While Uchiha Itachi was overcome with excitement, Xia Yan was also sizing up the kid before him.
Among the characters in the original story, if anyone could be called the most contradictory and conflicted...
If this kid before him claimed second place, no one would dare claim first.
Uchiha Itachi was an intensely contradictory person. From the village's perspective, what he had done was actually rather commendable.
He had preserved the village's peace in his own way, even if that way had been appallingly stupid.
From his clan's perspective, however, his actions only made him an utterly ungrateful traitor.
After all, someone who could slaughter his entire clan and leave only his beloved younger brother alive would probably have been despised anywhere else.
More than once, Xia Yan had wondered how he would have weathered the Uchiha crisis if he had been reborn into the Uchiha rather than the Senju.
And over all these years, he had long since realized that there were truly many ways to save the Uchiha.
Wiping out the clan was simply stupidity beyond saving!
Just look at Xia Yan. Even as an outsider, he had been able to employ certain measures to stop the Uchiha from marching into the abyss.
As someone within the clan, could Itachi really not have found a better way, especially when he was Uchiha Fugaku's son?
Still, Xia Yan could not be bothered to dwell on it. To him, it was fundamentally a problem of thinking and awareness.
Itachi simply could not see the essence beneath the surface, and his thinking and perspective on problems were skewed as well.
Perhaps his education was to blame, leaving him unable to analyze things from a higher perspective.
Honestly, Xia Yan really had to be grateful for the education he had received in