I don’t know how much time has passed since that tragic night.

Sasuke has no interest in paying attention to the concept of time. The only thing that keeps him alive now is one belief - revenge.

To take revenge on the hateful man who wielded the butcher knife against his own people and his parents.

How much respect and admiration I had for that man in the past, but now how deeply I hate that man in my heart.

Since the genocide incident, Sasuke has lived under the shadow of nightmares every day. Every night when he closes his eyes in bed, he can't help but recall that night full of blood and killing.

The butcher’s brother…

Seeing the dead tribesmen...

Seeing the bodies of his parents lying at his brother's feet...

Then I woke up from my sleep in a cold sweat.

This happened over and over again, until his mental state gradually lost control.

Fortunately, it's not like no one cares about me in this village.

The Third Hokage, who was dealing with many things every day, would come over to comfort him every once in a while, which made Sasuke feel guilty.

Because every time the Third Hokage came over, he always had a cold face, as if he could no longer smile.

Seeing the Third Hokage with a kind face, he behaved so rudely...

There must be no one in the village who doesn't respect Naruto, and Sasuke is no exception.

Such a big shot must be very busy every day, but he still has to find time to visit a poor Uchiha clan member like him. This makes Sasuke extremely embarrassed... Maybe he should be more polite next time the kind old man comes over.

"Sasuke, we have made an appointment to play ninja games together. Do you want to go?"

When school was over in the afternoon, a classmate from the same class came over to invite me.

The other party's name is Nara Shikamaru, and he is a guy who often sleeps in class.

Because of this, he was nicknamed one of the "Idiot Trio" by his classmates, and Sasuke was deeply impressed by him.

Sasuke looked at him deeply, shook his head and said, "No, you can find someone else."

Maybe in the past, I would have agreed after thinking about it.

But now...the power is not enough.

Compared with that man, I was as weak as an ant. I didn't even have the qualifications to stand in front of him.

With such a fragile self, how can I have time to play ninja games?

The only thing he insists on surviving is revenge.

Moreover, it was too unexpected that a person who talked about "trouble" all day long, with whom he was not familiar with at ordinary times, came to invite me to play ninja games.

Behind this, someone might be hinting him to do this.

However, there should be no malicious intent.

There is no way that I would waste my precious cultivation time on such things.

Without hesitation, Sasuke left the classroom.

"so troublesome……"

Shikamaru scratched his head and looked listlessly at the white clouds in the sky.

If you send out the invitation so suddenly, you will probably be suspected.

He didn't dare to look down on the top student in the class.

In this class, except for a certain idiot, everyone in the same grade has a certain skill.

Sasuke's ability to become the top student in this class is enough to prove his strength and brains.

There is no way to hide such a little cleverness like mine.

After leaving school, Sasuke bought rice balls and treated them as dinner.

He came to the open woods around the Uchiha tribe and started practicing here.

Fire escape, shuriken, and taijutsu all remained intact.

Because he did not have the Sharingan opened, Sasuke was not very proficient in the use of genjutsu, and he only knew a little bit about it.

Sasuke has already planned the practice of genjutsu and will study it after he opens his Sharingan.

As a ninja of the Uchiha clan, there is no need to deliberately practice genjutsu. As long as the Sharingan is turned on, genjutsu is something that can be learned naturally.

Just thinking about the Sharingan, Sasuke's eyes immediately showed a hint of gloom.

He remembered his father saying that Itachi opened his Sharingan at the age of eight, and it took a short time to be able to use it freely. However, he was now the same age as Itachi, but there was no sign of opening his eyes.

The most important thing is that Itachi graduated from the ninja school at the age of six and was able to go out to perform missions and fight various powerful enemies to improve his strength.

But I was still a student in the ninja school, so I could only play ninja games later in the school.

Jealousy and hatred filled his chest together, so that there was a hint of cruelty and coldness in his eyes.

Jealousy, such an emotion comes along with hatred, is something Sasuke can't even think about.

In the past, no matter how powerful Itachi's talent and strength were, I had always only respected and admired him, and would never be jealous of Itachi's talent and strength.

But now that he had such dark emotions, Sasuke was subconsciously shocked.

He quickly suppressed his inner restlessness and regained his composure.

"Huh...huh..."

Panting heavily, Sasuke's face was covered with cold sweat and struggle.

Now I need to calm down, need to practice to become stronger, gain more power than Itachi, and then kill him.

Avenge your clan and parents, and then restore the prestige of the Uchiha clan.

He would never forget the strange looks some students in the class were looking at him.

Maybe there was no malice, but in Sasuke's opinion, it was ridicule and pity.

After the sun went down, the woods were shrouded in dark shadows, with only the dim moonlight shining down.

Sasuke looked at the time and knew it was time to go back and rest.

However, before going back to rest, he still needs to go somewhere.

——Nanga Shrine.

In the past, it was an important place for the Uchiha clan to hold clan gatherings.

The clansmen who can enter here and participate in the clan meeting are all the most powerful ninjas in the clan.

But now the shrine has become extremely depressed, and a gloomy atmosphere has enveloped the shrine. When walking on the stone steps, there is only the sound of wind filled with cold air, and other than that, no other sounds can be heard.

Entering the main hall of the shrine, according to the information Itachi left behind, counting from the right, there is a major family secret hidden under the seventh tatami.

Sasuke entered without any hindrance and walked straight to the innermost part.

There is an ancient stone tablet standing there. There are many unrecognizable fonts engraved on the stone tablet, or it may not look like some kind of known writing, and it requires some kind of 'power' to open it.

This is what Itachi mentioned, the biggest secret of the Uchiha clan.

But these days, Sasuke comes here almost every few days, but every time he returns without success.

The code on the stone tablet is too profound, and I can only interpret a very small part of it, and it is an insignificant part.

Sasuke estimated that he would need a Sharingan or even a higher-level Mangekyo Sharingan to figure out the secrets.

Itachi must know all the secrets above.

Because he has the Mangekyō Sharingan.

How far behind was he? When he thought about this kind of thing, Sasuke immediately felt unwilling to do so and gritted his teeth.

One day, I will personally kill the traitor who betrayed the clan and the village!

The honor of the clan must be defended by oneself!

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The weather in August is much warmer than expected.

Under such a scorching sun, on the sea near the southern part of the Country of Fire, a huge steel ship came riding the wind and waves.

The appearance is somewhat inconsistent with various ships of the modern era.

This is a ship collectively referred to as an 'aircraft carrier'. The shape of the hull has not changed much, but the chassis is larger, and the building materials are mostly made of steel or alloy instead of wood.

On this kind of ship, there are also various multi-faceted towers with complex shapes.

The gun barrel, flight track, and more areas of unknown use all indicate that such a ship is not for civilian or commercial use, but for military use.

The largest cruise ship parked at the port of the southern city of the Land of Fire is nothing compared to such a giant steel ship. The deterrence and hardness of the two are not at the same level.

The giant steel ship docked at the city's port. Since the crowd had already been evacuated, there were not many people waiting to gather here.

However, there were still many people pointing at this giant steel ship from a long distance away.
To be continued...