Chapter 231 — Forced Correction? The Plot
Doesn't Match! Something Is Wrong
Uchiha Yota was so furious that he slipped back into his native language. The uncle in front of him simply wasn't listening.
When Uchiha Kunihiko briefly turned his head, Yota's heart sparked with hope—but the uncle only glanced at him in mild surprise before looking away again and speeding up.
Half dragged, half lifted off the ground, Yota's feet barely skimmed the dirt.
His heart nearly collapsed.
What is wrong with this uncle?! Does he not know the Uchiha Clan is about to be wiped out?!
I'm your savior here! Don't waste my precious time!
What if Itachi shows up tonight with his blade—the night of the Uchiha massacre?! How many cuts can you survive?!
Forced into desperation, Yota brought out his trump card and yelled:
"Uncle! Uncle Kunihiko! I have an urgent message for the Clan Head!"
To his astonishment, after all his previous shouting had been ignored, this time Kunihiko actually stopped.
He turned around, puzzled.
"Why are you looking for the Clan Head?"
Seeing that Kunihiko had finally halted and was speaking to him like a normal human being, Yota wasn't about to waste the opportunity. His mind raced. Noticing suspicion forming in the uncle's expression—and terrified of being hauled off again—Yota went all in:
"Actually, something big will happen very soon! Our entire Uchiha Clan will be annihilated! I need to see the Clan Head now and tell him—ah! Wait! Don't pull me! I said I'm not going back!"
Uchiha Kunihiko didn't answer. He simply resumed walking, picking Yota up again without a word.
He treated the boy's screams as if they didn't exist.
Kunihiko sighed internally.
Unconscious for nearly a year… his head really must have been damaged.
Talking nonsense about the Uchiha Clan being eradicated?
With the Clan Head overseeing everything, even if the sun fell out of the sky and the seas dried up, the Uchiha Clan would never be annihilated.
The clan was entering a new golden age—rising, thriving, expanding. Annihilation? Impossible. Only someone with scrambled brains would say such a thing.
He would need to talk to his sister-in-law later. Yota must be watched carefully so he wouldn't run around spouting nonsense and embarrassing the clan.
The Uchiha had just regained their glory and were in rapid development. They couldn't afford to lose face because of one unstable child.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Yota was about to cry from frustration.
Did this uncle simply not believe a single word he said?
He even revealed that Itachi was Sarutobi Hiruzen's spy!
And this uncle showed zero reaction?
Does this uncle have brain problems?!
No, that couldn't be. A Konoha jōnin wouldn't be mentally deficient. A person with brain issues wouldn't even make it out of the Academy.
So why did Kunihiko behave like this?!
After several minutes, Yota suddenly stiffened.
Wait… is he treating me like the one with brain damage?!
He nearly vomited blood from anger.
At a critical moment like this—an earth-shaking misunderstanding?!
Is this Heaven's will to destroy the Uchiha?!
He sighed deeply.
"Is this… a forced correction of the plot?" Yota whispered in despair.
"The world knows I'm a transmigrator, and it's trying to keep the plot on its original track. So it sends someone to physically stop me and force the plot back to the night of the Uchiha massacre…"
"But I don't want to die!"
He wailed miserably.
Just as he spiraled deeper and deeper into panic, his eyes drifted to a nearby cliff.
The Hokage Rock.
One, two, three, four heads. Nothing unusual.
But—
…why did the Fourth Hokage's face look so wrong?
Did Sarutobi Hiruzen ever look like that?
Yota blinked, confused, then looked closer—and froze.
That face… that stern expression…
Wasn't that Uchiha Fugaku, the Uchiha Clan Head he had been desperately trying to find?
Yota's pupils contracted violently.
Why is Uchiha Fugaku on the Hokage Rock?!
What was happening?
He rubbed his eyes hard—once, twice—thinking he was hallucinating from stress.
But no matter how much he rubbed, the Fourth stone face was unmistakably Uchiha Fugaku.
Yota stood dumbstruck.
Did… did Uchiha Fugaku become Hokage?!
He checked the sequence carefully.
The first carving: Senju Hashirama, First Hokage. Correct.
Second: Senju Tobirama, Second Hokage. Correct.
Third should be—
"The Professor of the Ninja World, Sarutobi—"
But what he saw was Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage.
He unintentionally merged the two and whispered:
"Minato Namikaze… the Professor of the Ninja World…"
Then he slapped himself mentally.
Professor my foot! What nonsense is that?!
Why did it skip directly from Tobirama to Minato?!
Where was Sarutobi Hiruzen's stone face?!
Yota finally noticed a large, smooth gap carved out in the cliff—exactly big enough for one Hokage statue.
Someone had literally removed Hiruzen's Hokage Rock carving.
Behind Minato's carving stood another face:
Uchiha Fugaku.
Four Hokage statues…
Hashirama. Tobirama. Minato. Fugaku.
No mistake.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's carving had been removed and replaced with Uchiha Fugaku's.
Yota scratched his head, overwhelmed.
This was a massive deviation from the original timeline he remembered.
In the original story, Uchiha Fugaku never even had a chance to become Hokage. From beginning to end, he was forced into a dead end… by his own son.
But now—
He was the Hokage.
And not only that—the placement indicated something even more shocking:
Uchiha Fugaku was the Fifth Hokage.
Yota's emotions twisted into something tangled, chaotic—and yes, fear.
Because the plot he knew…
Had completely collapsed.
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