The bodies of the criminal and the victim were all carried back by Izumi alone. Along the way, she was stared at by countless people with strange looks, making Izumi too embarrassed to look up the entire time.
Fortunately, no one misunderstood her because of this. Perhaps it was the Uchiha Clan attire she wore that avoided some trouble.
When she finally, with great effort, returned to the Konoha Military Police Force's station...
After finally seeing Senior Chisen again.
Izumi's emotions, which had been as taut as a drawn bowstring, finally relaxed considerably.
But...
Soon, she found that the gazes of many seniors in the Konoha Military Police Force were all focused on her.
This feeling of being stared at, like a rare animal, was something Izumi had genuinely experienced once before.
It made her inevitably nervous again.
"Put the bodies here, it's enough to hand them over to them, someone will handle it. Now, come with me to find the Patriarch." Senior Chisen's indifferent voice fell into Izumi's ears, giving her a sense of peace, an unexpected sense of security.
The inexplicable tension also dissipated a lot.
It felt like having a backbone and a pillar of support.
"Yes, Senior!!!"
Izumi quickly responded.
Uchiha Chisen walked into the Police Force building, and without looking back, asked the black-haired girl behind him, "As a member of the Konoha Military Police Force, if you encounter a suspect who resists arrest during law enforcement, what should you do?"
Is this...
Is Senior Chisen testing my theory?
Izumi felt a bit more confident.
To join the Konoha Military Police Force, she had spent a full month memorizing the entire manual of police conduct, not missing a single word.
Her qualification to participate in the Konoha Military Police Force's recruitment assessment naturally meant she had passed the theoretical written exam.
Moreover...
She had passed with a perfect score!
She clearly remembered the manual stating that when enforcing the law and encountering a civilian resisting arrest, they should be controlled according to the severity of the situation.
Simply put, if the resistance was not intense, they could control them gently; if the resistance was overly fierce, they could use a little force, but at most, it would be to make the criminal fall face-first into the ground.
After all, the criminal was just an ordinary person.
Not a dangerous ninja.
"First, try to control them with gentler means..." Izumi quickly gave a standard answer.
But halfway through her sentence.
She suddenly froze.
Because she remembered what Senior Chisen did today when he encountered the short man trying to sneak away during law enforcement, it seemed completely different from the contents of the Police Force's manual.
Izumi swallowed her words. She felt that Senior Chisen was not the type of law enforcer who followed the rules, so she changed her wording and weakly replied, "Perhaps, I should use slightly more forceful methods?"
Coincidentally, Uchiha Chisen paused his steps, as they had arrived at Uchiha Fugaku's office within the Police Force building.
Uchiha Chisen said indifferently, "Rookie, I hope your answer wasn't an attempt to flatter me. Remember, [Absolute Justice] stems from absolute enforcement. The intensity of enforcement varies with the times."
"Now... is the time when the ninja world is most severely eroded by 'evil'. In chaotic times, severe measures must be taken. Even if we encounter only a weak 'evil', we must strike with full force and show no mercy."
I...
I got it right.
Although this answer was not the standard answer from the manual.
However...
Izumi felt that Senior Chisen's ideas were a bit extreme. She believed that the chaotic times in the ninja world had long ended; the Third Shinobi World War had passed many years ago, and the Nine-Tails' Rampage had also passed several years ago.
Although there were still some minor skirmishes in the ninja world now, it wasn't to the point of chaos, was it?
At least...
From the perspective of the Uchiha Clan, weren't things flourishing? Weren't life getting better and better?
Senior Chisen seemed a bit too pessimistic!
Of course.
The thoughts in her heart were only filtered within her mind. Izumi would absolutely not dare to voice them.
Knock!
Knock!
Knock!
The knocking on the door interrupted Izumi's thoughts. When Fugaku's steady and powerful "Come in" sounded from inside, Uchiha Chisen, with the somewhat nervous girl, pushed the door open.
"Chisen? And... Uchiha Izumi?" Fugaku was slightly taken aback.
"You tell him," Uchiha Chisen casually said, then found a chair and sat down. He crossed his legs, bored, and idly rubbed the armrest of the chair, which was almost polished to a sheen.
"Huh?"
When Fugaku's gaze fell upon Izumi, she realized that Chisen-senpai was speaking to her.
And the Patriarch Fugaku seemed accustomed to Chisen-senpai's rather impolite behavior.
After all, Chisen-senpai hadn't even greeted Patriarch Fugaku!
Did the two of them have some kind of conflict?
A strange thought flashed through her mind, and Izumi quickly said, "Lord Fugaku, today, Chisen-senpai and I..."
And so.
Izumi recounted the day's events in full.
Fugaku listened, his brow furrowed, wearing an expression almost identical to the Third Hokage's.
"Chisen, your methods are a bit too extreme," Fugaku sighed. His expression turned serious, and he said gravely, "It's because of actions like these that the Uchiha are viewed with suspicion by the village. I know you're pursuing justice, and I know you have your own views on it. But sometimes, justice requires timing and discretion."
"You should also be aware... the village's alienation from the Uchiha is growing, isn't it? Our Uchiha clan has even been forced to relocate to the village's outskirts. We have nowhere else to retreat, so we must take some measures to restore a bit of our reputation."
"But, you doing this..."
Looking at Uchiha Chisen, a young Uchiha Jonin, Fugaku felt a headache coming on.
He thought Uchiha Chisen was very talented, having awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan at a young age, and possessing the unique "Lava Release," making him the only Uchiha with two Kekkei Genkai.
Perhaps this child would one day awaken the legendary Mangekyo Sharingan.
And become another pillar of the Uchiha clan.
But...
This excellent Uchiha's ideals clashed with his own.
No!
Uchiha Chisen's concept of Absolute Justice was at odds with the entire Uchiha clan.
Whether it was the hawks advocating for a direct confrontation with the village, even suggesting he, the patriarch, orchestrate a coup; or the doves advocating for negotiation and reaching an agreement with the village elders to resolve issues peacefully... none of them found common ground with Uchiha Chisen.
This was because Uchiha Chisen's stance on justice wasn't on the side of the Uchiha clan, but on the side of "reason" in his heart, on the side of "justice" in his heart.
He had formed his own faction within the Uchiha clan.
That was why he was alone.
That was why he was out of place.
Uchiha Chisen raised his eyelids and met the gaze of the renowned "Fugaku the Fierce Eye." He spoke, "You want me to consider things, to make compromises when executing justice, to ease relations with the village, right?"
Fugaku said, "There's no need to put it so bluntly."
But he also implicitly agreed.
"My way of doing things won't change. Instead of telling me to rein it in, you should manage your brat of a son. It would be best if he saw a psychologist. I think it's quite necessary." With words failing to bridge the gap, Uchiha Chisen stood up to leave.
Fugaku's expression stiffened.
To slander a father's child in front of that father.
Even Uchiha Fugaku couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.
But...
This seemed to have happened many times before. Uchiha Chisen didn't know why, but he intensely disliked Itachi.
He had even attacked Itachi once. If Shisui hadn't been there at the time, Itachi might have been in trouble.
Fugaku's face darkened as he gazed at Uchiha Chisen's retreating back.
Izumi, on the other hand, looked around in confusion.
She could feel the tension in the office, and even more so, the suppressed rage of Patriarch Fugaku. She even secretly noticed Patriarch Fugaku's clenched fists.
She also didn't understand why Chisen-senpai had such strong opinions about the patriarch's son.
Huh?
Wait!
Patriarch Fugaku's son... that would be Itachi and Sasuke, wouldn't it?
Izumi was stunned again.
It seemed she had chosen quite a formidable examiner.
The future looked bleak!
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