"Talking to smart people is refreshing."
Hyuga Sho glanced at him.
Uchiha Saotome's wife, Uchiha Shisui's mother, silently left.
And so.
What followed was a conversation between men.
"Losing a leg might be an insurmountable problem for others, but it isn't a problem for me."
Hyuga Sho cast a glance behind him.
Two stepped forward.
He formed hand seals.
After a brief flurry of movement.
The two insects in his hands became one.
The two of them... had completely fused together.
It was as if a blue chubby man had turned into a two-headed ogre mage.
"!!"
Uchiha Saotome's eyes widened.
It wasn't that he was completely astonished.
Rather, Two's operation had opened the door to a whole new world for him.
Uchiha Saotome was a Medical Ninja.
His father... was Kagami Uchiha, one of Tobirama Senju's guards back then.
Uchiha Saotome had fathered a child in his prime.
He had married late.
Before that, he had devoted all his energy to various kinds of research.
However... he had never crossed the line.
That was to say...
He had never challenged ethics.
Hiruko, Shinno, and Orochimaru were researchers who had abandoned their bottom lines.
From this perspective.
Although Uchiha Saotome was a weirdo who didn't fit in with others and focused solely on research.
He could still be considered a positive character.
His despair.
On one hand, came from losing both legs and being shackled by his moral boundaries, which drove him to despair.
On the other hand, judging from his roar just now.
Uchiha Saotome was no fool.
He understood the political situation within the Uchiha Clan very well.
He couldn't see any future for the clan, only darkness.
These two layers of despair were probably what had driven him to give up on treatment.
At present...
With the