Uchiha Ishii was a Genin of the Uchiha Clan with earth-nature chakra. At twenty-two, he had yet to awaken his Sharingan. The Uchiha shinobi who possessed the Sharingan called him useless and told him not to go out, lest he disgrace the Uchiha.
After that, he gradually drifted out of shinobi circles. But once he stopped working as a shinobi, he had no other skills to support himself and could only survive on the clan's welfare payments. Still, he was an Uchiha, and he had his own pride.
Reality had crushed that pride-until Uchiha Mu arrived. He had power comparable to Lord Madara's, yet showed no prejudice against ordinary clansmen like them. By contrast, some clansmen who had awakened their eyes but were not particularly strong acted arrogant in every possible way.
That made him want to follow Uchiha Mu. When he heard that Uchiha Mu was taking clansmen away, he chose to follow without a moment's hesitation, as if clicking a button. After all, when Madara had left before, he had no destination in mind. An ordinary man like Ishii had no business joining that commotion.
But things were different now. They were not only being given a chance to earn money, but also a chance to live with dignity. Those two things alone were enough.
In an instant, the scene before his eyes changed. He was no longer in Konoha, but in a new village. There were lights outside, and the road in the distance was wide, with pedestrians walking along it.
The houses were very different too. There were wooden houses, but also strange stone houses whose construction he did not understand. *Was this a village in the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation? Had that just been Tobirama Senju's Flying Thunder God? As expected of Uchiha Mu-he even knew