After both Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hizashi had asked about their children, even Uchiha Fugaku, who usually wore a cold, unreadable expression, could not hold back anymore.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: Ryu, you must know Uchiha Sasuke, right? If I remember correctly, Sasuke was born the same year as Minato's child.
[Furukawa Ryu]: Yeah. He's in the same class as me.
[Uchiha Mikoto]: Ryu, quickly—tell us. How is Sasuke doing?
[Furukawa Ryu]: He's got some skill. He's been the top student in our class the whole time.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: As expected of my son.
[Furukawa Ryu]: Yeah, definitely your son. He perfectly inherited your stone-faced personality—actually, he's even worse. Walks around all day looking like the whole world owes him money.
[Uchiha Mikoto]: After going through that… so that's what Sasuke became like… When he was little, he was such a cheerful child… sigh.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: Sigh… experiencing something like that at such a young age… it's been hard on him.
[Senju Tobirama]: What are you all mumbling about?
[Furukawa Ryu]: Oh, nothing much. Just that the Uchiha clan is gone, that's all.
[Senju Tobirama]: Gone…? What does that mean? The Uchiha declined? That seems unlikely. With the Sharingan, they were practically born privileged. Hard to imagine them falling that far.
[Furukawa Ryu]: Not decline.
[Furukawa Ryu]: They were wiped out.
Ryu casually dropped the bomb.
The chat fell silent.
At least ten seconds passed without a single message.
Then the notifications exploded.
[Uchiha Madara]: Wiped out?
[Namikaze Minato]: That's… unbelievable.
[Uchiha Shisui]: So it finally reached that point…
[Senju Tobirama]: W-wiped out?!
Even Tobirama, who had never liked the Uchiha clan, was stunned.
He had suppressed them during his time as Hokage, yes.
But exterminating them?
That thought had never crossed his mind.
Then a possibility occurred to him.
[Senju Tobirama]: They must have attempted a rebellion and were eliminated for it! Hmph! Brother, I told you long ago—the Uchiha always had rebellion in their blood!
[Senju Hashirama]: Tobirama! This is not the time to say that!
[Uchiha Fugaku]: Second Hokage! Ever since your rule began, you suppressed the Uchiha again and again! Even after your death, your disciples continued the same policy!
[Uchiha Fugaku]: And now you still dare to speak like this?!
[Uchiha Fugaku]: You are unworthy of the title Hokage!
[Senju Tobirama]: Hmph. And who are you, brat? Do you think you're worthy of speaking to me?
[Uchiha Fugaku]: I am the last clan head of the Uchiha.
[Uchiha Madara]: Hmph. Trash. So the Uchiha clan perished under your leadership?
[Uchiha Madara]: I can't say I particularly care… but that's just embarrassing.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: This unworthy descendant has no face to meet the ancestors.
[Uchiha Madara]: Let me ask you one thing.
[Uchiha Madara]: Who destroyed the Uchiha clan? The higher-ups of Konoha?
Fugaku paused for a long time before answering.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: It was indeed the will of Konoha's leadership… but the one who carried it out was not them.
[Uchiha Madara]: Just say who it was already! Why are you hesitating like some timid woman?
[Uchiha Fugaku]: It… was my eldest son.
The chat fell silent again.
Another ten seconds passed.
No one understood what they had just heard.
There had been plenty of ruthless people in the ninja world.
People killing fellow villagers wasn't unheard of.
But this was a world obsessed with bloodlines and clan loyalty.
No one had ever heard of someone slaughtering their own clan.
[Uchiha Madara]: Your son?
[Uchiha Madara]: Aren't you the clan head?!
[Uchiha Fugaku]: I am…
[Uchiha Madara]: So you're telling me the Uchiha were exterminated by one of their own?
[Uchiha Madara]: Are you messing with me?!
Madara was genuinely shocked.
He could not wrap his head around it.
What kind of mind would someone need to do something like that?
Even when he himself had been abandoned by the clan back then…
he had never considered destroying the Uchiha.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: Itachi despised the arrogance of the Uchiha clan.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: For the sake of the village's peace… he sided with Konoha's leadership.
[Senju Tobirama]: Hahaha! That's quite the move!
[Senju Tobirama]: You Uchiha really do think differently!
[Senju Hashirama]: Tobirama! That's enough!
[Uchiha Madara]: Tobirama, what did you just say?
[Senju Tobirama]: Hmph. An entire clan wiped out by one of their own members…
[Senju Tobirama]: You have to admit, that's fascinating.
[Uchiha Fugaku]: Hmph! Second Hokage!
[Uchiha Fugaku]: Isn't it because Konoha's leadership was so skilled at brainwashing that even my own son could be turned against us?!
[Senju Tobirama]: Who knows?
[Senju Tobirama]: Perhaps slaughtering his clan was simply to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Tobirama had always been someone who judged human nature from its darkest possibilities.
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