The opponent's sudden disappearance, the Kyūbi Chakra merging into Kaze's body.
Uchiha Itachi's pupils constricted sharply, and the Susanoo's movements stagnated.
Directly absorbing Bijū Chakra?!
This violated Uchiha Itachi's knowledge!
Even a Jinchūriki needed a sealing formula as a buffer container!
"Surprised already?"
"More surprises are yet to come."
Feeling the terrifying energy surging and roaring inside him, almost overflowing, Kaze's mouth curled into a cold arc.
He slowly raised his right hand.
Deep purple Chakra, solidified like substance, erupted with a boom, soaring into the sky!
Bones grew, meridians entwined, flesh filled in, armor covered the body!
A deep purple giant, far larger and more solid than Itachi's Susanoo, exuding suffocating pressure, stood proudly in the night sky!
This Susanoo's left hand did not hold a shield, but loosely gripped a slowly rotating silver-white wheel engraved with countless illusory runes on its edge—the Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto Wheel.
Its right hand held a simple-styled purple long sword, the blade flowing with twisted halos like water waves—the Space-Time Severing Sword!
"Perfect Susanoo... this..."
Itachi's voice carried uncontrollable trembling.
He exhausted his efforts and could only maintain a half-body Susanoo.
But the opponent... arrived at the realm he dreamed of in just one night!
"Uchiha Itachi."
"Your talent is outstanding, your mind is tough, I admit."
"But your vision is like a frog in a well, only seeing that corner of the sky given as charity by the Konoha higher-ups."
Kaze's voice echoed through the Susanoo, every word like a hammer striking Itachi's tense nerves.
The deep purple Susanoo took a step forward, the heavy pressure making the air stagnate.
Itachi's orange-red Susanoo instinctively retreated, the light of the Yata Mirror dimming a few degrees.
"You think extermination is salvation? Sacrificing the small self for the greater good?"
"Dead wrong!"
"From beginning to end, you were just a sharp knife in their hands, a knife that was handy to use and didn't hurt to break."
Kaze's tone was filled with merciless ridicule.
"Shut up!"
Itachi roared, the orange-red Susanoo swinging the Yata Mirror, smashing towards Kaze's Susanoo's head with resolute momentum!
"Clang...!"
A muffled, soul-shaking loud noise.
Kaze's Susanoo didn't even raise the Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto Wheel to block, forcefully withstanding this blow merely with the heavy armor covering its head.
The deep purple Susanoo didn't move an inch. In contrast, cracks appeared on the arm of Itachi's Susanoo from the backlash!
"Anger? Because the truth pricked your pathetic pride?"
"Then let me tell you another truth—about Uchiha Shisui."
The corner of Kaze's mouth rose, that crazy arc no longer suppressible.
Itachi shook all over.
"Why did he commit suicide?"
"Because when Shimura Danzō sneak attacked to seize his eye, Shisui discovered you were watching not far away."
"You clearly saw Danzō's ferocity, clearly saw Shisui's despair!"
"Then... you chose to believe Danzō's lies, chose silence, chose to use Shisui's 'last wish' as an excuse for self-deception!"
Kaze spoke word by word, his voice penetrating the roar of Chakra, reaching the depths of Itachi's soul.
"I... that was for..."
Itachi's voice began to waver, the cracks on his Susanoo spreading.
"For the village? For righteousness?"
Kaze scoffed, interrupting Itachi's pale defense.
"Save it!"
"You just didn't dare to resist that huge shadow, didn't dare to question the dogma you believed in for years."
"So you chose the easiest and most cowardly path—kill all the clansmen weaker than yourself, then flee bearing false sins, thinking yourself tragic and heroic."
Every sentence of Kaze was like a red-hot iron rod, branded on Itachi's riddled heart.
The light of the orange-red Susanoo flickered uncertainly, Chakra fluctuating violently, almost collapsing.
"Look at you now."
"Possessing power, yet only thinking about how to slaughter your kin!"
"Possessing wisdom, yet willing to be a puppet!"
"Uchiha Itachi, you aren't even qualified to be a traitor."
"You are just a... thorough coward immersed in self-moving sentiment!"
Kaze's voice was like a final judgment. Every single word turned into a sharp sword capable of severely wounding the soul!
"Ahhh...!!!"
His psychological defense collapsed completely.
Itachi let out a roar unlike a human voice.
The orange-red Susanoo erupted with the last, brightest, and final light, like a moth to a flame, crashing desperately towards the deep purple giant.
That was no longer a battle, but despairing self-destruction.
"It should end."
Kaze's eyes were cold. The deep purple Susanoo's right hand moved.
The Space-Time Severing Sword was slowly raised, the twisted halo flowing on the blade suddenly accelerating.
No earth-shattering sound of breaking air, no brilliant explosion of light. That sword seemed to instantly detach from the constraints of space, ignoring the existence of distance.
One moment, the sword was still in the Susanoo's hand.
The next instant, the purple sword tip was already pressed against the core of the orange-red Susanoo—Uchiha Itachi's main body's chest.
Time and space lost meaning before this sword.
Itachi's movements froze.
He looked down at the sword tip that appeared silently on his chest. The violent crimson in his eyes faded rapidly, leaving only boundless emptiness and blankness.
"Was I... wrong..."
Blood slid from the corner of his mouth, his voice as light as if sleep-talking.
"No, you were just... overly stupid."
Kaze's voice no longer carried a trace of emotion.
Those words just now could be considered the last bit of care for Itachi, a fellow Uchiha.
The halo on the Space-Time Severing Sword flashed slightly.
No piercing, no explosion.
Uchiha Itachi, along with his crumbling orange-red Susanoo, was completely "erased" from the spatial level, like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser.
Leaving no trace, as if he had never existed in that position.
[Ding, killed Uchiha Itachi, reward: Dōryoku Origin Sublimation, Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu.]
Accompanied by the system reward, the faint obscurity in his eyes disappeared completely.
The deep purple Susanoo slowly dissipated, and Kaze landed back on the ground full of debris and bloodstains.
The battlefield fell into deathly silence, only the crackling of burning buildings in the distance and the suppressed breathing of survivors remained.
"The power of the Kyūbi is really useful!"
The Susanoo and the two great divine weapons released just now were completely supported by Kyūbi Chakra.
Although there were system rewards, to activate the Perfect Susanoo, the current him still needed to borrow the power of the Bijū.
"Lord Kaze!"
At this moment, Uchiha Nagasawa walked over quickly with several clansmen, escorting two wretched figures—Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
The two former Konoha higher-ups now had disheveled hair and torn robes, their faces covered in dust and bloodstains, their high-and-mighty demeanor long gone.
"Uchiha Kaze, we are Konoha advisors."
"You'd better release us now, otherwise the Land of Fire will not recognize your Uchiha status!"
Utatane Koharu was fierce in appearance but weak inside.
Even in this situation, she was still stubborn.