The master and disciple bid Orochimaru farewell and wandered around casually.
But with Konoha's higher-ups following behind them, Jiraiya felt uncomfortable all over.
"Sensei, look, it's a ninja tool shop!"
"Let's all go inside and take a look."
The group made its way over in grand fashion.
Inside the ninja tool shop.
"Welcome..." Teoyaki, the manager responsible for receiving guests, greeted them warmly. "It's the Third Hokage. Welcome to the Uchiha Ninja Tool Shop, everyone."
"We're just looking around. Go ahead and attend to your work."
"Understood, Third Hokage. Please let me know if you need anything."
The Third Hokage did not want his arrival to cause such a fuss in the shop.
He was never someone who cared about pomp and circumstance.
Otherwise, he would not have smoothly inherited the title of Hokage.
If the Second Hokage had handed the position to Danzo back then, Konoha's people would probably have driven him out within a few years.
Don't believe it? What good things had Danzo ever done?
The Uchiha Clan was supposedly going to rebel, so he slaughtered the entire clan, including the elderly and children.
How could anyone believe with absolute certainty that something which had not happened would definitely happen?
Even if it had been one second before the rebellion, killing off their entire clan would still have been unacceptable.
This was a matter of human nature. He was not some great prophet, so how did he know that wiping out the Uchiha would benefit Konoha?
Perhaps the Uchiha Clan would have pulled back from the brink at the very last moment.
Danzo's goal had simply been to eliminate everyone standing in the way of his becoming Hokage.
In the end, Shimura Danzō, who had spent his life weaving schemes and conspiracies, was personally killed by