Lies and Truth

If it weren't for Uchiha Kazuto's magnificent betrayal against Hiruzen Sarutobi, these ordinary people's protests would have been nothing but a joke, pure suicide.

Did they really think Hiruzen Sarutobi was a dead man? Did they truly believe the Anbu wouldn't act?

Even if those ordinary people spread their intention to protest all over Konoha, what could a bunch of civilians actually accomplish?

Kill a few troublemakers, suppress them casually, and it would be over. These ordinary people were never worth worrying about.

After all, who could have imagined that these powerless civilians would dare to stage a protest, a coup, and brazenly try to replace the Hokage? There was no logic to it.

Everything was Uchiha Kazuto's scheme.

A diary of Shimura Danzo—how could something like that possibly exist? All of it was fabricated by Uchiha Kazuto. Even Fuu Yamanaka's memories were forged by him.

"Hiruzen couldn't possibly be the one who killed the teacher!"

Torifu Akimichi stared at Hiruzen Sarutobi's corpse in agony, but there was nothing he could do. It was too late.

From the moment the Konoha villagers launched their riot and protest to the moment Hiruzen Sarutobi was defeated and beheaded, the process was incredibly brief.

By the time he arrived, Hiruzen Sarutobi had already been sent to the guillotine.

Originally, he wanted to step forward and explain for Hiruzen Sarutobi, but who would believe him?

Now, everyone believed that Hiruzen Sarutobi was the one who killed the Second Hokage, the beast who ordered Shimura Danzo to conduct human experiments on their fellow villagers. How could he, a former teammate of Hiruzen Sarutobi, possibly clear things up by stepping forward? And who would believe him?

When a lie is accepted by the majority as the truth, the actual truth often no longer matters.

Knowing this, Torifu Akimichi was firmly held back by those around him. In the current situation, if he dared to step out and explain, he would be labeled as Hiruzen Sarutobi's accomplice and killed.

"It wasn't easy, but I finally became Hokage, the pinnacle of power in Konoha. Oh, the power!"

Uchiha Kazuto closed his eyes. He had never felt this good before. Right now, even if he kept Susanoo active twenty-four hours a day, even if he maintained his current force size at all times, he couldn't exhaust the dojutsu chakra within him. Unfortunately, these were ultimately just an ordinary pair of Mangekyo Sharingan, not even Eternal Mangekyo. The immense dojutsu chakra only granted him terrifying endurance and overwhelmingly powerful genjutsu—it couldn't give him transcendent strength.

He didn't even have a system. He was just a bare-bones transmigrator with nothing.

Still, it wasn't a big problem. He could still establish various powerful departments and add all kinds of settings. Unfortunately, while he could freely talk nonsense, whether those settings actually took effect was another matter.

For example, he could set up a department and declare that every member inside was omniscient and omnipotent—but even if he drained himself dry, that setting would never manifest.

The best approach for such settings was to strengthen the members in terms of chakra, physical ability, and learning capacity, just like the First Unit and the other units.

Next, Uchiha Kazuto began reorganizing Konoha's order.

First, he relaxed the previous strict controls. After all, the reason things had been so harsh, terrifying, and high-pressure before was because of Hiruzen Sarutobi's orders. Now that Uchiha Kazuto was the new Hokage, he naturally wouldn't enforce a high-pressure regime like Hiruzen Sarutobi had. Freedom of speech was very important.

Next, he continued running the Study Corps. Every ninja in Konoha had to enter the Study Corps for half a month of study and training.

This was to strengthen the ninjas' learning ability, teamwork, and cooperation.

Of course, in reality, it was to thoroughly indoctrinate these ninjas. Originally, half a month wouldn't have been enough, but now that Uchiha Kazuto no longer lacked dojutsu chakra, he could fully activate the Study Corps. In just half a month, he could obtain a batch of utterly loyal ninjas.

At the same time, all graduates from the Ninja Academy had to attend the Study Corps after graduation.

By relying on this method, Uchiha Kazuto believed he could soon turn all of Konoha into a single, unified block.

"Yes, Lord Hokage!"

Uchiha Tekka nodded respectfully, then left the Hokage's office.

"Next... I need to establish some new laws..."

Uchiha Kazuto gazed out over all of Konoha and began to think.

"Something's off. Why hasn't Konoha fallen into chaos?"

Somewhere in Konoha, Kawasaki Sora sensed something was wrong. He couldn't figure it out. The current situation was completely different from what he had imagined. According to his plan, after the riot broke out, Konoha would descend into chaos in no time, maybe even face a major crisis. But what was happening now?

How did Hiruzen Sarutobi die?

And what was up with Uchiha Kazuto?

This was nothing like what he had envisioned!

He didn't realize that his own thinking was flawed. His plan was full of holes. Most importantly, would a protest and riot by a bunch of ordinary people really accomplish anything? And why had he never thought to notify the village?

Unfortunately, he no longer had the chance!

Bang!

The next moment, his door was kicked open.

Several ninjas rushed in and pinned him to the ground.

"What are you doing?! What are you doing?!"

He lay on the floor, dazed and terrified, shouting.

"Damned spy, trying to harm the village, trying to harm the great Lord Hokage!"

Bang!

The next moment, a baton struck him on the head, leaving him dizzy and disoriented.

But it also let him know what had happened—his identity as a spy had been exposed.

But how could that be?!

"You've got the wrong person! I'm not a spy, I'm an honest citizen!"

He began to struggle, but it was useless. Soon, he was dragged away and thrown into the Military Police Force's prison.

Besides him, the other spies were all arrested as well.

From the very beginning, Uchiha Kazuto had no intention of letting these spies go. After using them, executing them by firing squad was only natural, wasn't it?

The next day.

Inside the Military Police Force.

A cell that looked normally furnished, nothing like a typical prison cell.

"That Hiruzen, actually listening to that inherently evil Uchiha Kazuto and locking us up here is simply..."

Utatane Koharu clenched her fists. Every time she recalled that day's events, she felt nothing but fury.

She had no idea that Hiruzen Sarutobi had already been beheaded and was dead.