Hiruzen Sarutobi was utterly dumbfounded.
He had just taken his one billion, then vanished without a trace, and Hiruzen could not even find him.
"Fugaku, you heard that just now, right?"
He hurriedly looked at Uchiha Fugaku. Between the battlefield and teaching Asuma Sage Mode, he had to secure at least one of them!
"Rest assured, Third Hokage."
Uchiha Fugaku remained calm, but there seemed to be another meaning behind his words.
"Since the Clan Head has agreed, the Uchiha Clan will never go back on its word, nor will we deliberately target anyone!"
How could Hiruzen Sarutobi fail to understand what he meant?
Uchiha Fugaku was saying that Hiruzen had previously been far too untrustworthy toward the Uchiha Clan and had deliberately targeted them!
But now, their positions had been reversed.
Under Uchiha Akira's leadership, the Uchiha Clan was no longer the divided clan it had once been.
Amegakure.
The rain fell without end. There was nowhere to hide from it, and unbroken dark clouds shrouded the land.
It was as though heaven itself was weeping.
Whoosh—!
Uchiha Akira appeared out of thin air and frowned at Hanzo of the Salamander, who was badly injured nearby and barely had any breath left.
"With your strength, other than Nagato, who else could have beaten you into this state?"
Hanzo of the Salamander's attacks involved large-scale poison, giving him an absolute advantage over any ninja. But everything had its natural counter. Hanzo of the Salamander's nemesis was Sunagakure's puppets.
When he was younger, after Chiyo had neutralized his poison, he had once lost to her.
And it was the same when facing Nagato.
The Six Paths of Pain were puppets as well, each possessing the strength of a Kage-level expert. They completely countered Hanzo of the Salamander.
But Akira had