Chapter 49: Recognition Of Absolute Justice
Meanwhile.
Sarutobi Hiruzen saw that the sky had completely darkened, reached out to rub his aching brow, and let out a heavy sigh. However, the lingering gloomy expression on his old face did not dissipate so easily.
He had originally wanted Sarutobi Shinnosuke to pass his final journey in peace.
But who could have imagined that Uchiha Ikeizumi would show up halfway through.
Facing what Uchiha Ikeizumi had done today, Sarutobi Hiruzen harbored extremely complex emotions.
Publicly, he should support Uchiha Ikeizumi in carrying out justice. After all, Yamada Binjiro’s actions had already pierced the bottom line of Land of Fire Law. Even if Ikeizumi’s methods were a bit extreme, directly having his subordinate kill the other…
Sarutobi Hiruzen felt that Uchiha Ikeizumi had done nothing wrong.
But.
Privately, he was Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s father. At his eldest son’s funeral, such an extremely discordant interlude was a huge provocation and stimulus for a father.
Not to mention, it was Ikeizumi who killed Shinnosuke!
“Hoo…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen murmured: “But Konoha cannot withstand a civil war with no prior preparation. The pillars in the village who can shoulder the heavy burden are becoming fewer and fewer… Ikeizumi, he is one of the few in the younger generation in the village who can shoulder the heavy burden.”
“Even if the Uchiha Clan cannot become Hokage, he could replace Danzo, or Yan, or Koharu in the future.”
It was this kind of stubborn, two-sided entanglement.
That left him unable to figure out what kind of emotion he himself was feeling.
Sarutobi Hiruzen sorted out his terrible mood.
Preparing to leave the Hokage’s Office Building.
But at that moment, an Anbu Ninja suddenly jumped in through the open window, half-kneeling in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen, and said rapidly: “Hokage, Uchiha Ikeizumi killed his only blood relative ‘Uchiha Onigawara’ today.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen paused in his steps.
“Uchiha Onigawara… the one suspected of torturing and killing two Anbu companions during a mission outside the village?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen was not unfamiliar with the name Uchiha Onigawara.
Because the other had once been a member of Anbu.
It was also he who had ordered Uchiha Onigawara temporarily suspended pending investigation.
“Yes.” The Anbu Ninja nodded.
Sarutobi Hiruzen murmured: “Since Ikeizumi killed him, that means this old man did not wrong him.”
He suddenly thought of something and directly asked: “Was Uchiha Onigawara Ikeizumi’s only living blood relative?”
“Yes.”
The Anbu’s answer was exactly the same as before, though there was a barely perceptible fluctuation in emotion.
Clearly, Uchiha Ikeizumi’s actions had shocked even the battle-hardened Anbu Ninja.
Sarutobi Hiruzen also fell silent.
“Ruthless「 absolute justice」…” It was unknown how long he was silent before he spat out these words with a complicated expression.
Sarutobi Hiruzen vaguely understood what Uchiha Ikeizumi’s「 absolute justice」 truly was.
“Hoo…”
“Ikeizumi, it’s precisely because you are too outstanding and too devoted to justice that this old man cannot regard you as his enemy due to the hatred brought by Shinnosuke’s matter…”
……
“Hmph! As expected of the innately evil Uchiha brat! A person who doesn’t even spare blood relatives is already an emotionless killing machine. The evil bloodline flowing in the Uchiha Clan should not exist in this world!”
On the other side, Danzo also received word from a Root Ninja.
“The eyes of the Uchiha Clan harbor evil power beyond imagination. This power requires extremely powerful mental stimulation to have even a certain probability of awakening.”
Danzo’s eyes narrowed involuntarily, flickering with suspicion and danger.
He was speculating on Uchiha Ikeizumi’s behavior from the most malicious angle.
He suddenly thought of Uchiha Shisui.
Shisui’s eyes possessed the most evil power in the legends of the Uchiha Clan. And precisely because Uchiha Shisui harbored that treasure which brought guilt, and the “guilt” was so great that the entire Konoha leadership dreaded it, Danzo could not hold back and moved to kill him.
And tried to seize the Mangekyo Sharingan!
Now… Danzo began to suspect whether Uchiha Ikeizumi had awakened a Mangekyo Sharingan similar to Uchiha Shisui’s?
Whether he also possessed that kind of evil power that sent chills down the spine just hearing about it?
Feeling the occasional slight stinging pain in his left ear.
While wary in his heart, Danzo could not help but feel rising anger, grinding his teeth as he whispered: “Monkey, if you hadn’t stopped this old man that day, this old man would have long since strangled this evil Uchiha brat who threatens the village in the cradle!”
His anger was not only directed at Uchiha Ikeizumi.
But also vented on Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Even though Danzo knew well that the probability of Uchiha Ikeizumi awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan was not high—otherwise, after so many years, he would not have only gotten one Uchiha Shisui.
But once this suspicion emerged in his heart, there was no way to suppress it.
Like weeds constantly taking root and sprouting in Danzo’s heart.
Making his expression cloudy and uncertain.
“Uchiha Ikeizumi…”
“Sharingan…”
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“It’s the second time killing today!” Senior Izumi soaked her entire body in the bathtub, her hair strands floating on the steaming water surface behind her head.
She only had half her head above water, and the words she mumbled from her mouth sounded like “gurgle gurgle.”
She remembered clearly the first time she killed; she had been uneasy the entire night.
Even after returning home, she worried she would be captured by Anbu.
Now she seemed somewhat accustomed to it.
She found that she no longer felt the slightest unease, and even that discomfort from killing had long dissipated.
“Moreover…”
She gently covered her chest, lifted her head out of the water, and puzzledly muttered to herself: “Why do I feel a sense of secret joy? I’m not some perverted killer, so it can’t be because I killed someone that this strange mood arises, right?”
Senior Izumi stood up, lifted her feet out of the bathtub, and after rinsing off the foam on her body, a flash of insight crossed her mind.
She suddenly understood.
“—It’s recognition!”
She realized that her secret joy came because she discovered that within the Uchiha Clan, there were already people besides herself who recognized Senior Ikeizumi’s「 absolute justice」!
And there were not few such people!
After all, on the way home after bidding farewell to Senior Ikeizumi today, she had heard many people discussing Senior Ikeizumi.
And it was not negative discussion!
Even if they only admired Senior Ikeizumi’s power due to his overly extreme methods.
But…
At least it was a good start.
……
“Father, I want to meet Uchiha Ikeizumi.”
At the dinner table, Uchiha Itachi said solemnly to Fugaku.
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