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The exorcising light, charged four times stronger, completely purified everything on him that was related to the 'strange'.

Danzo Shimura aged rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this, Xu Ming suddenly realized that Kato Megumi's judgment was indeed correct.

Danzo Shimura was still human at heart; he simply used the powerful life force brought about by his 'strange' body tissue to forcibly prolong his life and survive until now.

Now that all his 'strange' organs have been purified by the exorcising light, he has returned to being human, and his body has naturally begun to age faster.

A short while later, Shimura Danzo collapsed to the ground and died.

The Sesshō-seki, which Shimura Danzo had been plotting for a long time, rolled off his body.

For a moment, the field was completely silent.

No one expected that things would turn out so anticlimactically.

The fact that Shimura Danzo died so casually is like a farce.

Itachi Uchiha was the fastest to react.

He picked up the Killing Stone that had rolled onto the ground.

Jiraiya frowned when he saw his actions, but then his expression relaxed instantly as if he had thought of something.

"Uchiha Itachi, hand over the Sesshoseki."

We won't make things difficult for you two brothers.

After a moment of silence, Itachi Uchiha surprisingly replied calmly:

"it is good."

After saying that, he threw the Killing Stone over.

Seeing that he was so sensible, Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief and completely relaxed.

'After reinforcing the seal once more, I can finally get some rest...'

Jiraiya caught the Sesshoseki casually, thinking to himself.

But then, something unexpected happened.

A flash of golden light disappeared in an instant, and Minato Namikaze's figure appeared behind Jiraiya.

The next second, a demonic sword radiating intense negative energy pierced through Jiraiya's body.

"Minato, you...!"

Jiraiya's face showed an expression of disbelief, his eyes filled with incomprehension and confusion.

He never expected that his most trusted disciple would stab him in the back at the last moment.

With a cold expression, Minato Namikaze snatched the Killing Stone from Jiraiya's hand and then mercilessly pulled the short sword from Jiraiya's body.

puff!

Jiraiya coughed up a mouthful of black blood and collapsed to his knees, utterly exhausted.

"Why!?"

Jiraiya still can't believe that his most trusted disciple has betrayed him.

Minato Namikaze remained silent, looking up at Itachi Uchiha opposite him.

Where is my brother?

Itachi Uchiha asked calmly.

Minato Namikaze snapped his fingers.

Two figures immediately appeared behind the group. One was a boy whose face resembled Itachi Uchiha, and the other was Kakashi, who was seriously injured and had been placed in the Hokage Building!

Looking at the boy's arrogant and unruly appearance, it goes without saying that this must be Uchiha Sasuke, who has the nickname "Sasuke the Second" in the original work.

Jiraiya looked at Kakashi beside Uchiha Sasuke, who seemed completely unaffected, and knew perfectly well that his good student had completely outmaneuvered him.

Itachi Uchiha instantly appeared next to Kakashi and snatched Sasuke Uchiha away.

Then, the tadpole-shaped patterns in Itachi's eyes began to spin rapidly, as if he was using his Sharingan to check if Sasuke had been attacked in the dark.

"Uchiha Itachi! What are you doing? I don't need you to save me!"

Sasuke Uchiha awkwardly pushed Itachi Uchiha's hand away, perfectly displaying his unruly and unruly nature.

Uchiha Itachi checked for a while and only felt completely relieved after confirming that his younger brother had not been subjected to any sealing techniques or curses.

"Don't worry, my goal is just to release the Nine-Tails."

You and your brother can leave at any time.

Minato Namikaze smiled faintly.

"Let's go."

I never expected that Itachi Uchiha would actually just leave like that.

Ignoring the other's resistance, he hoisted Uchiha Sasuke onto his shoulder, nodded to Namikaze Minato, and then walked out of the cave without hesitation.

Minato Namikaze did indeed take no action, just as he said.

"Minato, what exactly are you trying to do?"

Jiraiya found himself increasingly unable to understand his apprentice.

Minato Namikaze laughed, but his smile was incredibly cold, making him seem like a completely different person compared to his previous sunny image.

"Jiraiya-sensei, didn't I say I would break the seal and release the Nine-Tails?"

Jiraiya looked at him in disbelief.

"Minato, are you really going to betray the village!?"

Little did anyone know that Jiraiya's words seemed to have touched a nerve with Minato Namikaze, completely enraging him.

"The village betrayed me!"

"What Fourth Hokage! He just wanted me to offer up my son as a vessel for the Nine-Tailed Fox!"

Jiraiya's expression changed slightly, and he retorted:

"Sealing the Nine-Tailed Fox inside a Jinchuriki was for the sake of Konoha, for the sake of all of Japan. The Nine-Tailed Fox is far too dangerous..."

Minato Namikaze sneered.

"Jiraiya-sensei, do you really think I don't know anything?"

"It's all thanks to you that I became Hokage; that gave me the authority to access many previously hidden documents."

Chapter 466 It's better not to be Hokage!

"The Nine-Tailed Fox was sealed by Abe no Seimei back in the Heian period. It was the ambitious old men in the village who wanted to control the Nine-Tailed Fox that broke Abe no Seimei's seal."

Unexpectedly, those old guys overestimated themselves and underestimated the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox. Not only were they unable to control the Nine-Tailed Fox, but they also caused it to go berserk, nearly destroying the entire Hidden Leaf Village.

Those old guys had no choice but to come up with the idea of ​​sealing the Nine-Tailed Fox inside a Jinchūriki.

"What they call 'for the good of Konoha' is nothing but us younger generations paying the price for the ambitions of those old guys!"

Minato Namikaze became more and more excited as he spoke, his right hand involuntarily clenching into a fist and waving it forcefully.

"Why should my son be sacrificed for those few overconfident idiots?!"

Hmph! If only I had known it would turn out this way!

"I'd rather not be Hokage!"

Jiraiya was speechless.

After a long while, Jiraiya looked at Kakashi with a sorrowful expression.

"Kakashi-kun, what about you? Why did you betray us?"

Kakashi stared with dead fish eyes, his face indifferent.

"Konoha forced my father to his death, and I did not betray him."

From beginning to end, I've always been on my master's side.

"..."

As soon as Kakashi uttered those words, Jiraiya knew that things could no longer be resolved peacefully.

Jiraiya knew some of the inside story of what happened back then. To put it bluntly, it was nothing more than a power struggle between the commoner faction representing the Hokage and the powerful clans.

Kakashi's father, the former White Fang of Konoha, unfortunately became a victim of the struggle.

While hiding to the side and eating melon seeds, Xu Ming secretly turned on his phone's fast charging mode.

Minato Namikaze revealed the darkness of Konoha one by one, but Xu Ming was not surprised at all.

In the original story, Konoha is the strongest among the five great ninja villages, and its darkness is no less than that of the other villages.

Hidden beneath the lush foliage are rotten, foul-smelling roots.

What truly surprised Xu Ming was that Minato Namikaze, a man of noble character and a model of a male protagonist, would actually turn evil.

But upon closer reflection, everything makes perfect sense.

In the original work, Jiraiya subtly instilled in him a love for the village.

In addition, Konoha was beset by internal and external troubles at the time.

The four major ninja villages are eyeing them covetously, while the Akatsuki organization is secretly plotting against them.

The nine-tailed fox demon wreaked havoc in the village.

Driven by a strong sense of responsibility, the Fourth Hokage, who was the head of the village, stepped forward and sacrificed himself, while also using his son as a vessel to seal the Nine-Tails.

But the world is different.

There are no other ninja villages, and Konoha's motives for acquiring the Nine-Tailed Fox are impure.

It was purely out of Konoha's higher-ups' ambition and personal desires that the Nine-Tailed Fox was released from its sealed state.

As a result, he overestimated himself, crashed and burned, and that's how things ended up like this today.

It's entirely fair to say they brought it on themselves.