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Eriki looked delicate and frail, but she had a big appetite. Maybe it was because Minato's secret sauce made her appetite so big that she ate a whole plate of barbecue by herself.

Uchiha Hikari, on the other hand, finished the remaining half of the plate.

When the two of them finished their meal and came out of the barbecue restaurant, they saw a familiar figure waiting here in advance.

"spring?"

"Grandma Grandma."

Uchiha Izumi immediately bowed and saluted with a very respectful expression: "Lord Fugaku has learned about your return and asked me to come over to greet you. If there is anything that needs to be done, please feel free to give me your instructions."

"Oh."

Of course, Uchiha Hikaru had nothing to say, so he just said casually: "Has anything happened to the clan during my absence?"

Quan hesitated for a moment: "...Yes. Several clan members have disappeared recently."

"Missing?"

Uchiha Hikari raised an eyebrow.

"Ah."

Izumi glanced at Eriki quietly, and then whispered: "Since the last Nanga River attack, the situation outside the village seems to have become very unstable, especially in the border areas of the Land of Fire. The ninja squad performing missions has been attacked several times, and several people have been missing, including several Uchiha clan members..."

Then, Quan explained a few more sentences in detail:

As early as the end of last year, the Uchiha clan had reached an agreement with Konoha and sent some clan members to ninja schools and jounin classes one after another. A few of them had begun to lead teams out of the village to perform tasks.

Everything was going well.

Those who can be submitted by Fugaku and approved by Konoha F3 are basically Uchiha tribesmen with good strength and good character. Even if they have a little quarrel with their teammates during the execution of the mission, they are all Uchihas. The verbal quarrel didn't cause any big trouble, and the task completion efficiency was pretty good.

but.

Since the Nanga River incident some time ago, these teams have begun to have frequent accidents. It seems that someone is carrying out targeted attacks on the Uchiha clan who led the team out of the village.

"Have you started playing this trick..."

Uchiha Hikaru thought about it for a moment and knew whose handiwork these things were: "What did Fugaku say?"

"Lord Fugaku wants to suspend activities involving leaving the village and wait for you to come back to discuss it, but some clan members are dissatisfied with this... In the two days when you were away, Lord Hokage sent someone to ask the clan leader for his opinion, and the ANBU has been organized Personnel went to the border to investigate the matter. Lord Jiraiya and Shisui from the clan were among them."

"..."

Uchiha Hikaru frowned.

Although Obito chose to attack the Uchiha who left the village, she was a little surprised, but she could understand it after a little thought.

After all, Obito has already fought her once, so he should know that she is not an opponent that can be defeated easily. In addition, Danzo and Itachi, who could have been internal agents, were lying in the hospital and the other had not yet opened the kaleidoscope. Therefore, it was a very wise choice to abandon the original plan to exterminate the Uchiha clan and instead adopt the strategy of grabbing singles and cannibalizing them. .

With Uchiha Hikaru's ability, he can certainly ask to intervene in this incident.

but……

"Tell Fugaku that this choice must be made by himself."

"If the Uchiha clan still wants to seek a higher status, the person sitting in the position of the clan leader must not be an indecisive coward. When it is time to make a decision, don't look forward and backward. Everything is waiting for my ancestor. Grandma will handle it, what use are you descendants?"

Uchiha Hikari paused: "How many clan members are missing now?"

"Three."

"Oh……"

Then there is really no need to take action.

Compared with the Uchiha genocide crisis in the original timeline, this loss is still acceptable. I have helped shield the people from the wind and rain for so long, and it is time for these juniors to practice their ability to deal with incidents.

Besides, with two Kage-level figures, Jiraiya and Uchiha Shisui, coming forward to investigate... there shouldn't be any problems, right?

While his thoughts were floating, Uchiha Hikari changed the topic: "Is Tsunade still in the village recently?"

"Eh?"

Quan thought for a while and then said hesitantly: "I... I'm not sure. But the Hokage recently announced a detention order for Danzo and transferred him to a prison near the security force building, saying that he would be detained there. After the injury is cured by the medical ninja, the sentence calculation will begin. According to the clan leader, this seems to be the result of Tsunade-sama's push."

"I understand. Go ahead and do your work."

Uchiha Hikari didn't ask Tsunade on a whim.

She does have something going on and wants to ask Tsunade for help——

Painted pear clothes.

This seemingly well-behaved and harmless girl is actually a rather dangerous hybrid with the ability called "Speech Spirit·Judgement". According to the setting of the dragon clan, it is a conceptual ability of "forced death", which is embodied in the form of cutting. Only higher-level dragon bloodlines can be immune or resist.

If faced as an enemy, Uchiha Hikaru was not sure whether his recovered physique could resist him.

As a price for her powerful strength, Eriki's physical condition is quite unstable, and the dragon's blood in her body will continue to corrode her body until she loses control.

There seems to be no solution to this problem in the dragon world.

At least not on the surface.

But in the world of Naruto, there are two people who can possibly solve it——

Tsunade and Orochimaru.

Tsunade's medical ninjutsu is the best in the ninja world - but that was in the past, and now, if you want her to help treat the problem of dragon blood, you must first solve her anemia.

For this point, Uchiha Hikari hasn't come up with any good ideas yet.

As for Orochimaru...

Uchiha Hikaru had previously thought of going to him to trade something.

As a representative figure in the field of science and technology in the Naruto world, Orochimaru has a lot of good things in his hands, such as the improved version of the reincarnation of the dirty land, the contract scroll of Ryūchi Cave, and even the secret technique of soul reincarnation. And Uchiha Hikaru also has some things in his hands that may attract the latter, such as the ghosts of Demon Slayer World and the blood of Saiyans.

But this kind of trading comes with risks.

Orochimaru's behavior is more greedy and bottomless than Shimura Danzo. Once he gets the "ghost" sample, it is entirely possible that he will capture a group of living people and feed them to the "ghost" to observe their energy transformation process. As for Dr. Gro, capturing living bodies for human modification experiments is even more commonplace for him.

Theoretically, none of this has anything to do with Uchiha Hikaru, after all, it was not her instigation.

But if her intervention really caused Orochimaru to conduct a series of bloody experiments that did not exist in the original work, she would not be able to use this excuse to make herself feel at ease.

and so……

"It's about time to find some time to test the 'Eight Thousand Spears' ability to rewrite consciousness on a living person."

"Danzo's damn life...it's time to put it to use."