"How could something like that be possible! It's true that my father may have had some issues, but there's no way he would do something like kill the Second Hokage. It's a frame-up, an absolute frame-up—the scheme of Uchiha Kazuto, that naturally evil Uchiha! Just as the Second Hokage said, the Uchiha Clan is a naturally evil clan!"
"Tsunade, you can see it too, can't you? My father would never do something like that. He was definitely framed!"
"Now, only you can turn things around. You can save the village founded by the First Hokage from the evil Uchiha Kazuto. You're the only one qualified to become the new Hokage and make the truth public!"
"Please come back with me. Let's remove Uchiha Kazuto from the position of Hokage and make you the new Hokage!"
Asuma Sarutobi clenched his fists and spoke with fervor.
In his eyes, Tsunade was their last hope.
After all, as the granddaughter of the Second Hokage and the First Hokage, she was the most qualified to inherit the position of Hokage—and the only one who could clear Hiruzen Sarutobi's name.
You all say Hiruzen Sarutobi killed the Second Hokage, but now even the Second Hokage's granddaughter has come forward to deny it. Hiruzen Sarutobi wasn't the one who killed the Second Hokage. Do you still not believe it?
Asuma Sarutobi felt sure Tsunade could clear his father's name.
"Uchiha Kazuto... the Uchiha Clan... Sensei..."
Tsunade raised her fist and slammed it onto the table. If someone else had staged the coup, she would still have hesitated. She might even have wondered whether her teacher really was the one who killed her granduncle.
But if it was the Uchiha Clan, then everything made sense.
Tsunade knew her granduncle had hated the Uchiha Clan most of all,