Chapter 70: Controlling Uchiha Itachi with Genjutsu—Go, Destroy the Sarutobi Clan

"Uchiha Reiji!"

On Reiji’s side, he was currently together with Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tetsuka.

Suddenly, he heard the furious voice.

His heart stirred, and he turned his head. Sure enough, it was Uchiha Itachi.

The great show was finally about to begin...

Reiji sighed inwardly as he looked at Uchiha Itachi with a faint smile.

"What? What do you want with me?"

Uchiha Itachi coldly stared at the three people before him.

Uchiha Reiji had disregarded Shisui’s dying request and revealed the truth about Shisui’s attack, further intensifying the conflict between the Uchiha and the village!

Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tetsuka had also always been eager to launch a coup and seize power!

These people were all to blame!

They were the ones who had pushed the Uchiha clan into its current predicament!

They had forced him to raise his hand against his own parents and clansmen!

Driven by rage, the Three-Windmill Mangekyō Sharingan opened instantly, and a flash of light passed through his right eye!

Blood tears streamed down!

Black flames appeared out of nowhere at Reiji’s position!

Amaterasu!

Flames that would never go out until their target had been completely burned to nothing!

Last time, Itachi had only just awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan when he challenged Uchiha Reiji.

As a result, his body had been unable to keep up with the perception of his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Reiji had instantly defeated him with physical attacks.

This time!

He had become much more proficient in controlling the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan.

His strength had also increased tremendously compared to when he had first awakened it!

However!

Within the vision of his Mangekyō Sharingan, lightning flashed around Uchiha Reiji’s body, and he actually passed straight through the Amaterasu flames!

The black flames landed on the ground behind him and began burning the earth below.

"What?!"

Uchiha Itachi’s expression changed drastically.

He had actually dodged the Amaterasu released through his line of sight?

How was that possible?

Could Amaterasu really be dodged through sheer speed?

"Uchiha Itachi, you bastard! You really have betrayed the Uchiha completely!"

Seeing this, Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tetsuka immediately understood.

Between the Uchiha clan and the village, Uchiha Itachi had ultimately chosen the latter!

He was even planning to help the village suppress the Uchiha!

"You narrow-minded, selfish, arrogant lunatics! You are the ones who killed the Uchiha!"

Uchiha Itachi covered his aching right eye and roared.

"Well, there’s no point arguing with a brainwashed idiot like him. We might as well make good use of whatever value he has left."

Reiji sealed the Amaterasu away with the Fire-Sealing Method and tried to calm Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tetsuka.

"Hahaha!"

Uchiha Itachi actually laughed.

Brainwashed?

In Uchiha Reiji’s eyes, he, who was supposedly considering the greater good, had actually been brainwashed?

The fury in his heart grew even stronger, and Uchiha Itachi decisively activated the ocular technique of his left eye!

Instantly!

The entire world changed.

A dark-red world resembling a vast dome appeared.

Only Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Reiji remained.

"This is my other ocular technique, Tsukuyomi."

"In the world of Tsukuyomi, everything, including time, place, mass, and other factors, is under my control."

Seeing that Tsukuyomi had succeeded and Uchiha Reiji had been pulled into the Tsukuyomi space, Uchiha Itachi finally relaxed.

The greatest threat had been dealt with.

However, he still had to kill all of his clansmen afterward.

It did not matter whether they were shinobi or not.

They all had to die.

Thinking of this, Uchiha Itachi’s face turned cold.

"Uchiha Reiji, do you know that it is precisely because of your arrogance and greed that the Uchiha clan has ended up like this?"

"Oh?"

Reiji became slightly interested.

"In your eyes, when Shisui tried to eliminate the differences and distrust between the Uchiha and the village but ultimately failed, was it all because the Uchiha clansmen were at fault?"

"Of course!"

Uchiha Itachi answered without hesitation.

"Really?"

Reiji shook his head.

"Shisui should have told you before, right? He hoped that you could understand the resentment in the hearts of the clansmen. That resentment had its reasons."

"Now it seems that you really didn’t listen to him at all."

"What a pity. In the end, you really are different from Shisui."

"Shisui had both the village and the Uchiha in his heart, but your heart is filled with nothing but prejudice toward your own clansmen."

However, Uchiha Itachi remained disdainful of these words.

Seeing this, Reiji sneered.

"As expected, you really have been brainwashed into an idiot. There’s no point talking to you anymore."

As he spoke, Reiji suddenly moved within the dark-red space. With a casual gesture, a huge iron nail appeared in his hand out of nowhere!

Uchiha Itachi was suddenly startled, his expression changing drastically.

Wasn’t this his Tsukuyomi space?

How had Uchiha Reiji done this?

He immediately tried to control everything within the Tsukuyomi space.

But Uchiha Itachi was shocked to discover that he could no longer move!

What was going on?

"You think this is your Tsukuyomi space?"

Reiji smiled and directly drove the iron nail into Uchiha Itachi’s body.

"This is merely an ordinary Bringer-of-Darkness-style Binding Technique."

Uchiha Itachi felt a burst of intense pain, veins bulging on his forehead as sweat rolled down his face.

Even though the injury was purely mental, it felt exactly like having his physical body wounded!

One iron nail after another stabbed into his body!

"Ah!!!"

In the end, even with Uchiha Itachi’s psychological resilience, he could not help but cry out in pain!

"So you know what pain feels like too?"

Reiji was somewhat disappointed as he waved his hand, causing the iron nails to disappear.

Uchiha Itachi gasped violently, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"...Why did my Tsukuyomi fail?"

"It didn’t fail. You never used it in the first place."

"I used the Bringer-of-Darkness-style Binding Technique to drag you directly into the mental space. You thought you had activated Tsukuyomi, but that was also part of my genjutsu."

Reiji lightly explained.

After obtaining the Genjutsu talent from the system, he had also learned numerous genjutsu techniques from Shisui.

Even if they were compared purely in terms of genjutsu mastery, he was already above Uchiha Itachi!

What was more!

His ocular power was currently even greater than Uchiha Itachi’s!

Even though Itachi possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, he was still unable to break free from an ordinary genjutsu cast by Reiji.

"Impossible!"

Uchiha Itachi simply refused to believe it.

If the other party only had a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, there was no way he could cast a genjutsu on someone who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan!

Unless...

Uchiha Reiji also had the Mangekyō Sharingan!

"There’s nothing impossible about it. The horizons and capacity you have always been so proud of are simply too narrow."

As he spoke, Reiji began controlling Uchiha Itachi with genjutsu.

"Want to know why I didn’t let you use Tsukuyomi?"

"Because your power needs to be conserved today. You can’t waste it on me."

"Just as you hate me, I have hated you for a long time as well."

"And I’ve always been thinking about how I should deal with someone like you."

"Kill you directly? That would be letting you off too easily, wouldn’t it?"

"In the end, I came up with an interesting idea."

"You received an order from Sarutobi Hiruzen to exterminate the entire Uchiha clan, didn’t you? And you’re supposed to kill everyone, regardless of whether they’re elderly or children."

"Coincidentally, I like treating others the way they treat me."

A smile that could not be suppressed appeared on Reiji’s lips.

Just as Uchiha Obito had once controlled the Fourth Mizukage with genjutsu, Reiji used genjutsu to control Uchiha Itachi’s will.

"Go. Destroy the Sarutobi clan with your power."

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