Golden Flash: "When one is strong enough, it is actually quite easy."
Golden Flash: "It was only that I had always wanted to use a gentler approach."
Golden Flash: "But thinking about it now, perhaps Madara Uchiha's way was actually better."
Golden Flash: "Although using the Infinite Tsukuyomi would affect one's memories, if it could bring about peace in the shortest possible time, then perhaps altering some memories would not be such a big deal."
After seeing Umaru's words, Minato Namikaze spoke in the Chat Group.
With his strength, ruling the Ninja World would have been relatively simple; the difficult part was how to govern it after unifying it through absolute power.
The difficulty of that was even greater than unifying the Ninja World itself, which was why he had chosen a gentler approach.
But now that he had truly achieved the Ninja World's unification, he felt that Madara Uchiha's method had been far better than his own.
Even now, although an alliance and peace had been achieved on the surface, the secret friction, suspicion, and struggles over interests had never truly ceased.
The historical grudges between the major ninja villages, the interests of the clans, and the distribution of resources—every single matter required him to devote immense effort to coordinating, balancing, and soothing them.
The process was slow and arduous.
More importantly, the sacrifices had never stopped throughout it.
The elite Anbu who had died while purging stubborn rebel ninja organizations; the innocent ninja caught up and killed while mediating border conflicts between ninja villages; even some outstanding young ninja who had met with "accidents" because reforms had affected old interest groups.
Those sacrifices had not been directly caused by him. Most of them had even been made to preserve the stability of the greater situation.
But Minato Namikaze