Even the slightest doubt about the Third Hokage was enough to make Konoha's ninja break out in a cold sweat.
That was Lord Third Hokage. Questioning him was practically treasonous!
Yet the thought kept popping up, again and again, impossible to suppress.
The Konoha ninja all found it strange. They usually were not like this. Could it be that they had already grown this dissatisfied with Lord Third Hokage?
Of course they had grievances. The Third Hokage had done so many frustrating things that anyone would inevitably have encountered some of them, or at least heard a little about them.
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But Konoha was huge, with so many ninja, and the Sarutobi Clan had not yet swollen to the absurd extent it would reach twelve years later. What any individual Konoha ninja knew was limited.
Though they all found those things frustrating, they considered them minor matters.
After all, Konoha was so prosperous, its number of ninja was growing, and in the end, they had won every war they fought.
This time, the blow had indeed been severe. The Konoha ninja had fought with their lives on the line, sacrificing thousands of comrades before finally defeating the Kumogakure army.
But the appearance of the Kumogakure Ninja meant that the Third Hokage would inevitably dismiss everyone's efforts and sacrifices with a lighthearted, "For peace."
Every Konoha ninja felt uncomfortable inside, but it should not have been enough to shake the Third Hokage's prestige or cause the current unrest in people's hearts.
And the reason for this abnormal situation was that Yamanaka Chujiu had returned.
Uchiha Shisui carried him on his back as they caught up to the raiding force, detoured nearly three hundred kilometers west, and returned to Konoha's new defensive line.
When they were still several kilometers from