"Therefore, when I revealed this plan to them, not a single elder intended to send some members of their own branch away! They were all fixated on the Uchiha Military Police Force, believing that we could slowly seize Konoha's power through it! They also believed that only by keeping the clan's ninja numbers high could we intimidate others! That was why they rejected the plan to divide the clan members between two locations!"
"As for my proposal to send some elite ninja to build the Land of You—the escape route plan you proposed—not a single one of them agreed. They believed that if it were discovered, they would lose their power in Konoha, and they would not permit any elite clan ninja to leave!" At this point, Uchiha Raimon looked helplessly at Uchiha Tenshu, his face full of apology.
After all, according to their original agreement, Uchiha Tenshu was supposed to have full authority over the matter. That was precisely because they feared that certain people in the clan might lose their minds and leak the matter, or accidentally expose it, causing the entire clan's escape route to fail.
Not only would that put the Uchiha Clan at the center of attention throughout Konoha and subject them to verbal attacks from the other clans.
They also feared that, after losing a future escape route, the Uchiha Clan would be slowly persecuted to death by the Senju Clan.
And now—
Because of his own recklessness, because he had self-righteously prioritized the bigger picture and hoped to gain the full support of the entire clan—
The plan had been completely rejected.
He had even been indirectly warned that if he truly left with the elite ninja cultivated by the clan, he would be declared a rogue ninja on the spot.
Although, for