My name is Uchiha Touhuan, and I beat the villagers so badly they cried out in pain.

As Kakashi headed to the Hokage Building, the village's fighting tournament had reached its climax. Most of the thugs who had gathered in front of the police headquarters to force the issue had been captured, with only a few remaining who were actually private ninja soldiers from the two clans disguised as thugs still on the run. Their resistance had resulted in injuries to some civilian ninjas, but with the police headquarters' all-out pursuit, it was only a matter of time before they were caught.

Those civilians who lived relatively close to the garrison headquarters could easily see through their windows the garrison members dragging the thugs, who had been beaten to a pulp, toward the headquarters. Terrified, they kept their doors and windows tightly shut and dared not utter a sound.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Touhuan was in Fugaku's office, drinking tea with Fugaku and Shikai Aburame, one cup after another. Even the Anbu who came to invite him to the Hokage Building were detained by him in the Security Department.

Everything that happened today was unfolding exactly as he had envisioned. After tonight, all the chips in his alliance with Kakashi could be laid out on the table, and he would truly become the one holding the game.

The Third Hokage invited him over simply to have a talk, but before that, Uchiha Tohkan had something more important to do.

Just then, a powerful chakra surge suddenly erupted, and the entire security headquarters building began to shake violently.

"The direction of this fluctuation? Your office?" Fugaku's expression changed drastically, and he looked sharply at Uchiha Touhuan.

"No rush, I'll go take a look." Uchiha Touhuan said expressionlessly, but when he turned his back, a smile appeared on his lips. He had finally waited for it, and it seemed that his arrangements had not been in vain.

After Uchiha Touhuan got up, Uchiha Fugaku and Aburame Shikai quickly followed.

At that moment, the security personnel downstairs heard the commotion and rushed up.

Seeing this, Uchiha Touhuan waved his hand to stop the anxious team members and said, "Go back to work, it's nothing."

"Are you sure everything's alright?" Uchiha Inaho was still a little worried, after all, the commotion just now was quite loud.

"If there's any problem, can't I handle it myself?" Uchiha Touhuan glared at the kid, then said, "Take everyone back. I'll take care of things here."

Uchiha Touhuan arrived at the door of his office and turned to Fugaku and Aburame Shikai, who wanted to follow him, saying, "You two don't need to come in for now. Leave this to me."

……

Two hours earlier, Uchiha Shisui, who was feeling somewhat irritated by the unreasonable and unruly villagers in the timber industry, did not participate in the recent police operation.

However, after witnessing the police brutally beating these thugs and dragging them back to the police headquarters one by one, Shisui felt a surge of goodwill and wanted to intervene. But remembering how these people had completely disregarded him and the Will of Fire just moments before, Shisui suppressed the thought and was instead filled with immense confusion. This confusion drove him alone to Uchiha Touhuan's office. He wanted to find out why things had turned out this way.

However, when Shisui arrived at Uchiha Touhuan's office, he did not see Uchiha Touhuan, who was having tea with Uchiha Fugaku. Shisui intended to wait a while and think things over by himself, but a document scattered on Uchiha Touhuan's desk caught his eye at that moment.

……

Uchiha Touhuan pushed open the office door and saw this scene before him.

Throughout the office, documents were scattered everywhere, and Shisui, sitting at his desk, had empty eyes. The three-tomoe Sharingan in his eyes were frantically choosing their tomoe, and blood and tears were gushing from his eyes. His ocular power fluctuated violently around him. If these eyes hadn't been different from Shisui's original ones, a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan would probably have appeared on the spot right now.

Uchiha Touhuan watched this scene without saying a word. After closing the office door, he silently picked up the scattered documents one by one. This document was a copy of the one he had brought back from Orochimaru's base, and it was also a trigger he had deliberately left in the office today. Now it seemed that this thing was indeed quite effective.

"Dou-huan, none of this is real, is it?" Shisui asked, his eyes regaining some of their sparkle after seeing Uchiha Dou-huan.

"Shisui, with your level of authority, you are not qualified to see this," Uchiha Touhuan said softly.

"Douhuan!" Uchiha Shisui roared, his pleading eyes becoming even more pronounced. He desperately hoped that everything he had seen was not real, since what he had just witnessed was a complete trampling of everything he had pursued in the past.

"These are all things I found at Orochimaru's base. How could they be fake?" Uchiha Touhuan said, sitting back in his chair.

"Ah!!!!!" Shisui's last shred of hope shattered by Uchiha Touhuan's cold words. He then clutched his head in agony and screamed. His chakra and ocular power surged, and the three tomoe in Shisui's eyes spun incessantly. However, he could not take that crucial step. Nevertheless, Uchiha Touhuan could sense through the summoning contract of the Ninja Hawk that Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan was also fluctuating with his emotions.

[It seems that without his own eyes, he really couldn't push the Sharingan to complete its final evolution.] Uchiha Touhuan thought to himself, stepping forward to seal Shisui's chakra. There was no other way; this kid was already starting to deplete his life force. If he wasn't calmed down soon, he'd probably die here tonight.

Although Shisui's chakra was forcibly suppressed by Uchiha Touhuan, he still did not seem to have calmed down.

In response, Uchiha Touhuan brought over a tea set and slowly brewed tea, waiting for Shisui to finish venting his emotions.

Soon after, Shisui finally calmed down. He looked up at Uchiha Touhuan with tears of blood streaming down his face.

"Have you calmed down yet?" Uchiha Touhuan pushed the brewed tea toward Shisui.

"Thank you," Shisui said weakly. "Douhuan, why? Why did this happen?"

"I want to know why too!" Uchiha Touhuan, unusually, cursed upon hearing this, "Damn it, how did the village become like this!"

"They spend all their time learning the Will of Fire at the Ninja Academy, and now Danzo Shimura, Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane—their hands are all filthy!" Uchiha Touhuan cursed. "These people should all be executed! But for the sake of the village's stability, I have no choice but to shelve this already irrefutable evidence!"