Born with a great love for the Uchiha

Hyuga Himon reported the facts truthfully.

Gen Uchiha nodded, then looked at Yamato and asked.

"Tianzang, what do you think?"

Sweat began to bead on his forehead beneath the Yamato mask.

"Squad leader, let's go down and take a look."

The group followed the secret passage downwards and eventually entered the Root Base.

First floor, second floor, third floor...

Gen Uchiha had considered that Hiruzen Sarutobi would send people to clean up the Root base.

However, he did not expect that Hiruzen Sarutobi would clean up the Root base so thoroughly!

The entire root base was so clean it looked like it had been licked by a dog dozens of times.

A large group of police officers were unable to find any evidence of illegality.

"Heh...this cleaning is way too thorough, isn't it?"

Gen Uchiha proved that people can actually laugh when they are extremely speechless.

"Tianzang, what do you think?"

"...The cleanup crew was very professional."

Yamato was already drenched in sweat. He gritted his teeth and managed to say something.

"I believe... this was done by... an insider who knows the roots extremely well..."

"What I meant by hiding you that day was..."

Gen Uchiha raised an eyebrow and said in a playful tone.

"Are there still remnants at the root?"

No! I didn't! Don't talk nonsense!

Even though he was wearing a mask, outsiders could see Yamato's panicked state of mind.

Gen Uchiha stopped pressuring the honest man and gave orders to the accompanying police officers.

"Let's go, there's nothing more to see here."

Gen Uchiha turned around and walked towards the exit first.

He walked briskly and calmly, showing no sign of discouragement or anger despite the fruitless search.

Because of the real trump card.

It was never in the root base.

Danzo Shimura! Hashirama cells! Sharingan! Public support! The man himself!

Gen Uchiha had already declared victory!

……

Over the next few days.

The Love and Care Newspaper continuously dropped bombshell after bombshell news at a rate of one article per day.

Colluding with an S-Rank Rogue Ninja! The Dirty Deal Between Shimura Danzo and Orochimaru!

Illegal Human Experimentation! The Truth About the Root Base Revealed!

Until the very end.

The front page headline of the Love and Care Newspaper consisted of only two lines of large, bold, blood-red text.

Harming fellow countrymen! Defilement of our ancestors!

Danzo Shimura steals the Sharingan from the Uchiha clan, desecrating the remains of the First Hokage!

The headline featured a picture of a deathly pale arm.

On the surface of the arm, several scarlet tomoe eyeballs were inlaid.

The newspapers that day contained no extra text descriptions, only a headline and a picture.

then.

Konoha was completely destroyed!

"brute!!!"

"He dares to touch the remains of the First Lord?!"

"He even dared to gouge out the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan?!"

"Shimura Danzo! You deserve to die!!!"

The villagers of Konoha were filled with a volcanic eruption of anger that could no longer be contained.

Even if the Uchiha clan is disliked, they are still one of the two major clans that founded Konoha!

Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, was the founder of Konoha and a spiritual icon in the hearts of countless Konoha ninjas!

What gave Shimura Danzo the right to do this? How dare he do such a thing!?

These news reports also completely tarnished the reputation of the Shimura family.

It is said that the new head of the Shimura clan personally went to the Hokage Building, knelt before Hiruzen Sarutobi, and tearfully begged the Third Hokage to uphold justice for the Shimura clan.

But what can Hiruzen Sarutobi do?

There's nothing he can do.

Even he himself has started to be secretly pointed at and gossiped about.

After all, Danzo Shimura was his close friend and a high-ranking elder whom he had personally promoted.

Danzo Shimura committed so many heinous acts that angered and resented the people.

Did Hiruzen Sarutobi really know nothing about it?

Or perhaps Hiruzen Sarutobi already knew everything.

Even...

To secretly condone it?!

Hiruzen Sarutobi's prestige began to waver without him even realizing it.

……

The trial of Shimura Danzo was held as scheduled.

The square in front of the police force building was filled with the sounds of gongs and drums, red flags, and a huge crowd.

Almost all the villagers of Konoha came.

All the clan leaders of the ninja clans were present.

Every member of the Jonin squad was present.

The entire Uchiha clan ninja was mobilized.

All eyes were focused on the makeshift platform erected in front of the police force building.

There, a person was kneeling.

Danzo Shimura.

Danzo Shimura knelt on the high platform, motionless, like a statue whose soul had been taken away.

"The Third Hokage has arrived—"

"Consultant Mito Kanohan has arrived—"

"Xiaochun, the dormitory advisor, has arrived!"

With three loud shouts, the crowd automatically parted to create a path.

Hiruzen Sarutobi walked at the front, with Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane following on either side.

They didn't actually want to come.

But Uchiha Gen personally came to invite him.

It only took one sentence.

"Hokage/Advisor, you don't want to be mistaken for being accomplices of Shimura Danzo, do you?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi and his two companions, all with stern faces, took their seats in the "VIP section" on the side of the platform.

Just then.

Another shout rang out.

"Leader of the Great Love Group, squad leader of the police force, judge of justice, thunder swordsman, light of Konoha... Uchiha Gen has arrived!"

Everyone turned around to look.

Wearing a brand-new, crisp police force squad leader uniform with a bright red heart badge on his chest, Uchiha Gen strode confidently toward the platform.

The crowd automatically parted to make way for him, just as they had done for Hiruzen Sarutobi earlier.

With a smile on his face, Uchiha Gen nodded to the villagers on both sides of the road.

finally.

He stepped onto the high platform and stood beside Danzo Shimura.

"Shimura Danzo."

Gen Uchiha lowered his head, his crimson three-tomoe Sharingan looking down at the prisoner at his feet.

"Do you have any last words?"

Danzo Shimura's body trembled slightly.

Just when everyone thought that Shimura Danzo had nothing more to say.

He spoke.