Madara had no idea that the reason he found it so difficult to tame the Nine-Tails, forcing him to spend extra effort controlling it with the Mangekyō Sharingan, was because the Nine-Tails had a stomachache. If he had known, he probably would have immediately come back and killed Kinkaku and Ginkaku all over again.
Meanwhile, Konoha was thriving, completely unaware that an evil Uchiha was riding a giant fox toward it to destroy it.
Inside Konoha, a massive hall was already packed to capacity. This was the first graduation exam held since the Ninja Academy had been established, though it was only on the Genin level.
A few days earlier, Uchiha Gen had returned to Konoha with his large group. After all, he was still nominally the academy's principal. At such a historic moment, using a Shadow Clone Technique would have been somewhat inappropriate, so he had come in person to take a look.
"There isn't much taught at this school, and theoretical knowledge actually makes up two-thirds of it. I really don't know what the Hokage was thinking."
"Master, master, aren't you the principal?"
"Ah~ Although I'm the principal, the teaching materials were provided by the Hokage. There's nothing I can do about it."
Uchiha Gen sat in the front row of the audience, with six distinctly different people standing behind him and two little girls seated on his lap. Such a lineup drew quite a few gazes.
The three little ones now looked no different from ordinary people. Their eye sockets were no longer empty; Uchiha Gen had replaced their eyes with Sharingan for temporary use.
They were all Three-Tomoe Sharingan, but since their original owners were already dead, their potential had been locked. They could never advance to the higher-level Mangekyō Sharingan.
Uchiha Gen had secretly collected