For a proud person like Uchiha Madara, it was impossible to abandon his efforts on the real-world level unless he had no other choice.
Yet the strange diary he acquired for no apparent reason today shattered his illusions.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the diary, he immediately realized something was amiss, because the scattered contents recorded inside seemed to be about things that would happen many years in the future.
They were matters concerning the future of Konoha many decades later.
This diary was written decades later by a shinobi named Kitahara Kaede, and it contained a massive amount of information.
It included some future events and people from the future, with Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and others receiving heavy emphasis.
That brat Ōnoki has become a big figure, huh, Uchiha Madara thought with emotion, recalling the kid from Iwagakure he had seen not long ago.
Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō-he could not consider these two completely unfamiliar either.
The Sarutobi Clan and the Shimura Clan had both joined Konoha at the very beginning as vassal clans of the Senju Clan, and these two were the sons of the current patriarchs of the Sarutobi and Shimura clans respectively.
Though still young, they were considered high-ranking offspring within the village, and he had seen them around on ordinary days.
Well, he might have beaten them up before too.
However, what he never expected in his wildest dreams was that Sarutobi Hiruzen could actually become the future Third Hokage and hold onto Konoha's power for so many years. This completely exceeded his expectations.
After all, according to his original projections, the position of Konoha's Hokage would most likely circulate between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan-you serve for a generation, and I serve for