"Older brother? Whoa, whoa, Lord Sasuke actually has an older brother too?"
Hearing that title, Boruto instantly grew excited, his eyes locking onto Sasuke.
But as he watched, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
When Sasuke mentioned Uchiha Kai, this second brother before them, his expression carried nostalgia and longing.
But when Uchiha Itachi, his elder brother, was mentioned, his expression became extremely complicated.
So complicated that Boruto could not understand it at all.
He wanted to speak, but Jiraiya patted him on the shoulder.
"Uchiha Itachi… Uchiha Itachi…"
That pat instantly snapped Boruto awake. He suddenly shook his head, his bright blue eyes widening round.
"I remember now! He's the one who wiped out the Uchiha clan, the S-rank rogue… ninja…"
His voice suddenly grew much softer on the last two words.
He also suddenly understood why Lord Sasuke had that kind of expression.
"Lord Sasuke…"
He looked at Sasuke, then raised his head to look at Kai, who was still laughing and chatting with Urashiki.
His brain gradually turned into mush.
How could this seemingly powerful young man be brothers with that kind of rogue ninja?
And he had even resolved the problem!
This…
How exactly had he resolved it?
Boruto could not understand.
He really could not understand!
Right now, Boruto desperately wanted to return to that past and see that part of history with his own eyes.
As for Sasuke, in that instant, he also recalled scenes buried deep within his memory.
That name.
That name carved in Uchiha blood.
When it came from Jiraiya's mouth, it gave him a piercing pain that drilled straight into his heart.
The memory fragments that had originally been buried were stirred into chaos once again.
On the night of the clan massacre, the blinding red light in Itachi's Mangekyō—
When it bloomed for the final time, what stood before him was the back of his fallen second brother…
Just like when they had met again moments ago.
Just like that bloodstained finger touching his forehead…
Huff—
Huff—
Huff—
As memories surged, Sasuke could only breathe heavily, as if doing so was the only way to suppress the sour ache in his chest.
Beside him, Jiraiya looked at Sasuke's suddenly tightened jawline and the pain surging in that one eye—pain that looked like it was about to overflow.
He silently closed his mouth.
Why be quick-tongued at a time like this?
Clearly, in that future timeline, Kai had not stopped everything the way he had here.
"Cough, cough…"
Left with no choice, Jiraiya could only cough lightly and try to change the topic.
"Well, Kai is quite the incredible figure."
"Not only did he kill Danzo, who broke Konoha's rules, he also dragged out those two bloodsucking parasites, Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado, and established Konoha's Joint Committee!"
As he spoke, Jiraiya briefly recounted what happened afterward—the investigation in Amegakure, Orochimaru's Konoha Crush plan, and Kai's battle against the First and Second Hokage.
When Boruto heard that Kai had actually snapped off one of the Shinigami's arms, his mouth opened so wide it almost could not close.
"Whoa! So this is Lord Sasuke's second brother? So, so, so strong! Just like Lord Sasuke, he's an incredibly powerful shinobi?!"
"Like me?"
Even Sasuke fell into a daze after hearing those stories.
He had not expected his second brother to have already become this powerful.
Even he would not dare imagine doing some of those things!
Yet under his second brother's efforts, they had truly been accomplished!
At that moment, he could not help looking toward a scorched black tree stump ahead.
There, the "casual chat" between the two people was still continuing.
"Hey, hey, hey, so all you Ōtsutsuki like eating chakra fruits?"
Kai sat cross-legged on the tree stump, one hand propping up his chin as he looked across with baby-fat cheeks carrying a hint of curiosity and innocence.
"Are those things sweet? Do you need to let them ripen after picking them before eating? Or do you just eat them straight? Do you peel them? Do they have seeds…"
Question after question made the corner of Urashiki's forehead twitch faintly.
His narrow pale-blue eyes stared at Kai as if he were looking at some rare species.
Among humans, this was the first one who dared chat with him like this!
Of course, as an elegant member of a higher species, he forcefully endured the discomfort in his heart and tried to maintain his politeness.
"You lowly creatures have far too shallow an understanding of higher-level energy."
"Mm, that's true."
Kai nodded, putting on an expression as if he had truly learned something. Then he raised his head and asked seriously,
"So after you finish eating the fruit… do you poop?"
"Pfft! Hahahaha!"
Boruto, who had just been sighing in admiration, nearly choked to death on his own saliva and laughed until he clutched his stomach.
Even Sasuke, whose emotions were complicated, had the corner of his mouth twitch slightly.
This was indeed the kind of question his second brother would ask.
As for Jiraiya…
He painfully covered his face.
The number one person in Konoha actually asked this kind of question!
He suddenly had the urge to dig a hole in the ground with his toes.
"You!"
Compared to the three people's secondhand embarrassment, Urashiki's handsome yet sinister face completely twisted.
The anger suppressed in his heart could no longer be contained.
Elegance?
Nobility?
To hell with that!
Right now, he just wanted to kill the bug in front of him!
"Courting death!!"
In an instant, a scream that pierced through the rain curtain tore across the sky, startling countless birds into flight.
Urashiki completely tore away all his fake composure. The fishing rod in his hand erupted with unprecedented light!
Like a scarlet spear!
It stabbed straight toward Uchiha Kai!
Wherever the spear went, all things fell!
This time, he poured in all his strength.
He would definitely kill this inferior human!
That was right.
Kill him!
This was the first time since arriving in the human world that he had truly felt the urge to murder someone!
"Not good!"
Sasuke's heart instantly leapt into his throat.
He reacted the fastest. The moment he sensed something was wrong, he immediately tried to use Amenotejikara to swap places with his second brother!
Buzz, buzz, buzz—whoosh!
Amenotejikara activated.
But—
His second brother did not move in the slightest.
"What's going on?"
He froze.
Unwilling to believe it, he tried activating Amenotejikara again.
But the young man twenty-something meters away felt as if he did not exist within Sasuke's perception!
Facing that sudden violent strike, Kai acted as if he had not seen it at all.
He even yawned lazily.
Before his eyes, a prompt appeared.
[Ding! Conversation with Ōtsutsuki Urashiki has reached ten minutes. Attempting trait copy.]
[Copy successful! Congratulations, Host has obtained Legendary Trait: Pure Byakugan (Gold). Grants 360-degree vision with no blind spots. Insight far exceeds ordinary Byakugan. Contains a trace of pure Ōtsutsuki bloodline.]
"Ōtsutsuki bloodline? What use is this thing?"
Looking at the new prompt, Kai's brows furrowed again and again.
The Byakugan had been Purple, and after upgrading, this was all?
Was it going to turn him into an Ōtsutsuki or something?
Thinking about the Ōtsutsuki bloodline, the round marks between the brows, and having no eyebrows, Kai could not help shaking his head, rejecting it from the bottom of his heart.
Nope!
Reject the Ōtsutsuki!
But height was fine!
That part was really fine!
Up until now, every Ōtsutsuki he had seen seemed to be tall!
For a child bitterly struggling to grow taller, that was simply a killing blow!
Just as he was caught in this internal battle between heaven and man, the red blood spear before him had already slashed down.
But!
At the millionth of a second before the spear tip was about to touch his skin—
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Kai's entire body was covered in an extremely faint, almost invisible film of sunlight.
Body of Light!
Kai's old… old trump card!
In the next moment, that unstoppable scarlet strike fiercely landed on the seemingly fragile light.
There was no evenly matched collision.
No earth-shattering explosion.
The terrifying spear containing Urashiki's furious strike was like a sharp blade!
It passed through Kai's forehead without the slightest obstruction.
Cut across his head.
Split through his entire body.
As if slicing through air, it slipped directly out through his body…
Without any pause at all!
Then it slammed fiercely into the tree stump below.
Boom!!
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