Sasuke's Defeat

At this moment, the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, in the Pure Land, had his brows tightly furrowed.

He simply couldn't imagine that Konoha Village, which he and Madara Uchiha had established together, had become so corrupt!

Hizashi Hyuga's death, the Uchiha Clan's annihilation, the Senju Clan's downfall, and now the revelation of two talented individuals' demise—these were all the excellent deeds of Konoha's current higher-ups!

But Hashirama Senju had no way to change this situation, because, after all, he was already dead…

Within the group chat, a slight silence fell after Makoto Ito revealed those two matters.

Meanwhile, outside, the battle raged on!

Sasuke Uchiha was incredibly arrogant, telling Makoto Ito to attack first, as he had already activated his Sharingan and could perfectly see Makoto Ito's movements!

And Makoto Ito, seeing the arrogant Sasuke, smiled too—a very happy smile…

He stomped his right foot hard on the ground and instantly shot forward. In less than a breath's time, he was already in front of Sasuke!

Sasuke, using his Sharingan, had indeed seen Makoto Ito's movements, but he overlooked the most crucial issue!

That was, his current strength was not on the same level as Makoto Ito's at all!

As Makoto Ito's fist came flying towards him, Sasuke instantly adopted a defensive stance, intending to block the punch. But Makoto Ito's strength was simply too overwhelming for him; this single punch sent Sasuke flying back!

He flew several meters in an instant…

And at this very moment, the flying Sasuke immediately felt utterly disheartened!

How could the difference be so vast?!

Rumble… Sasuke fell to the ground, tumbling several times…

Finally, he looked up at Makoto Ito with grief and indignation, then passed out with a gasp…

As for the reason Sasuke fainted, part of it was from Makoto Ito's punch, and another part was because he felt it was too humiliating and couldn't bear it!

[Mikoto Uchiha: Group Leader, why were you so ruthless? Didn't you already take all the items? Why did you still hit him so hard?]

[Makoto Ito: Cough, cough… Auntie, you can't blame me for this. Sasuke was clearly provoking me the whole time! After all, when I had just finished collecting the items, I was already ready to end the fight, but Sasuke kept being unreasonable! You really can't blame me for this!]

[Mikoto Uchiha: Sasuke… Sigh…]

[Fugaku Uchiha: Mikoto, don't be sad. Perhaps this defeat is actually a good thing for Sasuke! After all, he was far too arrogant before! So much so that he looked down on everyone! He thought he was the strongest, little did he know there are always people better than you, and there's always a higher heaven! Perhaps after this defeat, Sasuke will see himself clearly and will train even harder!]

[Mikoto Uchiha: I hope so…]

Everyone was astonished by this scene in the arena. After all, Sasuke had just coolly and impressively activated his Sharingan, but what happened? He was sent flying by Makoto Ito with a single move, and even fainted…

No one had imagined such a scene!

After all, Makoto Ito was originally just a dead last, while Sasuke was the top student of his year, a genius of the Uchiha Clan!

Everyone had expected Sasuke to easily defeat Makoto Ito, but they never thought that Makoto Ito would force out Sasuke's Sharingan, and then easily defeat him!

And clearly, at this moment, the onlookers, including Iruka-sensei, hadn't quite processed what happened.

Makoto Ito walked over to Iruka and patted him on the shoulder helplessly.

"Iruka-sensei, the battle is over…"

Iruka finally snapped out of it and hurriedly announced the results of the match.

"Oh, oh! The match is over! Makoto Ito wins!"

As soon as Iruka finished his announcement, cheers erupted from the students below. These cheers came from Sasuke's little fangirls, who weren't actually in love with Sasuke himself, but rather with his good looks and strength!

But now Sasuke was beaten to a pulp and had fainted. Everyone then took a closer look at Makoto Ito and realized he seemed just as handsome, even more handsome than Sasuke!

Most importantly, Makoto Ito's strength wasn't weak either; he had even defeated Sasuke! So, these little fangirls of Sasuke's began cheering for Makoto Ito instead!

However, there was one exception: Sakura Haruno. Sakura quickly ran to Sasuke's side to check on his injuries…

Naruto, on the other hand, looked rather unhappy.

"How come Sakura only has eyes for Sasuke? I'm handsome too, you know! Why won't Sakura come and take care of me?

And when did Makoto get so strong? He used to be a dead last! You secretly improved! That damn jerk! He's just as annoying as that stuck-up Sasuke!"

Naruto wasn't actually upset that Makoto Ito defeated Sasuke. Instead, he was worried that once Makoto Ito shed his "dead last" label, he wouldn't want to hang out with him anymore. After all, he only had a few friends at the Ninja Academy, and if Makoto Ito started looking down on him too, wouldn't he lose another friend?

So, at this moment, Naruto's heart was filled with some worry…

However, Naruto's worries were destined to be useless, because as soon as Iruka announced the end of the match, Makoto Ito jumped off the arena and went to Naruto's side.

"How about that? Wasn't I awesome, you blockhead Naruto! From now on, you'll be the only one sitting in last place! I'm not going to compete with you for last place anymore!"

Hearing Makoto Ito's words, Naruto actually became very happy!

"Hmph! Don't think you're the only one who's improved! I'm going to work hard too! Just you wait, Makoto! You won't be in the top student spot for long! It'll be my turn after that!"

Naruto even wiggled his butt at Makoto Ito while he spoke…

[Minato Namikaze: It looks like Naruto is very motivated too! Go for it, Naruto!]

[Kushina Uzumaki: Yes! It seems the Group Leader and Naruto have a really good relationship! Naruto must have caused you a lot of trouble to look after him over the years, thank you so much!]

[Makoto Ito: Saying things like that is too formal, isn't it? If you really want to thank me, then give me some good stuff! Don't just give me verbal thanks! What good is that? Look how skinny Naruto is!

Otherwise, Fourth, why don't you give me your Flying Thunder God? Later, I'll treat Naruto to some good BBQ, how about it?]

Upon hearing Makoto Ito's words, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki immediately fell silent…

[Makoto Ito: Tch, cheapskates!]