Fatal Blow!

"Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi has another crime to answer for!"

Tang Ping spoke leisurely.

The moment those words left his mouth, everyone from the Hokage Faction tensed up.

"My father made tremendous sacrifices for Konoha. That is plain for all to see. Are you trying to slander him again?"

Asuma stepped forward.

It could not be helped. Everyone else could hide, but he could not.

Because he was the "Son of Hokage."

He had enjoyed the benefits that came with that status in the past, so he was inevitably bound to it. Defending Hiruzen Sarutobi meant defending himself.

Right!

After Danzo fled, aside from the Root Ninja and Root Blade he had taken with him, everything else had fallen under Asuma's control. So although he appeared furious over what had happened to Danzo, what he truly thought was another matter.

The same applied to Hiruzen Sarutobi's downfall!

While the man had still been Hokage, the Hokage Faction had supported Asuma, but only to a limited extent.

But now that he was no longer Hokage, both the clan and the Hokage Faction had begun to see Asuma as the leader of the Hokage Faction, rather than the leader of its "next generation."

If he had not needed to put on a show for the others in the Hokage Faction, Asuma would never have stepped out to confront Tang Ping head-on.

What he needed to do at this stage was digest the gains he had just acquired, not come out and stir up trouble.

"Oh? When you say I'm slandering him, do you mean I'm exposing everything he did?"

Tang Ping looked at the fair, delicate-looking Asuma before him and forcefully suppressed his laughter as he retorted.

Yes, what could be more amusing than seeing this Second Generation Kage he had set up