Danzo at the End of His Rope, Wood Release Acquired!

"Hmph, who knows if they aren't actors you hired!" Shimura Danzō still tried to struggle.

"You!" The clan heads of those two families immediately glared furiously at Shimura Danzō.

"I am the Second Hokage's disciple. You want to convict me with this fake evidence? It isn't enough!" Shimura Danzō glared at Minato Namikaze.

At this moment, he looked toward the Third Hokage as well, hoping the man would speak up for him, only to find that he had closed his eyes. Hatred surged in his heart.

"Enough." The Third Hokage seemed even older now as he opened his eyes.

Based on what he knew of Shimura Danzō, the man might truly have been capable of doing these things.

He looked at Shimura Danzō with his aged eyes and asked, "Danzo, was the position of Hokage... truly that important?"

Upon hearing this, Shimura Danzō immediately understood. The Third Hokage had ultimately chosen to believe Minato Namikaze's investigation.

At once, fury rose within him. "Enough! Stop pretending to be righteous! Back then, wasn't it because I hesitated for a moment that you became Hokage? If I hadn't hesitated then, I should have been the Third Hokage!"

The Third Hokage painfully closed his eyes.

"When did you become like this? Was I too indulgent toward you in the past?" The Third Hokage muttered to himself, his voice filled with self-reproach.

Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura sighed as well and began consoling the Third Hokage.

The Jonin around them, including Fugaku Uchiha, did not dare speak. These were secrets they had never known.

Moreover, now that things had reached this stage, they understood that Shimura Danzō might truly be finished.

His current display was nothing more than the struggle of a dying man.

Seeing this, Shimura Danzō grew even angrier. That was his Hokage