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Dread-Father's review puts wrong information.MC never cared about Uchiha and even despises it for the clansmen short sight, but he cares about his sister Mikoto. This is why he'll try to change the clan and try to educate Itachi, because of Mikoto, but as he interacts with them it becomes clear that he can't change it and that he has little shaping power over Itachi's mentality. This makes MC hate Uchiha even more, he believes the clansmen deserve their fate and only regrets that they died "too ugly", without a fight.This conflict between Village and Uchiha becomes innevitable in the setting, and MC has the mentality of a passerby watching the excitement, which doesn't enter in conflict with his previous ideas. He can't change the situation (and he's unwilling to lend his true power to Uchiha), and feels he might as well just watch the show, and to make the show more lively he acts to even out the power level between Uchiha and Village, making for a truly fierce fight instead of quiet annihilation of one side. Although that's the mind of a mu*der hobo, I don't see any inconsistencies.Overall, this novel plays the concept of realizing Itachi's deepest fear: a conflict that wipes out both parties and leaves Konoha extremely vulnerable to outside forces. It goes against the never ending flow of novels of Uchiha revival (sometimes with Konoha's rise tied to it). It reformulates Uchiha's downfall in a scenario where the clan is given a chance to fight fairly against the village, accompanied by Konoha's downfall.As for the interest in relationships and children, it's an extension of his interest in power systems into genetics which eventually brings out some emotions. I don't see why it's bad: MC approached the matter of children the same way a scientist approaches a lab rat, but when the child really came into the world he felt kinship - he cares about Mikoto despite being a mu*der hobo, it's reasonable to say he still has room for close blood relations in his heart.
