Meanwhile, Root hid in the shadows, watching like a predator, anticipating a feast.
Homura and Koharu stepped forward to berate the Uchiha clan, demanding they hand over all the troublemaking clan members for punishment.
At this time, the people around the two Hokage advisors, Homura and Koharu, inexplicably retreated, leaving behind only the two bewildered elders.
One second they were at each other's throats and the next, not a single one was left?
The faces of Homura and Koharu turned a ghastly shade of blue.
A few seconds later, they flicked their sleeves in a rage and left.
The Uchiha Radical Faction were left bewildered. They had just been thinking about fighting to the death.
The Conservative Faction, on the other hand, breathed a sigh of relief.
Later, they realized the reason why. That day, Shisui stepped out of his home and took a single step toward the Hokage Building. That single step alone was enough to panic Hiruzen, who had been sitting securely in his seat of power.
He immediately intervened, ordering everyone to retreat and forbidding them from provoking the Uchiha Clan Members without cause.
Only then did the clansmen realize just how great Shisui's deterrence was.
This news excited both the Uchiha Radical Faction and the Conservative Faction.
To the Radical Faction, Shisui must have had hidden cards they were unaware of.
To the Conservative Faction, Shisui's existence would surely delay the Radical Faction's Coup d'état.
Perhaps it could even serve as a way to slowly boil the frog, making the Radical Faction gradually give up.
In this way, the Uchiha would slowly get better.
But...
A rumor spread throughout the village: "The Uchiha's eyes can not only control the Nine-Tails, but also control people's hearts. Shisui's eyes are especially unique, which is why he was made clan head."
This news immediately made the villagers recall the hatred of the Nine-Tails incident, making them even more hostile and wary of the Uchiha clan.
The relationship between the two, which had slightly eased, returned to freezing point. This made the clansmen, who had just felt that the Uchiha clan was starting to turn things around, exceptionally angry.
As for this matter, the Hokage Building didn't say a word.
The clansmen who knew of Shisui's deterrence hoped that he would step forward and force Hiruzen to say something fair.
But Shisui shook his head and refused. "What I want is deterrence, not threats."
This made the clansmen feel as if they had lost their hope in Shisui, filling them with frustration and helplessness.
The Uchiha clan fell back into the quagmire, struggling in pain.
There were many people watching, yet no one reached out a helping hand.
This made them feel sorrow and despair. In their pairs of crimson Sharingan, without them even realizing it, the color of hatred gradually began to stain them.
...
Although the Uchiha clan was under twenty-four-hour surveillance, there was a priority order to it.
The top priority, naturally, was Shisui.
Next were Fugaku, Yashiro, and others.
After that came the other Uchiha Clan Members.
However, Hiromi still had to be ranked before the other clansmen. Although he was crippled, the disaster he had once caused made it impossible for people to ignore him.
Hiromi understood his situation, being monitored was normal. But there was a clear difference between being monitored for an hour and being under twenty-four-hour surveillance.
Not to mention that he had been monitored for nearly a year!
Now, Hiromi was six years old.
With his eyes closed, he looked calm, but the irritability in his heart had grown even worse.
[Mission Name: You like tacit approval that much?]
[Mission Content: Kill Sarutobi Hiruzen!]
[Mission Reward: Rinnegan]
[Mission Name: You call yourself the Darkness of the Ninja World?]
[Mission Content: Kill Shimura Danzo!]
[Mission Reward: Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan]
[Mission Name: You all like to stand by and watch that much?]
[Mission Content: Slaughter all clans in Konoha!]
[Mission Reward...]
[Mission Name: You all like listening to rumors that much?]
[Mission Content: Kill the Konoha Villagers!]
[...]
[Mission Name: You all get hot-headed that easily?]
[Mission Content: Kill the Uchiha Clan Members!]
...
'I really want to kill Hiruzen.' Hiromi sighed in his heart.
If his Mangekyo were still there, using his sacrificial ability, there would be quite a few opportunities to kill Hiruzen. It was just a pity that his eyes were gone.
However, he also had something to be happy about—he could finally go out.
...
Hiromi, who hadn't left the house in nearly a year, received tense attention from the Anbu the moment he stepped out, fearing that he might silently walk to the center of the village and activate Susanoo again.
But this tension was dispelled the very next second. After all, Hiromi was crippled.
However, they still kept a close eye on Hiromi's movements. Upon discovering he was heading toward the back mountain of the Uchiha Clan Compound, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Through the secret communication between Anbu members, a silver-haired Anbu was selected. He put away his Icha Icha Paradise and quickly followed. Yet, under that smiling fox mask, one could vaguely see a pair of lethargic, dead fish eyes.
Hiromi used Chakra to perceive the world, but the range wasn't large, so he could only slightly sense that someone had followed him, but he didn't care.
If it were one of Danzo's men, then today would be the day of the Uchiha Coup d'état.
Thinking of this, he felt a bit of anticipation. After all, the day of the Uchiha Coup d'état meant he could kill Danzo.