Hiruzen Sarutobi hadn't expected Danzo to be so unhinged. With nothing left to lose, he was willing to say anything.
"Hiruzen! Don't you always say you're the Hokage?"
"Without your permission, how would I have dared to do any of this?"
"Without your protection and indulgence, how could my Root have operated so brazenly?"
"Now that something's gone wrong, you're denying everything?"
"When there were benefits to reap, you kept shouting, 'I'm the Hokage!' Now that there's trouble, you say Danzo did it all."
"Is this how you serve as Hokage?"
"Where's your magnanimity? My Lord Shinobi Hero, the strongest Hokage in Konoha's history?"
Paper scraps fluttered from Danzo's face, but his smile only grew wilder and more brazen.
He was determined to drag Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had monopolized the light, down into the darkness with him.
He also wanted his fine teacher, Tobirama Senju, to regret choosing that scheming, ungrateful bastard Hiruzen Sarutobi in the first place.
Now Orochimaru wanted to kill his "fine teacher," Hiruzen Sarutobi.
And Danzo wanted nothing more than to make his own "fine teacher," Tobirama Senju, regret his choices!
"You!!!!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi trembled with rage. How could Danzo treat him like this?
He had already given Danzo power and allowed him to establish an independently operated Root.
Wasn't that "favor" enough?
Didn't that prove the bond and friendship between him and Danzo?
Why had Danzo demanded more and more, even attempting to assassinate him?
Now, even in death, he insisted on dragging Hiruzen down with him.
"Haha, brilliant! Brilliant!"
"Second Brother, isn't this just like one of those melodramatic stage plays?"
Shanks watched the live spectacle with relish.
Orochimaru was taking revenge on his teacher, and this Danzo seemed intent on making his own teacher sick, too.
Tobirama Senju's expression had turned thunderous.