Fugaku Uchiha!

Konoha.

Senju Clan compound.

Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen choose to lower his head.

Chiba turned and looked at Danzo, who was still rolling on the ground.

Soon.

Danzo's wails weakened.

He lay prone in the dirt, gasping heavily.

Cold sweat mixed with mud covered his old, weathered face.

Although one of his arms had been forcibly torn off.

He was still a Kage Level expert, so naturally he would not lose consciousness on the spot.

His rolling around on the ground just now.

Had merely been a signal he had thrown to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

He had been waiting for Sarutobi Hiruzen to intervene.

Waiting for Sarutobi Hiruzen to use his hardline political tactics to forcibly save his life.

But.

Sarutobi Hiruzen had failed.

Danzo understood this clearly.

To preserve his position as Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen had completely abandoned him.

Since he could not avoid it.

Danzo naturally could not keep pretending to be dead.

Using his remaining left hand to brace himself against the ground, he shakily rose to his feet.

Blood dripped from his shoulder, pattering onto the ground and quickly staining a large patch of dirt red.

Danzo looked around.

The scarlet Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan.

The cold Byakugan of the Hyuga Clan.

The undisguised contempt of the three Ino-Shika-Cho families.

Every major clan in the village was looking at him as if he were trash.

Danzo suddenly laughed.

His laughter was hoarse and unpleasant, like the cry of a night owl.

"What do you know?!"

"Konoha is a towering tree!"

"Wherever sunlight shines, darkness is bound to exist!"

"I am that darkness!"

Danzo suddenly laughed.

His laughter was hoarse and unpleasant, like the cry of a night owl.

He raised his remaining left arm and pointed at everyone present.

"These past few years, if not for me handling those shady matters."

"Konoha would have long since been swallowed by the other four great ninja villages!"

"You think peace just fell from the sky?"

"No!"

"I bought it with countless schemes, assassinations, and betrayals!"

Danzo's voice grew louder and louder.

The wrinkles on his face scrunched together from extreme agitation.

Then.

Danzo abruptly turned his head and stared fixedly at Chiba.

"The Senju Clan has already declined."

"The Uchiha Clan is nothing but a pack of ungrateful wolves."

"Was I wrong to want control over your power?"

"Only by perfectly merging the First Generation's Wood Style with the Uchiha's Sharingan."

"Can Konoha give birth to a new Deity!"

"Everything I did was for Konoha!"

"You fools have no right to judge me!"

Danzo's voice echoed across the open ground.

Yet what it received was an even stranger silence.

Not a single person was moved by his twisted nonsense.

"How noble. All for Konoha."

"So that meant you could use your comrades' corpses as experimental materials?"

"So that meant you could plunder the foundations of Kekkei Genkai clans at will?"

Chiba sneered.

His laughter was filled with contempt.

Suddenly.

Chiba seemed to think of something.

He turned sideways and looked toward Fugaku Uchiha, who stood at the front of the crowd.

"Clan Head Fugaku."

"Since this old dog is so greedy for your Uchiha power."

"How about this?"

"Show him some mercy and take him in as your adopted son."

"Let him change his surname to Uchiha."

"As long as he kneels and kowtows to you three times every morning."

"When you are in a good mood, you can reward him with a pair of Sharingan. How about it?"

The moment those words were spoken.

The entire crowd fell silent.

No one had expected Chiba to say something like that.

He was grinding Danzo's dignity into the dirt.

"Lord Chiba, you jest."

"Though our Uchiha Clan has not been doing well lately."

"We do not accept every piece of trash into our clan."

"A beast like Danzo, who is worse than pigs and dogs."

"If he entered the Uchiha gates, I would fear that he would soil the eyes of our ancestors."

Upon hearing Chiba's words.

Fugaku Uchiha immediately understood what he meant.

Without the slightest hesitation, he straightened his back and replied with a look of utter disdain.

The two played off each other.

Every word they spoke was like a resounding slap across Danzo's face.

"You brat... how dare you humiliate me!"

Danzo's face instantly turned the color of liver.

His eyes were bloodshot, and his remaining left hand clenched tightly.

Chiba's cold smile vanished.

He could not be bothered to waste words on trash like this.

A surge of emerald-green Wood Style chakra began to gather wildly.

The surrounding air immediately became incomparably heavy.

Killing intent locked firmly onto Danzo.

Chiba was ready to crush this scourge to death directly.

"Lord Chiba!"

Just then.

Fugaku Uchiha suddenly stepped forward.

He clasped his hands and bowed deeply to Chiba.

"This old dog has not only desecrated the Senju Clan, but also insulted our Uchiha."

"I ask that you show mercy."

"And leave this old dog for me to deal with!"

"Uchiha blood debts must be reclaimed by the Uchiha themselves!"

Fugaku Uchiha's request took everyone by surprise.

He was usually always submissive.

When faced with suppression from the village's higher-ups, he retreated again and again.

Yet today, before the Third Hokage, he actually dared to demand the right to carry out an execution.

Chiba raised an eyebrow.

He understood Fugaku Uchiha's intentions.

The Senju Clan had stolen the spotlight today, and the power of Wood Style had intimidated the entire crowd.

If the Uchiha did not want to become mere background decoration.

They had to display strength worthy of matching it at this moment.

Killing Danzo was the best opportunity.

"Do as you like!"

Chiba shrugged indifferently.

To him, it did not matter who killed Danzo.

From beginning to end.

Chiba's sole purpose had been to make Danzo disappear.

"Thank you for granting this!"

Upon hearing Chiba agree.

Fugaku Uchiha was immediately invigorated.

He turned around and walked toward Danzo step by step.

All the ninjas present consciously began backing away.

In just a few seconds, they cleared an area more than two hundred meters wide.

Hyuga Hiashi activated his Byakugan and stared intently at the center.

Shikaku Nara furrowed his brow as his mind raced.

Sarutobi Hiruzen gripped his smoking pipe, veins bulging on the back of his hand.

Yet he remained rooted in place like a wooden stake, neither stopping them nor pleading for mercy.

As the Third Hokage, he had tacitly accepted this execution.

At the center of the clearing.

Fugaku Uchiha faced Shimura Danzō.

The cold wind swept up dust from the ground, and the atmosphere turned murderous to the extreme.

Even with one arm missing.

Danzo was still a genuine Kage Level expert.

The foundation he had accumulated through decades of life-and-death battles was far beyond that of ordinary people.

Most importantly.

He knew that there was absolutely no way he would leave this place alive today.

Since death was inevitable.

He had to drag someone down with him.

Chiba was too strong for him to kill.

But if he could drag the Uchiha clan head down to hell with him.

It would still remove a massive hidden threat from Konoha.

"Fugaku."

"Even with only one hand left."

"Killing you would be as easy as slaughtering a chicken!"

Danzo spoke coldly, his left hand already gripping a Kunai.

Hearing Danzo's mockery.

Fugaku Uchiha stopped walking.

But there was not a trace of anger on his face, only killing intent cold to the extreme.

"Danzo."

"You keep saying that you want Uchiha power."

"Then today, I will let you witness the Uchiha's true power!"

As soon as the words fell.

Fugaku Uchiha's Three Tomoe Sharingan suddenly began to twist in an eerie transformation.

They stretched, fused, and intertwined into an incomparably intricate pattern.

In an instant.

A frigid, violent chakra erupted from Fugaku Uchiha's body.

Mangekyō Sharingan!

This was Fugaku Uchiha's trump card, hidden for many years.

Not even his closest wife and son knew about it.

But today.

To establish his authority.

To sever the village leadership's covetous ambitions toward the Uchiha.

Fugaku Uchiha revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan before everyone.