Compared with Director Yamada's past actions, starting from his suggestion that Fugaku save himself through the Spirit Body Transfer Technique, Soji's conduct over this recent period had clearly conflicted with the persona he had painstakingly cultivated over the past several years.
Although he had previously used a self-sacrificial confession to mend the contradictions and divisions between the Yamada Faction and the Hokage Faction once more, from a political standpoint, this signal of actively provoking conflict carried extraordinary significance for both himself and his allies!
After all, from the perspective that "politics has no morality," the contest between power blocs was essentially a game of choosing sides... How many potential resources you could leverage and how many allies who advanced and retreated alongside you that you could win over were the most direct manifestations of political power.
Counterintuitively, however, as the contradictions and struggle between these two behemoths gradually seeped downward, their intensity actually continued to rise.
The armored enforcers could slaughter one another until flesh and blood blurred together, but before the figureheads at the top of the pyramid completely lost power, they still had to retain a measure of dignity...
This was not merely for pomp and face. It was also an indispensable display of confidence, meant to make more people believe that the group they represented was winning this brutal "war" of scheming, life and death!
In fact, this was also why, after the attack was launched, Fugaku and the other two concluded that if Uchiha Yuan had the opportunity, he would certainly raise a rebellion—if their "face" became tarnished, the entire chain of trust among third parties would naturally collapse.
After all, to market analysts, a clan whose own clan head could not even maintain appearances was basically no different from the CEOs of listed companies selling