Mist Village Frontline Commander Masaichi

Unlike the succession ceremonies for the Kage of other villages and the previous Hokage,

at Masaichi's suggestion, Orochimaru's inauguration took a scientific approach.

Every villager who came to watch could receive a free canister of whey protein powder, thirty eggs, a bag of red dates, and 250 grams of beef!

As long as their legs still worked, everyone in Konoha came. Free stuff was simply irresistible. Each of them stood beneath the Hokage Office Building, clutching their share and looking up at Orochimaru above.

Masaichi leaned against the railing on the top floor of the Hokage Office Building. From this day onward, he would uphold absolute justice! He would bring liberation and freedom to the villagers.

Meanwhile, Orochimaru was giving a speech. He had brought out a blackboard listing the minimum daily nutritional intake he recommended for villagers.

It was certainly unconventional.

Other Kage relied on words to tell the public about their future political leanings!

But Orochimaru used a nutritional matrix to tell the people! From now on, Konoha would no longer be ignorant. Everything must be approached dialectically, everything must follow materialism! Everything must be defined with scientific rigor!

He said "everything" three times.

The Fourth Hokage truly had character! He was determined to make the village prosper... to make the village rich enough to fund his experiments.

Orochimaru's face was thus carved onto Konoha's Hokage Rock, becoming part of history.

No matter how hard Minato and Jiraiya wracked their brains, they could not understand how Orochimaru had become Hokage.

How could the Third Hokage possibly agree to let Orochimaru become Hokage?

Had Orochimaru launched a coup?!

Yet according to the news from Konoha, Orochimaru had peacefully assumed the position of Fourth Hokage!

The whole matter was incredibly strange!

What gave Orochimaru the right to assume the position peacefully? Was the old man not going to do anything about it?!

"Master Jiraiya!"

Minato had already told Jiraiya about that future.

In the Land of Loulan, Naruto had told him many things about the future. Crying, Naruto had begged him to save Master Jiraiya no matter what. On some day in the future... Master Jiraiya would die in battle at the Hidden Rain Village.

Unfortunately, Naruto and Yamato were both illiterate, and history illiterates as well. Their knowledge was limited, and the intelligence they provided was nowhere near enough.

He had been the Fourth Hokage in the future, but now Orochimaru had become the Fourth Hokage. The future had actually changed.

What would happen to Naruto's timeline, then?

Though brilliant, Minato was, strictly speaking, half-illiterate himself. How could he possibly know about parallel timelines or the multiverse?

"Minato! I still support you. Orochimaru becoming Hokage..."

Jiraiya possessed a great deal of intelligence. He had already begun suspecting that Orochimaru was behind the people who had once vanished from the Land of Fire.

Could someone like that truly be a good Hokage?

"But Master, what use is all our resentment?" Minato was filled with unwillingness and helplessness.

He had lost to schemes and conspiracies. Anyone would refuse to accept that.

Moreover, he had seemingly concluded that Orochimaru was the true culprit behind the Nine-Tails Rebellion. Minato and Orochimaru were now mortal enemies. He could not pledge loyalty to Orochimaru, yet he did not want to abandon the Konoha he loved.

"Master Jiraiya, I truly don't know what to do anymore."

For the first time, Minato felt lost about Konoha's future.

Who could truly bring peace to Konoha? Who could allow Konoha's villagers to live prosperous lives?

"I'm lost too." How could Jiraiya not be? The Child of Prophecy had not even become Hokage and had been pushed aside. Who was he supposed to reason with over that?

Could everything Minato was experiencing now be a trial? Could Minato only understand the truth of the world after enduring every kind of hardship, and then bring true peace to the Ninja World?

Many of Minato's supporters were already considering giving up on him. The other side had won and taken control of Konoha. Were they supposed to surrender to Orochimaru?

Orochimaru had become Hokage, and his next order made Masaichi the frontline commander at the Hidden Mist Village.

He was not sending Masaichi there to seize power, but to let him accumulate merits under the title of commander.

There were even dozens of Konoha ANBU serving as bodyguards, protecting Masaichi's safety!

This was practically stumbling into the imperial family. A thirteen-year-old commander, with dozens of ANBU hidden around him wherever he went.

What chilled the Hidden Mist Village's frontline ninjas even more was that Orochimaru had gone so far in favoring his own people that he fabricated facts. He had the newspapers publish that, at the age of twelve, Masaichi had commanded Konoha ninjas through several deep incursions into the Land of Lightning, relieving Konoha's urgent crisis.

Who would believe that?

Twelve years old! That outstanding!

Then why had the Third Hokage not published it in the papers last year?!

He had truly gone to great lengths to manufacture achievements for his student.

Sigh...

Masaichi had long passed the age of youthful hotheadedness, of showing off and slapping faces. He had no interest in proving how amazing he was by drilling troops and putting himself on display.

Tch...

What was this even for?

Wasn't this a little too extravagant?

After arriving at the Hidden Mist Village, his daily work consisted of drinking tea, reading newspapers, and handling transportation and logistics.

As long as Konoha people did not cross him, he basically did not interfere with anything.

Well, he did still interfere.

Every so often, he would summon a few Uchiha and question them.

"Want to awaken your eyes?"

A handsome Uchiha man: "?"

Yes, all the Uchiha Masaichi summoned were exceptionally good-looking.

Every student and successor of the Second Hokage had inherited at least some of his skills.

Masaichi seemed to have received a special affinity for the Uchiha and had conducted deeper research into them.

According to his findings, the more beautiful an Uchiha was, the easier it was for them to awaken their eyes. Beautiful Uchiha made others more likely to look into their eyes, making genjutsu easier to use. Therefore, beautiful Uchiha were more likely to survive the battlefield. That was the law of nature!

Applause, please.

He had not spent all those years hanging around Orochimaru for nothing.

"Bastard! We Uchiha are not toys for important people like you to amuse yourselves with!" The handsome Uchiha thought Masaichi wanted to exploit him sexually.

Back when Obito was still alive, he had said that there was someone named Masaichi who had liked to hold him while sleeping as a child because Masaichi was afraid of the dark.

So it was you!

Afraid of the dark, my ass! You had ulterior motives! You were after us Uchiha bodies.

"Are you sick?" Masaichi looked the handsome Uchiha up and down. He was indeed good-looking, but he was a man.

He tossed the handsome man a book. Whatever, suit yourself.

"What does this mean?" The man took Masaichi's book, unsure whether he should leave or continue questioning him.

Actually, if sacrificing himself could win benefits for the Uchiha, it would not be impossible.

Seeing that Masaichi ignored him, the Uchiha man found no further amusement and stood there reading.

Half an hour later!

He walked out with a pair of Two-Tomoe Sharingan, radiating murderous intent at everyone he saw, as though he wanted to beat them to death.

"What are you looking at?!"

When one of his companions tried to check on him, he was glared back as well.

That book was NTR.

There had been a loving couple in the story, with an adorable daughter. The Uchiha man had thought it was a heartwarming novel.

Unexpectedly, the wife's first love returned from overseas. Their daughter called that first love "Dad," and those three beasts did everything they could to disgust the story's male lead.

At the end,

the wife and daughter knelt and begged the husband for forgiveness. The husband said he no longer loved them, the whole point being to make the two regret it.

Regret my fucking ass...

Trash!

Idiot!

Fuck you!!!

Why don't you just die?

After reading about that pathetic cuckold, the Uchiha man, proud his entire life, successfully awakened his eyes.