Uchiha Yashiro and the others mistakenly believed that Uchiha Itachi had endured humiliation and shouldered burdens.
Before everything was exposed, he had pretended to be a villain.
Until Shimura Danzō's crimes came to light.
Uchiha Itachi... had concealed his achievements and gone unnoticed.
However.
Only Hyuga Sho understood that the truth was actually not like that.
Uchiha Itachi's stiff expression, along with the way he referred to the Uchiha Clan as a "narrow-minded clan" and a "foolish clan," fully revealed Uchiha Itachi's true nature.
—At once arrogant and conceited, he held the Uchiha Clan's members in utter contempt.
In his previous life.
Hyuga Sho had met many people like this.
These people were the same as Uchiha Itachi.
What they hated most was not their enemies, but the Uchiha blood flowing through their own veins.
Uchiha Itachi thought day and night about kneeling before and fawning over the Konoha High Command.
He imagined himself as someone equal to the Konoha High Command.
As for the Uchiha Clan...
That was an entirely different species.
The more Uchiha Itachi relied on the Konoha High Command, the more he would hate the fact that he was a member of the Uchiha Clan.
He wished he could sever all ties between himself and the Uchiha completely.
If it were possible.
Uchiha Itachi probably wished he could reincarnate as a Konoha Ninja who was not an Uchiha.
The Uchiha Clan's name.
To him, it was not an honor.
It was a trash heap to be avoided at all costs.
Whenever he mentioned the Uchiha Clan.
He never said "we Uchiha," but "you Uchiha," "your clan"...
Everything the Konoha High Command said was right.
No matter how right the Uchiha Clan was, it was always wrong and needed to be discarded and defeated.
Ideally, they would