"You really don't seem to have any rivals in the current ninja world."

When the Uchiha stopped the water and asked for the order, the eight-tailed human pillar Riki Rabi who was guarding the rear carriage was sealed.

In the first carriage, only Itachi and Artoria remained.

"You shouldn't have felt the pressure this time, right?"

Seeing that there were only two of them left in the car, Itachi didn't talk in his heart, but turned his head directly and asked Artoria softly, "The kind of cannon-like method you taught me at the beginning, you didn't use it on these two battlefields. ”

"With just the sword skills and my own physical fitness, and the release of magic power, I have easily won it."

"Perhaps...... You have surpassed the tailed beast in the ninja world and become the strongest being. ”

Itachi was well aware that this time Artoria didn't give it her all.

Even, she never got serious, and it was a fight of life and death.

"The strongest?"

Artoria also turned her head and looked at him, "What? ”

"Do you want me to help you dominate the ninja world?"

"Now that I've decided to stay with Uchiha and become a part of Uchiha, I'm willing to respect your decision."

Her tone was calm, as if she really wanted to help the Uchiha take over the world, but Itachi was very careful to detect that something was wrong.

He hurriedly explained, "Of course not, this time I am already very ashamed to rely on you and Zhishui to make a move." ”

"Just now, I talked to Zhishui about 'mixed military merit' and 'burdensomeness', and I didn't rely on the two of you to win this battle."

"If I really want to rely on you to help me dominate the ninja world, then why don't I just abdicate and make way for Xian, and let you be the patriarch of the Uchiha."

Although his strength is strong among ninjas, he has not yet reached the level where he can compete with the Tailed Beast and Suzu Nenghu and other levels of creatures and techniques.

This is not only because I am too young, but also because I haven't focused on cultivation for a long time.

The heroes of this victory can only account for a small part of themselves.

Itachi definitely admits this.

And when Artoria heard this, a helpless smile appeared on her face, "I'm not from you Uchiha, how can I be this patriarch?" ”

"You join the Uchiha as my friend."

Itachi said seriously, "And this battle has made such a great achievement." ”

"Do you think that there will be people in our clan who will still treat you as an outsider?"

"We, Uchiha, are not unrighteous people, and you are now a part of our Uchiha."

As he spoke, he talked about 'hegemony' again, "Dominating the ninja world, I don't have this idea at all. ”

"Everyone will rely on their own knowledge and understanding, and be bound by these things, and also call these things reality, knowledge and understanding are very ambiguous things, and that reality may only be the reality under cognition."

"Before that, I may have been bound by the so-called reality, learning 'balance' and 'restraint'...... way. ”

"But just this battle, I understood what the essence of survival is."

"What checks and balances, status, resources, land...... It is all false, and only the weak need to pursue and strengthen themselves with the help of these means. ”

"And a force strong enough to upset the balance is what we Uchiha should be after."

Along the way, Itachi thought over and over again about his future path, about what the path of the Uchiha was.

And the result, there is no doubt that it all points to one place, and that is strength.

The Uchiha should cultivate high-end combat power in the clan.

From these two battles, he deeply realized the unreasonable perception that 'numbers are not absolute'.

"However, I do not deny that what I have done and thought in the past is it."

At the end, Itachi added.

"I'm not blinded by power."

Artoria's expression relaxed slightly, "Before the Uchiha left Konoha, if it weren't for your careful planning and cautious steps, how could this Uchiha still exist today?" ”

"It's been a long time ago because of the incident of the Nine-Tails Night, and the people of Konoha found an excuse to murder me."

"That's all the result of your cautious actions, first you escorted Uchiha out of Konoha and gave me something to rely on in this world, and then I used my real physical existence to help Uchiha win this battle."

"The order of cause and effect here, don't be confused by this, and feel that you have gone the wrong way."

"Who is outside the balance and does not step out of the balance step by step? The strong have also been weak. ”

Itachi nodded, "It's nature. ”

"But...... I didn't mean to test you just now. ”

At this time, Artoria suddenly spoke, "If you really open your mouth and want me to help Uchiha win the only right to speak in the world, I am willing." ”

"In this world, there are many miserable and tragic wars, and it is the people who suffer."

"If I can unify this ninja world, let everyone become a subject of a country, and prevent the occurrence of war, I am also willing to try."

"Not necessarily."

Itachi shook his head without hesitation, staring at her with a clear gaze, "It's enough for me Uchiha to guard my own one-third of an acre. ”

"Other people's families are willing to fight, they are willing to rob, and it has nothing to do with me, Uchiha."

"I don't expect everyone in the Uchiha to protect the family and arouse the talent in the bloodline to evolve the kaleidoscope writing wheel eye."

"I'm counting on them to be indignant and strong, work hard to refine a body of copper skin and iron bones like me, and be able to compete with top powerhouses like the four generations of Thunder Shadow, then I will be content."

"Come to think of it, if there is such a day, if we Uchiha lack something, what we want, we don't need to grab it ourselves."

"The many forces in this ninja world will obediently offer it with both hands, just begging us not to use force, just like the families who prayed for their lives all the way after we entered the Land of Thunder."

Speaking of this, he paused again, "As for the fact that peace can be obtained after reunification, I am not optimistic. ”

"Perhaps at that time, the struggle between people will be separated from each other because they are in the same country, but they will become village to village, town to town, surname to surname, faction to faction...... The battle between them. ”

On this trip, Itachi really saw a lot of things clearly.

The cognition and thoughts formed by many of the knowledge originally learned in theory have gradually become the reality that has been realistically calculated and witnessed.

For example, "the flames of war cannot die" and "as long as human beings have desires, the struggle will not stop......

These many simple, simple thoughts,

After witnessing along the way, now, Itachi is able to face it calmly, and no longer delve into and think.

To delve into it and to think about it means to go deep into it, to indulge in it, to get lost in it.

There are not any problems in this world, and there are corresponding answers.