"How... how could this be?"
First Elder Uchiha Setsuna and Third Elder Uchiha Sima were both profoundly shaken.
For Second Elder Uchiha Moru to say this meant that what he had just seen was enough to prove Uchiha Shisui's identity as a traitor.
Still, the two of them held onto the faintest shred of hope as they looked toward Uchiha Fugaku.
"Clan Head, please let us see it as well."
Uchiha Fugaku said nothing. He repeatedly used his Dojutsu, sharing the memory he had seen with the two of them.
Then, grief, indignation, disappointment, and despair appeared on their faces as they muttered.
"It really is... it really is..."
Uchiha Shisui was a genius of the Uchiha Clan, the Uchiha Clan's hope.
And now, this genius who should have become the Uchiha Clan's hope had been proven to be an informant planted within the Uchiha Clan by the Third Hokage.
The blow was simply too great, causing both of them to visibly lose control of their emotions.
"The Uchiha Clan finally produced someone who awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, only for him to be a traitor."
Seeming to age decades in an instant, Second Elder Uchiha Moru said mournfully.
Even the clan's only member in decades to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan had betrayed the clan and sided with the Hokage. Such a clan had no hope left. He no longer held any expectations for it.
"The Uchiha Clan is finished!"
First Elder Uchiha Setsuna's face was first filled with uncontrollable fury, then utter dejection.
As a genius among the Uchiha Clan's younger generation, Uchiha Shisui's existence represented the Uchiha Clan's hope.
Now that Uchiha Shisui had been proven a traitor, that hope had been cut off. It was a devastating blow to the Uchiha Clan.
"The plans for the coup d'état