Inside the lakeside pavilion at Senju Manor.
Hashirama, alone, still sat in his chair silently flipping through the manga.
At times, he smiled with satisfaction; at others, he furrowed his brow.
He had discovered that although the Konoha Village in it appeared fairly stable,
it was declining as a whole.
And all of it led back to Tobirama's two disciples.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura.
Just imagine—if Sakumo Hatake and Shisui Uchiha had not been driven to death,
and Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade had not left for various reasons,
then on the night of the "Nine-Tails Incident,"
Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, might not have died.
The Uchiha Clan most likely would not have rebelled either, and Fugaku and Itachi could naturally have been saved.
What a sight Konoha Village would have been, with so many powerful figures gathered there.
This made Hashirama Senju deeply grateful for the emergence of the World Government.
At the same time, he was reflecting on his own mistakes.
Perhaps his decision to distribute the Tailed Beasts among the other Ninja Villages had been wrong?
Otherwise, why would three Shinobi World Wars have broken out after his death?
Should he have listened to Madara instead?
Should they have flattened every nation and unified the Shinobi World while they were still alive?
The old Hashirama Senju certainly would not have thought that way.
But after personally witnessing the World Government's policies and their effects over the past few years,
and now seeing the "normal future" revealed by these manga,
even this "God of Shinobi" could not help questioning his original decision.
In truth, he already had the answer.
He had overestimated the Tailed Beasts and underestimated the later generations of shinobi.
Instead, he had allowed them to become weapons of mass destruction used by the major