Kaleidoscope

With a few leaps, Uchiha Gen arrived at the home of his neighbor, Second Pillar. Second Pillar was among the oldest members of the Uchiha clan; in his youth, his strength was roughly that of an elite jonin, but now, he was at most a special jonin. Against Uchiha Gen, who had just entered the Kage level and possessed the Mangekyo, this level of strength offered absolutely no possibility of resistance.

In the dead of night, Uchiha Gen stared with his evil eyes at the old man on the bed...

Strands of ocular power flowed rapidly from Second Pillar's eyes into Uchiha Gen's! Having already been hypnotized by the Mangekyo through "reasoning and emotional persuasion," Second Pillar showed no signs of resistance. Even if he woke up the next morning, he wouldn't remember Uchiha Gen, because he had been subdued by Uchiha Gen in his sleep and had never even seen him! Even if someone were to inspect his memories, it would be useless!

Feeling the ocular power contained within his eyes, Uchiha Gen felt secretly delighted.

If one were to quantify the ocular power of the Sharingan, a standard one-tomoe would be 10 to 99 points, two-tomoe 100 to 2,999 points, and three-tomoe 3,000 to 9,999 points. The Mangekyo was 10,000 points or more, while the Eternal Mangekyo's value remained unknown. Having absorbed Second Pillar's power, his current Divine Grace Eye ocular power was around 25,400, while his Tsukuyomi Eye remained at 10,200.

Second Pillar's ocular power was quite substantial; combined, his eyes provided over 10,000 points, which was more than a single Mangekyo. Unfortunately, the upper limit of his three-tomoe eyes was too low, far from reaching the threshold to awaken the Mangekyo.

With his current ocular power, he was still far from achieving "Izanagi freedom." Normally, a three-tomoe could use Izanagi, but the problem was that three-tomoe was the lower limit for the technique. This jutsu was a one-way street; even if you used a Mangekyo to activate Izanagi, you would still go blind! However, the duration for a three-tomoe Izanagi was one minute, while a Mangekyo should be able to last for two double-hours...

Thinking of this, Uchiha Gen activated his Divine Grace Eye to begin transferring power to his Tsukuyomi Eye, stopping only when the Tsukuyomi Eye's power reached 3,000!

In any case, whether you used 3,000 or 10,000, you would go blind if you used Izanagi. Since the technique was a cheat, he would cheat too—3,000 was enough, he didn't need those extra two double-hours! If the Tsukuyomi Eye went blind, he would just transfer another 3,000 over!

Afterward, Uchiha Gen began his grand project of "freeloading" by reasoning with and emotionally persuading his clansmen!

By dawn, the entire Uchiha clan—from those who had just awakened their eyes to those with three-tomoe, regardless of age or gender—had been "freeloaded" by Uchiha Gen. The only two who escaped were Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Itachi. There was no helping it; those two were under the protection of Uchiha Fugaku, and he couldn't touch them for the time being. Although he wasn't afraid of Fugaku, touching them would surely alert him! After all, Fugaku also possessed a Mangekyo Sharingan!

Returning home, Uchiha Gen checked his current ocular power: Tsukuyomi Eye 3,000, Divine Grace Eye 278,286. According to the recovery rate of a normal clansman, it would take a week or even longer for a three-tomoe to recover from 0 to 3,000. However, it wasn't as if it couldn't be used without full recovery; even recovering a few dozen points allowed for the use of the three-tomoe, so it didn't affect daily use. It wasn't wartime, after all!

Leave a path for others, and you'll have a path to meet again. Based on the one-week recovery time for a three-tomoe, "cutting" them once every eight days—or rather, performing his "reasoning and emotional persuasion"—should be considered quite humane! After all, staying up late for overtime was bad for one's health. Work one night, play for eight days; he was the boss, so he shouldn't bring that 996 culture here. Be a person, do human things, and refuse 996.

In the following month, Uchiha Gen continued his four-round, clan-wide night classes of "reasoning and emotional persuasion," obtaining a total "tuition fee" of 1,202,450. Such large-scale, continuous tutoring had begun to attract the attention of the clansmen! After all, if one person felt weak, it might be a kidney issue, but if the whole clan felt weak, it was highly likely to be the flu.

Because of this, the clan head and the Uchiha Council of Elders had held several meetings. Finally, they spent a large sum to invite the Konoha Hospital to conduct a full-clan physical examination. The results showed that, aside from a few children with roundworms, a few middle-aged women with gynecological inflammation, and several elderly people with osteoporosis, everyone else was healthy. The loss of ocular power remained a mystery.

Finally, after a unanimous discussion, the clan head and elders decided to observe the situation on-site. The interval of the ocular power loss had been figured out: once every eight days. The elders planned to find a typical case on the eighth day to watch! As it turned out, this ocular power loss was like the wave-particle duality of light; when they observed it, it didn't happen at all. The clan head and elders were completely stumped!

Watching Fugaku and the elders' grave expressions from afar, Uchiha Gen quietly retreated behind the crowd. It seemed he had to pause his "reasoning and emotional persuasion" for tonight.

Sigh! This was tricky! In two days, it would be October 10th. He wondered if 1.2 million in ocular power would be enough. 3,000 per Izanagi, each lasting five minutes—1.2 million power could be used 400 times, which was 2,000 minutes, or thirty-three hours of Izanagi. He could take a dump on the Nine-Tails' head several times over!

No, he couldn't just think about taking dumps; he had to look at the big picture. In the original story, everyone saw the Sharingan in the Nine-Tails' eyes, so the Uchiha had to take the blame. Originally, if the Uchiha had fought, they could have explained it, but Danzo's orders had completely derailed that! However, this couldn't be blamed on Fugaku; the Konoha elders had given the order, and if you still wanted to fight, what were your intentions? Were you in such a rush to help the Nine-Tails?

If things went the way they did in the original story, the Uchiha clan would still be finished. At most, he could save himself, but the problem was, wouldn't it be a pity to lose such good "leeks"... clansmen? As a successor of communism raised under the red flag, a Young Pioneer, a transmigrator, a member of the Konoha Military Police, and an Uchiha clansman, how could he watch such a terrible thing happen? He wouldn't allow it!

Therefore, the only way to solve this death loop was to not receive the Konoha elders' order to stay out of the battle. Doing this was very simple: on the night of the incident, he would set up a bed on the Hokage Rock. If they sent orders to the Uchiha compound, he would be watching the stars on the Hokage Rock. If he didn't receive the order, then there was nothing he could do.

To this end, Uchiha Gen specifically checked the Konoha Constitution, and there was no mention of sleeping on the Hokage Rock! He was safe now! They could control the heavens and the earth, but they couldn't control him sleeping on the Hokage Rock, right?

To avoid looking too deliberate, Uchiha Gen decided to start his "bedding" operation tonight. After work, he packed a few things and headed straight for the Hokage Rock!

"Stop! What are you doing here?" a Konoha Anbu on night patrol shouted as he saw Uchiha Gen setting up a tent on top of Senju Tobirama's head!

"Uh, setting up a tent, camping. Can't you tell?" Uchiha Gen explained! The First Hokage had too much influence, the Third was still alive, and the Fourth had just taken office. He couldn't sleep on any of those three, so he had to wrong the Second Hokage!