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Chapter 180 Hiruzen Sarutobi: I had no choice.
Jiraiya and Tsunade were utterly bewildered. No, wait, why are they running away? Shouldn't they be celebrating their victory? Why are they running away?
Could it be... Masaka? No way?

Jiraiya had an incredibly absurd thought, but how could it be possible?
"Tsunade, Jiraiya, we've failed! That resurrection jutsu was faulty! The Allied Shinobi Forces have been utterly defeated. We have to run away now! Don't give up hope! As long as you're alive, you'll recover someday! Be patient! You must be patient!"

Orochimaru looked at Jiraiya and Tsunade and explained.

Beside them, Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju looked helplessly at Tsunade. Back then, they stood in front of Tsunade's bedside, vowing that they would definitely defeat the monster Uchiha and save them. But now, they had accomplished nothing. After the Allied Shinobi Forces' defeat, they didn't even fight and just slunk back in disgrace.

Well, actually, Hashirama Senju wanted to rush out and kill Uchiha Kazuto, but Tobirama Senju held him back desperately. As a member of Konoha, they dared not gamble. Once Uchiha Kazuto's eye technique caught their attention, it would truly be beyond cure.

Tobirama Senju dared not gamble. His elder brother's strength was enough to withstand Kazuto Uchiha's eye techniques, and he could even be resurrected after death. However, if he were controlled by Kazuto Uchiha's eye techniques, then it would be a complete end.

This is not a low-probability event, but a high-probability one. It's better to save your life for the future.

"Hey!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed helplessly. As Jiraiya and Tsunade shook their heads, the old man was filled with regret. If only he had known, if only he had known this would happen, he should have been more wary of Uchiha Kazuto. If only he hadn't given Uchiha Kazuto that much trust.

He regrets it, but thinking about it carefully, what could he do at that time?

Faced with an Uchiha who had awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan and actively came to surrender to him, with Shisui's eyes nowhere to be found, was he supposed to directly turn against the Uchiha and start a fight?

Yes, that guy did kill Danzo, and killed his comrades in the village, but he had a reason. He killed Danzo for the sake of the village, to thwart the conspiracy of Shimura Danzo and Uchiha Fugaku. What? Slander? But Danzo really was capable of doing such a thing!
Fugaku Uchiha even confessed. The head of the Uchiha clan actually confessed. If it weren't true, how could he really confess?
As for reading Shimura Danzo's memories, there's no way to do it. When Shimura Danzo's body was brought here, his brain had already been severely damaged, and he was completely dead. Even the Yamanaka clan's memory-reading ninjutsu couldn't read his memories from that rotten brain.

Admittedly, we could say that Uchiha Kazuto deliberately damaged Danzo's brain to prevent them from reading his memories, but battle is a life-or-death struggle, not child's play. It's perfectly normal for someone's brain to be damaged in battle.

Initially, he wasn't entirely without suspicion about Uchiha Kazuto's motives. However, given that Kazuto possessed a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan, and at that time he didn't know what Uchiha Kazuto's eye techniques were, this powerful individual from the Uchiha clan with the Mangekyou Sharingan, instead of plotting against him, the Hokage, and attempting a coup, showed him unwavering loyalty, much like Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi. If he wanted to stage a coup, why would he display such unwavering loyalty?
You can say it's an act, but were Shisui and Itachi Uchiha also faking it?
It's worth noting that Uchiha Shisui also awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, but unfortunately, the whereabouts of Shisui's eyes became unknown.

Faced with this situation, how could Hiruzen Sarutobi possibly be vigilant? He was human, not a god with a godlike perspective who could see the script and read minds. Even emperors could be deceived to death by treacherous ministers, let alone him. He was no longer an emperor, but merely a clumsy politician.

There was no way around it; Uchiha Kazuto was too loyal. Apart from the final rumor, he basically didn't do anything underhanded. When he beat people, he really did it; he genuinely didn't treat people like human beings. He wouldn't resort to petty tricks like finding an actor, giving them money, and having them come over the next day to commit a crime and get beaten up.

He genuinely targeted criminals in his eyes and beat them to death under the guise of "for the village" and "for the Hokage."

If it's the former, there's a risk of being discovered. Once discovered, people will think he has ulterior motives. The latter, on the other hand, will only make people think that he, Uchiha Kazuto, is incredibly loyal and doesn't care about his reputation for Konoha. He seems extremely extreme and is a good but brainless sword.

Moreover, the Uchiha clan is indeed quite extreme. Their behavior might be considered extreme in other people, but it's just right when it comes to members of the Uchiha clan.

Even when it came to training, Uchiha and Tou didn't hide in the shadows and train secretly for fear of being discovered. Instead, they trained openly right under Hiruzen Sarutobi's nose. What they trained each day and what ideological education they received were all visible to him. Even Hiruzen Sarutobi himself gave speeches on several occasions.

If you don't know the effects of Uchiha Kazuto's eye technique, how can you expect him to have doubts under these circumstances?
In this situation, facing such a loyal subordinate, he suspected the other party of having ulterior motives, and he himself felt uneasy. Uchiha Kazuto was a loyal retainer!
If it weren't for what Uchiha Kazuto said when he cut off his head, he would have thought that Shimura Danzo, that piece of shit, really wrote a diary like that when he died!
In fact, even if Hiruzen Sarutobi had known about the diary back then, he might not have suspected Kazuto Uchiha, because that Root member wasn't released voluntarily; he accidentally ran away and was eventually discovered and brought back.

Moreover, if you were to examine the memories in Yamanaka Fu's mind, you would find that there really was a memory of Shimura Danzo instructing Yamanaka Fu to destroy that diary. Who would have thought that there was such a ninjutsu in the ninja world that could directly alter memories? It's even more outrageous than Kotoamatsukami.

"Itachi, you're right!"

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(End of this chapter)