Chapter 67 — "My Foolish Brother..."
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The five members of the Akatsuki team: Uchiha Itachi, Kakuzu, Hidan, Hoshigaki Kisame, and Gaara.
Pick any one of them, and they were the kind of cheat-like monster who could cut through an ordinary enemy squad like a one-man army and wipe out five opponents single-handedly.
After all, this was only the Chunin Exams. No matter how grand a prefix was attached, its essence did not change.
Against the Akatsuki team, apart from a very few out-of-category contestants, almost no team could withstand a single blow from them. Even with equipment buffs, they would be crushed from start to finish.
The images of the Akatsuki members appeared on the big screen, and many female viewers screamed.
"Ah! I love Little Paper Ball the most! Go, Little Paper Ball!"
Thanks to Gaara and Itachi, after the written test and the first practical round, the Akatsuki team had already attracted plenty of fangirls with their looks.
"Tsukuyomi is so handsome... I like him!" That was one of Itachi's fans.
"The redhead is not bad either... Redhead is the best!" That was one of Gaara's little fangirls.
"Am I the only one who thinks that silver-haired, slicked-back guy has real presence? He talks a bit too much, but he's quite outstanding too."
"I prefer Shark and the Elder. They're more burly, and their muscles are so well developed..."
"You straight-woman-cancer case with twisted aesthetics."
...
No matter how the outside audience discussed it, in the virtual reality world, the battle had already begun.
Sasuke charged straight for the mid-lane rune formation tower, facing Uchiha Itachi from afar.
Looking at the other's face, Sasuke's heart churned with a thousand turns.
(The nasolabial folds on my brother's face are deeper than before...)
As he thought this, a slightly manic smile surfaced on Sasuke's face: "Uchiha Itachi, show me your true strength! You should be able to feel my progress. Without Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu, you are no match for me at all!"
Itachi, who had disguised his appearance to some extent, now looked about Sasuke's age, yet he seemed extremely composed and cold.
"He recognized me..."
Itachi glanced at Sasuke expressionlessly, and the crimson three-tomoe Sharingan gradually condensed and changed form.
"The Mangekyo Sharingan?"
Sasuke smiled, unconcerned, and did not regret selling off his Sharingan in the least.
Even among Mangekyo, there were differences.
There was no need to say much about his own brother Itachi: one eye Amaterasu, one eye Tsukuyomi, dual physical and mental attacks, dominating the ninja world, ridiculously badass.
Uchiha Obito's Mangekyo was offense and defense in one, twisting space, with invincible Kamui.
Setting aside Izanagi and Izanami, Susanoo was also a universal advanced power.
But after Sasuke awakened the Mangekyo, what did he get?
Kagutsuchi, the manipulation of flames?
After reading the prophecy book, Sasuke had only one sentence in his heart: what the hell.
If he did not transplant Itachi's Amaterasu, what use was this crappy ability?
Was it specifically meant to counter Fire Style ninja?
Sasuke felt that his Mangekyo was probably a freebie thrown in with a phone bill...
The Uchiha clan was a Fire Style clan to begin with, with deeper research into Fire Style than anyone. Did they need this trash ability to gild the lily?
You had to know that overusing the Mangekyo Sharingan would make you blind!
In the prophecy book, even after awakening the Mangekyo, he had still been beaten like a dog by the Eight-Tails jinchuriki Killer Bee, and his comeback had depended entirely on the black flames of Amaterasu that Itachi left behind.
Therefore, when Sasuke first discovered that as a Reincarnator he had one chance to sell off part of himself, he had not hesitated to sell his two-tomoe Sharingan and some other things in exchange for a pair of ordinary eyes.
Yet at this moment, within Sasuke's crimson pupils, a pitch-black windmill was turning.
"My foolish brother..."