At that, Madara Uchiha showed a strange expression. He stared at Hashirama Senju and said, "Hashirama, the one getting in the way of everyone's happiness is you!"
Hashirama Senju froze.
"Look!" Madara Uchiha pointed at the cocoons hanging from the God Tree. "Right now, every ninja in the world has stopped fighting."
"I turned hell into heaven!"
"Hashirama, you failed to bring change to the ninja world. You failed, but now I have succeeded!"
"At the very beginning, our goal was the same, and we began taking action together. Even children still wet behind the ears were forced onto the battlefield, and we decided to change that ninja world."
"So we established ninja villages, but that didn't bring true peace at all. People could never meet one another with open, honest hearts."
"Fear, suspicion, hatred—these things kept repeating."
"My beliefs were crushed, and the ninja world began developing toward your ideal."
"But what was the result? The fighting between ninja still never stopped. Not only did it fail to stop, but because ninja villages were founded, military power increased, battles escalated into great wars, the scale kept expanding, and the number of dead and wounded kept rising!"
"The First Ninja World War..."
"The Second Ninja World War..."
"The Third Ninja World War..."
"The fighting never ceased. This is the ninja world you created!"
Madara Uchiha laughed loudly.
"Now, everyone is dreaming their own happy dreams within the God Tree. They are all in the ideal worlds of their own making."
Tobirama Senju said hatefully, "This is the ideal world you're talking about? You've only made people hallucinate!"
"Hahahaha!" Madara Uchiha laughed as he answered, "Across the long history of ninja, I have removed conflict as the Savior."
Madara Uchiha spread his hands and looked at the scene before him, saying,