Surprise and Doubt

Si Ming Mountain, Konoha camp.

Mitokado Homura and Ryoma's teams faced off.

"Good!"

Mitokado Homura laughed loudly and said, "Since Danzo wants me to help him handle logistics and control the Cloud Ninja prisoners, then I'll do it."

Fugaku and Ryoma breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that Mitokado Homura could back down. Danzo had given a strict order that no one was allowed to disturb him at this time.

But then, their faces turned ashen.

"But Danzo does have some real skills now, to make you so obedient."

"Could it be that you've been given some kind of Cursed Seal by him, and have no choice but to listen to him? That's very much in the style of that old guy Danzo." Mitokado Homura glanced at Yume Ryoma and Fugaku in front of the crowd, and said in a sarcastic tone.

This was Danzo's usual trick, and Mitokado Homura had heard about it. Many of the village's higher-ups knew about this.

He said this in public to make everyone suspicious of Danzo, so as to seize power.

Sure enough, after he said this, many members of the Uchiha Clan couldn't help but look at Fugaku in front of the crowd.

The clan leader's recent performance was indeed a bit strange. Could it be that he was really controlled by Danzo?

Fugaku also noticed the gazes around him, and his face stiffened.

Of course, he was not controlled by Danzo, but there was no way to explain those difficulties to these clansmen.

Fugaku didn't speak, and Ryoma also frowned.

The scene cooled down, and the team that had originally won and had a surge in momentum seemed a little stiff because of Mitokado Homura's arrival.

Mitokado Homura looked at all this with some complacency. No one understood how to provoke people's hearts better than him.

He and Danzo had a close friendship. If it was before, he wouldn't have embarrassed Danzo so much.

But since learning from Sarutobi that Danzo had truly regained his youth, both Torifu Koharu and himself were actually a little repulsed by Danzo.

Their ideas were different from Sarutobi's.

Was strength important?

Perhaps they thought it was very important when they were young.

But since they became old and became Hokage advisors, they valued power and prestige more.

As long as they were in Konoha Village, they were the ones who had the final say, and few people in the village could refute their opinions.

Everyone was clearly of the same generation, so why could you return to your youth, rekindle the candlelight, and enjoy decades more of power, while we had to drag our crippled bodies to extinction.

Thinking of his treatment when he came to this camp before, and thinking of Danzo's arrangements for him.

The more Mitokado Homura thought about it, the angrier he became, and he began to smear Danzo's reputation without any scruples. Danzo's current strength was less than 10%, so he didn't need to worry about this guy's face at all.

Although there were many Root members, he had brought enough manpower to rush to the front line.

But before Mitokado Homura could be complacent for long, a figure came to his side with lightning speed, and punched him out, directly sending Mitokado Homura flying more than ten meters away, smashing into the crowd behind him, and directly overturning several people.

"Who!"

Mito Hiroichi stared wide-eyed at the figure that suddenly appeared, directing the others to surround him.

He was a member of the Mito Clan and also the vice-commander of this team.

But before Mitokado Homura's men could react, they were already surrounded by Root members.

Danzo's eyes flashed coldly as he stared at the staggering Mitokado Homura, who was struggling to stand up. He said, "Homura, you're planning to give me a hard time right from the start, huh?"

He had barely activated Skill and caught his breath when he learned that this old fellow had arrived at the Konoha camp.

Although he had expected that this old guy wouldn't give him an easy time after arriving at the front lines, Danzo rushed over only to see this old guy tarnishing his image.

"Danzo! What do you mean by this!" Mitokado Homura clutched his chest and questioned loudly, feeling several of his ribs were broken.

That punch just now was no joke; he was almost killed by it.

Danzo looked at him, a hint of regret flashing in his eyes.

He had actually held back, but he didn't expect that he had forgotten to turn off the passive skill Critical Hit. This punch directly triggered the passive, and the 20% critical damage almost killed the old guy.

Before acting, he considered the situation and didn't aim to kill.

But after acting, he wondered why he had held back just now and didn't kill him directly.

"What do I mean?"

He took a step forward, his figure already crossing dozens of meters to stand in front of Mitokado Homura.

The few people beside Mitokado Homura who were supporting him retreated a few steps in fear, watching Danzo warily, using the injured Mitokado Homura as a shield.

Mito Hiroichi, however, had some conscience. He glared at those few people and came to Mitokado Homura's side to support him.

"With the great war at hand, you're shaking the morale of the army. I've already given you enough face by not killing you on the spot!"

A thick killing intent swept over Mitokado Homura like a storm. Danzo didn't have the strength before and could only reason with these people.

But now it's different!

His eyes filled with killing intent, he stared at Mitokado Homura without concealment.

"You! Your strength?"

Mitokado Homura pointed at Danzo and said in disbelief, "No, impossible! Sarutobi said your strength was greatly damaged! There's no way you could still have such speed and power!"

But then, his eyes widened as if he realized something.

"You you're acting!"

With a myriad of thoughts, Mitokado Homura still managed to sort out Danzo's intentions based on his understanding of him.

All of this was Danzo acting, all to make Sarutobi lower his guard. He still had his eyes on the Hokage position!

He wanted to use the merits of this war to compete with Sarutobi for the Hokage position!

Shaking his head, Danzo didn't want to explain these things to him at all, saying, "Since you're injured, obediently return to Konoha Village. I'll have Root members escort you back."

"As for the people you brought..."

Danzo looked at the team that was looking at him with some fear, the team containing familiar faces.

Mito, Torifu, Sarutobi.

Most of them are disciples of these three families. Although they had never met before, Danzo, as the leader of Root, knew all the information he should have.

The three of them have good calculations, planning to send their own disciples here to be gilded.

"Leave all your people here, it just makes up for the losses of Hizashi's team." Danzo said, unconsciously smiling. This smile made everyone in Mitokado Homura's team shudder.

"Dream on!"

Mitokado Homura gritted his teeth and said, "Sarutobi wants me to replace your position, and because of you, so many people have been killed and injured. Do you still have the face to stay on the front line?"

"If I'm not here, are you, this trash, going to lead the team?" Danzo replied mercilessly, "Have you forgotten what I said back then?"

Approaching step by step, Danzo stared directly at Mitokado Homura.