even Obito’s ashes beneath the gravestone.
“Kakashi.” Kijiro leaped onto Kakashi’s shoulder, nearly making Kakashi’s shoulder sink.
—What a fat cat!
This was a sentence Kakashi didn’t say out loud.
Kijiro’s four cat paws pressed against Kakashi’s side face mask. It narrowed its cat eyes and questioned: “Are you doubting Lord Ikeizumi? Do you think Lord Ikeizumi would lie to someone like you? Are you doubting「Absolute Justice」?”
Kakashi was stunned for a moment.
He suddenly recalled… the rumor that Uchiha Ikeizumi’s eyes could see through information others couldn’t, as well as others’ Past Evil and Future Evil.
On top of that.
Tonight, Uchiha Ikeizumi had demonstrated the terrifying ability of his Mangekyo Sharingan in front of many people.
This elevated the credibility of Uchiha Ikeizumi’s “eyes that can see through sin” even further.
Kakashi was dumbfounded.
The reason he wanted to meet Uchiha Ikeizumi this time wasn’t some scheme; he simply wanted to thank the man in person.
Although it was already too late, Uchiha Ikeizumi had at least allowed him, Kakashi, to touch upon the inside truth of his father’s death back then.
Over these years, he had lived in a daze, even sealing off his own heart, unwilling to mention the name “Hatake Sakumo” in front of others. But… deep down, conspiracy theory-like malicious guesses would always flash through, though he had no evidence.
Until tonight, when one of Danzo’s “crimes” was stated by Uchiha Ikeizumi, and Danzo directly broke down…
Kakashi chose to believe Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Yeah!
Since he believed Uchiha Ikeizumi that his father’s death was related to Danzo, why was his instinctive reaction disbelief when the other said Uchiha Obito was still alive?
Could it be…
That Obito really was as Uchiha Ikeizumi said.
He was still alive?!
“Uchiha Obito didn’t die.” While Kakashi was caught in shocked stupor, Kijiro’s cat face disdainfully continued with words that shocked without killing: “Moreover… that guy not only didn’t die, but became a deeply sinful evil person. Lord Ikeizumi said that the ‘evil’ on Uchiha Obito has already accumulated to the point of nearly turning black.”
Kijiro’s tone was eerie, and Kakashi could even smell that this cat had definitely eaten fish today, due to its mouth full of fishy smell.
“Oh right, meow.” Kijiro added: “Lord Ikeizumi just said that Uchiha Obito once turned the cleaver toward the Fourth Hokage. Perhaps the Fourth Hokage’s death is inseparable from him, meow.”
Kakashi: “!!!”
Kakashi was struck as if by lightning.
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Outside Konoha.
Obito had already rapidly left Konoha Village, but the unease that Uchiha Ikeizumi had brought him still couldn’t be quelled.
He lowered his gaze to stare at his palm that was missing a third.
The occasional burning-like intense pain made him take a deep breath.
“Obito, don’t make an enemy of that person for now.” Zetsu’s voice came from behind: “He’s very strong. His Mangekyo dojutsu is also weird; it’s a dojutsu I’ve never heard of. Without mastering absolute information, fighting him would be very disadvantageous.”
As he spoke, a White Zetsu Clone separated from Zetsu’s body.
Obito drew a kunai and casually slashed, cutting off a small half of the White Zetsu Clone’s palm.
Obito gritted his teeth and sliced open the scorched and carbonized part of his wound, with bright red blood beginning to flow out.
He grafted the White Zetsu Clone’s palm onto his own hand.
Under the powerful healing ability of the First’s Wood Style cells, in less than a few Breathing of time, the hand stopped bleeding. Even without manual fixation, the small half of the White Zetsu Clone’s palm had already grown onto his hand, with flesh and bones connecting.
He didn’t listen to a single word Zetsu said.
He had only one doubt—how exactly did Uchiha Ikeizumi know so much information about him? Did he learn it from someone else’s mouth? Or through his dojutsu?
While pondering.
Obito’s thoughtful gaze glanced toward Zetsu.
“Hey hey hey…” Zetsu immediately understood his meaning and said dissatisfiedly: “I’m a special existence born from Lord Madara’s powerful will, and you’re an Uchiha junior who inherited his will. How could I possibly betray you?!”
“Hmph… you’d better not.”
Obito darkly snorted coldly.
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“Ikeizumi… sir.”
Kakashi knew Uchiha Ikeizumi could barely be considered his junior, but he didn’t feel comfortable addressing the other directly by name, since they weren’t close and there was likely a significant gap in strength.
Kakashi already believed about ninety percent of what Kijiro had said.
Perhaps this was one of the benefits of Uchiha Ikeizumi always upholding「Absolute Justice」; at least in terms of “credibility,” Uchiha Ikeizumi was absolutely ranked first in Konoha Village.
Kakashi took a deep breath; he could no longer remain calm.
Although the ninja cat Kijiro had stopped speaking, its earlier words kept echoing in Kakashi’s mind.
Making it impossible for him to calm down.
Kakashi’s tone carried an uncontrollable urgency: “Can you tell me about… about Obito’s Evil Deeds and sins?”
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