Itachi's Search After Losing His Faith

"Tsk tsk. Konoha has a place like this too!"

Kisame looked at the sight before him and could not help curling his lip, his tone carrying a hint of disdain. In Kisame's eyes, Konoha had made the entrance so prosperous merely to advertise Konoha's greatness!

Who would have thought—

This place would be so desolate.

Sure enough, the prosperity outside was all for others to see. His tone was already full of contempt.

It seemed every village was the same. Konoha merely displayed its prosperity on the outside; within, it was just as rotten. Though there was no longer any war, its core was still nothing special.

At that moment,

he completely discarded his favorable impression of Konoha, replacing it with disdain. Hypocritical Konoha.

"It's not like that... The two areas are not under the jurisdiction of the same faction. This place belongs to the Sarutobi Police Force!" Uchiha Itachi spoke slowly as he continued walking through the area.

Yet everywhere they passed,

was exactly as he had seen it: the Sarutobi Police Force members were arrogant and tyrannical, while the villagers' faces held no trace of life.

It was as though they had entered another world.

Damn it...

The Sarutobi Police Force Members were even more overbearing than the Uchiha clansmen of the past, and the villagers had no way to file a complaint.

Had Sarutobi Hiruzen forgotten the promise he had once made to him?

For the village, for the villagers, he could give everything.

But what about now? He had forgotten his own words, allowing the Sarutobi Police Force to commit atrocities throughout the village without restraint, leaving some villagers in such misery that they had no hope of continuing to live.

How laughable.

Back then, he had actually believed Sarutobi Hiruzen's words, yet Sarutobi Hiruzen had