"One could imagine it—the moment he stepped into the Hokage's Office, the Third Hokage would definitely tear into him."
Uchiha Yuu turned back to look at the Hokage's Office shrouded in darkness, a strange smile appearing on his face.
He did not know whether it was because Nawaki would be punished, or because of something else.
After going over the matters that required attention, Uchiha Yuu sent him away first, then returned alone to the Uchiha Compound.
The Third Hokage's order had already been issued. The ninja watching the Uchiha family could be seen gradually withdrawing and returning. This conflict, fraught with the smell of gunpowder, had ended with a single letter.
Yet it had planted a ticking time bomb between both sides. What happened today had served as a warning to the ninja living within the Uchiha Compound: if the Hokage's higher-ups were determined to destroy the Uchiha family at any cost, they would not give them any chance to resist.
It split the Hawk Faction that had originally lived in the compound completely in two. One group understood the Peace Faction's position, but chose to endure and wait for the right opportunity to bare their fangs and make the other side pay.
The other group became even more extreme, to the point that even Uchiha Yun could not fully suppress them.
After returning to the compound, Uchiha Yuu did not have time to rest before heading to the meeting hall. Some people were already waiting for him, and the once-quiet hall was filled with fierce arguments.
Having been watched continuously for two weeks, those increasingly radical Uchiha ninja were acting more and more crazily.
"Hasn't this been enough for you to see reality clearly? The Hokage Faction never considered us one of their own. This isn't our village!"