Chapter 11: Blocking Justice Means Even The Hokage Must Die
“Seisui… Mother…” Moonlight Hayate stared blankly at his younger brother, who had collapsed limply in his arms and already lost all signs of life.
The younger brother’s death and the words he said before dying left his mind in a muddled haze, temporarily depriving him of the ability to think.
He blankly raised his head and locked eyes with Uchiha Ikeizumi, who was sheathing his blade.
Two streams of grief-stricken tears had unknowingly slid down his face long ago.
“Your mother’s corpse has probably been taken away by others from the Police Force by now. Next, the Police Force will ask ninjas from the Yamanaka Clan to come for a joint investigation.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said expressionlessly, “If you want to see your mother, you can wait until the joint investigation is over. It will probably take one or two days.”
Mother…
Was murdered…
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s words turned “Moonlight Seisui”‘s pre-death sarcasm into reality, making Moonlight Hayate even more grief-stricken, as if his heart was being pierced by countless invisible blades.
Two years ago, Father died, killed by Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Two years later, Mother died, killed by his own younger brother. Now the younger brother was also dead, by Uchiha Ikeizumi’s hand.
The entire Moonlight Clan—his direct bloodline—now had only him, Moonlight Hayate, as the sole survivor!
Moonlight Hayate was already somewhat dazed.
He even didn’t know if he should seek revenge against Uchiha Ikeizumi.
This Uchiha who was like a demon had killed Father and his own younger brother…
But the other party was carrying out “justice.”
It could even be said that Uchiha Ikeizumi had avenged his mother!
Moreover…
It was the unforgivable sin of matricide!
“Senior Ikeizumi, he looks like he’s in a lot of pain. His mental state seems to be on the verge of collapse,” Izumi quietly said. The girl expressed some concern on her face: “Will he be okay?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi turned and left, slowly saying, “Let him calm down alone.”
“Oh.” Izumi hurriedly followed.
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Uchiha Ikeizumi killed two Moonlight Clan chunin, brought his subordinate into the Moonlight Clan Residence, and killed the former clan head’s second son “Moonlight Seisui”—this news quickly exploded in Konoha.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, with his pipe in his mouth, heard the news.
The shock made him choke and cough violently.
Once he finally recovered, Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately took a sip of water. After suppressing his fluctuating emotions, he asked the Anbu ninja reporting the news in a deep voice, “What is the specific reason?”
Just as the Anbu ninja was about to speak, a knock sounded at the door.
Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly guessed something.
He said, “Come in!”
Sure enough… Uchiha Ikeizumi, who had killed three ninjas, walked openly into the Hokage’s Office like nothing had happened, with a cautious little follower behind him.
“The reason is that the criminal ‘Moonlight Seisui’ resisted arrest.” Uchiha Ikeizumi said directly even before Sarutobi Hiruzen could ask: “Anyone who dares to resist arrest is no longer a simple criminal. They must be struck down with an iron fist and killed on the spot to deter other petty criminals.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s expression darkened slightly. Uchiha Ikeizumi had more than once come to see him without first addressing him as Hokage.
And more than once spoken to him in this cold tone.
It was as if he, the majestic Third Hokage, was just a criminal in this child’s eyes.
This instinctively made Sarutobi Hiruzen feel somewhat uncomfortable.
Fortunately, his emotions were stable. The slight darkening of his face faded, and Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Uchiha Ikeizumi and asked, “Criminal?”
“Uchiha Izumi.” Uchiha Ikeizumi said.
“Yes! Senior!!!”
Izumi took a deep breath. Having already prepared herself mentally on the way, she took the initiative to report to the Hokage ahead of her senior: “Hokage, Senior Ikeizumi and I this morning…”
The girl’s narrative logic was very clear, and her wording was very concise.
After she recounted the entire incident in full detail.
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
“Moonlight Seisui…” Sarutobi Hiruzen exhaled a turbid breath: “This child, I even held him when he was little. But I never expected him to be… so extremely jealous. To the point that because of this terrifying jealousy, he would target his own closest kin…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen believed it.
Although he couldn’t quite grasp some of Uchiha Ikeizumi’s ways of doing things, the one thing he could be certain of was that Uchiha Ikeizumi never made wrong judgments when it came to matters of “justice” and “sin.”
This child…
Was like a born judge, with an accuracy rate of one hundred percent in determining the truth of cases!
Back then, Sarutobi Hiruzen had also suspected whether Uchiha Ikeizumi was using “carrying out justice” as an excuse to kill for pleasure.
After dozens of investigations turned up no abnormalities.
Sarutobi Hiruzen realized that there really were people with such talent.
The Uchiha truly produced one talent after another!
But…
“Ikeizumi!” Sarutobi Hiruzen knocked on the desk, his face serious as he said: “A matricide resisting arrest—you killing him with force, I can let that slide. But why did you kill two innocent Moonlight Clan members?”
“Those two young men, one twenty-one and one twenty-six. They were just standing in your way, and you had to kill them? Is harming the innocent like this still justice?!”
Izumi keenly sensed that the atmosphere in the Hokage’s Office was off.
Uchiha Ikeizumi locked eyes with Sarutobi Hiruzen and said, “I had already warned them in advance, but since they insisted on obstructing law enforcement, that meant they had made their own choice.”
“Unfortunately, they chose to stand on the side of ‘evil.’ By obstructing justice and condoning sin, they were no longer innocent.”
He paused, then continued, “No matter if those standing in my way are Moonlight Clan ninjas or you, Hokage… I will clear all obstacles with absolute justice!”
“Never showing mercy!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen gazed deeply at Uchiha Ikeizumi, finally sighing and asking, “Ikeizumi, how long has this kind of sharp, clashing dialogue been going on between you and someone like me, whose ideals don’t align?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said, “Five years.”
“Five years…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up, hands behind his back. After pacing a few steps and stopping, he asked again, “Ikeizumi, you must sense that something is happening in the village that no one wants to see. Although there are no large-scale conflicts in the Ninja World anymore, the waters inside Konoha have never been able to calm down.”
“As an Uchiha, you should be especially sensitive to this. So, can I ask you? In your eyes, is justice… on the side of the village’s majority? Or on the side of the village’s minority?”
“If one day, due to your stance, you are forced to do something against justice, will you do it?”
Izumi at the side already felt the atmosphere in the office so heavy that the air around them seemed about to solidify.
“Justice stands with the good people.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi gave a third answer, continuing, “My stance is justice. I will never betray my stance, nor violate the justice in my heart.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen mused, “The good people…”
He showed a slight smile: “Ikeizumi, your answer differs somewhat from Itachi’s. But it makes me feel more and more that you and that child Itachi are indeed the same type. You both love the village very much.”
“Hokage, insulting people is wrong.” Uchiha Ikeizumi frowned and corrected him.
Sarutobi Hiruzen: “???”
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