Chapter 42: Cultivating A Successor For Absolute Justice?
Upon seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen return, a Sarutobi Clan ninja had just gone up to greet him when he noticed a figure appearing not far away, dressed in the Uchiha Police Force uniform.
This made his pupils shrink, and he hurriedly asked Sarutobi Hiruzen, “Hokage, that guy…”
“No need to mind him.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head with a grim face, but anyone could tell his tone was a bit off.
It was as if he was forcibly holding something back.
Sarutobi Hiruzen silently walked to the side of Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s coffin and quietly stood behind his daughter-in-law Sarutobi Fujiko.
At this moment.
He heard Sarutobi Fujiko’s voice: “Hokage need not worry about me. I’ve already calmed down. Everything… everything must prioritize the village’s greater good, isn’t that right?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen was silent for a moment.
He felt some guilt in his heart, but only a little. He said, “I have my own difficulties. Fujiko, you know as well as I do the current state of Konoha. The village badly needs a ninja with a fierce reputation to deter the petty threats from outside villages.”
“Konoha Village has successively lost Sakumo, had Orochimaru defect, and lost Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shisui. Uchiha Ikeizumi is already one of the few pillar supports left in the village.”
“Moreover…”
“Uchiha Ikeizumi’s existence can also intimidate some ambitious people within the village, including certain people in the Uchiha Clan.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen paused, then continued, “Even if Shinnosuke came back to life, he would do the same as I. You and he were both my right and left hands. He understood me, and you should understand me too.”
Sarutobi Fujiko nodded lightly: “Hokage, I understand everything clearly.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed lightly: “For Konoha’s sake, you’ve had it hard.”
Immediately after.
Sarutobi Hiruzen opened his mouth to warn the Sarutobi Clan clan members who, upon seeing Uchiha Ikeizumi appear, were filled with righteous indignation and restless.
“No one is to act rashly! He’s only here to catch a criminal!”
…
Yamada Binjiro also saw Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Even though he believed the chance of himself being exposed was slim, he couldn’t help instinctively stepping back a few steps.
He carefully hid his figure at the back of the crowd.
“Hiss, I remember now!” Yamada Binjiro heard his companion gasp in sudden realization: “Uchiha Ikeizumi, isn’t that the plague… damn, that guy from the Uchiha Police Force… isn’t he walking toward us?”
Yamada Binjiro’s heart jolted in shock.
Cold sweat instantly broke out on his palms.
And the last shred of luck in his heart was extinguished by Uchiha Ikeizumi’s cold voice: “Yamada Binjiro, due to massive debts. Over four years ago, after his older brother ‘Yamada Binjiro’ passed away from illness, he attempted to seize his brother’s inheritance but failed. In rage, he murdered his brother’s wife and daughter, dismembered them, and dumped the bodies.”
The extremely cold, emotionless voice was like the Shinigami tolling the death knell in Yamada Binjiro’s ears.
He even saw his companions nearby, startled into hurriedly distancing themselves from him and looking at him with horrified eyes.
He could also see these companions, out of extreme fear of Uchiha Ikeizumi, quickly making way for him.
Completely exposing his painstakingly hidden figure.
Yamada Binjiro watched wide-eyed as Uchiha Ikeizumi walked right up to him and quietly stood two meters away.
He didn’t dare look directly at this young man who was a full ten-plus years younger than him.
The drizzling fine rain could not soothe the terror in his heart.
He wiped the rainwater from his face, head lowered, throat dry as he forced himself to stay calm: “I… I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“Uchiha Izumi.”
“Here!!!” Izumi immediately stepped forward from behind.
“Interrogate.”
Izumi was taken aback. She took a deep breath, quickly mentally prepared herself, and immediately said, “Yes! Senior!”
She knew what “interrogate” meant in Senior Ikeizumi’s mouth.
Because the first time she met Senior, Senior Ikeizumi had required her to interrogate a criminal.
And it was in broad daylight in public, subjecting the criminal to bloody torture!
This time…
It was probably exactly the same as last time.
Moreover.
Izumi also realized that this time it was not only in public but also under the gaze of the Hokage not far away! This might be Senior Ikeizumi giving her a new test.
She felt a lot of pressure.
However, compared to the pressure of defying Senior Ikeizumi’s orders, Izumi felt this pressure was nothing.
Thinking again of the mother and daughter who had become shattered bones.
The hesitation and reluctance in Izumi’s eyes visibly faded.
She drew her ninja sword.
She stepped forward a few steps.
“Hey! You… what are you doing?!” Cold sweat poured down Yamada Binjiro as he panicked and retreated repeatedly, only to find the girl with slightly colder eyes advancing step by step.
“You have two paths to choose from now.” Izumi felt herself turning bad, but for scum like the one before her eyes, no matter how extreme the methods, they were all justified.
She tried to imitate her senior’s tone: “First, you refuse to cooperate, I kill you, and the Yamanaka Clan investigates your memories. Second, you confess everything you did four years ago.”
“I told you, I don’t understand what you’re saying… AHHHHH!!!”
Yamada Binjiro suddenly let out a shrill scream.
He hurriedly clutched his crotch and knelt down, the indescribable pain turning his face deathly pale.
“I’m only giving you thirty seconds to think.”
Izumi steeled herself and kicked him to the ground again.
Her eyes focused, and with one slash, she pierced through Yamada Binjiro’s left hand palm, nailing his hand to the ground.
“AHHHHHH!!” Yamada Binjiro was still screaming.
“Twenty-nine.”
Recalling the shattered bones that made her hair stand on end, Izumi twisted her wrist, and the blade instantly severed half his palm.
“Twenty-eight.”
“Twenty-seven.”
Izumi’s ninja sword slashed, sending one ear flying high, the spurting blood quickly washed away by the rain.
“Twenty-six.”
…
“Hokage! They’re clearly using torture to extract a confession! And… they’re doing this right at Senior Shinnosuke’s funeral, in front of you, Hokage!”
A friend of Sarutobi Shinnosuke said horrified to Sarutobi Hiruzen: “Isn’t this forcing a false confession? Maybe that guy was innocent to begin with, but under the abuse, he has no choice but to admit guilt.”
“This behavior is already…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen stood with hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.
He interrupted: “Uchiha Ikeizumi often disappoints me greatly in many ways. But… in law enforcement, no matter how extreme his methods, the results he gives me are ones I can never refute.”
“When Uchiha Ikeizumi deems someone a murderer, that person… is absolutely a murderer. Not once has he ever been wrong.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen gazed at the girl’s back.
He murmured hauntingly to himself: “Are you preparing to train a successor to「 Absolute Justice」, Ikeizumi…”
That friend of Sarutobi Shinnosuke hadn’t expected the Hokage to actually speak up for the murderer of his son.
Moreover.
In the Hokage’s mouth, wasn’t that Uchiha Ikeizumi a bit too “deified”?
How could a person never make a mistake?!
…
“AHHH! I admit it! I admit it!!”
A civilian’s bones were ultimately much softer than a ninja’s, after all, never having undergone any rigorous ninja training.
The pain from all over his body and the oppressive pressure from facing the Uchiha Clan Police Force had already broken his spirit.
The psychological defenses that were already shaky from Uchiha Ikeizumi’s appearance completely collapsed at this moment.
He shouted in terror, tears and snot streaming: “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me!”
“I, I really did kill my brother’s wife and daughter! When I went to them for money, that damned woman said right in front of me she absolutely wouldn’t lend money to someone addicted to the casino!”
“They were the ones who disregarded family ties first! No! Wrong, they were outsiders to begin with, they just wanted to swallow my brother’s inheritance whole!”
Yamada Binjiro went from emotional breakdown at first to suddenly justifying his behavior at the end.
And not even ten seconds had passed in between.
He clenched his teeth and shouted in collapse, even generating furious anger: “I was just helping my brother clean house!”
“I didn’t do anything wrong at all! Why arrest me!”
“Why not arrest that woman who stole my brother’s inheritance!”
“You’re not fair at all!!!”
“You…”
The moment Yamada Binjiro lifted his head in agitation to look at Uchiha Ikeizumi, he suddenly saw a pair of scarlet three-tomoe Sharingan enter his field of vision.
His vision seemed entirely filled by that Sharingan.
Yamada Binjiro’s face shifted from anger to terror.
As if seeing some scene no one else could see.
“AHHHHHH!!!”
Izumi was stunned for a moment. She quickly realized that Senior Ikeizumi had directly cast Sharingan Illusion Technique on him!
Izumi didn’t know what horrific scene Yamada Binjiro was seeing in the illusion or what terrifying illusion he was experiencing.
But…
She felt he had it coming!
“Rookie, this is the ‘evil’ of the Ninja World. Even when justice’s guillotine is at their necks, they still won’t repent. Mild laws cannot deliver justice for the dead.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said hauntingly: “So with your「 Absolute Justice」, deliver justice for the dead.”
“Kill him.”
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