As an adult, Obito's personality had undergone an almost complete transformation from when he was little.
In Liumu's impression, Obito had been extremely unreliable as a child. He was no good at ninjutsu or taijutsu, and even in genjutsu, despite having awakened his Sharingan, he had not seemed particularly outstanding beneath the brilliance of Shisui Uchiha and Uchiha Itachi.
Even so, as someone who had once been at the bottom of his class, Obito had a gift for winning over elderly men and women more than anyone else.
Perhaps it had something to do with his background.
Although Obito could not quite be said to have grown up being fed by every household, many elderly people in the Uchiha Clan's territory had watched him grow up.
When he was little, Konoha had been at war year after year, and the Uchiha Clan, which served as the Police Force, had suffered nearly the heaviest casualties of any clan.
Whenever their children died, leaving the old to bury the young, more lonely elderly people were left behind within the Uchiha Clan.
Unreliable though Obito was, he had often helped these people with their everyday chores as a child.
Fetching water, catching cats, catching dogs...
Obito almost never refused anything he could do.
So, when they had just become Genin and the original Team 7 needed to carry out the most minor missions, Obito could often complete such work almost single-handedly, relying on the good reputation he had built among these people.
Kakashi had even mentioned it to Liumu later.
Although Obito had not been strong back then, even Kakashi had greatly envied his personality.
It was no wonder Obito had been so popular at the time.
When Liumu first returned to the village after traveling with Jiraiya and celebrated Obito's birthday, he