Dust drifted through the air.
Hashirama Senju's figure reappeared on the other side. He looked at Hua Yu, anger and resolve written across his cracked face.
It seemed
he was furious that Hua Yu did not understand him. She was his clanswoman; she should have understood his ambitions and what he wanted to do.
As the clay around his body gradually restored itself, he said, "I seek equality for everyone. As members of the Senju Clan, you should understand me. Everything I have done was for Konoha!"
"You should understand. You should understand!"
"You should be giving me your full support!"
Hashirama Senju looked at Hua Yu and explained his painstaking intentions word by word, while grieving that even his own clansmen did not understand him.
"Support you? Support you so you can abandon your clansmen and treat them as sacrifices?"
"Or let us clansmen struggle at the bottom of Konoha, suffering humiliation and bullying?"
"After you left, did you ever know the hardships our Senju clansmen endured?"
"You don't understand. You only know your ultimate goal, and you abandoned your own clansmen!"
Hua Yu answered coldly as she controlled her massive Wood Release palm and smashed it down again. It was incredibly fast, yet Hashirama Senju still did not dodge.
He was directly smashed apart.
As the Clan Head of the Senju Clan, Hashirama Senju naturally had no idea what it was like to have no clan protection and be bullied by others. Hua Yu and her brother had nearly been beaten to death by members of the Sarutobi Clan, only to be taken alive by Root for experiments.
But
those lofty figures like Hashirama Senju knew nothing of it. Nor did he need to know. He wanted to use the Senju Clan as an example to demonstrate his