Obito looked at Danzo with his "serving Konoha with all his heart" demeanor and raised the corner of his mouth in mockery, "Danzo, do you think Konoha will be destroyed by our hands?"
"On what basis?"
Danzo sneered coldly, "What this old man saw today is the evidence."
"You colluded with foreign village leaders and organizations, plotted to assassinate me, the Hokage's assistant, such a heart deserves death!"
Obito said blandly, "But Danzo, not many people are as filthy inside as you. You can think simpler. From beginning to end, the only one we wanted to kill was you."
Danzo snorted, "If you kill me, Konoha will be finished. And you say you harbor no ill intentions toward Konoha?"
Obito truly didn't know where Danzo got his confidence from.
Maybe this man had brainwashed himself for too long, convinced himself.
He merely said, "You always like to tie yourself to Konoha."
"You always think, if one thrives, all thrive; if one suffers, all suffer."
"But have you ever considered a question. Without you, Konoha might actually prosper?"
Danzo still sneered coldly, "This old man can die, but this old man's will shall not be shaken by you. Konoha... needs people like me."
Obito walked in front of Danzo and squatted down.
He reminded him, "Maybe what you said is right, Danzo."
"Where there is light, there are always darkness."
"But there's one thing you got wrong, darkness can only be darkness; it cannot become light."
"You delusionally want to become light, you have ambitions you shouldn't have. So your so-called style is filled with distortion."
"We're just here to help correct this mistake."
When Danzo heard this, he only sneered, "Pseudoscience, utter nonsense."
"It's nothing more than the victor takes all."
"I admit defeat. As for the rest, do as you wish!"
After speaking, he closed his still-intact left eye, with a look saying he didn't want to continue talking with Obito.
Obito couldn't help shaking his head. Danzo really was like a stubborn rock, immovable no matter what.
He couldn't persuade him. Maybe even if he switched with Naruto, who was good at persuasion, the result would be the same.
In some ways, Nagato really could learn a bit from Danzo.
A man can lose, but his spirit must not.
He stood up, somewhat disinterested.
Fugaku noticed and reminded, "Obito, why say so much nonsense to him?"
"Just kill him already."
Obito nodded, "I just wanted to defeat him from another angle."
"Seems I was too naive," After speaking, he looked toward Itachi, who was hiding behind Fugaku and Mikoto, and waved at him.
"Itachi, come here."
But Itachi just tightly clung to Mikoto's clothes, refusing to let go.
Fugaku's expression turned serious, putting on the authority of a father, "Itachi, come over."
Itachi could only helplessly cast a pleading look toward Mikoto.
Mikoto smiled, squatted down, and gave Itachi an encouraging look, "Itachi, didn't you say you want to become a real man?"
"This is something you have to go through, go ahead."
Only then did Itachi, trembling a little, let go of Mikoto and muster up the courage to walk in front of Obito.
He looked at Obito nervously and asked in a small voice, "Big brother Obito, what do you need me to do?"
Obito smiled, "Itachi, you're almost three this year, right?"
Itachi obediently nodded.
"A three-year-old should understand things now, especially a genius like you."
Obito pointed at Danzo and asked, "Itachi, do you know who this person is?"
Itachi really wanted to say he didn't know, but it was exactly because he did that he was afraid.
As the son of the clan head, even if he wasn't familiar with Danzo, he knew, he was a big figure in Konoha, a target of hatred for many Uchiha...
In the end, he still nodded.
Obito handed him the Flying Thunder God kunai in his hand.
"Itachi, go stab him. The vital spot doesn't matter, just don't let him die too quickly."
Itachi jumped in shock. He knew that his father and big brother Obito wanted to kill this big figure.
But he didn't know, it would require him to do it.
He asked with some confusion, "Why me?"
"We... have no grievance."
Obito snorted, "No grievance?"
"No, now you do."
"Itachi, you can think of it like this, if you don't kill him now and let him go back, he'll turn around and kill your clansmen, your parents."
"Can you accept that?"
Itachi jumped in fright and instinctively said, "No, I can't accept that!"
But immediately, Itachi hesitated, "But I... don't want to kill anyone."
Obito became stern, "Itachi, if you don't want to kill him, do you want to kill your own parents instead?"
"If you don't kill him, I'll let him go right now, let him go back, let him issue the order to annihilate the Uchiha clan."
"In that case, you'll be the true culprit who killed the Uchiha clan!"
Itachi was about to cry, 'How can big brother Obito do this?'
He vaguely felt something was wrong with those words, but for a moment couldn't figure out what.
He could only take the Flying Thunder God kunai from Obito's hand, trembling, and walk in front of Danzo...
At this moment, even Fugaku, who had always advocated strict education, couldn't help but say to Mikoto beside him, "Mikoto, isn't Obito's way of teaching a bit too extreme?"
Mikoto smiled, "Though I don't see what Obito's goal is in doing this..."
"But I can feel, it's for Itachi's own good."
"At least, better than you as his father."
Fugaku was instantly petrified. Usually when he educated Itachi, Mikoto protected him. Now Obito was educating Itachi, and Mikoto was protecting Obito.
'Damn it!'
While the two exchanged, in the scene, Itachi had already come in front of Danzo.
Danzo, who had closed his eye, opened it.
He sized up Itachi's small frame, and his voice didn't carry a trace of emotion, "So they're letting you kill me in the end?"
"You can go through with it?"
Itachi couldn't help taking a step back, but still trembled and said, "I... can!"
Danzo snorted and looked toward Obito, "Is this how you Uchiha raise people?"
"The goal is what? Awakening the Sharingan?"
"Truly nothing good."
Obito said playfully, "Root isn't anything good either."
"Our method, at least, isn't utterly devoid of humanity, just letting the child see blood, and at the same time telling him a truth: no matter what Konoha upper echelon you are, if you like doing evil, you'll be killed."
"Caring for the bigger picture doesn't need to be forced by you. We just need to deal with you, that's all."
Danzo got angry, "Obito, you—"
Obito suddenly laughed. He realized, Danzo was hard to persuade, but easy to anger.
He continued, "Danzo, actually, it's like this. In a certain forked future, on a certain timeline, you did something unforgivable to this child."
"So now I'm sending him to get revenge."
Danzo was disgusted, "So that's it. This old man's life has had plenty of mud slung at it. But slung like this by you, this is the first time."
After speaking, he turned his gaze back to Itachi, taunting, "They say, in the future I did something unforgivable to you. What do you think?"
Itachi didn't know how to respond. Instinctively he felt, 'Something that hasn't happened, how can it be judged like this?'
But suddenly, for some reason, a surge of emotion rose in his heart.
A surge of great anger.
The Danzo in front of him suddenly turned into a heinous criminal, he wanted to kill him immediately.
Thinking this way, Itachi's hands tightly gripped the kunai, his eyes turned red.
His body inexplicably gave rise to immense strength, "DIE!"
His hands stabbed out fiercely, the kunai pierced directly into Danzo's abdomen like splitting bamboo.
[T/N: Is it only me or is anyone else feeling pity for Danzo? While I know he deserves all this but by doing this they are also praising him for being the darkness that let Konoha shine bright. In a way, their actions imply that Danzo's actions were good for Konoha.]
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