Chapter 70: Third Hokage, As Long As Danzo Lives, Justice Cannot Prevail
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s voice was not loud, but everyone gathered at the scene could hear it clearly.
“Besides Uchiha Shisui… Hatake Sakumo was also indirectly killed by Danzo?”
A slightly older Konoha Jonin was stunned. He had worked with Hatake Sakumo before, but he only knew that back then, due to some matters, Hatake Sakumo had suffered a lot of verbal abuse.
He did not know that someone had deliberately manipulated the negative public opinion against Hatake Sakumo from behind the scenes back then!
Hold on!
Could it be that the surge of negative public opinion was also related to Danzo?
At this moment…
Some Anbu Ninjas couldn’t help but turn their gazes to Kakashi—because Kakashi, as the Anbu Captain, his father was Hatake Sakumo!
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s gaze darkened slightly. He coldly glowered at Danzo before turning his head to look at Kakashi to his right rear.
Sarutobi Hiruzen saw that Kakashi, who was usually listless all day, had unknowingly clenched his fists.
“Kakashi!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly reminded him. The current situation was already chaotic enough; if Kakashi couldn’t hold back his inner rage and did something impulsive, it would be even more troublesome.
“…Hokage, I’m very calm.” Kakashi was silent for half a second before only replying with this.
No one could see what expression was under his Anbu mask.
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed inwardly.
Even he could hear the emotional fluctuation in Kakashi’s tone.
How could he possibly be calm?
Uchiha Ikeizumi exposing what Danzo had done in the past in public was also something Sarutobi Hiruzen hadn’t expected.
Couldn’t Ikeizumi consider the village’s balance at all?
Putting Danzo on the fire to roast…
It couldn’t be contained anymore!
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“Several years ago, for researching the First’s Wood Style Cells, you conducted extreme research with Orochimaru, killing a large number of volunteers. After the research was halted, you still colluded with Orochimaru to privately kidnap infants for experiments, directly or indirectly killing sixty-seven innocent infants.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi slowly read out content others couldn’t see, as if seeing through all evil deeds.
“This, how do you explain it?”
“And…”
“Enough!!!” Danzo glowered and snapped: “This is just the one-sided words of you evil brat! Uchiha Ikeizumi! What evidence do you have to prove you can truly see through past and future evil? What evidence do you have to prove what you say is true?”
His interruption seemed very abrupt, and it also made him appear somewhat panicked.
Because Danzo already felt gazes of hostility, anger, or suspicion all focused on himself.
That chilling sensation of soon being enemies with the whole world.
It made all the hairs on his body stand on end.
He questioned the surrounding crowd again: “Do you all really want to believe this brat’s one-sided words? Don’t you have any doubt whether what he says is true or false? I’ve dedicated most of my life to Konoha; you don’t believe me, but believe him?”
“Senior Ikeizumi never lies!!!” A sudden voice made Danzo’s eyelids twitch.
He found that the speaker was also a Uchiha Clan brat!
Izumi, who could no longer listen, bit her silver teeth, mustered courage, and stood out. She confronted Shimura Danzo, this Konoha high-level: “Senior Ikeizumi has never misjudged anyone’s evil deeds; it’s not something you can casually slander with a few words!”
Danzo’s inner rage burned even stronger.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, Uchiha Ikeizumi, and these people saying impolite words to him, Danzo gritted his teeth and barely endured.
But this Uchiha brat in front of him, who looked like he hadn’t even grown all his hair, what qualification did he have to confront him in front of himself?
“Fugaku, control your clan members!” Danzo felt that even paying attention to Izumi was lowering his own status.
Uchiha Clan brats were indeed all rude and insolent!
“Danzo, the one who needs controlling… is yourself!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s cold tone infuriated Danzo greatly.
“Monkey, you…”
Before Danzo could finish a complete sentence, Sarutobi Hiruzen turned his stern old face and asked Uchiha Ikeizumi: “Ikeizumi, can you ensure what you say is true? Shisui, Sakumo… their deaths are all related to Danzo?”
“Third Hokage, are you deliberately interrupting me?” Uchiha Ikeizumi did not reply but countered: “Interrupting me before I reveal more of Shimura Danzo’s past evil deeds, so you can do your utmost as Hokage to continue shielding him, right?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen was taken aback, his eye corner involuntarily twitching.
“You misunderstand me.” Sarutobi Hiruzen felt he just wanted this conflict to end as smoothly and quickly as possible.
Instead of continuing in this face-tearing situation.
But who could have thought Ikeizumi wouldn’t cooperate at all.
Most critically… although Danzo had indeed hidden many things from him, Sarutobi Hiruzen was aware of some matters and had silently allowed Danzo to do them.
He, Sarutobi Hiruzen, was the Hokage standing in the sunlight, while Shimura Danzo was Konoha’s Root standing in the shadows. The two complemented each other to create today’s powerful Konoha.
If some of Danzo’s matters implicated him…
A trace of imperceptible gloom flashed in Sarutobi Hiruzen’s eyes.
Uchiha Ikeizumi glanced at him and clearly saw the faint dissatisfaction on this Third Hokage’s face, but he didn’t care and continued coldly: “Three years ago…”
One evil deed after another related to Danzo was revealed from Uchiha Ikeizumi’s mouth.
It made the Konoha Ninjas shudder.
It made Sarutobi Hiruzen’s expression increasingly helpless.
It also nearly exploded Danzo’s mentality—even if he stubbornly claimed Uchiha Ikeizumi was lying, he had to admit inwardly that this evil Uchiha brat was telling the truth!
Some past events even Danzo himself had almost forgotten, but Uchiha Ikeizumi could state them clearly, stirring up his distant memories.
Danzo felt many Konoha Ninjas looking at him as if he were human “scum” from the sewers!
Damn! Damn! Damn!
How could this be!!!
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“So, Third Hokage…” Uchiha Ikeizumi suddenly stopped revealing the topic of Danzo’s past evil deeds. He faced Sarutobi Hiruzen, his expression unchanging, and said in a eerie tone: “As the Konoha Hokage, how will you deal with Shimura Danzo?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s old face was grim as he remained silent.
“Third Hokage, with Danzo alive, justice cannot prevail. As ‘Hokage,’ do you intend to shield this villain who deserves a thousand cuts and ten thousand stabs?”
“Or is 「justice」 in your eyes merely a tool for maintaining politics? You pick it up when you want, discard it when you want?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s breathing involuntarily quickened a bit.
He understood.
Uchiha Ikeizumi was ostensibly roasting Danzo on the fire, but actually targeting him, the Third Hokage!
Putting him, Sarutobi Hiruzen, on the fire to roast!
Sarutobi Hiruzen already felt many people shifting their gazes targeting Danzo onto himself.
He, as Hokage, had to give a reply!
“…Monkey!”
Danzo’s annoyed gaze also fell on Sarutobi Hiruzen.
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