After Hiromi finished speaking, he walked away, not wanting to deal with anything anymore.
He left Shisui standing there, dazed and in pain, completely out of place among the celebrating clan members.
A clan member saw Hiromi leave, walked up to Shisui in confusion, and asked, "Shisui, why does Hiromi seem unhappy?"
Before he could speak, the clan member laughed and said, "Well, he was only half a year old back then, how could he remember what the old Clan Compound looked like?"
Shisui listened, feeling very uncomfortable. He understood why Hiromi looked so gloomy.
Is there anything to be happy about moving back to their own place?
The Uchiha now are like someone who, upon having a bone thrown to them, wag their tail and foolishly follow them home. It's too pathetic—so pathetic that he felt a sense of sorrow.
The Uchiha clan, including him, were all too stupid.
The clan members nearby, hearing someone joking about Hiromi, immediately became unhappy.
Who are you putting on that elder's attitude for?
Blood-red pupils instantly appeared, and a cold voice rang out. "Are you looking down on Hiromi?"
The surroundings went quiet and pairs of blood-red Sharingan stared at that clan member, their gazes icy.
This instantly sobered the clan member up, leaving him stiff all over.
The next second, cold sweat poured down, and he hurriedly explained to the Clan members, "No, I was just drunk, I wanted to make a joke, but I didn't think it through. My fault, my fault."
As he spoke, he hurriedly slapped himself a few times, continuously admitting his mistake and apologizing.
Seeing this, the clan members let him go. The blood-red Sharingan in their eyes gradually faded, and the oppressive atmosphere eased.
That clan member let out a sigh of relief, as if he had just been through a great battle. He was covered in cold sweat, his limbs were weak, and his whole body felt drained, he nearly collapsed to the ground.
But the atmosphere was no longer as heated as before. It wasn't because they had been interrupted, but because they noticed that Shisui, who had been very happy, now had his smile gone, and the way he looked at them held a kind of sorrow and self-reproach.
"What's wrong with Shisui?"
"If there's something to say, just say it, even though I don't recognize you as the clan head."
"Right, we are all people of the same clan, even though I don't recognize you as the clan head either."
"Although I don't recognize you as the clan head either, just say what you have to say."
"Exactly."
Shisui had been worried that the clan members were lost in an illusory sense of happiness, but now it seemed there was at least some hope.
He asked, "Do you all remember how our Uchiha clan moved here?"
The clan members went quiet.
Immediately after, everyone started speaking up indignantly.
"Of course we remember! It was suffocating!"
"They called it moving, but we were just driven out!"
"They promised relocation compensation, but seven years have passed, and I haven't even seen a single hair of it!"
"If it were today, we would have gone berserk!"
"It was too stifling!"
"Exactly!"
The clan members nodded in agreement, feeling the same way.
But now that they could move back to the Clan Compound, the previous stifling feeling had turned into a sense of pleasure. Hiruzen had conceded to the Uchiha.
Hahaha! The Uchiha are going to rise!
At this moment, Shisui's weak voice rang out. "Then now, if I say we were 'allowed' to go back to the Clan Compound, are you still happy?"
In an instant, it was as if a pause button had been pressed on the surroundings.
"Allowed" to go back?
Everyone was speechless. Their smiles were still frozen on their faces, but they couldn't laugh anymore. They stared at Shisui with dazed eyes. Gradually, their upturned lips drooped. They lowered their heads, their gazes dim.
"Is this the reason why Hiromi was unhappy?"
Yes, if it were them, working hard to help the clan rise, only for the enemy to throw a bone, and the whole clan to abandon him and excitedly go to bite the enemy's bone...
It was so pathetic that they wanted to slap themselves a few times.
Shisui sighed and said, "Hiromi said, 'I don't fear a god-like opponent, I only fear pig-like teammates.'"
"I don't fear a god-like opponent, I only fear pig-like teammates..."
The clan members seemed to see the future, seeing themselves stubbornly insisting on returning to the Clan Compound, not understanding Hiromi.
Without Hiromi, even if they were still with Root, could the Uchiha outplay this group of black-hearted people like Hiruzen?
A Coup d'état... the destruction of the clan...
Suddenly, they were afraid. At this moment, their faces were filled with anxiety and unease. They wanted to apologize to Hiromi, hoping he wouldn't be disappointed in them.
Shisui looked at their fearful and uneasy appearance, sighed, and said sorrowfully, "And this is only one of the five points."
The clan member who had thought about going to apologize to Hiromi suddenly froze, his foot raised in the air, motionless.
Everyone turned their heads in a daze, looking at Shisui. Although they were all screaming 'impossible' in their hearts, no one said it out loud.
Shisui's voice rang out in the silence. "The second point: the Uchiha clan concedes, demonstrating the Hokage's methods, winning over clans that have turned away..."
"The third point: appeasing the Uchiha clan..."
"The fourth point: restricting Hiromi..."
"The fifth point..."
Shisui felt even more powerless. "Testing my attitude to decide how to treat the Uchiha clan in the future. Clearly, I am a failure."
The more the clan members listened, the colder their hearts became. Some clan members had tears in their eyes, unwilling to accept the cruelty of this truth.
At this moment, they clearly realized that in politics, they were no match for Hiruzen. The gap in strength was too great.