Of course, the Shimura Clan had to be wiped out.

"At least the Uchiha arrived quickly..."

"And they wouldn't falsely accuse anyone..."

At that moment, a bit of gossip spread—"On Nine-Tailed Night, I heard the Shimura Clan stopped the Uchiha Clan from going to provide aid."

"Huh?"

"This..."

The villagers had no particular reaction to it yet.

But half a year later, the villagers could no longer hold back.

A thief was casing a house when he was caught by one of the homeowner's relatives. By the time the Shimura Clan arrived, the homeowner's younger brother was beating the thief.

The thief's face was bruised and swollen, with blood splattered all over the ground.

"Stop! Stop!" The Shimura Clan members immediately pulled the two apart and took them away.

In the end, they released the homeowner's younger brother.

Since the key had been lost, they even helped unlock the door.

But the next day, they received a report—the house had been robbed, and the one who had stolen from it was the homeowner's younger brother.

"Huh?" The Shimura Clan was dumbfounded.

The news quickly spread throughout the village—"The Shimura Clan of the Police Force unlocked a door for a thief and helped him steal!"

Everyone mocked the Shimura Clan's incompetence. They were far inferior to the Uchiha Clan. This would never have happened with the Uchiha.

Meanwhile, Root Members of the Uchiha Clan hidden in the shadows revealed mocking smiles.

They had long noticed that the younger brother was acting strangely, but they deliberately said nothing.

The Shimura Clan's scalps went numb.

They hurriedly tried to make up for the damage.

In the end, they successfully caught the thief who had fooled them, but he had already gambled away the money.

Rumors swirled through the village. Fortunately, the Shimura Clan still had some assets, and with the Shimura Clan Head's approval, they paid out of their own pockets to cover the household's losses.

But not only did that fail to earn the household's gratitude, instead...

"You call yourselves the Police Force? Quit already and let the Uchiha do it!"

"Worthless trash hogging a position and doing nothing! Pah!"

The Uchiha Clan's sore spot was Nine-Tailed Night;

and for the Shimura Clan, it was the Uchiha Clan.

That household was arrested by the Shimura Clan and taught a lesson in prison.

Meanwhile, rumors ran rampant through the village.

"I heard the Shimura Clan deliberately stirred up trouble to stop the Uchiha Clan from joining the battle against the Nine-Tails!"

"Did you hear? One of them, called Shimura Danzō, dug out Uchiha eyes to control the Nine-Tails!"

"The Uchiha Clan is so kind! Look at how violent the Shimura Clan is!"

"Exactly! The Shimura Clan is Konoha's scourge!"

Hokage Building.

"Lord Hokage, please say something on behalf of the Shimura Clan!" The Shimura Clan Head's face was full of grievance.

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at him, took a puff from his pipe, and exhaled a cloud of troubled smoke. "Say what?"

"The Shimura Clan did not stop the Uchiha Clan on Nine-Tailed Night," the Shimura Clan Head hurriedly said.

Sarutobi Hiruzen set down his pipe, his expression turning stern.

"Then where were you at the time?"

"This..." How could the Shimura Clan Head admit that they had been hiding in a shelter within their clan grounds? With an awkward smile, he said, "Naturally, the Shimura Clan was fighting the Nine-Tails."

He believed that the Sarutobi Clan, which had been allied with the Shimura Clan since the Warring States Period, would certainly help him.

This was the Shimura Clan's privilege!

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"You're asking me to lie for you?" Sarutobi Hiruzen's gaze turned cold.

Cold sweat poured down the Shimura Clan Head's face as he gave an awkward smile. "No, no. Then just say that the Shimura Clan didn't stop the Uchiha."

"If the Shimura Clan didn't stop the Uchiha, then who did?" Sarutobi Hiruzen's expression softened slightly, though he remained stern.

"Anyone will do." The Shimura Clan Head smiled sheepishly. He did not care who it was.

Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at him. "Do not bring up this matter again."

The Shimura Clan Head froze.

Th-this was a refusal?

That wouldn't do!

If this continued, the villagers would only become more dissatisfied with the Shimura Clan!

The villagers already did not want to sell them anything, and the prices kept rising. The clan's money was dwindling too!

The Shimura Clan Head panicked.

"Just say it was Root! Root was the one that stopped the Uchiha back then!"

"Root is Konoha's secret organization. Do you know that spreading information about an important village organization is a serious crime?" Disappointment flashed through Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes, and his voice turned cold.

"Th-this..." The Shimura Clan Head's scalp went numb.

In the end, Sarutobi Hiruzen still softened and offered a reminder.

"If you truly have no other choice, withdraw from the Police Force."

"No!" Sarutobi Hiruzen's words seemed to step on the Shimura Clan Head's tail.

Without Shimura Danzō, the Shimura Clan had placed all its hopes on the Police Force. It was their chance to enter Konoha's upper ranks, and he would never let it go.

"Then do your job properly! The Uchiha can do it, so why can't the Shimura Clan?" Sarutobi Hiruzen snapped coldly.

The Shimura Clan Head's expression was ugly, but he still nodded with an awkward smile and left.

As Sarutobi Hiruzen watched his retreating back, for some reason, he saw Fugaku Uchiha's back instead.

And now, was the Shimura Clan not just like the Uchiha Clan of the past?

He closed his eyes, rubbed the space between his brows, and murmured.

"Jinghuo Uchiha, what exactly are you trying to do..."

"Of course, I'm going to wipe out the Shimura Clan." Jinghuo Uchiha spoke while doing one-finger push-ups.

"You're weakening Konoha's fighting strength!" Uchiha Itachi, as Root's minister, objected.

"Fighting strength?" Jinghuo Uchiha laughed. "Then tell me, what useful things have they ever done?"

"This..." Uchiha Itachi's mind stalled for a moment.

The Shimura Clan was surely useful, but what useful things had they done...

His mind spun wildly, yet he could not find a single reliable example.

"Come find me after you've thought it through. You came to me without even thinking it through—do you have nothing better to do?" Jinghuo Uchiha began driving him away.

"I..." Uchiha Itachi looked somewhat aggrieved.

But what aggrieved him even more was that he actually felt Jinghuo Uchiha made sense.

Uchiha Itachi left with "MMP" written all over his slightly gloomy, calm face.

Seeing this, Uchiha Shisui could not help shaking his head slightly. "Jinghuo, could you be a little nicer to Itachi?"

"I could, but I don't want to."

"..." Knowing that he could not persuade Jinghuo Uchiha either, Uchiha Shisui merely shook his head and did not bring it up again.

Instead, he became worried about something else.

"Recently, Kumogakure and Iwagakure have been acting unsettled. They may be planning to make a move against you."

"Be more confident. Remove 'may.'"

On the third day after Jinghuo Uchiha slaughtered Shimura Danzō, the system kept generating quests outside the village.

[Quest name: You Think You Can Occupy Konoha?][quest content: Kill the Fourth Raikage!][quest reward: Lava Style Chakra Mode]

[Quest name: You Can Do It but No One Else Can?][quest content: Kill Ōnoki!][quest reward: Susanoo · Sage Mode]

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