Two Choices?

A month was still too short for an entire nation. Even though Madara Uchiha wanted to accomplish more before stepping down, he had achieved little.

The only thing he could do was peacefully hand over all the forces under his command while assisting Nara Shikaku and the others in taking control of the Land of Dawn.

Minato Namikaze had once mentioned to Uchiha Ensei that, before the Warring States Period, there had been examples of shinobi serving as daimyo.

But in the end, none of those regimes had met a good end.

After all, shinobi who possessed power were not particularly perceptive when it came to conspiracies and schemes.

And in this cruel world, there was never any shortage of ambitious people, or fools willing to throw away their lives.

Almost every so often, Madara Uchiha had to deal with a large number of political prisoners just to barely maintain the Land of Dawn's normal operations.

Nara Shikaku and the others, who had taken over government affairs, had not improved matters by much either. Sometimes, they even suffered losses because of occasional kindness.

Yes, ridiculous as it sounded.

These shinobi, who killed without batting an eye, could actually display rare kindness when facing civilians.

And that kindness could be exploited.

Of course, dealing with it was simple. There was no need for interrogation; a single genjutsu could solve many problems.

But the real problem was that those fearless fools were like ants—impossible to kill off completely.

These were all problems Uchiha Ensei himself needed to handle. He already had some ideas for dealing with these minor nuisances.

But what he needed to do now was simple: abandon all miscellaneous affairs and attend the Ninja World's first Sovereign Abdication Ceremony.

In some ways, this Sovereign Abdication Ceremony was similar to the