Uchiha Shisui felt helpless. His shoulders slumped weakly as he sighed. "I know."
Even many of the Land of Whirlpools' sealing techniques had been secretly collected by Shimura Danzō and Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The originals were all in Root.
"While the Fourth Hokage was in office, he was sidelined," Jinghuo Uchiha continued.
Uchiha Shisui: "..."
As someone who had become famous during the Third Shinobi World War, he had certainly served under Minato Namikaze and naturally knew about it.
Wearily, he looked at Jinghuo Uchiha. "What are you trying to say?"
It was as though he were pleading, Could you stop torturing me?
Looking into Uchiha Shisui's eyes, Jinghuo Uchiha smiled. "Brother, tell me—are those who watch all this happen with indifference guilty or innocent?"
Uchiha Shisui's eyes widened as if he had been terribly frightened.
"Jinghuo, you..."
Combined with his murder of the Hyuga Great Elder, Jinghuo Uchiha's words led Uchiha Shisui to one easy conclusion—he wanted to kill every clan in Konoha!
It took him a full ten minutes to process that information.
Yet he still could not believe it. He stared wide-eyed at Jinghuo Uchiha. "You... are you crazy? The Uchiha Clan will be destroyed too!"
"No. Trust me," Jinghuo Uchiha said with a smile.
If he killed them, he would complete many of his quests, and then he would be invincible in the shinobi world.
However, without a reasonable excuse, he did not want to make a move like that.
It was not because he was too bloodthirsty or anything. He simply did not want the Uchiha Clan standing against him.
He rather enjoyed life in the Uchiha Clan now.
Thinking of this, Jinghuo Uchiha sighed. Sitting cross-legged, he leaned back on his hands and looked up at the ceiling with a hint of resentment. "What a pity the Hyuga Clan refuses to cooperate."
The Hyuga Clan was too cowardly.
Their clan grounds had been destroyed twice, and their Great Elder had even been killed, yet they were not angry at all!
Uchiha Shisui: "..."
Fortunately, they refused to cooperate. Otherwise, the shinobi world would be thrown into chaos.
"But never mind." Jinghuo Uchiha sat upright and looked at Uchiha Shisui. "Brother, help me investigate leads on the Akatsuki, especially Orochimaru's."
"What are you planning to do?" Uchiha Shisui's gaze became extremely wary. When he looked at Jinghuo Uchiha, it was as if he were looking at a lawless demon, and he felt deeply uneasy.
"Don't worry. This plan will only kill Sarutobi Hiruzen and people like him."
Uchiha Shisui could not understand that at all.
"Then why did you go to such lengths to make the Sarutobi Clan take over the Police Force?"
Was it not to use the same method that destroyed the Shimura Clan to wipe out the Sarutobi Clan?
Jinghuo Uchiha caught the implication and smiled. "How could that be? The Shimura Clan could be destroyed because they no longer had Shimura Danzō. But as long as Sarutobi Hiruzen is alive, the Sarutobi Clan cannot be destroyed. Targeting them further would only increase their hatred toward the Uchiha Clan."
"So from the very beginning, you never intended to use the Police Force matter to destroy the Sarutobi Clan?" Uchiha Shisui was even more confused.
"Of course not. The Police Force is merely there to pressure them, to make them paranoid and torment them for fun."
Uchiha Shisui: "..."
"Besides that, it is probably for the Uchiha to become Hokage in the future," Jinghuo Uchiha said casually.
"The Uchiha becoming Hokage?" Uchiha Shisui immediately turned serious.
That was the Uchiha Clan's wish.
Jinghuo Uchiha gave a hum. "The villagers' filter over Sarutobi Hiruzen is too thick right now. We need to use the Sarutobi Clan to wear it down."
Uchiha Shisui nodded, showing his understanding and agreement.
Using the Sarutobi Clan this way, no matter what Sarutobi Hiruzen did, he would offend one side.
Either his own clan or the villagers.
No matter what he did, it would be wrong.
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In the end, the villagers would realize—so the Third Hokage was not perfect. He was human too.
That way, the filter around the "strongest Hokage of all time" would be shattered.
It was just that...
"Could you stop being so hot-tempered next time?" Whenever Uchiha Shisui thought of how Jinghuo Uchiha had wanted to destroy every clan in Konoha, goosebumps rose all over him.
Fortunately, the Hyuga Clan had chickened out.
He was truly far too hot-tempered!
"Me, hot-tempered?" Jinghuo Uchiha wore a strange expression as he glanced at the system quests.
[quest name: Me, Hot-Tempered? You Talk Too Much?] [quest content: Kill Uchiha Shisui!] [quest reward: Susanoo—Complete Body] [Quest name: You're the Only One Who Values Them?] [Quest content: Kill the Uchiha Clan!] [Quest reward: Rinnegan] [Quest name: You're the Only One With Bonds?] [Quest content: Kill Jinghuo Uchiha!] [quest reward: ...] [quest name: You're the Only One So Broad-Minded?] [quest content: Kill Uchiha...] [...] [...] ...
The Hyuga Clan gave up the Police Force, so Konoha could only let the Sarutobi Clan take it over temporarily.
They called it temporary, saying they would replace them once they found a suitable candidate.
But every clan knew that no one would want to take over the Police Force at a time like this and be watched by those red-eyed Uchiha lunatics.
Had they not seen even those white-eyed Hyuga cowards back down?
And so, the Sarutobi Clan once again took over the Police Force.
A tiny fraction of the villagers strongly opposed it;
Some villagers felt there was not much difference, since they were better than the Shimura Clan anyway;
Other than that, the vast majority of villagers cheered loudly.
"Konoha's good days have finally arrived!"
"The Hyuga Clan is pretty sensible!"
"The Sarutobi Clan should be the ones doing it!"
"The Hokage's clan must be better than the Hyuga or Uchiha!"
Yet seven days later, their tune changed.
"How can you smile at the perpetrators?!"
"The Sarutobi Clan really loves playing peacemaker!"
"Fuck, my wife only cheated because she was threatened, and the Sarutobi Clan told me to shake hands and make peace with him! Do they want me to share my wife with him?!"
"Why do I feel like the Sarutobi Clan is a little like Lord Hokage...?"
"I think so too..."
"Don't talk nonsense. The Sarutobi Clan is the Sarutobi Clan, and Lord Hokage is Lord Hokage!"
Although the flames of doubt toward Sarutobi Hiruzen had been extinguished, the villagers' dissatisfaction with the Sarutobi Clan grew by the day.
The smiles of the Uchiha Clan also grew increasingly radiant.
At this time, Uchiha Shisui, the Uchiha Clan Head, was summoned to the Hokage Building for a private meeting.
Hokage Building, meeting room.
Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, Hokage Advisor Mitokado Homura, and Hokage Advisor Utatane Koharu looked at Uchiha Shisui with kindly smiles.
"Shisui, you're here. Come, sit, sit," Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a smile.
Though Uchiha Shisui was puzzled, he still nodded slightly and sat across from the three of them.
His gaze mainly fell on Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu.
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