Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 87 Hesitation

That's right, this is poisoning, and it's the most despicable kind of "sleep-inducing drug."

This was a proposal put forward by Toshiro and adopted by Homura Uchiha.

As time passed, Toshiro had already placed a small bottle full of anesthetic under the fourth window and then encountered Homura Uchiha, who had also administered the drug, in the very center of the stronghold.

Despite not having engaged in any fighting or expended any physical strength, Uchiha Homura was still so nervous during her "first time" that her forehead was covered in sweat.

Seeing this, Toshiro, ignoring the murderous glare, thoroughly mocked the other party.

At that moment, Tetsuya Uchiha silently arrived near Toshiro and the others.

However, his expression at this moment was quite interesting.

At this moment, Uchiha Tetsuya completely lost his usual carefree smile. He seemed hesitant to speak, with a constipated expression.

You rarely see that look on his face—that he wants to say something but can't bring himself to say it.

"What's going on?" X2

Although they didn't speak, Toshiro and Homura's eyes said it all.

Seeing his companion looking over, Tetsuya stopped being coy and led Toshiro and the other man toward the gate.

"This is...shouldn't this person have been 'dealt with' by you?"

Reaching the corner by the gate, and seeing the unconscious gatekeeper, Toshiro roughly understood what had happened. However, he still feigned ignorance and asked...

Something unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable.

The gatekeeper, whom Uchiha Tetsuya was responsible for "resolving," only fell into a coma and was not killed by Tetsuya as planned; he is still alive and well in this world.

The reason the plan went wrong was Zhe's 'cowardice'.

When he killed someone for the first time, he hesitated as he gripped the kunai and aimed it at the other person's neck.

Contrary to his expectations, he did not cleanly and efficiently plunge the weapon in his hand into the other person's neck.

This is normal; no one is born a killer.

People always have to overcome the hurdle in their hearts step by step, transforming themselves from an innocent child into a ninja accustomed to bloodshed and killing.

As for Uchiha Tetsuya, he only hesitated a little when he took the first step.

Meanwhile, Zhong Zheng, who was secretly observing the three men's every move, stroked his small mustache and watched their choices.

The main objective of this mission is to teach these kids a lesson in blood. At the same time, we will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of how we handled them.

The situation Zhe is facing now is exactly what he expected.

This is also an ancient Uchiha tradition: whenever a child becomes a ninja, the elders responsible for training them will carefully select suitable missions to let these children experience the darkness of the ninja profession.

However, after the establishment of Konoha and the popularization of ninja academies, the Uchiha clan members withdrew, or were excluded from the master-disciple system, and such missions were rarely mentioned anymore.

This method of training brats is not just a characteristic of the Uchiha clan.

During the Warring States period, whether it was the Senju, Hyuga, or Sarutobi clans, any ninja family with certain resources would invariably undertake this kind of "trial."

The purpose is to select promising talents from among the family members.

Increase protection for the selected children to prevent their premature death. They should be able to grow up normally and become pillars of the family, sheltering it from wind and rain.

However, during the ninja village era, this tradition was abandoned by the First Hokage. Things changed again when the Second Hokage came to power.

By the time the Third Hokage came to power, it had become a tacitly accepted practice.

However, the Uchiha clan has not conducted such a trial for nearly thirty or forty years.

Thanks to the third generation's agreement, the "nurturing seedlings" plan of various families was brought up by some of the elders in the clans.

As for the various clans, they all proposed the "nurturing seedlings" plan to the Hokage, mainly because the losses from the Second Shinobi World War were simply too astonishing.

Although killings and killings occurred during the Warring States period, they were mostly conflicts between two families. Occasionally, a joint mission would only involve a few families.

Unlike the era of ninja villages, the First Shinobi World War was relatively mild, mainly involving ninja clans that had come together.

By the Second Shinobi World War, the ninja villages had established further cooperative relationships with the daimyo of various countries. They received more abundant supplies, and the training system of the ninja academies was further improved.

Batch after batch of ninjas, seemingly produced on an assembly line, were trained and deployed to the battlefield.

Battles involving thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of ninjas—something unheard of during the Warring States period—occurred from time to time.

This terrified all the major ninja clans.

It's important to understand that during the Warring States period, only battles between the Uchiha and Senju clans could gather a total of less than a thousand people from both sides.

Unlike now, where battles involving a thousand people are not considered major battles, but large-scale battles involving thousands of people are common.

Several large-scale battles involving tens of thousands of people occurred during the Second Shinobi World War.

The heads of various families feel uneasy if they don't cultivate their own descendants in advance.

The previous Fourth Shinobi World War had caused the major shinobi clans to shed far too much blood; they simply couldn't afford to continue the drain.

Looking at the person lying on the ground in front of him, unconscious and powerless to resist.

The three of them looked at each other and fell silent for a moment.

No one mentioned what happened next, because this person was easy to talk to.

But right now, there are still about forty people lying in the village who need to be "dealt with" one by one.

The only saving grace was that everyone in the village was unconscious.

"Why don't we release them?"

Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was a bit tense, Toshiro made a joke that was neither too light nor too heavy.

This earned him a huge eye roll from Yan and Zhe.

"Toshiro! You're the most reliable one among us! Do you have any good ideas?"

After racking his brains for a long time without finding a good solution, Homura couldn't help but ask Toshiro for advice.

She's increasingly convinced that Toshiro deliberately gave up the position of "temporary captain."

The reason is the awkward situation we are currently facing.

"I think we should first determine the mission's objectives. Do we need to determine whether it's to drive them away, cooperate with nearby officials to make arrests, or even annihilate them?!"

When he said "annihilation," Toshiro emphasized it.

Thank you to all the readers for the donations, and thank you for all the monthly tickets and recommendations! You are my motivation to keep going... To be honest, this is my first time writing a book, and the start was so bad that I almost gave up! If I didn't have so many chapters saved up, I would have quit already~

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