"Madara, what on earth happened?!"
At the gates of the Uchiha Clan Compound, Izuna stepped inside with a bright smile, his gaze quickly sweeping over the faces of the clanspeople around him.
Then his smile abruptly froze, his mouth opening into a comical O.
Looking at all these plump, overweight Uchiha, Izuna's joy instantly faded, replaced by profound shock and disbelief.
He pointed at the clanspeople around him, scarcely able to believe his eyes. Those figures that had once been as agile as hunting leopards had all grown bloated, utterly unlike the people in his memory.
Wait, how did everyone get this fat?
"Izuna, I've let you down..."
Madara's face was full of regret and anguish, along with the shame of someone caught red-handed.
Izuna had explicitly told him to take good care of their clanspeople, yet he had raised them into pigs who knew nothing but eating. And now Izuna had seen it for himself. This was truly...
A disgrace!
Madara gritted his teeth and silently swore: Their training intensity has to double. No, make it triple!
"We've been eating too well these past few years, and sugar has gotten cheaper, so..."
Shingetsu was a little embarrassed too. She offered only a few quiet words of explanation before Izuna understood the whole story.
He immediately recalled how Shingetsu had devoured sweets and drunk milk tea throughout their journey. Knowing his clanspeople, they would only have eaten even more recklessly!
The Uchiha Clan had always loved sweets more than life itself, but sugar had once been a genuine luxury they simply couldn't afford. Now that it was cheaper, the clanspeople naturally indulged without restraint.
Given Madara's personality, he probably couldn't be bothered to monitor their diets either. Left to indulge like that, the clanspeople had all eaten themselves into their