"Brother-in-law, you're giving me too much credit."
Dan shook his head. He had no interest in reviving the Uchiha, and he hadn't even awakened the Mangekyo, let alone the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan or the Rinnegan.
"Fine, I won't put any pressure on you."
Fugaku thought Dan was just being modest. Smiling, he patted his brother-in-law on the shoulder and dropped the subject.
But then he brought up something far more serious.
"Dan, let me ask you something. If one day our Uchiha really did resort to an armed coup, what odds do you think we'd have of winning?"
Fugaku looked grave, hoping Dan would give him an honest answer.
"Thirty percent at most," Dan estimated.
Of course, he didn't factor in his own strength.
"You and I think alike."
At Dan's answer, Fugaku couldn't help but smile bitterly.
He told Dan that even if the Uchiha Clan fought with all their might, overthrew the Konoha high command, defeated the Anbu, Root, and the many shinobi who supported the Hokage faction, they would have completed only half the coup.
After that.
The newly installed Uchiha would immediately face troubles both within and beyond the village.
The internal trouble would be the general hatred the village's shinobi felt toward the Uchiha. Even if an Uchiha became Hokage, they wouldn't accept him.
The external threat would come from the other four great ninja villages, which would surely seize the opportunity to start a war and invade Konoha together.
By then, the Uchiha would find themselves enemies of the entire world.
That was why.
Fugaku had always pessimistically believed that if the Uchiha staged a coup, it would inevitably be an act of self-destruction.
"Dan, you must remember this. The hope of saving the Uchiha Clan lies in this stone tablet left behind by