Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura exchanged a glance.
"Teacher said Uchiha Madara's Mangekyō Sharingan wasn't an ordinary Mangekyō Sharingan. Using an ordinary one for too long would make you go blind, but Madara's wouldn't, because it was Eternal."
The Third Hokage spoke slowly, each word seeming to be forced out.
"Eternal, eternal—tell me, was Uchiha Madara able to become that powerful back then precisely because of those Eternal Eyes?"
He had not remembered this yesterday. Today, when he saw "Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan" mentioned in the intelligence Orochimaru had sent over, all those old memories came rushing back at once.
Utatane Koharu sucked in a cold breath. "Teacher really did say that."
"So... Uchiha Fugaku was bewitched by Uchiha Madara or one of Madara's subordinates, and that's why he took this path? He wants to awaken the Eternal Eye to deal with Uchiha Yan?"
Otherwise, why had he acted neither sooner nor later, but chosen to make such a scene right after Uchiha Yan killed Madara?
Mitokado Homura's brow furrowed even more deeply. "It's hard to say whether this is good or bad."
"Uchiha Yan does have a powerful enemy now, but with Uchiha Tianrong's death and Fugaku's defection—after these two incidents, Uchiha Yan's family can instead take advantage of the situation to bring the entire clan under their control."
After Fugaku and Tian Rong, the core figures of the Uchiha clan leader's faction, had both fallen, Uchiha Yan's family had gained an increasingly stronger grip over the clan.
If things continued at this rate, it would not be long before every opposing voice within the entire Uchiha clan was suppressed.
This was absolutely not good news for Konoha's higher-ups.
A united Uchiha clan was far too great a threat.
They had to find a way to create some cracks within