Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36512555-20200101053037/@comment-26636534-20200412191006

@FlatZone

Your claim of "chidori attracting lightning" is unsupported. Furthermore, once again the Kirin-dragon itself is not bright enough to white-out the panel. So visibility is still fine until the last panel on ch391 pg8, which I remind you is after Sasuke's hand motion. You haven't actually explained why Itachi won't be able to see Sasuke in his field of vision. I know you said "Itachi was looking directly up at Kirin", but there is no first person reference from Itachi that excludes Sasuke from his field of vision.

And I think that's gonna be the main persisting flaw in your argument.

Therefore, with Itachi still able to see and predict Sasuke's hand motion and with the knowledge that "lightning from the heavens" is gonna strike him, it's beyond reasonable doubt that Itachi knew he had to use Susanoo to defend himself beforehand.