Every step Qianye took seemed to be stepping on the beating drum of Uchiha Fugaku's heart. As Qianye continued to approach, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.
He didn't understand why he was so... afraid of such a junior.
'Nothing but a brat!'
"Uchiha Qianye, you maliciously sabotaged the family's public opinion voting meeting and deliberately destroyed this hard-won peace just to satisfy your own selfish interests. You are the one who truly betrayed the family's interests!"
At the end of Uchiha Fugaku's words, his eyes became cold and sharp, like a sharp blade that had drunk the blood of his enemy.
Murderous aura lingered, and Qianye suddenly came to a battlefield littered with corpses.
He saw countless stumps and broken arms, and the blood soaked the soil. Every time he stepped on them, blood would ooze out.
Even a chuunin would be shocked by the murderous intention shown by Uchiha Fugaku at this time.
Qianye's skin was aroused with goosebumps.
A voice kept reminding him, stop, stop.
Qianye didn't realize it at all, but he strode forward despite Uchiha Fugaku's murderous intention.
He is no longer the same person as before!
Pa da ~
Qianye stepped onto the podium and ignored Uchiha Fugaku, as if he was just a clown.
He walked straight to the long table, which was filled with neat cards.
He looked at these cards, grabbed a handful, turned around in disappointment, raised the cards in his hand, and said in a very soft voice, like a gust of wind blowing into everyone's ears:
"Is this everyone's choice?"
The disappointed expression was like a heavy hammer hitting their hearts.
"Tell me, is this your choice?"
"Another compromise? Another concession? Another surrender?"
Qianye's voice was choked with sobs, and the cards kept shaking from his hands, falling everywhere like snowflakes: "Tell me, is this really the true choice in your hearts?"
Uchiha Fugaku felt the changes in the people in the square, opened his Sharingan, and stared at Qianye coldly.
Since he couldn't stop Qianye's words, he should use other methods to shut him up completely.
"Uchiha Fugaku, for the sake of Qianye-kun and the family, you'd better stand here honestly."
A pair of three magatama Sharingan brimming with murderous intent appeared beside him, staring at him indifferently.
"What do you want to do?!" Sarutobi Hiruzen's guard asked sharply.
"Where can a wild dog dare to bark here? If you bark again, I will kill you."
These words made Sarutobi Hiruzen's guard's face turn blue and red. As Sarutobi Hiruzen's personal guard, when had he ever been insulted like this!
But when he saw those pairs of murderous Sharingan eyes, the anger in his heart felt like a basin of cold water had been poured on him.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's guard shut his mouth sensibly.
Because...they really have the idea to do it!
They really want to kill him!
Crazy! A bunch of crazy people!!
Qianye ignored what was happening behind him. His eyes scanned all the tribesmen below. The breeze suddenly rose and turned into a storm that destroyed the city:
"Today, we are standing here, standing on this land where we have lived for thousands of years, standing in the Konoha Ninja Village that we founded with our own hands!
Our past is proud, glorious and glorious!!
We have made history, we have created history, we are great pioneers!!!"
"But now, I can't see this pride, I can't see this glory!"
"In front of me are a group of cowards who have abandoned their glory, glory, and pride! A group of cowards who have to be careful to smile when facing bullying!"
Some people in the square looked unhappy and couldn't help but whisper to each other.
Glory, glory, pride?
Do they want to give up?!
They just want to live!
They just want to live peacefully, there is...what's wrong with that.
"Some people may say, Qianye-kun, we need a job, a rice ball, we just want to live."
"Yes!" Qianye said with great certainty: "You are right, I, we all need a job, a rice ball, we just want to live!"
"but!"
Qianye's voice was like thunder that exploded for nine days: "There is something more important than life in this world!"
"That's dignity, the dignity we lost!"
The conversation in the square gradually stopped, and they looked at the Uchiha who was raising his arms and shouting.
I thought of a lot.
From being the founders of Konoha, they have shrunk in this corner step by step. Their lives have plummeted and become increasingly difficult.
In order to survive, they lost their dignity, lost their pride, and lost too much.
"As long as the top brass of Konoha can bully us arbitrarily, our dignity will not exist!
As long as we remain huddled in this humiliating corner, our dignity will not exist!
As long as other ninjas and even civilians laugh contemptuously when the name 'Uchiha' is mentioned in a conversation, our dignity does not exist!!"
"What we need is not just a job or a rice ball!"
"We," Qianye paused and glanced at everyone again. His voice sounded like gold and iron clashing, sonorous and powerful:
"What we need is a living space! A living space where our parents can enjoy their old age! A living space where our children can grow up happily! A living space where our brothers and sisters can be respected wherever they go.
living space!"
"But this living space cannot be achieved by kneeling down to beg for mercy, self-castration, self-division, and loud protest!"
"It's made possible by iron and blood!!"
"The higher-ups in Konoha have repeatedly bullied us and insulted us, but we only protest verbally. Such a family, such a group, is boneless and despicable!"
"We Uchiha are proud Uchiha! We are glorious Uchiha! We are glorious Uchiha!!!
We are not maggots in the toilet! We should use blazing fire escape to turn the enemies in front of us into ashes! We should use the ‘evil Sharingan’ they call it to reawaken their fear of Uchiha!”
"We should take up the weapons in our hands, crush their dignity and lives, and let them know that we are not a group of cowards who only know how to protest!"
The anger accumulated in Qianye's eyes soared into the sky:
"When our dignity, glory, pride, and even our living space are constantly being trampled on by Konoha's top brass, our former clan leader Uchiha Fugaku chose a verbal coup to compromise!
Now he and his son Uchiha Itachi have turned their backs on the family, and they want to split our great and glorious family and castrate the pride we have accumulated over thousands of years!"
"Such scum, are we going to continue to tolerate their fraud and betrayal?!"