Uchiha Clan Meeting

After Kotoamatsukami's Mangekyō was used once, it needed ten years before it could be used again.

In truth, the Mangekyō Sharingan's Dojutsu Power was not completely incapable of recovery. Its recovery rate was simply slow enough to make one cough up blood.

As a genius of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Shūichi had once looked through the clan's records and learned that a Mangekyō Sharingan that had exhausted its Dojutsu Power needed roughly more than ten years to fully recover.

Take Second Pillar, for example. He used Mangekyō Dojutsu and Susanoo multiple times in the span of about a month and quickly went blind.

Yet Uchiha Itachi had used a pair of Mangekyō for nearly ten years. It was precisely because the Mangekyō possessed that faint recovery ability that, when used infrequently, it could naturally be used more times.

The Kotoamatsukami in Uchiha Shūichi's left eye was even more unusual. After all, it was not originally his eye. Although his Uchiha Clan bloodline allowed him to control the Sharingan's activation and deactivation, using it still felt somewhat awkward, and its recovery speed was less than satisfactory.

If Kotoamatsukami required ten years to recover, then even recovering it would be meaningless. By then, the final battle of the Naruto world would already be over.

Because Uchiha Shūichi had fused with a portion of White Zetsu Cells, his Mangekyō Sharingan recovered even faster than Uchiha Shisui's had. However, the eye was not his own. After making a rough estimate, he concluded that it would still need at least two years to fully recover.

To speed up its recovery, he needed to inject more powerful cells. That was exactly why Uchiha Shūichi had used Kotoamatsukami on Orochimaru.

In the entire Shinobi World, only four people could come into contact with Hashirama Cells: Uchiha Obito, the Third Hokage, Shimura Danzō, and Orochimaru.

Uchiha Obito was elusive and had Black and White Zetsu helping him, making an ambush practically impossible. The Third Hokage and Shimura Danzō already knew about Kotoamatsukami and would certainly have made preparations. After considering every option, Orochimaru was the easiest to deal with.

Moreover, Orochimaru possessed formidable research abilities and could help Uchiha Shūichi integrate Hashirama Cells more effectively. He had no desire to imitate his clan's ancestor, Uchiha Madara, and end up with another man's face on his chest.

On top of that, Uchiha Shūichi handed the now-blind Uchiha Shisui over to Orochimaru.

Even without his Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Shisui's experimental value far exceeded that of an ordinary Three Tomoe Uchiha. If Uchiha Shūichi could fuse with Uchiha Shisui's cells, he would also be able to wield Kotoamatsukami's power more effectively.

After finishing all this, Orochimaru gave Uchiha Shūichi a piece of Hashirama Cells the size of a human head. Uchiha Shūichi removed the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyō and transplanted it together with the Hashirama Cells.

This was a temporary solution devised by Orochimaru. By using the Hashirama Cells to restore Kotoamatsukami's power, it was estimated that Kotoamatsukami would finish its cooldown in only a few days.

However, repeatedly removing and transplanting eyes was not only inconvenient, but also painful. It also could not properly integrate the Kotoamatsukami Sharingan, so it was merely a stopgap measure.

With the Reverse Summoning Jutsu, Uchiha Shūichi quickly returned to Konoha Village.

It was night. He had just made his bed and was about to lie down when knocking came from the door.

Uchiha Shūichi frowned slightly. He was already quite exhausted. Repeatedly changing eyes in such a short time had not been pleasant in the slightest. Even now, after switching back to his own eyes, phantom pain still throbbed in his left eye.

But the knocking at the door gradually grew more urgent. Uchiha Shūichi let out a sigh and slowly opened the door.

"Uchiha Shūichi, tonight is the Uchiha Clan Meeting. Don't be late!"

Standing at the door was a well-known member of the Radical Faction among the Uchiha Clan's younger generation—Uchiha Tekka.

Uchiha Tekka was also a Three Tomoe Uchiha. In the original story, he had gone looking for trouble with Uchiha Itachi alongside his brother and the older Uchiha Yashiro. Judging by the original story, if Second Pillar had not been present, they probably would have been brutally beaten by Uchiha Itachi.

Before Uchiha Itachi truly lost his mind and slaughtered the entire clan, he had been extremely restrained. For someone as patient as Uchiha Itachi to be unable to hold back, there was no need to say more about Uchiha Tekka's temperament.

"Got it!"

Uchiha Shūichi kept a straight face as well and casually replied. Uchiha Tekka gave a soft snort, shot Uchiha Shūichi a cold glance, and vanished in an instant.

Well, the two did not get along very well. On one hand, Uchiha Shūichi had disguised himself as a member of the Hokage Faction. On the other, both were Three Tomoe geniuses, and Uchiha Tekka was not particularly convinced by Uchiha Shūichi.

Uchiha Shūichi had once considered whether he should rely on the Uchiha Clan to oppose Konoha Village. But after interacting more with the Uchiha Clan, he quickly abandoned that idea.

Konoha's upper ranks were no saints, but the Uchiha Clan behaved even worse.

Many believed that the reason the Uchiha Clan was so unpopular in the village was because it had taken over the Military Police Force's work, resulting in constant conflicts with ordinary shinobi and civilians.

However, once Uchiha Genichi had truly arrived in this world, he could say that this was complete bullshit.

In a shinobi village, civilians had far less influence than shinobi. Furthermore, the idea that the Military Police Force was equivalent to urban management was complete nonsense.

Konoha was, at its core, a shinobi village. In modern terms, it was a heavily guarded military zone. Why would it need shinobi to carry out urban management work?

This was a world where personal power reigned supreme! What ordinary civilian vendor would dare to butt heads with a mighty shinobi? Were they not afraid that, if the shinobi felt slighted, he would sneak into their home in the middle of the night and stab them?

In manga, civilians and shinobi looked like one big family. In reality, shinobi were the ruling class, and their status was far above that of civilians!

Even in Konoha Village, civilians treated shinobi with utmost respect. How would they dare offend them?

What!? You said Konoha's upper ranks launched a propaganda campaign? One Sharingan glance would directly uncover the so-called source of public opinion. When that happened, only Konoha's upper ranks would truly lose face.

The Uchiha Clan's real problem was the deep divide between them and ordinary shinobi. And this truly was not the fault of ordinary shinobi. Most Uchiha shinobi not only looked down on ordinary shinobi, but often treated them as cannon fodder!

They even fought ordinary shinobi over minor conflicts. Such things were commonplace for the Uchiha. Under those circumstances, how could ordinary shinobi possibly have a good impression of them?

As for making the Uchiha Clan's shinobi change their attitudes, Uchiha Shūichi could not do that, and he did not believe anyone else could either.

After all, the Uchiha Clan's thought processes had never been normal. Even a pure-blooded Uchiha like Uchiha Madara had ultimately been driven out by this bunch of Uchiha. Trying to change those lunatics' minds would be less effective than simply using fists to make them obey!