After upgrading the Edo Madara into his peak form, Uchiha Kai headed out.
Because the massacre six years ago had been stopped midway, the Uchiha district was still populated.
Counting those who had not awakened the Sharingan, those who had, members of the Police Force, and the elderly and infirm—
There were roughly a thousand people left.
At the founding of Konoha, when the Uchiha and Senju built the village together, the Uchiha numbered over two thousand.
Sixty years had passed.
In theory, the clan should have flourished in peace.
Instead—
Their numbers had steadily declined.
"Yo, Uchiha Kai!"
"Going into the village at this hour? Library again?"
"We Uchiha have books too, you know."
"Shh… the village library has far more. But seriously, Uchiha Kai, why do you like reading so much?"
"As an Uchiha, you should train taijutsu more!"
The ones teasing him about books were ordinary clan members without awakened eyes.
The ones advocating taijutsu were Police Force members rotating off duty.
The Police Force elites were almost all at least two-tomoe Sharingan, with several three-tomoe veterans.
Aside from dōjutsu, the Uchiha were naturally gifted in taijutsu.
If a civilian's physical aptitude was 1, and a typical ninja clan's was 3—
The Uchiha were born at 6.
Yet Uchiha Kai was rarely seen training.
It frustrated them.
The Konoha Library had been established under the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama.
He centralized power, created the ANBU under direct Hokage command, formalized ninja ranks and promotion systems, founded the Academy, and invested heavily in knowledge preservation.
If someone truly read every book in the Konoha Library—
They could easily become a ninja scholar.
But the Uchiha valued strength.
Pride in their Fire Release and taijutsu overshadowed scholarship.
Uchiha Kai stood out.
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