"Not... Uchiha Nobuhiko?"
Hearing the three of them staring at one another in confusion, Hirohiko blinked. Even his poker face seemed somewhat dazed as he instinctively spoke.
"Uchiha Nobuhiko? Who's that?"
At those words, the three who had been looking at one another turned their heads at the same time and looked at Hirohiko, seated cross-legged across from them.
"Could the Uchiha Clan Massacre have had nothing to do with Uchiha Nobuhiko? Wasn't he the one who did it?"
Hirohiko was thoroughly taken aback. He asked again, sounding as though he had not heard their question at all.
Clearly, he was almost shocked.
Originally, he had thought that only Uchiha Nobuhiko could have wiped out the Uchiha Clan, leaving behind only little Sasuke before him.
After all, the other possibility—that they had somehow gotten themselves killed—was simply far too unlikely.
Anyone with even the slightest political sense would not destroy themselves like that.
The Uchiha Clan had, after all, been a great clan for a thousand years. Long before Konoha existed, they had fought the Senju Clan and stood at the peak of the Warring States Era. Later, they had founded Konoha together with the Senju Clan. Their status in Konoha was practically symbolic.
Based on the fact that the Uchiha Clan had been one of Konoha's founding clans, no matter how far they had declined, it should have been impossible for them to be completely exterminated.
Besides, the Uchiha Clan had always been prosperous. Unlike the Senju Clan, which had been targeted during the two Ninja World Wars and repeatedly sent its entire strength into battle out of a sense of responsibility toward the village, leaving its bloodline weakened until it could no longer continue.
In Hirohiko's eyes, the Uchiha practically held a get-out-of-death-free card made up of an