Uchiha Fugaku's face was dark as he walked straight to the front of the room and sat down behind the conference table.
Gradually, the meeting room fell silent.
Uchiha Fugaku swept his gaze around the room, pausing slightly on Qian and Uchiha Shisui beside him, then dropped a bombshell.
In a grim voice, he said, "Just now, I received news that Itachi... has gone missing!"
As the son of the Uchiha Clan Head—one of Konoha's great clans—and a famous genius, his sudden disappearance, especially in a time of peace like this, was indeed major news.
And inside the meeting room, every ninja from the Uchiha clan who heard it showed shock and disbelief.
Everyone immediately started talking over one another. "What happened? Where did the information come from? When exactly did he disappear? Why would he go missing? Did the village make a move?"
The first few questions were fairly normal, but when it came to the last one...
Qian turned his head and looked in the direction the voice had come from.
Sure enough, the ones who had voiced that accusation were some elderly ninja who had already stepped back from the front lines.
Their thinking had long since hardened. No matter what the current relationship between the clan and the village was like, whenever something happened, their first thought was always that it was the village's fault.
Uh.
Although the village really had not done anything good in the past, at this point in time, when nothing had been clarified yet, immediately trying to pin the blame on the village was indeed somewhat stubborn and inflexible.
Qian was not the only one who looked toward those people. Uchiha Shisui, sitting beside him, did the same.
In fact, Qian could even faintly sense a trace of killing intent from