After leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi's office, Uchiha Yi returned to Mito Uzumaki's home.
"You're back!" Mito Uzumaki greeted him warmly and invited him to sit. Once he had settled down, she said, "I never expected you to use Susanoo and scatter Kirigakure's entire army."
"They chose to invade the Land of Fire and make an enemy of Konoha. They had to pay the price. The Third Mizukage died, but wasn't that what he deserved?" Uchiha Yi smiled. "That's how it is for Ninja. If they're not on our side, they're the enemy. If we didn't kill them today, we'd eventually face them on a mission or a battlefield. Letting them go would be a disservice to our own Ninja."
"Is that so? In that respect, you really are different from Hashirama. You're more like Tobirama." Mito Uzumaki smiled wistfully. She did not say that Uchiha Yi had done anything wrong. Both she and Hashirama Senju had taken many lives. Mito herself had killed plenty of people during the First Shinobi World War. She was in no position to criticize him.
"As a leader, the Second Hokage was clearly better. The First was better suited to being a figurehead.
"In fact, from what I know, many of Konoha's systems during the First's time were established by the Second Hokage." Uchiha Yi was not about to call Hashirama Senju a mascot. At least Tobirama Senju had listened to Hashirama. If anything, Tobirama had been Hashirama's second brain.
Madara Uchiha had once had a second brain too. Tobirama Senju had simply killed him. Taking out the enemy's strategist first was a sound tactic in war.
After Uchiha Izuna died, Madara Uchiha had made one bizarre move after another. At the very least, if Izuna had lived, Madara would never have chosen to carry out