Shisui listened to the whistling wind and the sound of the turbulent water below.
He spoke to himself in his heart.
'Am I going to die...'
'I couldn't ease the relationship between the clan and the village... did I accomplish nothing...'
He couldn't help but blame himself for failing to achieve what he wanted.
'If I die... the clan elders probably won't launch the coup so quickly. I hope Itachi can do something...'
Shisui placed his hopes on Uchiha Itachi.
"Don't wear such a regretful expression..." An indifferent voice sounded exceptionally clear in the wind.
'This is...'
'Xuan's voice?'
Shisui had always had a deep impression of this person whom he had brought back to the clan five years ago. He could always pull out novel and fun things.
But because he was too lazy and indifferent to everything, they were at most just ordinary friends...
And he also didn't know why, whenever he was in the clan, the other would come and shake his hand every day.
Because the other had always been slacking off, Shisui had always felt that his strength probably hadn't improved since the day they met, and that there should be some gap between them now...
His impression of the other ended there.
The next moment, Shisui found that the other had supported his back.
"Don't do this." Shisui tried to stop him with words.
But Lexon paid no attention to Shisui's opinion.
'After all, we've played many games together, so we're sort of gaming buddies... and he's unknowingly let me leech off him so many times without complaint... his attitude during daily interactions isn't bad either...'
'He's a person with a good personality.'
So Lexon would save him.
Lexon brought Shisui to the riverbank and put him down.
Shisui was a little speechless at this moment, not knowing what to say.
"Here, your eye," Lexon forcibly stuffed a small ball of silver thread into Shisui's palm.
"This... you..." Shisui was instantly somewhat stunned.
"I snatched this back from Danzo, didn't steal it from Itachi," Lexon explained. "The outer layer is wrapped in soft spider silk. Just tear it open carefully."
"You snatched it from Danzo?" Shisui's face was full of disbelief. 'You actually managed to snatch my eye from Danzo's hands? Weren't you always slacking off at home playing with those novel gadgets? How did your strength reach this level?'
In his impression, Danzo was a Kage-level powerhouse no matter what. Lexon, with his Jonin-level strength, shouldn't have been able to do such a thing.
"He used dirty tricks on you, so I used dirty tricks on him..." Lexon said teasingly.
Shisui, with his Mangekyo, was the number one expert of the Uchiha, a solid Kage-level powerhouse. He even possessed the outlier ability "Kotoamatsukami." If Danzo hadn't caught him off guard with the Sharingan information gap, it's likely Danzo wouldn't necessarily have been able to defeat Shisui...
"Hehe..." Shisui chuckled. It was indeed possible that the other had stolen the eye using some clever method, but he still mentally raised Lexon's strength by a level.
After all, Danzo was neither weak nor stupid. Even playing dirty required basic strength.
Next, Shisui shook his head, extended the eye in his hand towards Lexon, and said, "I already have the will to die. Keeping this eye is useless... If possible, I hope you can take my eye, and then go ease the relationship between the Uchiha and the village.
I know, Xuan, you are an outsider clansman. Your sense of belonging to the clan isn't strong, and you don't care much about what happens to the Uchiha... But I still hope you can help me preserve the Uchiha name..."
"What you say is very moving," Lexon replied.
"Then..."
"But I refuse," Lexon said with a smile.
"..."
"It's better to do your own things yourself. I'm not in the mood to contribute for others," Lexon took the silk-wrapped eye from Shisui's hand, removed the silk, and approached him.
"What are you doing?" Shisui sensed something and asked with a frown.
"Don't resist. After all, resistance is futile," Lexon recited.
He quickly used one hand to hold open Shisui's left eyelid and the other hand to pinch Shisui's eye and directly stuff it into his empty eye socket.
"You..."
Just as Shisui swung his arm to resist, Lexon had already finished.
It had to be said, when an Uchiha clan member lacked their Sharingan, their combat power really dropped significantly.
Uchiha Shisui, originally a Kage-level powerhouse, could have his strength plummet to the level of an elite Jonin.
Of course, a certain fellow named Uchiha Madara was a bit of an exception.
The moment the eye was put back, Shisui regained his vision.
The Uchiha clan's Sharingan was just that strange. As long as you were an Uchiha, the Sharingan was practically plug-and-play. You could dig it out if you wanted, install it if you wanted; extremely convenient.
Although Lexon felt it was a bit too ridiculous.
Anyway, he wouldn't dig out his own eyes.
If he wanted to upgrade to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in the future, he would only sign in for it, not do something like "fusing someone else's Mangekyo Sharingan with his own."
"Sigh..." Shisui looked at Lexon and sighed.
Regaining his sight did not make him happy.
"What are you sighing for, young man," Lexon patted Shisui's shoulder as if lecturing a junior and said with a smile.
His age was indeed greater than Shisui's, so there was nothing wrong with doing this.
"I'm more useful dead than alive right now," Shisui said, his eyes dull.
"You're much more useful alive than dead," Lexon said slowly. "Anyway, in Itachi's eyes, you're already dead... The news he brings back will spread, and after your suicide note is found, the effect of your death will indeed be produced. As long as you don't appear, the fact of your death won't change.
Since you're already a dead man in everyone's eyes, why die again?"
"I no longer have..."
"Don't talk about the meaning of life or anything like that," Lexon interrupted him before he could finish. "You're at least somewhat useful alive. If the Uchiha really launch a coup, I will take some of the younger Uchiha clansmen who don't know the ways of the world away from Konoha for you to take care of. Whether these children grow up filled with hatred and wanting revenge on Konoha, or whether they understand reason and live their own lives well, will depend on you..."
After hearing Lexon's words, Shisui's expression finally changed, and his eyes were no longer dim. "Can you really do that? Konoha won't allow it..."
If a coup occurred, the young Uchiha clansmen would naturally not be spared, because these were all seeds that could potentially breed hatred.
Just like the mid-series Uchiha Sasuke, whose heart was filled only with "revenge on Konoha."
"Whether I can do it or not, just relax," Lexon said casually. "As for whether Konoha will allow it... even if they notice, they'll pretend they don't know..."
Because later, before the Uchiha clan could truly launch their coup, they would be wiped out by Uchiha Itachi along with Uchiha Obito...
So the Third Hokage would feel guilty towards the Uchiha clan... even if he noticed, he wouldn't necessarily interfere.
Besides, they might not even be noticed...
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