"What!!!"
Asuma Sarutobi abruptly raised his head and stared at the Daimyo in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe what he'd just heard.
What did he mean, Hiruzen Sarutobi had killed the Second Hokage? What did he mean, Hiruzen Sarutobi had let Shimura Danzō experiment on Konoha's villagers?
How could his father have done such things? He was Hiruzen Sarutobi's son, and even he hadn't known about any of this!
" Asuma, you didn't know? The truth behind the so-called Konoha Coup you were talking about is that Uchiha Kazuto did nothing wrong. If I were in his place, and learned what Hiruzen Sarutobi had done, I wouldn't let him remain Hokage either—not even as acting Hokage. Ah, I know Hiruzen Sarutobi is your father. Learning the truth so suddenly must be hard to accept. That's perfectly normal, but this is reality!"
The Daimyo looked at Asuma Sarutobi and shook his head as he explained. Asuma was his bodyguard, after all. If he'd been any ordinary person, he would've been dragged off and beaten to death by now. The Daimyo wouldn't have bothered explaining.
Of course, his claim that learning Hiruzen Sarutobi's true nature would have made him remove Hiruzen from office was just something he'd said for show. Hiruzen Sarutobi was already dead and no longer Hokage.
As a Daimyo and a ruler, he didn't consider ordinary people to be people at all. So what if they were taken away for experiments? After all, the Ninja World had a class of warriors. Though they'd fallen into decline, they couldn't compare with shinobi in terms of strength.
But warriors had one age-old privilege: sword testing. To test the sharpness of their blades or practice their swordsmanship, they would use innocent passersby. That was right—they would slash at commoners, using their