Sky Curtain: Short Video Commentary on Konoha Villagers

The scene changes on the screen.

Orochimaru stood on the roof of the Hokage Building, following the hand seals of the four Hokage.

Four purple flame arrays shot into the sky, sealing off the entire rooftop with purple flames.

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, removed his divine robes and donned a black battle suit, standing in the center of the formation.

However, the image zooms out,

Explosions and shouts of battle filled the entire Hidden Leaf Village.

However, the area around the roof was deserted, with not a single Konoha ninja coming to provide support.

Text appeared in the sky.

During Orochimaru's invasion of Konoha, all the Konoha ninjas behaved strangely.

During Orochimaru's battle with the Third Hokage, not a single person from the Hidden Leaf Village, a village teeming with powerful ninjas, came to his aid.

Many of Konoha's top fighters are capable of breaking the Four Purple Flames Formation, yet none of them have attempted to do so.

...

[Mei Terumi: The apprentice I trained came back to kill me, and the whole village is watching the show. Are they really that unpopular across three generations?]

The text in the sky continued to appear.

According to the Anbu, the battle between Orochimaru and the Third Hokage lasted for more than an hour.

However, during that hour, all the Konoha ninjas behaved extremely strangely.

The scene cuts in.

Jiraiya stood beside the giant snake's corpse and clapped his hands.

He looked up towards the Hokage Building, where the Four Purple Flame Array shimmered with a purple light in the sunlight.

"Old man, don't die!"

After saying that, he stood still.

[Onoki of Two Libras: What a fine line, "Old man, don't die." It's like saying nothing at all, and his departure is as if he never came.]

[Kuroto: Senior, are you serious?]

Konoha Year 60, Hokage's office.

Jiraiya scratched the back of his head and coughed twice.

"Um... old man, I might have some strategic considerations for my future self..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Jiraiya with a complex expression.

"Jiraiya, you only said one sentence and that was it?"

Jiraiya scratched his face.

"Old man, the future has nothing to do with my present..."

The celestial backdrop transitions.

Kakashi and Guy were standing in the audience.

There were five or six corpses of Sound Ninja lying around.

Ah Kai clapped his hands and looked up in the direction of the building.

"Kakashi, it seems there's been some trouble with the Third Hokage. Let's go help!"

Having said that, he raised his foot to rush forward.

Kakashi reached out to stop him.

"Just leave it to the Anbu."

"The Hokage won't die so easily."

After saying that, the two stood there.

[Fourth Raikage A: He dealt with the minions, then watched a show for over an hour?]

[Mei Terumi: So for over an hour, they just sat in the audience? Watching their Hokage get beaten up by his student?]

[Onoki, the Two-Day Scale: To be honest, a 60- or 70-year-old man exchanging blows with someone for over an hour, I'd be paralyzed by now.]

Mei Terumi: Tsuchikage-sama, how old are you this year?

[Onoki, the Libra: ...Don't ask me that.]

Konoha Year 48, Hokage's office.

Minato Namikaze looked up at the sky.

"After more than an hour of fighting, no one came to provide support..."

His brow furrowed.

"Shikaku, what do you think is the reason?"

Nara Shikaku stood to the side, his fingers resting on his chin.

"Two possibilities. Either the Third Hokage issued an order forbidding support, or..."

He paused.

"Or perhaps, their interpersonal relationships are just too poor for three generations."

Under the sky.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was completely dumbfounded.

He stared at the Konoha ninjas idling in the sky, and his own people standing by and watching, his mind buzzing.

"Are you kidding me...?"

His voice was hoarse, filled with barely suppressed anger.

"After fighting for over an hour, not a single person has come to provide support?"

"Am I, the Hokage, something shameful?"

[Mei Terumi: Wait, didn't they say before that the Third Hokage was the strongest Hokage? So he fought Orochimaru alone without needing support?]

[Fourth Raikage A: I remember now, wasn't Sarutobi known as the strongest Hokage? He was ganged up on for over an hour, and the whole village thought he was the strongest, so it's reasonable that they didn't help him?]

[Kurotsuchi: That makes sense! The villagers of Konoha probably think this way: The Third Hokage is the strongest Hokage, what is Orochimaru anyway? One person is enough, what are we doing? Getting in the way?]

[Deidara: I see! The logic of the Konoha ninjas is that the Third Hokage is the strongest, so they don't need to help him. But what if he dies?]

Hidan: So he died because he wasn't strong enough. How could the strongest Hokage die?

In the 60th year of Konoha, on the streets.

The villagers nodded in agreement as they watched the comments section.

"That's right! The Third Hokage was the strongest Hokage; dealing with Orochimaru would be a piece of cake for him, wouldn't it?"

"If we go up to help, we'll only cause trouble for the Third Generation Lord!"

"Exactly! One person is enough for the Third Hokage!"

Inside the Hokage's office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's face changed from black to red, and then from red to purple.

"The strongest Hokage..."

He gritted his teeth and uttered each word slowly and deliberately.

"So they just watched me get beaten up by Orochimaru for over an hour?"

Jiraiya couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Old man, isn't this the result of your usual propaganda? The strongest Hokage, the professor of ninjutsu, the hope of the whole village..."

"Everyone believed you and thought you could handle it all by yourself, so they stopped helping you."

Hiruzen Sarutobi opened his mouth, but in the end, he only managed to utter one word: "Damn it!"