When I Spoke, the Entire Room Turned to Stone: The Third Raikage Would Die Within Three Days!

Inside the conference room, the air seemed to have solidified.

Senju Tobirama's undisguised killing intent and Shimura Danzō's rabid barking intertwined into an invisible net, trapping Uchiha Xuan firmly at its center.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's face went pale. He wanted to defend his student, but under Tobirama's icy gaze, he could not utter a single word.

The heads of the Ino–Shika–Chō clans exchanged looks, silent as cicadas in winter.

They knew that the Second Hokage had truly developed murderous intentions toward the Uchiha clan!

Yet Uchiha Xuan, standing at the heart of the storm, showed no change in expression whatsoever.

There was no fear, no anger, not even the slightest trace of nervousness.

Instead, a faint, mocking smile appeared on his face.

The way he looked at Danzo was like he was watching a clown hopping about.

The way he looked at Tobirama, meanwhile, was like he was looking at a pitiful man blinded by prejudice and hatred.

That calmness, that nearly contemptuous bearing, made the already furious Danzo fly into an even greater rage.

"Brat! You're about to die, and you still dare laugh?!"

Uchiha Xuan finally shifted his gaze slightly away from Tobirama and toward Danzo.

But he still ignored Danzo's clamor.

His gaze returned to Senju Tobirama, as though the entire conference room contained only the two of them.

In an exceedingly calm yet supremely confident tone, he slowly spoke.

"Lord Hokage, it seems you are not satisfied with the 'solution' I proposed earlier."

Of course not!

Everyone wanted to curse. This had already escalated to wiping out an entire clan, and he called that dissatisfaction?

Senju Tobirama said nothing. He merely watched Xuan coldly, waiting to see what other trick he could possibly pull.

"In that case," Xuan said, the smile on his lips growing wider, "I'll offer a simpler, more direct solution."

He paused, seemingly deliberately keeping everyone in suspense.

"We need not endlessly argue here over Kumogakure."

"We need not send a single soldier to bleed and die along the border."

"We do not even... need to do anything."

With every sentence he spoke, the atmosphere in the conference room grew stranger.

Everyone frowned, utterly unable to understand what medicine this Uchiha brat was selling.

Even Senju Tobirama looked puzzled.

Do nothing?

What kind of solution was that?

Surrender?!

Uchiha Xuan took in everyone's expressions. This was precisely the effect he wanted.

Slowly, word by word, he delivered the statement that would overturn the Ninja World's entire understanding.

"Because..."

At that moment, his voice seemed to carry a godlike indifference and majesty.

"I prophesy."

"Within three days, A, the Third Raikage of Kumogakure, will fight more than ten thousand Iwagakure shinobi alone and ultimately die of exhaustion on the battlefield in the Land of Earth."

"By then, the Kumogakure army will be left without a leader. Their morale will collapse, and they will fall apart without us needing to attack."

Dead silence.

The entire conference room sank into a deathly silence that lasted more than ten seconds.

One could have heard a pin drop.

Everyone stood frozen in place as if struck by a paralysis jutsu, wearing the exact same expression.

Shock, confusion, and... the look one gave a madman.

What had they just heard?

What had that Uchiha brat just said?!

A prophecy?

A prophecy of a village Kage's death?

And by such an... absurd, almost mythical method?!

What kind of joke was this?!

It was ten thousand times more ridiculous than claiming the sun would rise in the west tomorrow!

Shimura Danzō was the first to recover.

He stood stunned for three seconds, then his entire face twisted with extreme fury.

"Seditious nonsense!!"

He let out a hysterical roar, spittle flying everywhere.

"Lord Hokage! Did you hear that?! He is no longer merely a spy! This man is a madman! A madman trying to deceive people with such absurd claims!"

"Every word he spoke is the ultimate insult to Konoha, to you, the Hokage...!"

Yet this time, Senju Tobirama did not echo him.

The Second Hokage, renowned for his coldness and rationality, merely stared fixedly at Uchiha Xuan. For the first time, a trace of doubt and alarm appeared in his red eyes—something even he had not noticed himself.

"Brat..." he said hoarsely, his voice carrying a faint tremor he had not noticed himself.

"Do you know what you are saying?"

"Of course." Uchiha Xuan met his gaze and answered calmly.

That confident look, that certain tone—it was as if he were not speaking of some vague prophecy, but of an inevitable fact that was about to occur!

"How could that be possible?!" Hiruzen Sarutobi came back to his senses and cried out, "The Third Raikage is a Kage-level powerhouse on par with you! How could he possibly..."

"Exactly," the heads of the Ino–Shika–Chō clans chimed in. "And fight more than ten thousand shinobi alone? This... this is simply preposterous!"