"Great, Father. If we work together, we still have a chance to defeat Uchiha Yi." Fugaku looked at Heitai, his spirits lifted. Neither of them might be a match for Yi alone, but they only needed to avoid losing. The other Uchiha would hardly rush to support Yi then.
The one thing they had to worry about was the Hokage stepping in directly. It was no secret in Konoha that the Third Hokage seemed to want to groom Yi as the Fourth Hokage.
If Yi really became the Fourth Hokage, the Uchiha Clan would split deeply. For the clan to recover, one side would have to concede—or even be destroyed. Fugaku could scarcely imagine what Yi might do with all of Konoha's political resources behind him.
Their enemy then would be all of Konoha.
As for handing over the position of Uchiha Clan Head, the old Fugaku might have done it. But his cousin had died protecting him, and he cast the thought aside.
If only to avenge his cousin, Fugaku could not surrender the position. It was the foundation of their resistance against Yi.
"No. The Mangekyō Sharingan alone won't be nearly enough to face Yi." Fear flickered in Heitai's eyes at the mention of him. "Fugaku, I've felt the Eye Power of Yi's Sharingan before, even when he wasn't using the Mangekyō Sharingan.
"Even with only the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, his Eye Power surpassed that of my Mangekyō Sharingan."
Even now, Heitai found it hard to believe.
Those had only been Three-Tomoe Sharingan. How could Yi's Eye Power have been so strong?
"Then what?" Fugaku was at a loss. But when he recalled Yi's Susanoo towering over a hundred meters high, he understood. He truly could not face that kind of power so easily.
"That's why we need the