After the Blood Pond Clan incident, the vast Uchiha Clan once again fell into a leaderless state. Facing accusations from the high-level officials, the villagers' strange looks, and all manner of cleanup and reconstruction work, they urgently needed a leader to guide them through this crisis.
This was difficult to handle.
The difficulty was not the lack of a central figure, but rather... there were simply too many so-called "central figures."
After the previous clan head died, the already turbulent undercurrents immediately swelled into raging waves. Quite a few people who possessed both strength and prestige coveted the position of clan head. They split into factions, organized their own forces and squads, and none was willing to submit to another.
No one bothered pretending anymore. Their secret struggles were brought into the open, becoming an outright contest.
In the silence, the battle to the death was once again tacitly accepted as the only way to compete for the position of clan head.
But one person could no longer sit still.
Uchiha Chiri, captain of the Hidden Leaf Police Force and the Uchiha most valued by the village at present, used her influence to convene an emergency meeting within the clan. Every member attended. The scale was comparable to the night Uchiha Madara left Hidden Leaf Village more than twenty years ago.
At the meeting, Uchiha Chiri harshly condemned this kind of infighting. At a time when they needed to band together for warmth, continuing their internal strife and turning their blades against fellow clansmen for personal gain would only lead to their own destruction. It was utterly foolish!
She made her position clear: only by working together and twisting all their strength into a single rope could they restore the Uchiha's prestige.
Before long, someone raised an objection.
"Captain Chiri,