Izumi's impure Uchiha bloodline and her distinct personality, so different from other Uchihas, meant she basically had no friends her own age within the vast Uchiha Clan.
You could say she was Uchiha Itachi's only friend; Uchiha Itachi was also her only friend.
However.
Izumi now found that the friend she had recognized had become too unfamiliar. She never imagined Itachi would harbor such extreme ideas.
She had once naively believed that someone who loved the village and loved peace might have a personality similar to her own.
Someone who, even after awakening the power of the Sharingan, wouldn't be one of those Uchihas with extreme, pathological personalities.
Izumi hadn't expected she was wrong.
She was incredibly, outrageously wrong.
Even after slapping Uchiha Itachi hard across the face just now, she didn't feel a single bit of regret.
She even wished she could slap the other side of Uchiha Itachi's face.
That way, the handprints on both sides would look more symmetrical.
After all...
The future Uchiha Itachi, for the sake of his so-called beliefs and capacity, would kill the mother who depended on her, would kill her, Uchiha Izumi, and would kill everyone in the Uchiha Clan.
"...Izumi, you were too naive," Uchiha Itachi said, not covering his face, even though his cheek stung from the impact.
He stared at Izumi and continued, "The [Absolute Justice] that you and Uchiha Chisen believe in isn't absolute. If you truly intend to enforce justice through thorough means, then you should stop the people within the Uchiha Clan right now. Anyone can see their intentions to launch a coup d'état clearly."
"A coup will only plunge Konoha into internal strife, allowing external enemies to exploit our weakness. There are only two ways to stop all of this. Someone once tried the first method, but unfortunately, before they could truly act... they were erased."
"Only he could accomplish the first method. After his death, only one option remained. All I'm doing is becoming the one who bears everything."
"And what I've done is the justice that protected Konoha."
Izumi wiped away her tears.
She almost laughed out of anger.
"You truly understand nothing, yet you spew nonsense in front of me and Senior Chisen, saying things you believe to be correct," Izumi's eyes had lost their last shred of hope for Uchiha Itachi.
She looked at him as if she were looking at a psychiatric patient who had just escaped from Konoha Hospital.
It was a look born from a mixture of anger, sorrow, disappointment, and mockery, a look she herself couldn't quite articulate.
"You didn't even finish six years of school at the Ninja Academy,"
Izumi sighed, "Yes... it should be like this. I shouldn't have had any expectations of you, Uchiha Itachi."
She took a few steps back.
Creating distance between herself and Uchiha Itachi, she stood beside Uchiha Chisen.
Izumi pursed her lips and said seriously, "You and I are strangers now, Uchiha Itachi. In my eyes, your extreme ideas are the future enemy of [Absolute Justice]."
"I finally understand why Senior advised Patriarch Fugaku to have you see a psychologist. Senior is always right."
"You are an incorrigible illiterate, a self-indulgent chuunibyou fantasist, and a Uchiha with a twisted mindset."
She gritted her teeth and said in a low voice, "I remember you claimed you were different from other Uchihas. You said you became friends with me because you felt I was also different from other Uchihas."
"But..."
"In my eyes, you are no different from those extremist clansmen who want to launch a coup. You are their kind."
After her lengthy speech, Izumi fell silent.
She no longer wanted to say another word to Uchiha Itachi.
She was utterly disappointed and intended to sever this friendship.
Different values.
Cannot plan together.
Uchiha Itachi didn't offer much rebuttal. When he determined something was correct, no matter what happened, he would believe his initial decision was not wrong.
From the moment he spoke his first sentence, he would center his actions around that first sentence, always believing he was in the right.
Regardless of how others refuted him.
He remained steadfast.
Unwavering.
Uchiha Itachi also took a few steps back. He ignored Izumi and addressed Uchiha Chisen instead, "I hope you do not become my enemy. Even though your justice isn't pure in my eyes, I must admit that Konoha needs you."
"If you don't stand with them, I won't act against you in the future. The premise is that you must trust the village, and also trust Lord Hokage, and trust the true justice of Konoha."
Uchiha Chisen, as if deep in thought, suddenly raised his eyelids and asked in a drawn-out tone, "Are you finished speaking?"
Itachi was stunned.
"No," Uchiha Itachi turned around, leaving a solitary back for everyone to see, his cheek still bearing tear stains from moments ago.
"Although I have no particular issue with you, our positions are different, so you are also my future enemy, Uchiha Chisen."
Uchiha Itachi walked away.
And at this moment.
Uchiha Fugaku, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly took two steps forward and stood in front of Uchiha Chisen.
A pair of eyes had turned scarlet, and strange patterns, completely different from the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, appeared in his pupils. The indescribably powerful pupil energy seemed to freeze the surrounding air, instantly making the atmosphere tense.
"Chisen..."
Fugaku revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan, the Mangekyo Sharingan belonging to him as the Uchiha Clan Head, in front of Uchiha Chisen.
"I'm sorry, Itachi... he is my child after all. If you intend to lay a hand on him, I will stop you with my life."
"I also cannot see where the future Uchiha will go. Everything 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 room to maneuver is enough."
"Since Itachi has chosen his path, let us let him walk it. Time will tell who is right and who is wrong."
Izumi looked at Patriarch Fugaku, who had spoken such astonishing words, in a daze.
She vaguely understood why Uchiha Itachi was so outrageous.
It was hereditary...
Right?!!
Uchiha Chisen spoke, "I've noticed that those who are arrogant and selfish always have one trait – they believe they can predict others' intentions and then act in a self-gratifying manner. Your eldest son is like this, and so are you."
Fugaku remained silent.
"Judge by actions, not intentions – this is a mandatory lesson for justice. I was also naive before, but normal people grow after making mistakes; only beasts persist in their own opinions, unchanging."
"If justice is executed based on intentions, then [Absolute Justice] is the greatest evil in the ninja world. To maintain justice, one would have to kill everyone in the ninja world, from the elderly to infants, completely."
"If I did that, then I would be no different from Uchiha Itachi, and [Absolute Justice] would be stained with disgusting filth."
Uchiha Chisen seemed to be speaking to Fugaku.
He also seemed to be speaking to Izumi.
"Fugaku, pray that you can protect your precious son, and pray that today's conversation can bring about even a slight change in the future."
Uchiha Chisen stared unflinchingly at the pair of Mangekyo Sharingan and said, "The second before he makes his move, in my eyes, he will become the evil of this world, he will become a dead man. [Absolute Justice]... will utterly crush him."
"Justice will gaze upon all sinners."
"Including him."
"Including you."
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