Chapter 83: Daimyo’s Envoy Of The Land Of Fire
Koharu Utatane narrowed her eyes and said, “I heard that Fugaku also revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan last night. Before this, he had been hiding this secret. Does he have some unusual thoughts?”
Homura Mitokado shook his head: “One uncontrollable Uchiha Ikeizumi is already enough to give us headaches. Since Fugaku is openly standing with us, don’t question him.”
“By the way…”
Homura Mitokado stood up, looked at the devastation in the distance outside the window, and said, “The envoy sent by the Daimyo of the Land of Fire should be arriving in Konoha soon. It’s best not to let him meet Uchiha Ikeizumi. After all, that kind of high-and-mighty person must have done some unspeakable, hard-to-mention things in private.”
“And Uchiha Ikeizumi’s pair of eyes can see through Past Evil and Future Evil. If he encounters the envoy sent by the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, I’m afraid… something big will happen.”
Koharu Utatane was immediately shaken to her core.
“We do need to be on guard.”
She agreed.
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“Mangekyo Sharingan… is my trump card for maintaining balance between the Uchiha and the Village. If I hadn’t seen Ikeizumi awaken his Mangekyo, I wouldn’t have revealed it.”
Fugaku stared at Uchiha Itachi, who was wearing an Anbu mask, his tone slightly heavy as he said, “Itachi, do you think… I would use these eyes against the Konoha you love?”
After revealing the Mangekyo, Fugaku had already anticipated this day.
After all…
Itachi would absolutely not allow the existence of a powerful force that threatened Konoha and was extremely likely to be uncontrollable.
This…
Perhaps this was also the reason why the child had such strong capacity.
“If you don’t trust me, would you point your ninja sword at your father? Itachi.” Fugaku’s tone had little fluctuation, but the question was somewhat chilling.
Yet the atmosphere seemed like an everyday conversation between father and son.
“I would.” Uchiha Itachi was very frank.
Fugaku said, “But you haven’t made a move until now, which means at least for now, you believe I won’t act against Konoha. Perhaps you should also believe that I can completely resolve the conflict between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha, so that…”
A trace of complexity flashed across Fugaku’s poker face: “There would be no need to fall into the tragic future that Ikeizumi spoke of.”
Itachi was silent for half a second, then said, “Father, you may understand your own stance. But… you don’t understand the stance of the other clan members of the Uchiha Clan.”
“They are already beyond saving, all of them incurable. In such a situation, how many people could suddenly wake up?”
Suddenly, Uchiha Itachi changed the topic, squeezed out a smile, and asked, “Has Sasuke woken up?”
Fugaku nodded: “He has. He awakened the Sharingan. What you said that day stimulated him greatly.”
Itachi said slowly, “This is for his own good.”
Father and son fell silent again.
In the blind spot of the corridor corner, Uchiha Mikoto, who was standing against the wall, had two streams of clear tears slowly flowing from her beautiful eyes.
Her eldest son…
Had become so unfamiliar that she couldn’t recognize him.
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“As the Uchiha Clan Leader! As the head of the Uchiha family! Possessing the legendary power of the Sharingan yet hiding it from the clan members, and instead wanting to use this powerful force to suppress his own clan members! What right does Uchiha Fugaku have to lead the Uchiha Clan!”
Uchiha Setsuna said angrily through gritted teeth, “He has completely disgraced the Uchiha Clan as clan leader!”
Even if other ninja clans had clan members leaning outwards, they were at most some young family juniors.
But for their Uchiha Clan?
Two clan members openly leaning outwards: one was their Uchiha Clan Leader! The other was the clan leader’s eldest son!
In the eyes of a Hawk Elder like Uchiha Setsuna, those two were simply maggots in the Uchiha Clan!
They made the Uchiha a complete joke.
“And that Uchiha Ikeizumi…” If Fugaku and Itachi merely made Uchiha Setsuna extremely hateful towards them, wishing to take their places in the clan.
Then Uchiha Ikeizumi was someone he wanted to kill to vent his anger!
Because he could feel that the brat wanted to kill him too!
That day, the killing intent in Uchiha Ikeizumi’s eyes…
Uchiha Setsuna absolutely did not see it wrong!
However…
“Elder Setsuna, Uchiha Ikeizumi has already awakened the legendary power of the Sharingan, and he is a Dual Bloodline Limit genius. We can fully support him to become the new leader of the Uchiha Clan!”
After hearing a young Uchiha Radical ninja’s suggestion, Uchiha Setsuna’s old face immediately darkened.
But before he could speak, other Uchihas chimed in.
“Uchiha Ikeizumi even dared to use Sharingan Dōjutsu on Shimura Danzo in front of the Third Hokage last night. At that time, many Anbu Ninjas had him surrounded. Such capacity is enough to prove he is qualified to lead the Uchiha Clan.”
Uchiha Setsuna’s eyelids twitched wildly.
Another Uchiha Radical ninja pondered, “Although Uchiha Ikeizumi’s stance is a bit different from ours, compared to Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Itachi who are leaning outwards, he should be the unique choice, right?”
Someone else said indignantly, “Damn it, that white-eyed wolf Uchiha Itachi has disappeared somewhere recently; we can’t even find him.”
“Hmph! That bastard is destined to kill us in the future, so he’s probably afraid we’ll kill him first now!”
Uchiha Setsuna, sitting in the main seat, gripped the chair armrest tightly, cracking the wooden armrest in several places.
These guys…
Don’t they consider me at all?
I have endured who knows how many years of hard prison for the Uchiha Clan!
Even if they want to force Fugaku out, even if they want to elect a new clan leader, shouldn’t it be me, Uchiha Setsuna, taking the forefront?
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On the other side.
“Meow, rookie, why are you dawdling?” Kijiro had been treating Izumi’s shoulder as his second nest these past few days; as soon as he saw her, he jumped directly onto her left shoulder.
Making her left shoulder visibly sink.
Kijiro said, “If you’re late, Lord Ikeizumi will deduct points from you.”
Izumi held a ninja sword in one hand and a sandwich in the other, stuffing the sandwich into her mouth while hurrying along frantically.
Her cheeks puffed up as she explained vaguely, “As soon as I got back last night, I was surrounded by many clan members. They wanted me to tell them in detail about Senior Ikeizumi…”
“So I had to chat with them until late at night, ending up with less than two hours of sleep.”
“Of course!”
Izumi immediately added, “I didn’t reveal any secrets about Senior Ikeizumi to them. I noticed those clan members seem to really admire Senior Ikeizumi…”
“So I thought to pick out some promising ones from them, since Senior said last night he wanted to expand the faction of Absolute Justice.”
While running, Izumi suddenly noticed that in Konoha, from ninjas to civilians, many people were discussing what happened last night.
Listening carefully, it was all related to Senior Ikeizumi.
Senior Ikeizumi seemed to have become famous again.
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