"Who in our clan could withstand the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God?"
Sarutobi Takamasa sat back down without saying a word, as if he had been silenced.
How could he not know that?
No one who became an elder could possibly be brain-dead.
He had followed Sarutobi Hiruzen for a long time and did not believe Tsunade would let them off so easily.
To Sarutobi Takamasa, that was impossible. If he were Tsunade, he would definitely wipe out the Sarutobi Clan to the last member.
They had not acted yet only because taking direct action would encounter quite a few obstacles.
After all, the Sarutobi Clan had many people.
But Sarutobi Hiruzen's skin had already been stripped away. As long as they waited for the matter to continue fermenting, the Sarutobi Clan's reputation would eventually rot away.
Then, they could pin any crime on them and even openly slaughter the entire Sarutobi Clan.
This was not his thought alone, but the thought of many Sarutobi Clan members.
So, even though they had merely imprisoned some people and had not tortured them for confessions,
the Sarutobi Clan members were still living in constant fear.
However, Sarutobi Takamasa felt things were not that simple.
Konoha's highest-ranking decision-maker was not Fifth Hokage Orochimaru alone; there was also Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.
No one in the outside world knew what roles each of them played.
Yet throughout this storm, some people had been deliberately overlooked.
The strongest core fighting force of the Sarutobi Clan was the group previously assigned to the Anbu.
Whether their identities were sensitive or they had not purchased property,
they had not been detained by Konoha. Instead, they had been sent directly home.
Sarutobi Takamasa felt there had to be something wrong with this.
That was why he had put