Unfortunately, things did not develop as Kabuto Yakushi had imagined.

Although Kabuto Yakushi had been adjusting the direction of his flight, intending to collide with Uchiha Itachi and the Konoha ninja who were chasing him from different directions.

For Mizuki's physical clone, Hope, who replaced Yusuke, it was not such a wonderful experience.

Hope, who has the fastest speed and can also fly, is the one most likely to catch up with Kabuto Yakushi, while Kakashi Hatake, Tenzo and Naruto Uzumaki are far behind.

The first person that Uchiha Itachi encountered was Mizuki's physical clone - Hope.

There are many unexpected dangers in this world. Shuimu is very sure that accidents always exist.

But if it is said that Uchiha Itachi would directly use Tsukuyomi to deal with one of Mizuki's clones, that would be incredible.

Not long ago, Shuimu would never have believed that such an outrageous thing would happen.

The two of them were moving too fast, especially Mizuki. Just when he realized someone was approaching, a ninja wearing a black-based red cloud divine robe came into view, and then Uchiha Itachi's serious face appeared.

The startled physical clone of Mizuki, Nozomi, turned around and took a look.

Just at this moment, Uchiha Itachi also noticed the figure here and looked over here.

He hoped to show the other party a tacit smile, but what he saw was that the three magatama in the scarlet Sharingan instantly turned into spinning windmills.

In a flash, hope appears in an endless space.

"This is... Tsukuyomi?"

Feeling the restraint of having my hands and feet tied to the cross and unable to move.

In the sky, the Sharingan with a huge windmill pupil was like a blood moon floating in the sky, and everything around was gray.

"It's really inexplicable, Uchiha Itachi!"

As the words of hope fell, the figure of Uchiha Itachi appeared in front of Mizuki.

"I wonder what you want to know?"

"I don't trust you!"

Uchiha Itachi answered concisely.

"Well?"

This reason is quite surprising.

"What do you mean?"

"You have a lot of information and actions that you haven't told Konoha Village. You are hard to figure out..."

“I see!”

I hope I understand a little bit. There are indeed some suspicious points about Shuimu, but due to the urgency of the situation, they have been temporarily shelved for some reasons.

For example, he secretly collected the chakra of several tailed beasts, and the ones that have been exposed include the One-Tailed, Four-Tailed, Five-Tailed, and Seven-Tailed.

Anyone who goes after the tailed beasts without the village's knowledge is not trustworthy in any way.

Especially for Uchiha Itachi, who was in the Akatsuki organization, after comparing the information he had with Mizuki's actions, the impression of a sneaky guy with ulterior motives became increasingly clear.

"I didn't expect that a traitorous ninja would come to meddle in the village's affairs... uh, ah..."

Before he could finish his words, a sharp pain came from his abdomen. Itachi Uchiha, with an expressionless face, was stabbing a long sword into Hope's body.

"It is necessary for you to know clearly. Please give me enough reasons to make me believe that you will not threaten the village or harm Sasuke!"

The severe pain instantly paralyzed Hope's whole body. After gasping for a while, Hope raised his head.

"The last sentence is your purpose..."

In response to hope, another long sword pierced into the chest.

"You have plenty of time, why are you in such a hurry?"

"That's not something you need to know."

With a groan of hope, a sharp sword pierced into the thigh.

It seemed as if all the blood in the body could not stop flowing out, and the vitality in the body was constantly lost.

"As expected of Tsukuyomi, it's really real."

Shuimu endured the severe pain and spoke again:

"What kind of guarantee do you want? Unfortunately, you don't know how to be a god..."

Suddenly, Xiwang was stunned, then reacted.

"I forgot that you know Kotoamatsukami. Uchiha Shisui's eye is in your hand, right?"

"How do you know?"

For the first time, his calm face showed hesitation.

Hope's mouth twitched, and he managed to squeeze out an ugly smile:

"You're going to use Kotoamatsukami on me? You're wasting a precious opportunity on me. I'm flattered!"

"The rumored ability to peek into fate is indeed true!"

"Has the rumor finally turned out like this after so long? It started out as just the ability to predict the future!"

Although the effects produced by the two are somewhat similar, they are actually two completely different concepts.

Prophecy can only determine the direction of the river, east, south, west or north; but destiny knows clearly that the end of the river is the sea, no matter how many twists and turns there are in the middle, the result will not change.

How can the two be confused?

Uchiha Itachi frowned, feeling that things were beyond his expectations. Several Uchiha Itachis, each holding a sword, appeared around him and stabbed Hope into a hedgehog.

"Do I have to endure the pain of near-death again? No, it has to be many times!"

If it were outside, with this kind of injury, I would have died several times over, but here, death is a blessing that people can only hope for.

"How much time has passed?"

Hope, whose consciousness was already a little fuzzy, suddenly asked.

"It's still very long!"

"I've never felt a second could be so hard!"

Hope's dry throat made a gurgling sound, and then he encouraged himself again:

"I've been 'killed' so many times that I seem to have gradually gotten used to it. Habits are really scary things."

Seeing that Hope's mental state was becoming increasingly abnormal, Uchiha Itachi also found it quite troublesome.

Originally, it was just to torture Mizuki's clone and make the final information confirmation, but now, Hope's reaction is too strange.

"You have no fear of death. I can't imagine that a clone's will would be like this. What on earth are you?"

"It's my first time to feel the power of Tsukuyomi, and I can say that I gained something. However, your easy move seems to have embarrassed me."

The blood moon in the sky shook, and the originally stable space was also shaking. Suddenly, tiny black cracks appeared in the surrounding space, and then slowly spread to all sides. Finally, the entire space collapsed like a broken mirror.

"Is this... an external spiritual force that directly and violently crushed the Tsukuyomi space?"

This was the first time that Tsukuyomi was cracked in this way, which surprised Uchiha Itachi.

"Although I haven't figured out what role you play in the torrent of fate, I can be sure that you are not in fate's prediction!"

"I can't help it. I like this world very much, but the world doesn't seem to like me very much!"

Words of both teasing and helplessness accompanied the destruction of the Tsukuyomi space.

I don’t know whether Uchiha Itachi heard it or not.