"Is that true?"
A voice came from the empty room.
Yuya froze for a moment, then realized who it was.
Yuya wasn't going to indulge him. He immediately complained, "I say, Big Brother Kagami, could you come out before you start talking? This is really scary..."
Kagami Uchiha appeared in the Hokage Office.
He wore a shinobi's combat uniform and an Anbu mask. His posture was straight, and his hands rested at his sides. That stance showed how respectful he was—nothing like Shika Nara.
Yuya shook his head with an amused smile. "Why so serious? You saved my life, Big Brother Kagami."
That was true. If Sarutobi Hiruzen and Kagami Uchiha hadn't held off the Second Raikage for more than ten seconds, Yuya might already have been dead.
"There should be a distinction between those above and below," Kagami said calmly.
Yuya shook his head. He held the annotation pen in his hand, but no longer felt like writing.
He sighed, set the pen on the stand beside him, and looked at Kagami. "It's true. If he agrees, I'll keep my word."
Kagami looked up at Yuya. "Then... could the school be built in the Uchiha Clan Compound? I'll go talk to my family."
Yuya immediately smiled.
Well, this is...
Yuya shook his head helplessly. "No. Precisely because it's the Uchiha, the school can't be built on your land."
The Uchiha all had something of a screw loose. After all, the stronger someone became, the more extreme they grew—the Sharingan was proof of that. The higher-ups were like that, and the people below naturally followed their example.
Yuya didn't want a place like that to house a school.
What if the students were influenced by them?
Students were a country's most precious resource.
It was a shame. There were so