"Hmph..."
Morino Ibiki smiled.
He looked confident, carrying the imposing dignity of an examiner.
But...
Hyuga Sho, who knew Morino Ibiki well, understood.
Morino Ibiki was wearing a mask of pain.
He had forcibly squeezed that smile out.
"There's no other way..."
Morino Ibiki thought.
I absolutely can't let this candidate, Uchiha Itachi, fail...
A person's choice could reveal their character.
If it were Hyuga Sho, he would definitely choose to answer the tenth question.
Why wouldn't Uchiha Itachi?
Because Uchiha Itachi believed in "forbearance."
After the Nine-Tails' Rampage, the Uchiha Clan had been driven to the edge of the village.
Discontent had gradually begun to spread throughout the clan.
And as time passed... it only grew deeper.
At first,
they had merely discussed the "Memorial Regarding the Isolation Incident and the Opinions of the Konoha High Command."
Later, after receiving no response, the Uchiha Clan grew increasingly furious.
Recently, at the "secret gatherings," some people had already begun shouting about resisting.
Itachi was extremely dissatisfied with his clansmen's resistance.
Itachi felt that the Uchiha Clan should simply endure.
After all, the Nine-Tails' Rampage had not caused suffering only to the Uchiha Clan. Everyone else had also suffered heavy losses under the Nine-Tails' attacks.
No one else had said anything.
Why was the Uchiha Clan the only one that was dissatisfied?
Itachi's dream was to pacify the wars and accomplish what the First Hokage had done.
Since childhood, Itachi had observed the "murals left behind by Hashirama Senju" and other relics and documents scattered around the village's outskirts.
He greatly admired Hashirama Senju's ideas.
Endure...
A ninja was someone who could endure.
That was also why the Konoha High Command praised him, saying that Itachi "could think with the Hokage's mindset at the age of seven."
In other words,
Uchiha