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He could tell that this kid from the Uchiha Family was young, but he seemed to have an instinctive grasp of all this. Administration, power structures, checks and balances-he had every one of them down cold.
More remarkably, he neither coveted power nor feared delegating it. Yet he had sacrificed none of the Hokage's authority or core interests.
That was an ability few people possessed.
After hearing him out, Xunjing shook his head helplessly. "It wouldn't have worked."
"Even if you'd built the framework back then, as long as Third Generation wanted to meddle, he could have teamed up with Danzo and the others to chip away at the Administrative Affairs Department's authority."
"They had plenty of ways to take those powers back."
"Ultimately, the Hokage holds military command, which makes his power absolute."
"But strip the Hokage of military command, and he becomes a figurehead. That would be even worse. The village would fall apart, and the infighting would spiral out of control."
"That wouldn't do the village any good either."
"So while the division of power matters, what matters more is whether the Hokage has his head on straight."
Xunjing understood that perfectly. The history of his previous world offered more examples than he could count.
Right now, he was speaking from the shoulders of history's giants.
Compared with these crude ** in the Ninja World, he was simply in a different league.
The Second Hokage paused at those words and pondered them carefully for a while. In the end, he could only nod helplessly. "That's true. It seems Monkey and the others really did deserve to die."
Xunjing gritted his teeth, filled with regret.
He must have been out of his mind to have thought highly of those clowns back then.
Even more infuriating, their act