Uchiha Jin: No Matter What Shisui Chose, He Couldn't Escape My Scheme!

Uchiha Jin's face was full of mockery. He did not even bother concealing it from him.

Just as he had said, he excelled at breaking deadlocks through open conspiracies. Even if he told Shisui outright, Shisui would most likely still walk the same old path.

Because it was easier to change rivers and mountains than to change one's nature. Many things were simply difficult to change.

Of course.

If Shisui truly managed to see through it, that would be a good thing for him as well. No matter what, he would not lose out.

"Impossible!"

"Hokage-sama is just a kind old man. He would never do something like that."

"Uchiha Jin, you won't get your way!"

Shisui shook his head, his gaze resolute.

He would not be bewitched by Uchiha Jin. Although memories of his past meetings with the Hokage kept surfacing in his mind, he chose to stand firm in his beliefs. He felt that only the Hokage could help the Uchiha integrate into Konoha.

The others sighed.

Their minds might have been stubborn as well, but they could still tell right from wrong.

Previously, Uchiha Jin had lacked the strength, so naturally no one could settle down and listen to his rambling. Now that his strength was sufficient, they were naturally willing to listen.

But unfortunately.

The fact that Shisui had awakened the Mangekyo was enough to prove that he was more extreme than the rest. Someone like him could not be persuaded easily.

Otherwise.

He would never have been extreme enough to awaken the Mangekyo!

Because they understood this, no one tried to persuade him. They merely sighed bitterly, looking at Shisui with eyes full of regret.

On the other side.

Uchiha Jin's expression remained unchanged in the face of Shisui's roar.

"Shisui, do you know what an open conspiracy is?"

"It means that no matter what choice you make, it won't affect my actual plans."

"If you begin to doubt Sarutobi Hiruzen, that would be a good thing for me and for the Uchiha. After all, the Uchiha would gain another powerful expert."

"Even if you still choose to trust Sarutobi Hiruzen, it won't affect my plans in the slightest."

"An open conspiracy is different from a hidden plot. It cannot be broken!"

Shisui froze.

The others looked at Uchiha Jin as if they were gazing upon towering mountains and flowing rivers. They could not help but sigh inwardly. Uchiha Jin's ability to scheme was simply too absurd.

Even if he told you plainly, you still had no way to change anything. You could only follow the path he had laid out!

In the end.

Shisui sighed helplessly, then turned and left the small courtyard.

As for that.

Uchiha Jin did not stop him. He merely watched Shisui leave indifferently before speaking to everyone present. "Fugaku choosing to relinquish power is also a good thing. Let's proceed according to the plan."

Upon hearing this, everyone was confused.

For a moment, their minds failed to catch up. In the end, Uchiha Setsuna spoke first. "Do we carry out the plan we made at the beginning, or the one you told Shisui about?"

"Jin, were you deceiving Shisui with what you told him?" Uchiha Yashiro also looked utterly confused.

Uchiha Jin was somewhat taken aback.

He subconsciously glanced at everyone. Only after seeing the confusion on all their faces did he let out a helpless sigh.

Good heavens!

The Uchiha really did have simple minds.

He helplessly rubbed his brow, but still began to explain.

"Both plans need to be carried out!"

"I had no intention of deceiving Shisui. Although I deduced it all myself and have no evidence in hand, I truly believe that the Konoha Higher-ups intend to kill him."

"I do indeed plan to use Shisui's death to scheme against the Konoha Higher-ups."

"That does not affect the plan we made before. After all, I plainly said that I would never deceive Shisui. I never promised to tell him every part of the plan."

After hearing Uchiha Jin's explanation, everyone was left speechless.

That might have been true, but wasn't that still misleading Shisui?

However...

If they thought about it carefully, Uchiha Jin really was not wrong. They were not truly on the same side to begin with, and the plans he had told Shisui about were indeed real. He simply had not told him the whole plan.

So, alas!

When everyone looked at Uchiha Jin now, their expressions instantly became extremely complicated. Yet at the same time, they felt deeply reassured.

Having such a leader was a good thing for the Uchiha.

At the very least.

If Konoha wanted to trick Uchiha Jin, it would not be merely difficult!

On the other side.

After Shisui left Jin's courtyard, his eyes were filled with confusion.

At that moment, his mind was truly in chaos.

He knew he should not believe Uchiha Jin's bewitching words. But while Shisui might have been blindly loyal, he was not stupid. Sometimes lies did not hurt people; the truth was the sharpest blade!

As the man who had made a name for himself on the battlefield as Body Flicker Shisui, his ability to scheme and calculate might not have matched others', but he at least possessed basic skill in reading people.

Therefore.

When he thought of how, after he had told the Hokage about his Mangekyo ability, Sarutobi Hiruzen had indeed acted exactly as Uchiha Jin described, never meeting him alone again. Whenever he met Sarutobi Hiruzen, there were always at least two Anbu by his side.

Especially Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes. From then on, he had never made eye contact with him again.

Shisui had not thought much about it before. Now that Uchiha Jin had exposed it, he would be lying if he said it did not bother him.

Even though he understood Sarutobi Hiruzen's actions, the feeling of being betrayed was truly unpleasant, especially when he had trusted Sarutobi Hiruzen so deeply.

"Have you heard Elder Jin's speech?"

"It's spread everywhere. I just never expected Sarutobi Hiruzen to be so ruthless!"

"The Hokage clearly looks so kind. Who would have thought he could do something like this?"

"Do you think Elder Jin might be overthinking it?"

"Although Elder Jin didn't provide any evidence, when there are too many coincidences, they stop being coincidences."

"That's true. We should be more careful from now on."

"..."

Listening to the dense discussions all around him, Shisui immediately felt that something was wrong.

What was going on?

What was everyone talking about?

It seemed to concern the Hokage?

Shisui's gaze instantly became serious. Although he had begun to feel some misgivings toward Sarutobi Hiruzen, he still trusted the village and the Hokage more deeply.

He did not step forward to ask directly. Instead, he hid in an alley and used the Transformation Technique before emerging once more.

Then.

He directly joined the group that was idly chatting and learned of Uchiha Jin's earlier remarks.

His scalp went numb!

From Senju Nawaki and Dan Katō's strange deaths, to the extermination of the Uzumaki Clan and the Senju Clan, then the Sannin leaving and defecting one after another, followed by Hatake Sakumo being driven to suicide, and finally Namikaze Minato's death...

One matter after another.

His heart was filled with mixed emotions, because many of these things truly were difficult to explain. Hatake Sakumo's mission leak alone could not be explained from any angle.

The most confidential S-rank mission had been leaked, and the news spread throughout Konoha within a single day, yet the Anbu had not even investigated it?

That made no sense at all!

He did not know much about the other incidents either, but one or two might have been coincidences. Could so many still be explained away as coincidences?

Hokage-sama...

Should I trust you?