Uchiha's personal opinion

Mimura Yoru silently let out a breath.

"Gentlemen... are you ready?"

"To die for one's lord!"

The subordinates knelt on one knee and responded in a deep voice.

"Then come with me..."

Mimura Yoru was the first to step out of the main hall of her mansion, carrying her katana. Her subordinates formed a wedge formation behind her.

Strangely enough, the police ninjas who were supposed to be enforcing the curfew on the streets didn't appear near Mimura Yohaki at all. And through the cracks in the doors of the shops along the street, the Konoha shopkeepers could even see the fully armed ninjas under Mimura Yohaki's command.

This is the first instance of mass resistance to the law since Uchiha Tokumitsu launched his Great Purge.

"Halt!"

At the entrance of the correctional facility, a group of Uchiha ninjas shouted angrily, "You have entered the prison's strictly controlled warning zone and violated the curfew! Surrender immediately!"

At the same time, the lead Uchiha ninja casually threw out a signal flare.

"Whoosh!"

Before the signal flare could even take off, it was intercepted and shot down by a kunai thrown casually by the expressionless Mimura Yomi.

"Charge in!"

With a roar, Mimura Yoru instantly charged forward.

"Fire Release: Great Fire..."

The Uchiha ninja immediately attempted to attack using Fire Release techniques.

"Konoha Style: Dance of Leaves!"

Mimura Yoru's figure flashed behind the Uchiha ninja like a ghost, slicing him in two at the waist with a single strike!

Immediately, a cloud of smoke rose up, and Mimura Yoru was immediately alarmed.

"It's a shadow clone!"

His first reaction was that he had indeed fallen for the trap!

The last shred of hope vanished in the face of this incident.

"General Ye Juan, our headquarters has been waiting for you for a long time!"

As a ripple spread through the air, the Red Guards, who had been lying in ambush, removed their protective barrier.

At this moment, Mimura Yoru realized that countless powerful chakra fluctuations had been lurking and surrounding them all along.

The head of the secret guards, Uchiha Hakage, strolled leisurely to the top of the correctional facility's wall, looking down at Mimura Yomi's subordinates, who were beginning to show signs of panic.

Teams of Uchiha ninjas also broke their stealth and leaped out from their hiding places, completely surrounding Mimura Yozaki's forces.

"...Really, it seems I've become a clown in Deguang's eyes."

Mimura Yoru gave a self-deprecating laugh, then instantly teleported towards Uchiha Hatake.

"Annihilate the traitors!"

"Slay the rebels!"

The two sides, chanting slogans, collided violently!

……

The outcome of the battle was not in any suspense.

In less than fifteen minutes, the more than fifty men under Mimura Yomaki's command were easily captured by the Red Guards, with nearly twenty of them killed on the spot.

"Go and report to Lord Deguang, the big fish has been caught, it's time to haul in the net!"

Uchiha Hakage gracefully sheathed his long sword, while Mimura Yoru, covered in wounds, collapsed unconscious.

Correctional facilities prisons are once again overcrowded.

To facilitate management, the police department's ninjas rearranged the ninjas who were originally in custody and put them back into different cells.

In a cell, a ninja who had just been transferred to another cell asked his two fellow inmates:

"Hey! Bro, why are you in jail?"

"I support Lord Mimura Yomaki's position, so why are you in jail?"

"Oh~ I object to Jonin Mimura Yomaki's proposal."

He then asked another ninja who looked pale and seriously injured, "By the way, what did you do to get locked up here?"

"...I am Mimura Yomaki."

Chapter 289: Preserving Dignity

The news that Mimura Yomaki had openly led his troops to storm the Police Department's Correctional Services Division and was subsequently imprisoned after the failure was quickly relayed to Hatake Sakumo by Kime Kōdō.

"Speaker Sakumo...you see..."

Mokumu Kōdō said somewhat awkwardly, "Do you think... General Ye Juan still has a chance?"

"..."

Sakumo Hatake glanced at him twice but didn't say anything.

This is a topic that needs no explanation and cannot be explained.

Uchiha Tokumitsu painstakingly launched a purge campaign, even executing a conservative clansman as a sacrifice, all to strike at the village's opposition. Now that he has successfully lured Mimura Yohaki into the fray, it's already a sign of great restraint not to strike while the iron is hot and expand the scope of the attack. To think that Mimura Yohaki could walk out of prison alive as if nothing had happened is simply wishful thinking.

"Then... is it possible to negotiate a life sentence?"

Mokumu Kōdō gave an awkward smile and asked again.

"...To be honest, General Ye Juan is also a highly respected veteran Jonin in the village."

Sakumo Hatake sighed.

A glimmer of hope rekindled in Mumu Kōdō's eyes.

"So, he's bound to die..."

Sakumo Hatake continued.

Mokumu Kōdō was utterly astonished.

"General Ye Juan has a distinguished military record, and as you said... he is indeed highly respected in the village, beloved by the lower and middle-ranking ninjas, and is also one of the Five Generals..."

Kōdō Mokumei racked his brains to exonerate Yōki Mimura.

"It is the Fourth General. Sarutobi Shinnosuke fled the village without cause and his whereabouts are unknown, so he has been removed from the list."

Sakumo Hatake said calmly, "But soon it will be the Third General..."

"Or perhaps being sent to a disciplinary camp would be an option?"

Mokume Kōdō once again lowered expectations.

Sakumo Hatake shook his head and refused, unwilling to ask for this favor.

"...Why? I don't understand!"

Kōdō Mokume still persisted in asking.

"Just consider this a belated purge after the Battle of Settsu..."

Sakumo Hatake shook his head. "But to be honest, I don't understand why Yoru-kun would oppose Tokumitsu-kun's rule in such an attitude. Is so-called legitimacy really that important?"

"Besides, if he insisted on so-called orthodoxy, why did he stand with us against the Third Hokage in the first place..."

This time, Kōdō Moku was speechless.

"...The only thing I can do is to ask Lord Deguang to leave him some dignity."

Sakumo Hatake picked up his teacup and took a sip. "The rest... let's just forget about it..."

Kōdō Mokume also sensed that Sakumo Hatake was trying to see him off, and with a slight struggle, he got up to take his leave.

"Sakumo-kun... are you still the same Sakumo who cared for the village and loved his comrades?"

As he was preparing to leave, Kōdō Mu said something.

"...Do you think I'm a soft-hearted, indecisive person?"

Sakumo Hatake chuckled, "We're all ninjas, aren't we!"

"Besides, perhaps everyone has a different idea of ​​what the ideal state of a village is."

"..."

Without saying anything more, Mokumu Kōdō bowed and then closed the door and left.

Mimura Yomaki may be trying to uphold the so-called "Konoha orthodoxy," or she may simply be using this topic to rally people's hearts and become a force in the village, but none of that matters anymore.

The Uchiha clan will not allow its core rights to be questioned by others, especially when the opposition is a former ally who once stood on the same side and ceded many benefits to them.

It is true that Mimura Yoru was highly respected and had a distinguished military record in the past. It is also true that he once stood on the same side as Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Tokumitsu against the former Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen. Even his acquisition of the mission center in Konoha's reorganization after the Battle of Settsu was a reward from Uchiha Tokumitsu to his allies.

However, this cannot be a reason for Mimura Yomaki to step forward and become the open leader of the opposition.

The current situation of Jonin co-governance and ninja clan co-governance in Konoha was formed under the leadership of Uchiha Tokumitsu, with the victorious Uchiha clan voluntarily yielding. Otherwise, it would have been perfectly reasonable for Uchiha Tokumitsu to elect anyone or even himself as Hokage. Moreover, after the death of the former Third Hokage, the other forces in the village had no power to stop him.

However, military power is the most important authority of the Uchiha clan, and it is an absolute taboo subject that cannot be violated.

The so-called "purge" is, in essence, just a means to force the opposition to rise up and rebel.

But Mimura Yomaki was so easily forced to rebel, and with only fifty-odd men, she stormed the police department's correctional office... This was something Hatake Sakumo never expected.

He must die; the higher his reputation, the more he deserves to die.

Moreover, this time he himself put his neck under the bright noose of the Uchiha clan and hanged himself.

"To oppose something without matching the strength is tantamount to suicide..."

After sitting there for a long time, Hatake Sakumo gave a self-deprecating laugh and muttered to himself.

In Sakumo Hatake's view, the external expansion led by Tokumitsu Uchiha was a good thing, especially since the village's ninja army was not mobilized much and the faction's power was used to conquer Kirigakure.

For lower-ranking commoner ninjas, when powerful clans like the Uchiha choose to look to other ninja villages, their living conditions and the difficulty of taking on high-level missions will be greatly reduced, which will also benefit their survival and development.