"Things really are complicated..."
Wuye was silent for a long while before finally sighing. "Now I don't even know how to deal with the Uchiha Clan."
Uchiha Mikoto exchanged a glance with the bedridden Uchiha Shisui, and neither spoke again.
But they both knew what they were hoping for—if Wuye could show leniency to the Uchiha Clan...
"You still won't let them go," Uchiha Kagami suddenly said at that moment. "Will you?"
Uchiha Mikoto abruptly raised her head, only to see Wuye nod slightly. "No."
"Why?" she could not help asking.
Wuye took her hand in his and gently stroked the back of it in comfort before saying softly, "Because I won't tolerate anyone trying to overthrow my regime. Every one of their plans was aimed at me. Think about it—if they had succeeded, what would have happened to me?"
After hearing that, Uchiha Mikoto fell silent. The sorrow in her eyes only deepened.
Perhaps outsiders could dismiss it easily. It had nothing to do with you, so what was there to be sad about?
But only those caught up in it could understand the pain of knowing that members of a clan they identified with had done wrong and had to be removed.
Because emotion could not be erased by reason.
In Mikoto's life, this clan had given her so much, so much...
"I've already heard what you were planning," Wuye said. He saw the expression on Mikoto's face, but there was nothing he could do. He turned to Uchiha Kagami instead. "I have a list here. Take a look and make the arrangements."
As he spoke, he handed a dossier to Uchiha Shisui while putting away the dossier Uchiha Kagami had previously given him.
"This is..."
Uchiha Shisui took it and read through the names. His eyes slowly