Uchiha's personal opinion

“Swingers are all destabilizing factors. Only after eliminating these disloyal individuals will the village’s orthodoxy become purer!”

Mitokado comforted himself inwardly.

Guided by his attendant ninja, the pale-faced Tsuchida shakily walked up the platform and sat down at the table opposite Uchiha Tokumitsu.

A document and a pen were already laid out in front of him.

Although it wasn't laid out, he knew that inside was the ceasefire document that had caused Yunyin to lose face.

Moreover, what was called a "ceasefire" was actually a "peace pact," and in essence, it was a "surrender"...

Although Tutai had been trying to understand the correctness of the village's approach, he could not accept the fact.

Especially since it was he himself who bore this heavy humiliation.

"Knock knock!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu tapped the table lightly with his fingers twice, signaling Tsuchida to stop dawdling and delaying.

Tsuchikage glanced up at Uchiha Tokumitsu before slowly turning the outer page of the text.

However, the movement of turning the outer pages was very slow, as if the cardboard outer pages were extremely heavy.

"call……"

Inside the pages was the very text of the ceasefire agreement that had caused Tu Tai dizziness and immense pain.

Even a simple glance was enough to bring to mind the humiliating terms that Tutai could never shake off, which echoed in his mind like a curse, plunging him into an abyss from which he could not escape.

"Knock knock!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu tapped the table twice more, his face full of impatience.

Tu Tai then forced himself to calm down and picked up the pen on the table.

Upon closer inspection, the pen cap was engraved with the emblem of the daimyo of the Land of Lightning, which the shogunate ninjas must have looted from the mansion of some noble family.

With his mind in complete turmoil, Tu Tai laboriously signed his name in the representative column of the armistice treaty.

Uchiha Tokumitsu then opened the text in front of him and signed it.

"finally……"

Putting down his pen, Tu Tai felt a great sense of relief, and the once gloomy world inexplicably began to come alive with color.

Uchiha Tokumitsu put down his pen and watched him quietly.

Tsuchida slowly stood up with the text in his hand, and with heavy steps, he walked towards Uchiha Tokumitsu step by step.

Uchiha Tokumitsu wore a radiant smile that belonged only to a victor.

Tsuchida stood before Uchiha Tokumitsu, bowed at a forty-five-degree angle in the spirit of craftsmanship passed down through generations, and presented the draft of the ceasefire treaty to Uchiha Tokumitsu with both hands.

"This is victory..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu narrowed his eyes slightly, enjoying the thrill that belonged to the victor.

An overwhelming surge of pleasure coursed through his brain, causing his breathing to become slightly heavier.

"This is conquest..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu stood up, picked up the manuscript presented by Tsuchida with one hand, and placed the signed manuscript back into his hand.

Tsuchida straightened up, held the manuscript to his chest, bowed again, and then walked down the platform accompanied by his attendant ninja.

After the representatives of both sides sign the agreement, the armistice treaty needs to be sent back to the respective village leaders for signature before it can officially take effect.

But this has nothing to do with the earthen platform anymore.

After signing the document, he was abandoned by the Hidden Cloud Village, and all that awaited him was to end his own life to atone for his sins to the Hidden Cloud Village ninjas.

Uchiha Tokumitsu held the ceasefire agreement high and waved to the ninjas present below the stage.

"This is war!"

"This is victory!"

"This is the Uchiha!"

A triumphant Uchiha Tokumitsu shouted the victor's slogan.

"Uchiha!"

The Uchiha ninjas below the stage could no longer control their emotions, and they all flashed their Sharingan and shouted in unison.

"Uchiha!"

Those who were close to the ninja clan shouted in unison.

"Loyalty forever!"

This time, it was Masahiko Hozuki who first knelt on one knee.

The shogunate ninja immediately knelt on one knee.

Since the Second Shinobi World War, all four major shinobi villages have been defeated by Uchiha Tokumitsu in various wars, large and small.

In the era of the Ninja Village, only Uchiha Tokumitsu was the only strong person to achieve this feat of defeating everyone in the Ninja World!

With such a great feat of war, how could the ninjas not be impressed?

Amidst the cheers, the pale-faced Mitokado Homura felt as if he were being swept away by the raging tide of a tsunami.

The shouts that resounded through the heavens and earth suffocated him.

"It's been so many years since I've heard such fervent cheers..."

When was the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, entrusted with a critical mission?

Was it at the end of the First Shinobi World War?

In any case, Konoha Village hasn't seen such a fervent atmosphere in a long time.

Mitokado Yan sighed and closed his eyes.

Uchiha Tokumitsu slowly drew his katana from his waist, the blade pointing upwards.

"I'll do it!"

"I see!"

"I have conquered!"

"conquer!!!!"

An even louder shout erupted from the venue!

"conquer!"

The ninjas outside the venue also joined in the shouts!

"conquer!"

The cheers that resounded throughout the land seemed to echo across the Land of Thunder.

……

In a small mountain village twenty kilometers from the Cloud Village headquarters in Cloud Thunder Gorge, Tsuchida, who had trudged there, handed the draft of the ceasefire treaty to his subordinates and instructed them on how to handle the aftermath. Then, under a waterfall, he calmly unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his chest, and used his sword to draw a standard "L" shape on his abdomen.

He then struggled to adjust his direction, falling towards the direction of Kumogakure.

His last words were only three words:

"Uchiha!"

Chapter 240 The Large Loan for Post-Disaster Relief

"Uchiha!"

After the body of Tsuchikage was returned to Kumogakure by the delegation carrying the shameful unequal treaty, the three characters were written by the Third Raikage with his thick, strong hand, and he ordered them to be hung in the Raikage's office.

Organizations such as the Hidden Cloud Division followed suit, hanging similar signs in their respective departments to show they would not forget the humiliation.

In fact, the reason why Kumogakure made such a large-scale compromise was because it suddenly fell into a disadvantageous position in the war with Kirigakure, and the last of Kumogakure's elite troops were forced to be transferred to the coastal areas to resist Kirigakure's large-scale invasion.

On the very first day that Tsuchida was placed under house arrest by the Shogunate, Kirigakure suddenly deployed its Six-Tails Jinchuriki during a seemingly ordinary small-scale attack, decisively defeating the Kumogakure ninja army that came to besiege them. This also tore apart Kumogakure's coastal defenses, launching a large-scale land offensive that captured all the coastal cities of the Land of Lightning, with its advance pointing directly at the Daimyo's capital.

Moreover, when the Third Raikage learned that the Hidden Mist Ninja Army had begun to gather on a large scale, he immediately led his troops out in an attempt to annihilate the Hidden Mist Ninja in one fell swoop in order to end the coastal war and then head south to fight the Hidden Leaf Village's Iwagakure Ninja Army. However, the Third Mizukage, who had signed the first unequal treaty in the ninja world after being defeated by Uchiha Tokumitsu and Hanzo of the Salamander, also appeared on the battlefield and engaged in a fierce battle with the Third Raikage.

The result was unexpected. With his exquisite water jutsu, incredibly powerful fire jutsu, and masterful genjutsu, the Third Mizukage, who was generally regarded as weak and incompetent by the Cloud Village ninja, even suppressed the Third Raikage throughout the battle. Under the leadership of the Six-Tails Jinchuriki and Raiga Kurosuki, the Kirigakure ninja army decisively defeated the Cloud Village ninja army that had accompanied the Third Raikage into battle, and the Third Raikage fled in defeat.

After this battle, the number of ninja killed, seriously wounded, and missing in the Cloud Village reached as high as two thousand. Adding the casualties of the ninja army that marched south and the previous coastal defense tug-of-war, the Cloud Village's total number of dead and wounded has reached nearly ten thousand!

How many ninjas does the Hidden Cloud Village actually have?

Apart from the unregistered genin at the ninja academy, even if Kumogakure were to extract all the remaining forces from each ninja clan, they could at most form another ninja army of about 5,000 men.

The five thousand-plus Cloud Village could barely manage to hold their own against the suddenly surging Mist Village in a defensive battle. As for the Leaf Village and the Hidden Stone Village in the southern part of the Land of Lightning, which were eyeing them covetously, they were truly powerless.

It was during this battle that the Third Raikage truly realized the difference in strength between Kumogakure and Konoha.

Although Kumogakure is extremely dissatisfied with its title as the second-best ninja village in the ninja world and has always been eager to challenge Konoha, judging from Konoha's invincible record in the second Konoha campaign against Iwa, Suna, and Kirigakure, and considering its current record in the decisive battle against Kirigakure, Kumogakure is still far from being the best ninja village!

But by this time, Yunyin had already realized the reality, and it was too late.

Fortunately, the Raikage was able to mobilize all available resources in time to block intelligence channels, preventing the news of the defeat in the battle against Kirigakure from reaching the Konoha-Iwagakure alliance, which was preparing for war in the south, so quickly.

However, the peace terms that Tsuchikage sent back to the village later led the Third Raikage and other core members of Kumogakure to mistakenly believe that Konoha and Iwagakure had already learned of Kumogakure's defeat and had even secretly joined forces with Kirigakure. Therefore, Kumogakure had no choice but to swallow its pride and accept all the ceasefire and peace terms proposed by Uchiha Tokumitsu, fearing that the foundation of the ninja village would be destroyed.

They didn't even have the courage to bargain, fearing that the Konoha-Iwagakure alliance might suddenly march north, and then Kumogakure would be doomed to destruction.

As for why the details of the battle with Kirigakure and the village's current predicament were not explained to Tsuchida, who was negotiating at the time, it was because firstly, the high-ranking officials of Kumogakure believed that Tsuchida had already learned the inside story from the Allied Forces, and secondly, out of guilt, they dared not say more for fear of revealing the "truth" that the village's defenses were weak.

Thus, after signing the humiliating ceasefire treaty, Tsuchita, tormented by his own conscience, could not bring himself to return to the ninja village and took his own life. The high-ranking officials of Kumogakure, upon learning of the negotiation process, were also plunged into deep self-blame.

"We are the ones who killed Tu Tai..."

Inside the Raikage's office, the Third Raikage stared blankly at the glaring "Uchiha" sign hanging high above the door and sighed.

"Lord Raikage, please do not blame yourself. Kumogakure still needs you to shoulder the heavy responsibility and fight against those despicable Kirigakure invaders!"

A group of high-ranking members of the Cloud Village tried to dissuade him.

After losing all the Tailed Beasts, the only strong force that Kumogakure can rely on is the Third Raikage. If something happens to him, Kumogakure will be doomed in an instant.

Therefore, it is meaningless to dwell on who is right and who is wrong in times of crisis. The most important thing is how to get Kirigakure to withdraw from the Land of Lightning's territory.