The Great Hero Uchiha

"..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi offered no explanation.

Minato Namikaze stared intently into Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes with a grave expression, clearly suspecting that Hiruzen Sarutobi had withheld information from him, the Hokage.

"Third Hokage, what have you been hiding from me?!"

"I didn't know either."

Hiruzen Sarutobi was telling the truth, but no one present believed him.

Minato Namikaze addressed the crowd.

"I will handle this matter and give everyone an explanation."

Uchiha Miyuki shook his head.

“If it’s just about this village plundering children from surrounding villages for experiments, the two of us would be enough. There’s no need to gather everyone together.”

The expressions of the others grew increasingly solemn. The fact that they had already violated taboos by plundering children from nearby villages for human experimentation was not even the main issue!

Minato Namikaze immediately looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"What else are you hiding?!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi said with a bitter face, "I really didn't hide anything."

However, no one present believed Hiruzen Sarutobi's words.

How could a third-generation shogun be unaware of these things?!

"Follow me!"

Uchiha Miyuki rushed ahead towards the location of Root, now there was no need to guard against anyone tipping him off.

Upon arriving at the entrance of [Root], they found that everyone inside had already been taken down by Uchiha Miyuki.

Uchiha Miyuki glanced at Namikaze Minato.

"Don't leave my sight."

Minato Namikaze sighed, "I really didn't know anything about these things."

As Hiruzen Sarutobi stared at the entrance to Root, his face grim as he pondered what else Danzo had been hiding from him.

Upon entering, seeing the unconscious Root members on the ground, no one said anything. They simply followed silently under Uchiha Miyuki's lead and soon arrived at the first secret room. Uchiha Miyuki glanced at Sarutobi Hiruzen and said, "I used genjutsu to infiltrate and investigate before, so I don't understand this kind of technique. Can one of you undo it?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi stepped forward and spoke.

"I'll do it."

Given the current situation, Hiruzen Sarutobi realized that he had no chance to clean up Danzo's mess, and there was no need to delay any longer.

He immediately formed a hand seal to break the spell that sealed the secret chamber.

Each of the instruments contained the corpses of ninjas from various clans, as well as a large amount of research data.

Everyone's face darkened; these were clan ninjas who had been reported missing by the village.

The following secret rooms were similar, containing not only bloodstained ninjas, but also village and clan secret techniques, and children that Danzo had secretly taken from the Root organization to be used as experimental subjects.

Finally, everyone gathered in the room where Hashirama Senju's body was kept.

"Besides what I see here, I also found a large number of laboratories hidden in the wild! I didn't investigate those, nor did I dare to. Hokage of all generations—can you tell me what the village is doing? Why are the missing ninjas of our clan appearing in Root? How did they die? We sacrificed our lives fighting for the village, and this is how the village repays us???"

Everyone stared silently at Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Before Minato Namikaze could speak, Miyuki Uchiha continued, his face grim.

"Don't tell me you don't know anything. This was all done by Danzo in secret. The village was completely unaware from beginning to end. If that's the case, I'm really afraid that another Danzo will appear after a while! No, it's one Danzo after another hiding in the shadows. Once exposed, one Danzo will die. If not exposed, they'll just fool us like idiots."

Minato Namikaze didn't speak, but looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi with a gloomy face.

"Third Hokage, can you explain what's going on here!?"

This is not Minato Namikaze shifting the blame.

I genuinely had no idea!

Let alone Minato Namikaze, even Hiruzen Sarutobi only vaguely guessed that Danzo would do some shady things in the dark, but he never expected Danzo to go to this extent.

However, he also knew in his heart that Danzo had gone to such lengths because of his own indulgence.

"This was a dereliction of duty on my part when I took office as Hokage."

Uchiha Miyuki couldn't help but laugh, and the laughter grew louder and louder until it turned into maniacal laughter, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world. "Dereliction of duty? What a dereliction of duty! Last time you were derelict in your duty, which caused the deaths of thousands of ninjas in the village, and Iwagakure almost attacked the village entrance. Now you're just trying to shirk responsibility with a word like 'dereliction of duty'!?"

Does that mean that from now on, everyone who makes a mistake can simply shirk responsibility with a mere excuse?

I finally understand—

Did you see the First Hokage? This is the Will of Fire they wanted to pass on to future generations!

Hiruzen Sarutobi took out a kunai and prepared to commit suicide in front of the First Hokage's coffin.

Others noticed, including Minato Namikaze, but no one intervened.

Uchiha Miyuki intervened and stopped him.

"Death? You think you can just die because you made a mistake?!"

What exactly do you want to do?

"What do I want to do? It's clearly the village that wants to do what! We trust the village, yet you secretly harm the village's ninjas and mark them as missing in the files to cover your tracks. How clever! Let me guess, are you studying our bloodstains because you're waiting for the right moment to secretly exterminate all of us bloodstain ninjas and replace us with those experimental subjects under your control?"

Uchiha Miyuki seemed to have thought of something, and his face immediately darkened.

"Wait! Something's not right—has the village already secretly completed the experiments, and even disguised some of the test subjects as members of our clans, lurking in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to secretly take control of all our clans??? If the village doesn't trust us clans, why does it still let us stay in the village? Is it because it's worried that our departure will strengthen the enemy's power... How ruthless! The village is truly ruthless! Is your next plan to secretly exterminate our clans one by one, leaving only those test subjects under your control!?"

Everyone's expression changed drastically at that moment, their faces turning grim, including Minato Namikaze.

Minato Namikaze wasn't a clan ninja, but he's now the Hokage!

"Hiruzen Sarutobi, what exactly are you planning to do while you're in office!?"

At this moment, Minato Namikaze even stopped addressing the Third Hokage and directly called out Hiruzen Sarutobi's name, which shows how furious he was.

Hiruzen Sarutobi felt bitter but couldn't find a reason to refute it. Besides, Miyuki Uchiha's imagination was too wild. How could he have even prepared the follow-up plans for the village? He could only weakly defend himself.

“I really didn’t know about it, and the village never had such a plan.”

167. The Death of Danzo —

All the families took away the data they had researched inside [Root], along with the corpses of their own family members, which led to the entire [Root] being taken over by the Dark Party. The other laboratories were also raided by the Dark Party.

At this moment, the Senju clan's complete dominance over Konoha was utterly shattered!

Those families were willing to follow the Senju lineage because of its ideals, but now the Senju lineage is secretly plundering children from nearby villages for experiments, and also harming village ninjas for experiments. Furthermore, they do not trust any of the families and want to decipher the bloodline limits and secret techniques of each family in order to achieve their plan to secretly control all the families!

Who would dare to trust the Thousand Hands lineage under such circumstances?

The group arrived at the place where Danzo and two high-ranking advisors were being held.

Before anyone else could speak, Hiruzen Sarutobi took the initiative to question Danzo.

"Danzo, what exactly do you want to do!?"

He practically roared those words out.

Danzo was stunned for a moment, then realized that the secrets within Root had been exposed to all the higher-ups, and was about to say something.

Uchiha Miyuki spoke first.

"Danzo, your conspiracy to secretly decipher the bloodlines and secret techniques of the village's clans, and use these to disguise experimental subjects as members of various clans to secretly control all the clans in the village has been exposed!"

Let's define this matter directly!

Whatever Danzo's true intentions were, that's no longer important.

The important thing is that the village is capable of doing this kind of thing!

The answer is yes.

Would the village do that?

In the past, people would never have thought this way. After all, apart from the Uchiha clan, the village was quite fair and just as long as no other clan produced someone like Hatake Sakumo. But now, trust in the village has plummeted to rock bottom.

Danzo's words were cut off by Uchiha Miyuki.

? ? ? ?

When did I ever plan something like this!

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This plan actually seems feasible... Wait! I never even considered doing something like this!

My research into the village's bloodline limits and secret techniques is all for the village's future development. I want all the village's commoner ninjas to be able to master those clan bloodlines and secret techniques.

At that moment, Danzo realized that no matter how he tried to explain, it would be pointless.

Uchiha Miyuki's single sentence defined the nature of the incident.

The most important thing now is that the Senju lineage must not fall. I should take all the blame upon myself and then bravely commit suicide to atone for my sins.

Danzo felt a sense of disorientation; the current situation was so similar to when the Second Hokage asked him to stay behind and cover the retreat.

I am no longer the cowardly person I used to be!

Uchiha Miyuki saw through Danzo's thoughts.

wanna die?

Then let me see if you have that much courage.

"What else have you done? Tell me everything, and the village might give you a chance to live."

The courage required to die knowing you will die is on a completely different level than the courage required to choose death when you know you can live.

Danzo opened his mouth, but the words that were on the tip of his tongue remained unspoken, just like before!

He glanced at Hiruzen Sarutobi almost instinctively.

Everything was just like when the Second Hokage asked who would stay behind to cover the retreat, but he was different now and shouldn't be so cowardly anymore... But at this moment, he was still cowardly and felt ashamed of it! Driven by this sense of shame, he restrained his cowardly heart, opened his mouth with difficulty, and uttered the words that were stuck in his throat.

"I did all of this secretly; it has nothing to do with the village."