In Konoha: Three Choices at the Start

"You all know this man, don't you?"

Uchiha Marco walked up to a long-faced young man and pointed at him.

"Kimura Yixia! He lives next door to us!"

A villager shouted from the crowd.

"That's right. As far as we know, he's falsely accused the Uchiha Clan three times this month alone.

"Once of theft, once of assaulting his sister, and once of beating him up!

"The last one wasn't a false accusation. We did beat him. What came out of his mouth was simply unbearable.

"As for the first two, everyone who lives near Kimura Yixia knows the truth.

"The man has nothing in his house. It's so bare even mice won't visit.

"Would the Uchiha Clan ruin its reputation to steal from a place like that?

"And as for his sister, our investigation found that he doesn't even have one. How could we have assaulted her?

"The villagers who live near him know he's been slandering the Uchiha Clan, but everyone else doesn't.

"Rumors spread, and that's how the Uchiha Clan's reputation was damaged.

"The other three are much the same as Kimura Yixia.

"As far as I know, none of these four has a job in Konoha, and they're all destitute. So how do they afford to eat?

"That's why we believe someone has been giving them orders. Someone deliberately wants to smear the Uchiha Clan.

"Now, in front of everyone, we'll use the Uchiha Clan's Genjutsu.

"Don't worry. It only puts the subject under hypnosis. He'll answer what he's asked, and we won't ask anything else."

"How do we know you aren't in on it together?" someone shouted from the crowd.

"A fair question! If anyone here knows hypnosis or hypnotic Genjutsu, come up and do it yourself. We'll only ask the questions!"

Uchiha Marco showed