"Were the things I did really that laughable?"
With his soul restrained by Xuan Yu, Hashirama Senju listened as Xuan Yu listed his crimes one by one. He could only shake his head with a bitter smile.
He felt that—
he was nothing but a joke now.
When he had first arrived, he had indeed listened to one side and trusted it blindly. He had wanted to kill Hua Yu and Hashira, and had even wanted to summon the Thousand-Armed Buddha in Konoha.
Every single one of those things—
was a crime. Even when his soul had just been drawn back toward the Pure Land, all he had thought about was urging Sarutobi Hiruzen to revive him quickly so he could return and finish what he had left undone.
But he had forgotten that reviving him required human lives as sacrifices—living, breathing lives.
Was it worth sacrificing others just to teach the Senju Clan's descendants a lesson and deal with the Uchiha Clan?
No. What he had been thinking just now was that Konoha was in chaos, and he needed to return to restore order.
But now... every one of his actions had become evidence against him. He had no grounds to refute it, nor did he have anything to say.
Was he wrong?
"Very laughable. From the moment you chose to side with Sarutobi Hiruzen, you were destined to become a joke!" Xuan Yu looked at Hashirama Senju's bitterly smiling soul and slowly continued, "You had countless chances to investigate the truth, but you never did. Even when your granddaughter, Senju Tsunade, advised you to your face, you still refused to listen. What words could you possibly listen to?"
Xuan Yu looked at Hashirama Senju and said coldly, "What do you have to explain? From that moment onward, your