Lightning Release Chakra Mode

Uchiha Fugaku had not spelled it out, but he knew Kazan understood what he meant.

"So you regret it?" Kazan took a sip of water.

"No." Uchiha Fugaku shook his head. "Someone has to maintain order in the village."

"And the Military Police Force's work really has reduced casualties among the Uchiha."

That was true.

Even now, many Uchiha remained in Konoha rather than going to the battlefield.

During the Second Shinobi World War, the Uchiha had suffered the fewest losses of any shinobi clan in Konoha.

That was partly because of their powerful kekkei genkai, and partly because of the Military Police Force's authority.

Some fools were still feeling smug about it.

Yet that disparity in casualties had, without anyone noticing, driven the Uchiha and Konoha's other shinobi clans even further apart.

They all belonged to the same village, so why did the Uchiha always get to suffer the fewest casualties?

But the problem was this.

Even knowing that this made it harder to coexist with the village's other shinobi clans, the Uchiha could not refuse.

It was a plot with no way out.

Kazan listened in silence.

Back when he watched the anime, he had thought the Uchiha simply coveted the Military Police Force's authority.

Now he realized how shallow that assumption had been.

The Uchiha Clan Head at the time had probably cared more about casualties among his people.

He might even have imagined that, when the other shinobi clans suffered devastating losses on the battlefield, the Uchiha, with their strength largely intact, could step forward to turn the tide—and perhaps even reach for the Hokage position.

Of course.

That was only speculation. Kazan had no way of knowing what the Uchiha Clan Head at the time had been thinking.

The Uchiha tended toward extremes.

Simply discovering