Uchiha Kagami's face turned livid, while Fugaku remained silent.
To Kagami, Jin's attempt to seize the position of Clan Head was nothing short of treason.
The position of Clan Head had been decided from the very beginning, passed down through a single line.
But Fugaku...
For some reason, he felt a sense of relief.
If he did not become Clan Head...
Fugaku lowered his head and quickly buried the thought in his heart.
Ever since he could remember, he had been raised as the future Clan Head.
Yet the double pressure from the clan and the village had not been easy on him either.
Everything had already been decided. There was no escaping it.
"Uchiha Jin! Do you know what you're saying!?"
Kagami, who had always maintained an air of magnanimity, finally failed to control his temper.
"I know what I'm saying, but do you know what you're doing?"
Jin retorted.
In Kagami's eyes, Uchiha Jin's gaze was like a pool of stagnant water, utterly without ripples. He could even see his own reflection in them.
He suddenly realized that he did not understand the boy before him at all.
The personality described in the reports—
Fierce, fond of jokes, caring toward his companions, somewhat selfish.
Yet as he looked at Uchiha Jin before him—
He seemed to see a monster that did not belong in this world, opening its jaws to devour the entire Uchiha Clan, perhaps even Konoha itself.
Rather than wait for Kagami's rebuke, Jin slowly spoke.
"You say Konoha targets the Uchiha. You say the Hokage position is passed down through one line, never giving the Uchiha a chance. You say Konoha's higher-ups are all bastards who devour people without even spitting out the bones."
"But have you ever considered that the Uchiha are the same?"