Uchiha Clan Meeting

Once the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyo is used, it requires ten years before it can be used again.

In truth, the ocular power of a Mangekyo Sharingan isn't completely incapable of recovery—it's just that the recovery speed is so agonizingly slow it makes you want to spit blood.

As a genius of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Shūichi had once pored over the clan's records and gleaned information from them: if a single Mangekyo Sharingan had exhausted its ocular power, it would take roughly over a decade to fully recover.

Take Uchiha Sasuke, for example—in the span of about a month, he repeatedly used his Mangekyo techniques and Susanoo, and quickly went blind.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Itachi used a pair of Mangekyo for nearly ten years. That was because the Mangekyo had a faint regenerative ability, so if used sparingly, the number of uses naturally increased.

The Kotoamatsukami in Uchiha Shūichi's left eye was even more special. After all, it wasn't his own eye. Even though he possessed Uchiha bloodline and could control the Sharingan's activation and deactivation, he still felt a certain sluggishness when using it, and its recovery speed left much to be desired.

Given that Kotoamatsukami took ten years to recover, even if it did recover, it would be meaningless. Ten years from now, the final battle of the shinobi world would already be over.

Because Uchiha Shūichi had partially fused with White Zetsu Cells, his Mangekyo Sharingan's recovery speed was actually considerably faster than Uchiha Shisui's own. But since the eye wasn't his, a rough estimate suggested it would take at least two years to fully recover.

To speed up recovery, he would need to inject more powerful cells. That was precisely why Uchiha Shūichi had used Kotoamatsukami on Orochimaru.

In the entire shinobi world at present, the only people who could access Hashirama Cells were Uchiha Obito, the Third Hokage, Shimura Danzō, and Orochimaru.

Uchiha Obito moved like a ghost, aided by Black and White Zetsu, making it nearly impossible to ambush him. The Third Hokage and Shimura Danzō already knew about Kotoamatsukami's capabilities and would have prepared countermeasures. After weighing his options, only Orochimaru was the easiest to deal with.

Moreover, Orochimaru's research abilities were formidable, which would allow Uchiha Shūichi to integrate Hashirama Cells more smoothly. He had no desire to imitate his clan's ancestor, Uchiha Madara, by having another man's face embedded in his chest.

Beyond that, Uchiha Shūichi had also handed over the now-blind Uchiha Shisui to Orochimaru.

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

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

This was a makeshift solution Orochimaru had devised. By using Hashirama Cells to restore Kotoamatsukami's power, estimates suggested it would only take a few days for the technique to finish cooling down.

However, constantly digging out and transplanting eyes was not only inconvenient but also painful. It also made it impossible to properly integrate the Kotoamatsukami Sharingan, making it nothing more than a temporary fix.

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

It was night. He had just finished making his bed and was about to lie down when a knock came at the door.

Uchiha Shūichi frowned slightly. He was already quite exhausted—swapping eyes repeatedly in such a short time was far from pleasant. Even now, after switching back to his own eyes, a phantom pain still throbbed in his left eye.

But the knocking grew more insistent. Uchiha Shūichi sighed and slowly pushed open the door.

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

Standing at the door was a fairly well-known young Radical Faction member of the Uchiha Clan—Uchiha Tekka.

Uchiha Tekka was also a Three Tomoe Uchiha. In the original story, he and his brother, along with the elder Uchiha Yashiro, had picked a fight with Uchiha Itachi. Judging from the original, if Uchiha Sasuke hadn't been present, they probably would have been beaten black and blue by Itachi.

Before Uchiha Itachi truly went mad and massacred the clan, he was extremely restrained. For someone as patient as Itachi to almost lose his temper, it goes without saying what kind of personality Uchiha Tekka had.

"I know!"

Uchiha Shūichi kept his face equally stiff and replied casually. Uchiha Tekka gave a light snort, shot him a cold smirk, and vanished in an instant.

Yeah, the two didn't get along. On one hand, Uchiha Shūichi was pretending to be part of the Hokage Faction; on the other, as fellow Three Tomoe geniuses, Uchiha Tekka didn't think much of him.

Once upon a time, Uchiha Shūichi had considered relying on the Uchiha Clan to oppose Konoha Village. But soon, after interacting more with the clan, he abandoned that idea.

The Konoha higher-ups weren't good people, but the Uchiha Clan performed even worse.

Many believed the reason the Uchiha Clan was so unpopular in the village was because they took over the Military Police Force, leading to constant conflicts with ordinary ninja and civilians.

However, after Uchiha Genichi truly arrived in this world, he could say that was pure nonsense.

In this ninja village, civilians had far less say than ninja. And the idea that the Military Police Force was like city management wasn't accurate at all.

Konoha was, after all, a ninja village. If you compared it to a modern nation, it would be a military zone. Why would they need ninja to do city management work?

This was a world where power resided in the individual! Which ordinary civilian merchant would dare to pick a fight with a ninja? Weren't they afraid the ninja might get annoyed and sneak over in the middle of the night to stab them?

In the manga, it looked like civilians and ninja were one big family, but in reality, ninja were the ruling class, far above civilians in status!

Even in Konoha Village, civilians treated ninja with utmost respect. Who would dare to offend them?

What?! You say the Konoha higher-ups launched a propaganda campaign? One Sharingan glance, and they'd find the source of the rumors. In the end, it would only embarrass the higher-ups.

The Uchiha Clan's real problem was the deep rift between them and ordinary ninja. And this wasn't the ordinary ninja's fault. Most Uchiha ninja not only looked down on ordinary ninja but often used them as cannon fodder!

Sometimes, they'd even get into serious fights with ordinary ninja over minor conflicts. To the Uchiha, this was commonplace. Under such circumstances, how could ordinary ninja have a good impression of the Uchiha?

As for changing the Uchiha Clan's attitude—well, Uchiha Shūichi certainly couldn't do it, and he didn't think anyone else could either.

After all, the Uchiha Clan's thought process was never normal. Even a pure-blooded Uchiha like Uchiha Madara had been driven out by them in the end. Trying to change the minds of these lunatics was far less effective than simply using fists to make them obey!