"Are you kidding me?!"
No one knew better than Konoha's many shinobi just how powerful the Uchiha were. Seeing their once-reliable comrades now standing against them as enemies, the people of Konoha were practically driven mad.
"Uchiha An!"
"You've gone completely mad!"
"The dead should be allowed to rest in the Underworld!"
"Would you even deny the souls of the dead their peace?"
"Rest?" Uchiha An sneered. "Why don't you ask them whether they want to rest in the Underworld?"
"My fellow clansmen!"
"You may not know this, but you weren't the only ones who died that night!"
"The entire Uchiha Clan—including the elderly and children, and even ordinary clansmen who weren't shinobi—was wiped out by Konoha!"
"Now, the only living members of the Uchiha Clan are Uchiha Obito, Uchiha Itachi, and me!"
"The once-mighty Uchiha Clan has been annihilated!"
"What? That's impossible!" All the Uchiha clansmen were stunned, and soon they were all talking at once.
Although they couldn't control their bodies, they could still speak.
"That's impossible!"
"The village would never do something like that!"
"Even if the village was unhappy with the Uchiha, at most it would have purged the radical faction. How could it do something so inhumane?"
"Where the leaves dance, the fire burns! That's the Will of Fire! How could the village kill children and ordinary clansmen?"
"Uchiha An, you must be lying to us!"
"Haha..." Uchiha An covered his eyes with one hand and let out a piercing scream. "And after all this, you still believe in that bullshit Will of Fire?"
"The so-called Will of Fire is just the Hokage's will!"
"He can do whatever he wants with it, and explain it however he likes!"
"If you want to know whether I'm lying, look at the people across from you and ask