Itachi — "My Foolish Little Brother Seems to Be Courting Death"

"How is this possible?"

Uchiha Itachi's crow clone stared at Sasuke, whose expression was full of mockery, and was rendered speechless.

No training scrolls left behind—there could only be one explanation: the higher-ups in Konoha had intervened behind the scenes.

As expected, they wanted to completely sever the Uchiha clan's legacy.

Even though Sasuke now seemed harmless, Konoha still made such a decision. It was far too cruel!

"How is it possible? Yeah, I'd like to know that too. When you made your deal with them, did you ever include a condition to leave me any training materials?"

Sasuke walked over to his parents' corpses and sat down on the ground, reaching out to hold their fingers.

Thanks to the special properties of the system space, the bodies would not decay further—but resurrection was already out of the question.

Thankfully, in the future, he could still study Edo Tensei (Reanimation Jutsu), and perhaps have the chance to see his parents again.

But ultimately, their deaths were real, and some things were hard to forgive...

"You know everything?"

He had prepared for so much, yet Sasuke already seemed to know everything. Itachi's crow clone was so emotionally shaken that he was on the verge of breaking down.

Unfortunately, in this space, a crow clone did not have the option to disappear. He could only remain here in the form of a crow.

"I don't know everything. But it's enough to put Konoha's leadership on my personal kill list."

Looking up at the crow clone hovering before him, hatred burned in Sasuke's eyes. But despite the bloodshot fury, his Sharingan remained only at the single-tomoe stage and did not evolve further.

Sure enough, no matter how intense the emotions, no matter how explosive the rage...

He could likely only rely on the system's upgrade cards—or wait for the plot to reach the point where his evolution is triggered.

"You're delusional! With just your one-tomoe Sharingan, what can you do besides get yourself killed?"

Itachi's crow clone trembled with rage, his wings shaking violently.

He always knew Sasuke was naïve—but not this reckless!

A kill list?

If revenge were that easy, he wouldn't have needed to return home and murder their parents himself.

And if Konoha were truly destroyed, what kind of stigma would fall upon the Uchiha name?

"I'm not here to waste time with you. I nearly ruined this eye just to drag you in here. I need someone to teach me the Sharingan and Uchiha ninjutsu. So just answer me—will you teach me or not? If not, then I'll just use this eye right now."

Sasuke lightly tapped his shoulder with a finger. The Kotoamatsukami crow that had disappeared earlier suddenly landed gently on his shoulder, even nuzzling Sasuke's cheek affectionately.

This crow, a system reward, was no longer under Itachi's control—making it Sasuke's only bargaining chip to threaten him.

"Don't use that eye recklessly. I'll teach you whatever you want to learn. But I have one condition... find a way to let Father and Mother rest in peace."

The crow clone lowered its wings, standing on the ground and looking up at Sasuke.

He had no other demands—nor could he ask Sasuke to return Shisui's eye.

All that remained was this one plea: to let his parents' remains find peace.

"That's impossible. Father and Mother will live again. You don't need to worry about that. For now, think about what I can actually train in, considering my current level and this one-tomoe Sharingan."

As Sasuke finished speaking, he suddenly formed a hand seal and created ten shadow clones.

After the clones finished cleaning the bloodstains around his eyes, the real Sasuke left the system space and returned to his bedroom.

Whether it was ninjutsu or chakra control, these ten shadow clones could all train in parallel.

As for himself, he still had to endure Konoha's brainwashing in the ninja academy, abduct Naruto, and...

His next target?

He decided on Kakashi.