"He discovered the old man?!"
The blazing sun cannot tolerate the sneaky....
As the intuition arose, within the tightly closed shrine, starting from Uchiha Hachida, every Uchiha stepped forward consciously, beginning the ritual of "Root Expulsion of the Tongue". The person performing the technique was none other than Roy's father... Uchiha Fugaku.
Though Uchiha Setsuna was quite old, with only a few years left to live, he leaned on a cane and stood silently to the side, eyes closed in meditation, like a statue exuding authority.
Only when Roy suddenly looked up toward a certain direction did Setsuna turn his head slightly, asking with concern, "What's the matter, child?"
In Roy's pupils, partially hidden by his bangs, two suns flickered, and earlier... his heart stirred, feeling something was amiss. He activated the [En], expanding its radius and engulfing the entire shrine. Only then did he notice... within the hall, at some unknown time, there was an external gaze.......
Unfortunately, the distance was too far... he couldn't use the heart insects to invade the person's heart... Roy just activated the Eye of Truth, piercing through illusions, giving the other party a warning, and when he withdrew his gaze, he had a vague suspicion... aside from that Third Hokage who liked to use the Telescope Technique for peeping, and Orochimaru, who was adept at hiding and dreamt of achieving immortality through scientific research, there was also that perverted hermit who had nothing better to do than peeping at women's bathhouses.
But... considering the distance, even the heart insects couldn't latch onto the causal threads connecting the other person....
It must be the Third Hokage—Sarutobi Hiruzen, without a doubt!
Coincidentally, today was the day of the Uchiha clan's gathering, so it was not surprising that he took this action.
"It's nothing, just... accidentally discovered a rat." With the Nen Shield formed by the [En], shaped like a giant overturned bowl covering the shrine's perimeter,
Roy casually said, with a thought in his mind, repeatedly capturing Sarutobi Hiruzen's gaze coming through with chakra, unceremoniously driving it away....
In the Hokage building, behind that desk representing Konoha's supreme authority...
Sarutobi Hiruzen blinked his eyes open and closed repeatedly, attempting again and again... but each time it was blocked....
The old man was in his early fifties, with a few wrinkles as deep as ravines faintly visible at his temples, and he fell silent for a moment...
A moment later, he leaned back against the chair, no longer trying to inject chakra into the crystal ball. The last time he closed his eyes, over ten seconds later, he opened them again... his pupils were like staring directly at the sun, and under the strong light, they appeared with double images, with a black spot at the center faintly moving out of sight, drifting to the corner of his eye... directly becoming unfocused....
For how long, Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't remember the exact time... since he developed the Telescope Technique, monitoring Konoha... had never failed. One could say... that even the Hyuga clan, most adept at "sensing" and "viewing from afar", could not match the Telescope Technique in distance and breadth.
However, the hunter who catches geese all day long is ultimately pecked in the eye,
Sarutobi Hiruzen paused for a long moment, recalling the youthful face that was immature yet bore a seven-part resemblance to Uchiha Fugaku. Once his eyes refocused,
he opened a drawer, pulled out a blank scroll, dipped the pen in ink... pondered a moment, and wrote four words on the scroll—Uchiha Roy!
Note: Suspected another young Uchiha genius who has activated the Sharingan, possessing eye techniques: a sensory illusion-repelling type ability... with a high sense of counterintelligence... Strength?
Sarutobi Hiruzen paused the pen and called an Anbu, who soon brought Roy's compiled school records from the ninja academy, going through each record carefully.... after comparing it with his performance on the battlefield where he killed an enemy with one sword stroke, marked "Key Investigation" next to Roy's name!
"Key Investigation" is generally entrusted to the Anbu to secretly monitor and record... but upon realizing... the young man has strong counterintelligence awareness and methods....
Sarutobi Hiruzen lifted the pen again, crossing out "Key Investigation", stood up slowly... then paced to the window, gazing through the streets to the Uchiha clan's territory, deciding... that he had to do it himself.
As it happened, it was graduation season again,
As the ninja academy's principal and Hokage servitor, it was time to return to the school to visit the young ninjas and examine their Will of Fire.
This time, it's uncertain... whether the Uchiha family's youth will understand.
Sarutobi Hiruzen pushed the window open, pinched a leaf falling with the wind, then released it, letting it spiral away... just like flames... wherever the leaves of Konoha dance, the fire also lives unending....
[Hint... "Potential Believer" Uchiha Inaho appreciates the gift of opened eyes from you, awarding completion, loyalty level +20... now officially converted to a formal believer.....]
[Believer: Uchiha Inaho... Single Tomoe → Triple Tomoe....]
[Power Of Faith +1]
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[Hint... "Potential Believer" Uchiha Tetsuto appreciates the gift of opened eyes from you, awarding completion, loyalty level +20... now officially converted to a formal believer.....]
[Believer: Uchiha Tetsuto... Single Tomoe → Triple Tomoe....]
[Power Of Faith +1]
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[Hint... "Potential Believer" Uchiha Tatsuya... Uchiha Ryosuke appreciate the gift of opened eyes from you, awarding completion, loyalty level +20... now officially converted to formal believers.....]
[Believers: Uchiha Tatsuya, Ryosuke... for opening eyes → Single Tomoe....]
[Power Of Faith +1+1]
With the "Root Expulsion of the Tongue" completed... led by Uchiha Fugaku, and collectively discussed with Uchiha Setsuna, Hachida, Inaho, Tetsuto and other Uchihas, a few "eye-opening slots" were determined according to elements such as "achievement", "loss", "potential", "appeasement", etc., to be communicated with Roy.