"As the clan elder says." Uchiha Hachida squinted his eyes, nearly closing them together, and a hint of golden light faintly appeared from the narrow slit, all directed at Roy, agreeing: "Clan leader, the young clan leader did nothing wrong."
"On the contrary, he was right... Leaving without the clan leader's orders is indeed incorrect."
"The clan elder and clan uncle are right," Uchiha Inaho, who serves as the police force captain, values rules the most. He said: "Without rules, nothing can be accomplished. Ging is helping everyone maintain order!"
"Indeed... It's not the young clan leader's fault, it's my... and my... my mind was muddled with heat... Please blame the clan leader..."
"Ding Ding Dang Dang~" In the corner of the shrine, the wind chime hanging by the flying brackets made a joyful chiming sound as the wind blew...
Countless gazes openly and secretly focused on the young man wiping his sword by the door...
Uchiha Obito and Shisui stared without blinking, listening... In the depths of their pupils appeared ripples of envy that couldn't be expressed!
'Nissan/Ging, this fellow, doesn't need to say a single word, just sitting there, no one can ignore him, like the Hokage... Everyone revolves around him, really impressive..."
The young man's heart surged, along with it, many of the negative emotions hidden within, diminishing gradually... The heartworm, having eaten all it could, burped full and retracted its mouthparts, rolled back into Roy's body along the causal line built by the bloodline bonds.
[Panel prompt... "Emotion fluctuation" accumulation rate +50%...]
[Current "Negative emotions" accumulation rate: 370%... able to help others awaken three to five times more, consumption level depending on the other's "bloodline concentration"...]
[Remark: The "negative emotions" accumulated within the host have overflowed. Holding them long-term will damage the host's health, please empty or eliminate promptly...]
Taking from the people, for the people... ultimately, it is not one's own, nor offerings from one's own believers... Roy received the panel prompt, focusing for a moment on the point about "helping others to awaken," and then carefully examined the past brought by the heartworm belonging to numerous Uchiha within the hall... Simultaneously, a force born within, faintly gathering toward the eyes, seemingly waiting for him to develop and summon... The young man sifted through myriad useless pieces of information belonging to Uchiha Moment, Hachida, Inaho, Tetsuha... including even Obito and Shisui... gradually gaining some ideas for developing his "pupil technique."
"Praise from the clan elder is too gracious." Across the shrine.
As Uchiha Moment, Hachida, Inaho, and others took the initiative to exonerate Roy... Fugaku shook his head, gesturing to Roy with a beckon: "Ging, aren't you coming over to pay respects to the clan elder and your clan uncle?"
"Clang—"
Yubashiri returned to its sheath... The young man, standing with his back to the door where the great sun rose high, allowed the sunlight to penetrate the eaves and cast a ray upon him, draping him in a layer of dazzling light...
Roy rose, carrying several thoughts regarding the "pupil technique," rose to his full height, slowly approached the crowd, and nodded slightly to Uchiha Moment, Hachida, Inaho: "Ging greets the clan elder and all the clan uncles. Please pardon my rudeness, causing you to laugh."
Young Uchiha generations like Uchiha Inaho, Tetsuha hurriedly waved their hands, saying: "It's alright, it's alright."
"The young clan leader is too courteous..."
A harmonious scene, entirely absent from the previous dark, distorted, oppressive atmosphere of Uchiha...
Roy briefly acknowledged with a slight sound and cooperated with Uchiha Fugaku, shaking his head in "self-denial" saying: "The elder may forgive me for my youth and ignorance, but as a member of Uchiha, I must not be ungrateful."
The young man, with Yubashiri hanging from his waist, donned a cloak bearing the red and white fan emblem symbolizing the Uchiha clan, bowed respectfully to Fugaku saying: "Father, let me make amends by giving the clan elder and each clan uncle a gift as apology."
Uchiha Fugaku was stunned, along with Uchiha Moment, Uchiha Inaho, Tetsuha... and dozens of other radical Uchiha looked on...
Fugaku seemed to recognize his son for the first time, staring at him for a long time before coming to his senses: "You make your own decision."
Roy straightened his back again, nodded: "Alright then, I will help the clan uncles and brothers to awaken."
"Wait!" Suddenly a loud shout, causing the shrine tiles to tremble!
As soon as Roy finished speaking, a fierce wind swept up before him, appearing in the wind a pair of withered old hands, grabbing his shoulders, those wrinkled, having undergone over ten years of imprisonment without diminishing his spirit, old face almost touching Roy's, it was... the current Uchiha clan, apart from the clan leader Uchiha Fugaku, the most reputable and influential—Uchiha Moment!
The old man's stooped body trembled nearly wanting to straighten up again, just grasping Roy, scrutinizing him, trembling: "Child, do you know what you are saying?"
"Whirr~" Along with the wind outside, the window blew the wind chime into ringing...
Following Uchiha Moment, Uchiha Hachida, Uchiha Inaho, Tetsuha... and numerous Uchiha clan members looked uniformly, including carefree ones like Obito, all stunned, then stared at Roy, with mouths agape.
The young man faced his father's stunned gaze and the bewildered Shisui behind him, seriously reaffirmed: "I said I want to help the clan uncles and brothers awaken."
Roy's shoulder shook, precisely shaking off Uchiha Moment, then took a leisurely stroll amidst the stupified gazes, arriving at the coffin displayed in the shrine, occupying nearly half of the shrine space, mimicking Uchiha Moment's gesture, gently caressing the deep coffin surface saying: "The dispute between father and the clan elder, I do not understand, but I know if people are weak, they get bullied, they get killed."
"Recently, I went to the battlefield too, saw many people die, most were killed because they were too weak..."
The young man halted his steps here, turned to face his father, Uchiha Moment, Hachida, Inaho, Tetsuha, and numerous Uchiha members, clenched his fist, lifted it diagonally up: "So I think, I must grow strong, we Uchiha must also grow strong, strong enough that all Konoha dares not oppose us, strong that Cloud, Mist, Rock are afraid of us, then I think, no one will dare oppose us!"
"Ding Ding Dang Dang..." Wind chimes swayed, silent is the moment of Uchiha...
With his back to the coffin, a word from the young man, be it naive, arrogant, absurd... at least at this moment... this not-so-large yet straight-backed little figure etched in everyone's eyes, as if suspended with a great sun, radiant!
"Ging, shut up! No spouting nonsense!"
"Fugaku!"
Uchiha Moment's staff heavily tapped the ground with a "thud" sound, immediately stopping Fugaku's impulse to stop Roy, blocking between Roy and Uchiha Fugaku, sternly reprimanding Uchiha Fugaku: "Where is the child wrong? Old man thinks he is right!"
"Weakness means being bullied, being killed!"
Uchiha Moment scanned sharply over Uchiha Hachida, Inaho, Tetsuha, and one Uchiha clan member after another, snorted coldly: "Think carefully, if Lord Madara were alive, would Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō dare to move?"
"Now, they act so brazenly simply because there is no one in the clan to uphold, not even a few decent Jonin to present!"
The old man blew his beard, glared: "Child, do it!"
"Old man will watch you open the eyes!"
Fugaku: "Clan uncle, he is joking, not to be taken seriously."
"Shut up!" Uchiha Moment raised the staff, intending to strike!
Roy remained silent, only softly calling: "Shisui,"
Like a dumb little goose sitting dazedly by the side, Uchiha Shisui bewilderedly stood, his short legs tottered, treading upon many Uchiha clan members' gazes to arrive before Roy, "Nissan,"
Then his head was grabbed by Roy, instantly refined... a pure negative emotion infused into his spiritual aperture...
Supplemented by [Sun Trait] to guard his mind from being overwhelmed...
Then it was seen...
Uchiha Shisui's small eyebrows furrowed slightly, eyes shutting and reopening, slowly emerged a tinge of crimson!
Uchiha Moment, worried about Roy finding excuses to round off, Uchiha Fugaku, along with Uchiha Hachida, Inaho, Tetsuha, Obito, and a group of Uchiha clan members all looked uniformly...