Impact!

"Will of Fire..." Uchiha Jin shook his head and sighed. "The Third Hokage and the others may indeed have practiced that so-called Will of Fire in the beginning, but people always change!"

"Once they crossed the bottom line under the banner of the Will of Fire, they would cross it countless more times!"

"Then, under the slogan of 'everything for Konoha,' they could make many wrong decisions!"

"Until, in the end, this so-called Will of Fire became corrupted!"

After a pause, Uchiha Jin continued in a deep voice, "'Where the leaves dance, fire burns on. The firelight shall continue to illuminate the village and make the new leaves sprout!' This was the Will of Fire passed down by the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama."

"The First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, founded the village to protect children!"

"But look at what the village has become now!"

"They used comrades and children from the village as experimental subjects, and made Ninja Academy students graduate early to go to war!"

"Every single one of these things runs contrary to the Original Intention behind founding the village!"

"Led by the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and aided by those advisors of the Hokage Advisory Council, Konoha High-Level had already fallen into darkness!"

Minato Namikaze thought of the two disciples he had lost in this war. The excitement and anger in his eyes gradually turned into resolve!

Minato Namikaze said, "We must set things right and sweep away every chaos within the village!"

If Minato Namikaze had previously disagreed with some of Sarutobi Hiruzen's decisions yet still retained a measure of respect for him, then that last bit of respect had now vanished completely!

Uchiha Jin nodded firmly as well. "That is exactly what we are doing!"

Uchiha Jin's Original Intention had only been to change his own fate and the fate of the Uchiha Clan.

But after living in this real world for several years, Uchiha Jin had unknowingly spread his plans wider and wider!

Some of it had been forced upon him because a single move could affect the whole situation, while some of it had been undertaken by Uchiha Jin of his own accord!

When he had watched the anime before, Uchiha Jin had felt that although this world's story was exciting, most of its people were emotionally intense yet stubbornly deranged!

But after truly living in this world for a while, Uchiha Jin realized that those so-called madmen had merely chosen to flee because they could not change reality!

Zabuza, who had fought his way through Kirigakure's bloody policies, had ultimately chosen to assassinate the Fourth Mizukage who had "formulated" those policies!

Kirigakure's policies of extinguishing emotion had not destroyed Zabuza's feelings!

It was only that Zabuza, unable to change any of it, chose to wrap his emotions in a cold shell and begin wandering. Only at his death did he reveal those feelings!

Orochimaru, temperamental and obsessed with Eternal Life, was actually one of the few normal people in this world! He saw farther than most!

After personally experiencing two wars and seeing through some of the true natures of those around him, Orochimaru knew he was powerless and chose to pursue truth!

And endless life was merely a means for exploring more truths!

After all, in his view, only truth would never change or deceive him!

The man who had once wanted to become the wind had ultimately become someone who watched the wind turn a windmill!

There were many others like them!

Sasori, who claimed to seek eternity but actually wanted his parents' affection; Kakuzu, who had grown accustomed to the coldness of human relationships and turned to pursuing money; Nagato, who had no will of his own and forcibly inherited and distorted his Close Friend's last wish; Kabuto, who gave everything just to see himself clearly; Uchiha Madara, who pursued peace but was deceived until he had nothing left...

Though these people were all "villains" in this world, what they had gone through truly made it hard to hate them!

They had merely become somewhat extreme under the influence of this world's environment!

And after living here for several years, Uchiha Jin seemed to have been influenced without even realizing it!

At some point, Uchiha Jin had also developed the mad idea of changing this world!

He would sever this world's Shackles of fate and give it a brand-new future!

But some Maggots did not deserve to live in that future, and Uchiha Jin naturally intended to clear them out one by one!

Uchiha Jin's gaze grew increasingly firm!

Uchiha Jin let out a long breath of Turbid Air and continued, "Just as I said before, there are no walls in this world that do not leak!"

"Even the Uchiha Clan noticed something was wrong after some of our people went missing. How could the Senju Clan, who suffered the most, have noticed nothing at all?"

"In the end, the Senju Clan and the Third Hokage's group parted on bad terms. Even the Daimyo of the Land of Fire's lineage, which had been joined to the Senju Clan by marriage for generations, developed a rift with them!"

"But the specific details were likely known only to those directly involved!"

After spending some time explaining it, Uchiha Jin finally finished recounting the grievances between the Daimyo of the Land of Fire's lineage and the Third Hokage's faction!

"I see," Minato Namikaze said with deep emotion. Then he added, "So that was why the Uchiha Clan, so heavily excluded in Konoha, had the chance to become one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja?"

"That's right!" Uchiha Jin nodded. "Although the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan had grievances, those were matters from the Warring States Period!"

"In fact, when the Uchiha Clan chose not to leave Konoha with Uchiha Madara, the Uchiha Clan truly became Konoha's Uchiha Clan, rather than the Uchiha Clan of the Warring States Period!"

"So the grudges and entanglements between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan had long since drifted away with the wind!"

"Therefore, the Uchiha Clan, heavily marginalized under the Third Hokage's rule, stood on the same side as the Daimyo's lineage in a certain sense!"

"As long as the Daimyo is not foolish, he should not refuse the goodwill of our Uchiha Clan!"

Of course, that was merely Uchiha Jin's wishful thinking. Reality might not proceed as smoothly as he imagined!

That was why the person Uchiha Jin sent to the Daimyo Manor was Uchiha Shisui, who possessed Kotoamatsukami, hailed as the strongest Genjutsu!

If the Daimyo of the Land of Fire failed to show some sense, Uchiha Shisui would naturally make him see sense!

Seeing the confidence in Uchiha Jin's eyes, Minato Namikaze knew that Uchiha Jin must have prepared other Hidden Hands as well!

However, Minato Namikaze did not press further.

Some things were better left unsaid.

Minato Namikaze said, "By securing a source of income and gaining the Daimyo's support, we'll eliminate many of Konoha's external destabilizing factors!"

"Once I become Hokage, I'll be able to act without restraint and carry out reforms in Konoha!"

Uchiha Jin nodded, then added, "More than that, the Daimyo Manor connection can remain In Secret for the time being. Perhaps it can become a Trump Card!"