The Wood Release broken arm covered with Sharingan at the bottom of the pit was still squirming slightly, and even started to grow strange twigs.
The scarlet eyes were stained with muddy water and opened with excitement. The sight made one's stomach feel clogged and one's back felt cold.
Utatane Koharu stared at the amputated arm for a long time without moving, and suddenly exchanged glances with Mitokado Homura.
The tacit understanding between the two, which they have known each other for decades, caught up with the frequency at this moment.
Koharu The panic on her face was suppressed by the anger. She raised her head and her voice was so sharp that it almost broke.
"Hiruzen! What do you mean? Do you want to blame us for human experimentation and say that we are covering up Danzo?!"
Mitokado Homura hurriedly pushed up the broken glasses, took a step forward and hurriedly cleared them.
"That's right! Root's funding direction is complicated. We allocate supplies only to meet the needs of wartime missions!"
"Danzo did such disgusting things in private without telling everyone. Do we, the consultants, have to watch every transaction personally?"
"Why are you pouring dirty water on us?"
The two of them stood in tandem, raising their voices so high that they wished everyone ANBU could hear how innocent they were.
The people around ANBU slowed down their movements, and some people looked quietly at the bottom of the pit. No one believed that an experiment of that scale could bypass logistics and Medical Department.
Hiruzen looked at the two familiar old wrinkled faces in front of him, and no longer sighed or muddled.
After decades of friendship, today I can't even hear a word of truth.
The fire in his chest slowly cooled down, leaving only a completely heart-warming calm.
"You know exactly what stamp is stamped on the approval form!"
He raised his hand to wipe away the blood flowing from his palm.
Koharu's face changed. Just as he was about to rush to defend himself, he was blocked by a sentence.
"That's enough, I don't want to listen to your quibbles anymore, let alone say another half word to you."
Hiruzen took a breath and slowly opened his injured palm.
The broken half-stained cigarette holder slipped from the fingers and hit the gravel with a sharp and piercing sound.
He looked around at the devastated Hokage Building. Between the ruins and broken walls, the body with incomplete remains at the bottom of the pit lay quietly.
In front of everyone ANBU, he straightened his waist that had been bent for a long time and spoke word by word.
"From today on, I officially resign from my position as Hokage."
Every word is spelled out clearly.
The movement on the ruins stopped instantly.
Several ANBU who were carrying gravel were stunned on the spot at the same time, and several broken bricks fell directly from their hands back to the ground.
A ninja carrying a stretcher shook his hand and almost lifted the wounded person off it.
A young man next to him ANBU dropped the bandage in his hand. He picked it up in a hurry, but completely forgot to continue bandaging it.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on him, and even the wind stopped for a moment.
Koharu's face suddenly collapsed.
That kind of collapse was filled with fear, fear from the bottom of her bones, which made her take two steps back and her knees began to tremble.
Madara Uchiha is sitting in the Konoha barbecue restaurant a few blocks away!
Uchiha Clan will never let go of today's account!
Hiruzen If you really give up your career, then they will be the only two consultants standing in front of the active volcano?
They don't have the combat power of Hokage, nor the prestige that Hiruzen has accumulated over the years, so they can't even delay it.
Mitokado Homura It was even worse. Behind the broken lenses, the pupils were diverging.
The attitudes of the two men completed a 180-degree turn in just three seconds.
Koharu ignored the injury to his knee and hurriedly stepped forward, his voice softened completely and even sounded flattering.
"Hiruzen Don't be impulsive!"
"The human experiment was indeed done by Danzo without telling us!"
"He took advantage of the trust of the higher-ups. That beast deserved his death and brought it upon himself!"
Mitokado Homura raised his hand to stop Hiruzen, then stepped on the dead man into the mud.
"That's right! He arranged the nails in ANBU directly, and we were also kept in the dark!"
"The village is at war, and there are internal and external troubles. Now you suddenly give up the fight, isn't this going to destroy Konoha?"
In order to keep Hiruzen as a shield, the two men instantly called Danzo, who had known each other for decades, a lunatic.
Hiruzen didn't avoid it, just listened quietly.
Seeing the two people rushing to pour dirty water on a corpse that would not open its mouth to defend itself, the light in his eyes dimmed little by little.
When I followed the second generation on a mission, no one dared to give their back to their companions.
Decades have passed, and Danzo has become this monster. All his former companions have been corrupted by power and become nothing but selfish.
Even the self who retreated again and again, dragging many mistakes until today, is just as bad.
The pain from not sleeping for several days emerged from his bones, and Hiruzen suddenly felt more tired than ever before.
"I've made up my mind, I don't deserve this Hokage."
He directly pushed away Yan's hand, his voice leaving no room for negotiation.
"Faced with Madara Uchiha's level of power, I can't think of any way. Whether or not the village can be saved depends on his mood."
He looked down at his bloody hands and gave a wry smile.
"Look at this ruins again, look at Danzo, look at you, and look at myself."
"I, Hokage, have failed so much that I am no longer qualified to continue sitting in that seat."
Koharu He Yan fell weakly on the broken stone bricks one after another, as if his backbone had been ripped out.
Koharu's voice was so dry it could grind out iron filings. "Then you resign... what should you do next? What should Konoha do?"
Mitokado Homura held up his glasses, his expression extremely ugly. "Who else dares to take on this mess?"
Hiruzen raised his bloodshot eyes and looked at Hokage Rock in the distance covered with morning light.
"Let Minato Namikaze come back and let him be Fourth Hokage!"
Without any hesitation, he directly revealed his trump card.
"Minato is Uchiha Ye's teacher. With this bond, for Ye's sake, Madara is at least willing to listen to what he has to say."
"When it comes to strength, military exploits, and frontline command, he has never made a mistake."
"Konoha Only Minato can handle this situation. He is not involved in these bad debts from the top management. Both the villagers and Shinobi clans can accept it."
Koharu When she heard this name, her years of consultant instinct made her frown, and she spoke in a critical manner.
"Minato Namikaze? Isn't he too young? His qualifications may not convince the public..."
The words are not finished yet.
Hiruzen suddenly turned around and roared at the top of his hoarse throat, shaking the dust off the broken wall.
"When has it been! Are you still acting like a disgusting consultant Elder?!"
His eyes were red, and he pointed at the two people slumped on the ground with full force.
"Now we, Konoha, are desperate and are asking Minato to come back and clean up the mess. Do you understand?"
"No one is waiting for you to review it, and it's not your turn to decide whether to accept it or not!"
"When will you two wake up from your dream?!"
The two consultants were scolded until their faces were bruised, their necks shrank back, and the corners of their mouths twitched several times, but they couldn't hold back a single word of rebuttal.
I could only lower my head in despair, my hands shaking all the time.
Hiruzen didn't even take a step back. He took a few deep breaths and turned to call ANBU, the contact person in charge of frontline intelligence.
"Where is Minato now and how is the situation on the front line?"
ANBU quickly knelt down on one knee and said in a crisp voice, "Latest information, Master Minato has just repelled the main enemy force on the front line, and the battle line is temporarily stable."
Hiruzen lowered his voice and ordered on the spot with unnegotiable ferocity, "Go to the Cipher Department, release the fastest emergency Ninja Hawk, and use the highest level secret command!"
"Madara's name must not be written in the secret order. If it is intercepted, it will only send information to the enemy village."
"Tell Minato that the highest level of emergency has occurred in the village and ask him to put down all tasks!"
"After seeing the secret command, use Flying Thunder God to return to the village immediately, without delaying for a moment!"