Striking at Xuan Yu, Shino vs. Aburame Shuku

"Do you... know Uchiha Xuan Yu?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at them and asked solemnly. These Impure World Reincarnation shinobi who had been following him should know who he meant.

Uchiha Xuan Yu!

"We do!" Ant Man, the leader, nodded.

"Good. You three, go kill that brat, then return at once!" A cold glint flashed through Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes.

Since the Uchiha Clan was already preparing to strike against the Sarutobi Clan and had even framed his grandson, then it would be impolite not to return the favor. He would erase the Uchiha Clan's Young Clan Leader as well and collect a little interest.

In Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes, there was no longer any possibility of salvaging the situation. After he left, his first step would be to wipe out the Uchiha Clan, followed by purging the forces within Konoha!

Those who obeyed him would prosper; those who defied him would perish!

After that, he would begin his conquest of the Shinobi World.

"Ah? We're killing Uchiha Xuan Yu directly? He's still just a child!" One of them could not help speaking up upon hearing Sarutobi Hiruzen's order. No matter what, Uchiha Xuan Yu was still a child.

He was Konoha's future. He did not want to truly kill a child.

"Hizashi Hyuga, have you forgotten that half of the Hyuga Clan was destroyed, with the Uchiha Clan involved? Don't you want revenge? Among those Hyuga who died... there were children too!" Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at one of them and continued coaxing him.

"But..." Hizashi Hyuga nodded, though doubt still lingered in his heart.

Sarutobi Hiruzen said that the Hyuga Clan had been destroyed, but he had no way to verify it. Yet there were matters he could not say aloud, and he actually suspected that Sarutobi Hiruzen was deceiving him.

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