Uchiha Yao stood on the brow of the five-hundred-meter-tall Susanoo, looking down at the two clamoring elders below.
His gaze was like that of someone looking at two flies buzzing by a giant's feet.
The First Hokage?
Uchiha Madara?
What era was this? They were still bringing up those dead old relics.
He, Uchiha Yao, was neither a naïve saint like Hashirama Senju nor an idealistic madman like Uchiha Madara.
He was simply himself.
A pragmatist who only wanted to control his own fate and, while he was at it, kill everyone who stood in his way.
"Too noisy."
The two words came from within the Susanoo.
Every person heard them clearly.
They carried an undisguised, cold impatience.
The next second.
Boom—!!!
The war god standing between heaven and earth moved.
It slowly raised its enormous right hand, vast enough to blot out the sky.
Each of its five fingers was like a mountain peak.
Its shadow instantly engulfed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
Though still injured, Hiruzen Sarutobi charged forward without hesitation when he saw this.
"Stop!"
However.
The giant hand only shifted slightly, but the wind pressure it generated was like an invisible wall that slammed fiercely into Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"Pfft—!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was sent flying once more.
Before absolute power, the so-called "strongest Hokage" did not even have the right to approach.
That enormous hand continued descending.
The shadow of death completely swallowed the two elders.
Mitokado Homura, the Konoha High Command member who had been berating Uchiha Yao only moments ago, was now utterly bloodless.
His survival instinct made him form hand seals without a second thought, preparing to flee with the Body Flicker Technique.
But.
Utatane Koharu beside him was in an entirely different state.
This pampered old woman had long since been frightened stiff.