The Person Who Values Konoha the Most

"That's too much! You've gone too far!"

Inside the Hokage Building's conference hall, Shimura Natsumi slammed his fist down on the table and glared furiously at Uchiha Fugaku.

Sarutobi Kento was equally enraged. Beside him, the Clan Heads of the Utatane and Mitokado clans wore the same expressions.

And it was not just them. Quite a few people who had followed them here and were qualified to attend this meeting also looked deeply unsettled.

Some were furious, some astonished, and quite a few had begun to ponder matters carefully.

Uchiha Fugaku had made his move. It had not exactly caught them off guard—after all, this matter had been brewing for so long that they all knew something about it.

Uchiha Shisui was the center of it all. Half a year ago, Uchiha Fugaku had already begun clashing with the Lord Third Hokage, so they knew this matter would not be simple.

But they had never expected the force of this long-brewing matter to be so astonishing once it erupted!

With virtually no warning, Uchiha Fugaku had directly voiced his stance at this jonin meeting.

Rather than a stance, though, it was more like a direct declaration of war against the Lord Third Hokage's faction.

He raised the issue of Root's authority and duties overlapping with those of the Anbu. At the same time, he brought up problems within the Medical Department, followed by issues involving certain members of the Finance Department!

In recent years, the Lord Third Hokage's faction had been so heavily suppressed by the Fourth Hokage that they could barely breathe. Yet they had managed to hold on mainly because the foundation left behind by the Lord Third Hokage had been too abundant.

But beginning with the Night of the Nine-Tails, they had steadily declined.

The Jonin Reform