Hiromi turned and left. He walked very normally, neither fast nor slow, but no one dared to stop him. Even the Hyuga Clan Members retreated to both sides, clearing a path for him.
This scene made the Grand Elder of the Hyuga Clan gnash his teeth in hatred. He destroyed my Hyuga Clan Compound, and he's just leaving like this?
He still wanted to order his clansmen to seize Hiromi. But the orange flames that had just erupted from Hiromi's body gave him a chill, as if he were facing a tyrant. The words he had shouted once before, he dared not shout again at his retreating figure.
Thus, he looked at the Uchiha Clan members nearby, his eyes filled with anger. "Itachi, is this the attitude of your Uchiha clan?!"
Itachi's expression was calm. He no longer had the anxious feeling of sweating profusely while trying to persuade Hiromi, but rather the natural, dignified air of a powerful superior.
"The Hyuga Clan can go to Hokage-sama to handle this, I am not the Uchiha clan head and have no authority to handle this matter. Furthermore, Grand Elder of the Hyuga Clan, please remember, you are not the Grand Elder of Konoha."
"You!!!"
The Grand Elder of the Hyuga Clan glared with wide eyes.
Itachi walked away calmly. He stood vaguely on the opposite side of the Uchiha clan, and logically speaking, the enemies of the Uchiha were his friends. However, he was actually standing on the side of Konoha.
Why did he choose to annihilate the clan? It wasn't because he was a madman, but because after the Uchiha coup d'état, Konoha would perish.
Therefore, Itachi detested clans like the Hyuga, who placed their clan rules above Konoha, even more. This was a clan with an even narrower perspective than the Uchiha who wanted to launch a coup d'état.
If he weren't worried that the chaos caused by the annihilation of the Hyuga Clan would lead to the destruction of Konoha, he would have just stood by and watched.
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Hiashi and Hizashi of the Police Force saw the orange meteorite heading straight for the Hyuga Clan Compound, and their stern, unsmiling faces were no longer composed. They were panic-stricken and rushed over.
On the way, they encountered a group led by Shikaku, who was breaking out in a cold sweat. Their destination was also the Hyuga Clan Compound.
This made Hiashi think of a kid with a buzz cut.
"Orange... is it him?"
He clenched his fists, filled with unease and anxiety.
In his mind, the image of his timid and cautious daughter kept shattering, reforming, shattering, reforming, shattering...
The countless cycles made the image mottled, and his heart ached as if being cut by a knife.
"Hinata... Hinata..."
His speed increased as he rushed over without regard for his stamina.
Seeing Hiashi and the others looking so anxious, Shikaku gave a bitter smile. He had thought Hiromi wouldn't go to the Hokage Building to cause trouble, and that Hiromi would at most resort to underhanded tactics in the shadows. But he didn't expect him to go straight for the Hyuga Clan Compound.
'Can you not be so impulsive?'
Right now, his scalp was tingling. He didn't know how many people in the Hyuga Clan had died. But regardless of whether one or a hundred had died, Konoha was already about to descend into chaos.
The Hyuga Clan would definitely want Hiromi to pay the price. The Uchiha clan would definitely want to protect Hiromi.
With the two clans in chaos, Konoha as a whole would fall into internal strife. By then, if spies from other villages killed Uchiha Clan Members at any cost and claimed it was the Hyuga Clan, or killed Hyuga Clan Members and claimed it was the Uchiha clan, Konoha would be in complete disarray.
Thinking of this, he seemed to see Konoha engulfed in the flames of war, and the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans displaced.
'I hope Hiromi hasn't started a fight to the death with the Hyuga Clan yet.' He prayed.
When he rushed over, he saw a group of Uchiha Clan Members surrounding Hiromi, full of worry.
"Hiromi, it's good that you're alright."
"Next time, please don't be so impulsive."
"Exactly, we Uchiha are the Root. If we don't like them, there are plenty of ways to mess with them."
"Right, don't be impulsive. It's not good to hurt yourself; there are plenty of ways to deal with the Hyuga Clan."
Shikaku: "..."
What does it mean by "we Uchiha are the Root, if we don't like them, there are plenty of ways to mess with them"?
What does it mean by "it's not good to hurt yourself, there are plenty of ways to deal with the Hyuga Clan"?
He sighed, walked over, and called out, "Hiromi!"
Hiromi glanced at him and said: "No one died, rest assured."
After saying this, he walked away without looking back.
Shikaku: "..."
He seemed to feel Hiromi's disdain for his way of thinking. This made him feel inexplicably aggrieved.
He was the head of the Nara Clan. Although watching Konoha slowly rot was wrong, there was nothing he could do. No matter what, he couldn't gamble the lives of his entire clan to take sides.
However, Hiromi's statement that no one had died put his mind at ease.