"Preposterous!"
At last, Uchiha Togashi glared furiously at his son, Uchiha Yoshihiro. He slammed his palm down on the low table beside him, producing a dull bang!
"What nonsense are you spouting again?!"
"How could the Shadow Guard Squad possibly appoint two ten-year-old children?! Stop bragging to the other kids all day!
"You're a genius of the Uchiha clan! Do you understand?! A genius! You're supposed to join the Anbu in the future!"
Togashi's sharp gaze swept over his son. "You're already this old, yet you still don't have any proper judgment? Don't you know what kind of requirements the Shadow Guard Squad has?! Haven't I taught you that?!"
"But—but, Father!" Yoshihiro was startled by his father's fury and hurriedly replied, "Namikaze Minato said it himself, and—Sawada Hiroki was there too. He confirmed that Namikaze Minato had become a member of the Shadow Guard Squad!"
"Sawada Hiroki?" Uchiha Togashi froze for a moment, his anger subsiding.
If it was Sawada Hiroki, then it really might be possible—
After all, Rasa was dead—and Togashi knew that a patrol squad had witnessed Hiroki leading two elite jonin squads!
Those were elite jonin squads! Not just any random rabble, nor some useless rookie genin!
For Hiroki to lead jonin squads was clearly an acknowledgment of his abilities by the Third—
But—
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Even if it's Sawada Hiroki, at most there could only be one of him! You're saying another child can also become part of the Shadow Guard Squad? Why can't I believe that?!" Uchiha Togashi's face was filled with undisguised suspicion—
"That's the Shadow Guard Squad! You have to understand, Sawada Hiroki alone is already a genius seen only once in a hundred years in the village—no, no, once in a thousand years! How could there possibly be a second