Clan Meeting: A Furious Rebuke of Uchiha Setsuna!

The candlelight flickered. Aside from the slight stir Senya caused when he first arrived at the Clan Meeting, nothing else disturbed the room.

The other clansmen took their seats after entering, not saying a word.

They waited for the final person to arrive.

"Tap, tap, tap."

As footsteps came down from the stairs, the sound gradually grew louder.

Fugaku Uchiha walked to the cushion at the front and sat down.

There were still two empty cushions before him. His son, Itachi Uchiha, and Shisui Uchiha had yet to arrive.

The time had already come. He had deliberately arrived at the last possible moment to stall for time, but he could not delay the Clan Meeting any longer for those two.

Left with no choice, Fugaku had to open the Clan Meeting.

"The time has come. Let the Clan Meeting begin."

As Fugaku made the announcement, one of the elders seated on either side immediately rushed to speak.

"Fugaku, the time has come, so where are your precious son Itachi Uchiha, who joined the Anbu, and Shisui Uchiha? Where did they go? Every clansman is here except those two!"

"Fugaku, look at the state of the clan! We live every day under the watch of the Anbu and Root! As clan head, you cannot even discipline your own son!?"

"Fugaku! Is this the result of you compromising with that old monkey Hiruzen Sarutobi, then letting Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha join the Anbu!? Is this what comes from getting close to the 'Hokage'!?"

"Those two may already have become the Hokage's lackeys! For all we know, they are monitoring the clan's movements for Danzo and Hiruzen right now!"

Uchiha Setsuna grew more agitated the longer he spoke. He slammed both hands onto the table and rose to his feet, pointing at Fugaku as he berated him.

The War Faction elders seated to the left of the Clan Meeting all wore resentful expressions as well.

At the last Clan Meeting, with Fugaku's support, those Uchiha scum from the Peace Faction had been smug, thinking they had grasped the key to the clan's future.

But what about now? The Anbu's surveillance was growing increasingly severe, and the villagers' hatred for the Uchiha had deepened by the day. Look at the foolish things this clan head and those cowardly Peace Faction members had done!

Fugaku knew well that the conflict between the clan and the village was steadily worsening. But with the clan's current strength, how could they possibly have the power to launch a coup?

Not only Konoha's upper ranks, but even the other ninja clans kept their distance from the Uchiha.

Whenever villagers saw them, they turned pale with fear and hurriedly avoided them. Not one dared approach, and behind their backs, they constantly wrote letters of complaint to the Hokage.

The Uchiha Police Force had suffered no shortage of trouble because of it.

"Under my leadership, we chose the wrong path? Then what better ideas does your War Faction have!?"

"Does the clan still have the strength to launch a coup!? Have past coups ever succeeded!?"

"Since the coup launched after the Battle of the Underworld, the clan's elite has been cut in half. Then came the Second and Third Shinobi Wars—how many more clansmen were sacrificed! What do you have to launch a coup!?"

"The Sarutobi Clan alone has over a thousand registered ninja! How many clansmen do we have left to die!? Must you drag the entire clan to their deaths!?"

Fugaku's words left Uchiha Setsuna without an answer.

Setsuna sat back down, though his face remained full of indignation.

"Even so, you cannot lead the clan into compromising with that old monkey Hiruzen! Bowing your heads before him and submitting! What happened to the Uchiha's glory!"

"Have you forgotten the glory of being one of the two strongest clans in the shinobi world!"

Uchiha Kagerou, seated beside Setsuna, looked at the clansmen below and tried to stir their emotions.

"That's right! We cannot forget the Uchiha's glory!"

"The Senju have already perished! The Uchiha are destined to stand at the pinnacle of the shinobi world!"

"If we cannot win a coup, then we can just defect from the village! At worst, the clan leaves Konoha!"

The anger of the clansmen below was successfully inflamed by Uchiha Kagerou.

"Hahahahahaha! Are you trying to make me laugh myself to death so you can take my combat uniform and ninja blade?"

Senya's laughter and words suddenly struck a nerve.

The Clan Meeting fell silent at once.

Setsuna was once again enraged by Senya.

"You little junior of the clan! How dare you mock the glory of the Uchiha Clan!"

"I admit that you have a little talent, but with what you just said, where have you placed the clan!"

"Do not think that just because both your parents are dead, we have to tolerate your insolence!"

"Are you worthy of our ancestors? Are you fit to call yourself a member of the Uchiha Clan? Are you worthy of the fan crest on your back!?"

As Setsuna's words fell, the clansmen around Senya's eyes turned red. The tomoe in their eyes spun rapidly, and several even broke through from two-and-a-half tomoe to three tomoe.

Senya rose from his seat and opened his eyes. The tomoe within them spun so fast they nearly formed a circle.

"I'm asking you all: what is glory? Is it glory to cling to the achievements won by dead clansmen? You live in comfort now. Even if you are being watched, if you are unhappy about it, then resist! All you know is how to shout about glory, but which one of you has brought glory to the Uchiha!!!"

"A coup? Defecting from the village? Whether we die in battle or flee, what will happen to the women, children, elderly, weak, sick, and disabled in the clan! After we are gone, do you expect Danzo and Hiruzen to support them!?"

"Are the Uchiha not a clan of love! You idiots who think of nothing but coups every day! Do you still care whether your clansmen live or die! Have you forgotten what awakened your Sharingan in the first place!?"

"Can't you use your brains for once? A few words are enough to make you lose your ability to think, your calm, and your reason! Are you still Uchiha ninja like this? Are you worthy of the title of Uchiha ninja!!?"

The War Faction elders instantly lowered their heads.

Only Setsuna glared furiously at Senya. Remembering how he had previously mistaken Senya's back for Uchiha Madara's, he became even angrier.

That damn brat actually made this old man lose face!

Seeing Senya's words and actions, Fugaku felt some relief. It seemed that, besides Itachi and Shisui, there was another genius among the younger generation whom he had previously overlooked.

The clansmen seated below also felt ashamed. They clenched their fists, and some even shed tears as they pounded their thighs, hating their earlier thoughts.

"Uchiha Kura has been broken. Uchiha Kouta has been broken..."

"39 people have been broken in total. Chakra increased by 10%."

Senya calculated inwardly. It seemed that copying a talent he already possessed could only bring a slight improvement.

But this familiar state, this familiar feeling—it had all come back! Senya was absolutely buzzing right now!!!

Sixteen years. After sixteen years, he could finally experience this thrill again!

It was this very thrill that had made sixty-year-old, retired Senya step into the internet and begin planning to become an uploader and streamer. Unfortunately, it had been forcibly cut short.

But now, it had all come back!

Still, Senya was not someone driven solely by malicious amusement. In his previous life, whenever someone had been pushed past their limit by his words, he would always offer them a new solution through his own analysis.

As the saying went, without destruction, there could be no construction. If he did not break apart their old ideas, how could he establish a new beacon for them?

As a "sunny, cheerful young man," Senya was not irresponsible. Aside from those former "trolls"—they were simply giant babies whose lives had gone too smoothly.

Then Senya could only become the first setback in their lives and let them experience what hardship was.

Seeing that only this many people had been pushed past their limit, Senya was about to put more pressure on the War Faction, intensify things, and drop something explosive.

But Yashiro of the Peace Faction spoke up.