The Uchiha Elites who searched the parameter for any signs of clues left; now reunited and each one gave their report.

And all their report only indicated that no matter how carefully and meticulously they searched, they couldnt find even the slightest trace as such their follow-up pursuit came to an abrupt end.

Among all the shinobi present here, Uchiha Hidekis younger brother, Uchiha Ryota has the most anxious expression.

A few days ago, he was being so arrogant and prideful, and now he is like a headless fly, moving around aimlessly, trying to find clues that do not even exist!

Uchiha Fugaku also had a gloomy look, Signal regrouping, we will be returning back to the village!

Ryota Uchiha was too unstable as such he couldnt care about the Patriarchs words and questioned with a cold tone, Patriarch, are we going to abandon Hideki-nii?

Fugaku shook his head, he did not get angry because of Ryotas cold tone and patiently explained, There are no traces left by the enemy, pursuing blindly is meaningless and will only lead us in a trap, you should understand this!

Uchiha Fugaku has another worry that he didnt explain.

This is the second time Amatsukami has taken an action inside the territory of Konohagakure, indicating that they have spies lurking in the village.

Currently, most of the elites of the Uchiha Clan are outside the Village in order to pursue the enemy, if Amatsukami uses this opportunity to attack the Uchiha Clan again then who knows how dire the consequences will be!

And Uchiha Ryota obviously did not realize Patriarchs concern, and pleaded, Patriarch, lets expand the search radius and we are bound to find something, I dont believe that the enemy didnt leave anything!

Fugaku frowned and said with a solemn expression, Ryota, things arent as simple as they seem on the surface, the enemy has ill-intentions towards the entire Uchiha clan and the village, therefore we must be very cautious with how we deal with them, we will return to the village for now, and plan out further actions in coordination with Sandaime-sama. This is an order!

Seeing that Uchiha Ryota still wanted to argue; Fugaku signaled Shisui who stood not far away.

Shisui nodded and took advantage of Ryotas distracted expression to cast a Genjutsu upon him.

One of the clansmen carried fainted Ryota, while Fugaku ordered, Go back to the village!

Shisui who was following Fugaku closely sighed, this is the first time he has done something that is considered as an active betrayal to the village so there is always a fear of being caught, although he knew that with Kuroto-sans cautious nature he wouldnt have left any clue behind, he was still worried.

Therefore, he was greatly relieved when the team was returning back without finding anything.

Inside the Prison Dungeon.

After giving Uchiha Hideki a high dose of sleeping agent, Kuroto came to another room.

He took out a notebook that lied on the shelf with [Uchiha Hideki] written on the cover.

Recalling all the details just now, Kuroto thoughtfully wrote everything in the notebook.

[Uchiha Hideki has a strong poison and drug resistance, the specific reason is unknown, but I suspect that it has something to do with his Sharingan, this entails some tests to verify this conjecture in-depth.]

After writing some details on this page, Kuroto turned over the pages and came to the part with the heading, [Project Mangekyou Sharingan]

Writing,

[Anger Test: Incite the Anger of the subject for the awakening of Mangekyou Sharingan.

Observations: Violent Chakra Reaction, Slight increase in Ocular Power of the Sharingan.

Overall result: Failure

Reason for failure: Increase in Ocular Power was insufficient

Speculation 1 Anger is not the best stimulating emotion in the case of Uchiha Hideki for the awakening of the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Speculation 1 The level of Anger was not enough emotional stimulation necessary for him to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan.]

After recording up to here, Kuroto stopped writing.

It is not unknown that the Uchiha must be stimulated with extreme emotions for them to successfully awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan.

These so-called Extreme Emotions can be of many types such as Despair, Grief, Anger, Regret and so on.

Based on all the known successful cases of the Mangekyou Sharingan Awakening, the highest probability is always under the same emotion of Despair, and Grief.

For example, Uchiha Obito experienced the despair of losing Rin, and Uchiha Shinichi experienced the despair of witnessing the death of Uchiha Kurumi, the girl he loved.

Both of them were stimulated by the emotion despair and successfully awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Among these two, Uchiha Obito even skipped the crucial stage of three tomoe and directly moved to Mangekyou Sharingan from the two tomoe Sharingan, which may have something to do with Hashirama Cells in his body, but there is no clear answer as of yet.

This event signifies that the emotion despair has remarkable effects on the Mangekyou Sharingan awakening.

Additionally, Grief is also an equally powerful emotion as the necessary stimulation.

Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi, and Uchiha Fugaku experienced the Grief of losing their friends and successfully awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

As for Anger, there doesnt seem to be any case where the subject awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan purely through Anger as the emotion.

The only case that comes close to the emotion anger is the case of Uchiha Sasuke.

However, the awakening of Uchiha Sasukes Mangekyou Sharingan has more to do with the Grief of the tragic life his brother lived and the anger towards Konohagakure that was the cause of all this. Therefore, we can conclude that his stimulation was a combination of Grief as the primary and Anger being the secondary emotion.

With that understood, Kuroto turned over the page of the notebook and wrote:

[Sadness Test: ]

From Kurotos perspective, making Hideki experience Grief isnt that difficult. There are many very close relatives of Hideki in the Uchiha Clan, and all these emotional bonds can be used. Among these, Uchiha Ryota, the younger brother of Hideki is the best choice.

If Kuroto makes sure that Uchiha Hideki experienced some Anger in conjunction with extreme Grief, the possibility of him awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan will be very high.

After all, there is already an example of Uchiha Sasuke.

Therefore, the next test will be focused on stimulation through Grief.

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