"Father!" Just then, Uchiha Fugaku walked into the department head's office. "You wanted to see me?"
"Go see Uchiha Dan in your capacity as heir to the clan, and ask him what he wants," Uchiha Fukuyama said casually. "Remember, be polite!"
"Yes!" After receiving his orders, Uchiha Fugaku went straight to the Police Force holding cells.
"Well, well, if it isn't the heir to the clan." As soon as he saw Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Dan sneered. "Have you come to execute me?"
Uchiha Fugaku had just turned twelve, but he didn't seem like a child at all. Instead, he was prematurely solemn, looking even more mature than his father.
He was also always wearing a long face, and nobody knew what he was so worried about.
"Brother Dan, you're joking!" Uchiha Fugaku tried to build a rapport with Uchiha Dan.
Uchiha Dan hurriedly stopped him. "Don't! I'm not worthy of that."
"You're the heir to the Uchiha Clan, high above everyone else. I'm just some guy who's been struck from the family records. From now on, let's not mix up our forms of address. Just call me by my name."
"Brother Dan, you're joking!" Uchiha Fugaku said evenly.
"Did I give you too much leeway, you little punk? Who said I was joking?" Uchiha Dan's expression instantly changed. He said coldly, "And who's your brother? Call me that again, and I'll kill you."
Faced with Uchiha Dan's icy, murderous stare, Uchiha Fugaku's heart shuddered.
Why isn't this guy following the script? He changes his attitude in an instant, and he doesn't have any of the maturity you'd expect from a seventeen-year-old.
"Fine, Dan. I—"
"Shut up!" Uchiha Dan cut Fugaku off. "Just tell me what your dad sent you here for. I don't have time to waste on you."
Fugaku felt utterly miserable. His intelligence and composure had failed him completely; this guy in front of him didn't play by any rules.
After a while, Uchiha Fugaku managed to calm himself down and said, "My father sent me to ask what it would take for you to let this matter go. Our Uchiha Clan is willing to offer compensation."
"I don't understand what you mean," Uchiha Dan said, puzzled. "When I was at the hospital, I saved Uchiha Rei. I figured that even if it wasn't a kindness, it was at least a favor, right?"
Uchiha Fugaku took a deep breath and nodded solemnly. "It was a kindness. Our Uchiha Clan won't forget it."
"Heh! And what happened?" Uchiha Dan asked with scorn.
"Uchiha En actually threatened to take revenge on me, then brought people to surround my family's general store. You should ask him what the hell he thinks he's doing."
"So at the time, I thought, your Uchiha Clan members are all a bunch of ungrateful white-eyed wolves. From now on, if you get hurt, I'd better not treat you. You'll only bring me endless trouble."
"Dan, there must be some misunderstanding here." Uchiha Fugaku hurried to explain.
Uchiha Dan waved him off. "There's no misunderstanding. You can ask the people from your clan who went to the hospital. What I said is the truth. There's no misunderstanding at all."
"I saved just one person, and you sent people to seal off my family's store and scare my adoptive parents."
"If I'd treated nine of you, wouldn't you have killed my whole family?"
"I'm a timid, cautious person. Whenever I run into trouble, I always try to avoid it."
"But unfortunately, I couldn't avoid it in the end. Who could've guessed that bastard Uchiha En would attack me outright? He got off scot-free, and I was the one who got arrested."
"Fugaku, where do you think your Uncle Dan can go to get justice?"
"Un... Uncle?" Uchiha Fugaku was stunned by Uchiha Dan's shamelessness.
"Oh, you're such a polite child!" Uchiha Dan said with false courtesy. "But if you want to call me that, your uncle's delighted!"
"I..." Uchiha Fugaku wanted to curse, but forced himself to swallow the words.
I'm losing my mind...
"Dan, there has to be a way to resolve this!" Uchiha Fugaku said, forcing down all his feelings. "I apologize to you on behalf of the Uchiha Clan. Once Uchiha En and the others have recovered, I'll ask them to come apologize too. What do you think?"
"Apologize?"
"You called me Uncle when you were asking for a favor, but now that you've shown your hand, you're calling me by my name. Ah, forget it. You can leave," Uchiha Dan said, looking disappointed. "I'll just pretend I don't have a nephew like you!"
"Uchiha Dan!" Uchiha Fugaku could no longer hold back his anger. He shouted, "Do you really want to make an enemy of our Uchiha Clan? Have you thought about the consequences?"
"Hahaha! The consequences?" Uchiha Dan laughed at once, sounding genuinely delighted. "You really think I'm afraid of your Uchiha Clan?"
"Let me tell you something. The money I've given my adoptive parents over the years is enough for them to live like wealthy gentlemen in comfort for the rest of their lives."
"But they're so used to working hard that they've saved all the money for me, saying they want to keep it for when I get married."
"So go ahead and seal up the store or smash it. It's not worth much anyway."
"As for your threats, they mean nothing to me," Uchiha Dan said with a laugh. "Do you think that because I'm locked up here, you can carve me up like a piece of meat?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Uchiha Dan suddenly vanished from where he stood and appeared in front of Uchiha Fugaku, giving him a terrible fright.
"You little bastard, listen carefully. There's no prison in the world that can hold me," Uchiha Dan said coldly. "You only managed to bring me in because I let you."
"Now I'm done staying here, so go back and tell your dad to go to hell!"
With that, Uchiha Dan vanished again, appearing directly inside his family's general store.
"Dan?" When Namikaze Toneri saw Uchiha Dan suddenly appear, he was both surprised and delighted. "They let you out?"
"Haha, that's right, Uncle. It's all taken care of."
Although he'd long considered Namikaze Toneri his father, Uchiha Dan had called him Uncle from the very first day, and he'd never changed how he addressed him over the years.
"Wait, how did you suddenly appear?" Namikaze Toneri asked, finally realizing what had happened.
"Don't worry about the details. Let's go home!"
"All right. We can't do business today anyway. There hasn't been a single customer in the store all day. Never mind, let's go home. I'll go get your aunt from the back."
While the family enjoyed their happy reunion, Uchiha Fukuyama was left speechless with shock after hearing Uchiha Fugaku's report.
"The Flying Thunder God Technique?"
At that moment, Uchiha Fukuyama couldn't spare a thought for Uchiha Dan's escape. His mind was filled with shock.
That was the Flying Thunder God Technique!
The Flying Thunder God Technique, which countless people had wanted to learn but couldn't even get their foot in the door to master!
Leaving aside Uchiha Dan's beastlike physical strength and his Three-Tomoe Sharingan,
just that one Flying Thunder God Technique, which let him travel through the sky and earth, meant there was nothing they could do about him.
He'd personally seen Tobirama Senju use the Flying Thunder God Technique on the battlefield. He'd never forget the sight for the rest of his life.
With the strength Uchiha Dan had displayed, and his Three-Tomoe Sharingan,
plus that Flying Thunder God Technique that let him travel through the sky and earth, if they really fought to the death, even the Uchiha Clan could suffer devastating losses.
But this was only a disagreement between children. Did it really have to turn into a fight to the death?
Besides, Uchiha Fukuyama had seen a lot in his life.
Uchiha Dan had always kept a low profile, never getting angry even when people pointed at him and called him useless. Why had he suddenly acted today?
Had he gone crazy?
No. He was making an example of them!
Uchiha Fukuyama could think of only one answer: Uchiha Dan had probably grown powerful enough that he no longer needed to hold back.
If that guess was right, then the strength Uchiha Dan had shown was only the tip of the iceberg.
The truth was, he probably no longer needed to fear anyone.
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