We're done for!
Every ninja who had come out to fight, without exception—including the Tsuchikage—had received the blessing of the great Brahman. They had become Uchiha Brahman's food... friends. Yes, good friends!
"Excellent, excellent! You're all good children! Hahahaha!!!"
Uchiha Brahman looked at the ninjas around him and grinned. The serum needed time to take effect. The more seriously injured and weaker someone was, the sooner they would receive the blessing and come to understand True Dharma.
"Praise Brahman!"
After injecting every ninja in Iwagakure with the Sacred Blessing Serum, the Konoha ninjas and those Iwagakure ninjas who had secretly received the serum long ago came before Uchiha Brahman. They pressed their palms together and praised him with utmost reverence.
At the sight, Uchiha Brahman nodded in satisfaction.
"Iwagakure has bowed its head and come to understand True Dharma. Take these children, who have strayed from the path but are now returning to it, back with you."
Uchiha Brahman was infinitely kind. He gestured gently toward the Iwagakure ninjas nearby, who were struggling in agony, and spoke to those former Iwagakure ninjas who had long since converted and understood True Dharma, now citizens of the Empire.
"Praise the great Lord Brahman! You are truly so merciful! You could have left these commoners to fend for themselves, yet you showed them such compassion and kindness!"
"I'm moved! Such boundless goodness!"
"Commoners! Hurry up and get on your knees before the great Lord Brahman!"
Overcome with emotion, the citizens of the Empire dropped to their knees, tears of gratitude filling their eyes. Then they grabbed their former comrades by the head and slammed them down onto the ground, making them bow in thanks to the supremely benevolent, boundlessly merciful great Brahman, who was like a living saint and Buddha incarnate.
How merciful, how compassionate, how great! Such was the kind-hearted Brahman!
At the sight, Uchiha Brahman, a modern man in his previous life, nodded in satisfaction. What a sensible bunch of children!
Hahahaha!!!
"Next up is Sunagakure!"
Uchiha Brahman turned to look in Sunagakure's direction. The other three ninja villages would never have guessed that Iwagakure was already finished.
Somewhere in the Shinobi World.
Rustle, rustle...
A cockroach crouched in the shadows, watching everything inside the room.
"Teacher!"
Tsunade looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen, who sat before her, battered and missing an arm. Beside him, Jiraiya sat in silence. Not far away, Itachi Uchiha sat in a wheelchair, both legs severed.
She knew what had happened over the past few days.
Uchiha Brahman—the man who had slandered her teacher as a rogue ninja and driven him out of Konoha, and whom the daimyo of every nation in the Shinobi World had raised to a lofty pedestal, willing to dissolve their own countries just to establish a new one.
There was something wrong with this Uchiha. He was completely insane.
Tsunade knew that no matter what, her teacher would never attack the daimyo, much less become a rogue ninja.
"Tsunade, we have to stop Uchiha Brahman! We can't let him continue. He'll destroy Konoha and the entire Shinobi World!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Tsunade and spoke gravely. Just look at what Uchiha Brahman had done!
He had manipulated the daimyo. It was treasonous and outrageous. A ninja—a mere tool—daring to become an exalted ruler like a daimyo? It turned the natural order on its head. That wasn't what ninjas were supposed to do. Ninjas were tools. What kind of tool rebelled and killed its owner?
The ninjas of the Shinobi World had been dogs for so long that they'd forgotten what it meant to be human.
And now he was manipulating the daimyo, dismantling countries like the Land of Fire and building some damned Empire. He was completely insane!
Though that was what he thought...
"If we could rule the world too, wouldn't we stop worrying about funding? Wouldn't we be able to get out of this godforsaken place? So the daimyo are this weak!"
Sunagakure.
Rasa stood by the window, gazing at the endless sand outside the village. Then he looked down at the documents in his hands.
So the daimyo were this weak! So this was possible!
Rule the Shinobi World!
Before Uchiha Brahman, ninjas had been just ninjas—tools without rights. It had always been that way. For all those years, no one had dared to challenge the authority of the daimyo, even though, to any ninja, those so-called daimyo were useless fools who could be killed with a single shuriken.
But Uchiha Brahman's actions had shown the ninjas, who had spent centuries—who knew how many centuries—living like dogs, a new path.
He was the first to take the plunge, and he hadn't been poisoned to death!
If no one took the first step, many things might never change—not in a hundred years, a thousand, or even ten thousand.
At least before Uchiha Brahman appeared, no one had dared to attack the daimyo or try to become the ruler of a country.
But now someone had.
Rasa wasn't the only one thinking this way. After calming down and taking a close look at what Uchiha Brahman was doing, some of the other ninjas who hadn't been converted felt a seed called ambition begin to sprout in their hearts.
If Uchiha Brahman can do it, why can't I? We're all ninjas. Controlling a daimyo should be easy enough.
Sarutobi Hiruzen had the same thought, though it was faint. He was already old.
All he wanted now was to take Konoha back from Uchiha Brahman and restore things to how they were.
Tsunade looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen and his battered state, and sighed inwardly. Teacher, you're old now...
Then she stood up.
"Teacher, what do you need me to do?"
Konoha was still her village. She couldn't stand by and watch the village her grandfather had founded be destroyed by an Uchiha.
"..."
Sarutobi Hiruzen fell silent for a moment.
"Go find Orochimaru! Then gather all the forces you can and sneak into Konoha. Kill Uchiha Brahman!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen said. Whenever he thought back to his battle with Uchiha Brahman, a chill ran through him. That hadn't been a fight at all; it had been like a game. Even now, he didn't know whether they had escaped on their own, or whether...
Sigh!
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed inwardly. He had already made up his mind: when the time came, he would use the Dead Demon Consuming Seal and take Uchiha Brahman down with him.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Brahman had already set off for Sunagakure with the ninjas of the Empire.
"Aliens... Hehehe..."
The gale roared in Uchiha Brahman's ears. He chuckled, feeling the power within him grow stronger with every passing moment.
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