After lighting the cigarette hanging from his mouth, Asuma silently surveyed the hospital lobby and discovered that quite a few injured Anbu and injured Uchiha clansmen were chatting idly together.
Perhaps their shared misery had made them lower some of the pride they usually held onto. Besides, the culprits were someone else, so the atmosphere between the two sides was actually fairly harmonious.
Yet to Asuma, who knew the truth of what had happened tonight, the scene before him felt deeply awkward.
After all, if the God Organization had not intervened tonight, the two sides now chatting together might have been sworn enemies crossing blades on the battlefield.
At the same time, Asuma keenly noticed that neither the villagers coming and going from the hospital nor the medical staff inside treated the injured Uchiha clansmen any differently, nor did they look at them strangely.
It was clear that aside from the village's higher-ups and the Anbu directly involved in the security operation, the villagers and the vast majority of ordinary Konoha ninja knew nothing about the Uchiha Clan's rebellion.
I never thought Kagami's arrangements could actually work. Perhaps this is the best possible ending!
Smoking his cigarette, Asuma silently sighed to himself.
For the rebellion of the village's foremost noble clan to end like this, with its impact confined solely between the Uchiha Clan and the Anbu, was far beyond anything Asuma had expected.
On the rooftop of the Hokage Building.
Tsunade, who had returned from the Uchiha Compound, reported to the Third Hokage, "When I led the Anbu into the Uchiha Compound, the Uchiha rebels had already been subdued by the God Organization. So I arranged for the Medical Corps to send the injured Uchiha clansmen to the hospital."
The Third Hokage asked gravely, "What were the Uchiha