The proposal for permanent Uchiha custodianship was posted publicly at the entrance to the Clan District for three days.
Supporters filled two pages with their reasons.
The Sharingan could observe the finer details of seals.
Shisui could identify high-risk genjutsu.
Itachi was familiar with Evidence Verification.
Gen had participated in Lunar Surface Reconstruction.
Having the Uchiha take this on could prove that the clan no longer merely demanded that the village set past wrongs right, but was also willing to protect the entire Shinobi World.
At first, the opposition column contained only one sentence.
"If something goes wrong again, will they come after only the Uchiha?"
That question brought the discussion to a halt for a long time.
The new Deliberative Group had not invited Fugaku to preside.
He sat in the observers' seats as an ordinary clan member.
He took his turn to speak in the same order as everyone else.
The first supporter proposed defining the custodianship as an honor rather than a punishment.
Gen asked them to list the specific duties first.
Maintaining Lunar Surface Support.
Inspecting the nine Monitoring Anchors.
Witnessing the opening of the voice channel.
Reviewing the use of high-risk dōjutsu.
Providing on-site security for spatial anomalies.
Preserving Archive Duplicates.
Once the six duties were placed together, this supposed honor meant that a single clan would control the structure, armed force, dōjutsu assessments, and evidence records.
This was not merely a burden.
It was also a new monopoly on power.
If the Uchiha later entered a dispute with the Five Nations, others would question whether they had exploited their custodial authority.
If the Lunar Surface malfunctioned again, all the losses would also fall back on the clan first.
Handing every danger to those who had once been falsely accused was not compensation.
It might