A crazed resolve flashed in Genno's eyes as he continued shouting.
"My original plan was never to blow up a few clans or destroy a few houses!"
"I intended to stockpile enough Explosive Tags and spend however long it took planting them in every building in Konoha, then blow the entire village sky-high! Destroy it completely!! Make every last one of you die with them!!"
Tsunade was racing toward Hokage Rock at full speed when those words made her entire body stiffen, her face draining of all color!
Her blood seemed to turn to ice in an instant!
If Genno had really gathered enough Explosive Tags to blow up all of Konoha...
It would not have been just the four major clan compounds. Of the tens of thousands of villagers, countless children, and all the village's ninja, very few would have survived!
It would have been a catastrophe even more devastating, even more hopeless than the night of the Nine-Tails!
Overwhelming terror swept through Tsunade.
On Hokage Rock, Genno gave a bleak, self-mocking smile and continued loudly recounting his obsession and his struggle.
"I was determined to destroy Konoha, to make you pay for blood with blood!"
"But the Sky Screen suddenly appeared, overturning everything we thought we knew and shaking my resolve!"
"I watched everything on the Sky Screen with my own eyes. I saw Naruto Uzumaki!"
His voice softened slightly, taking on a rare tenderness as reminiscence flickered in his eyes.
"I once went to the Ninja Academy myself to see him."
"That child was innocent, kind, pure, and blameless. His face, his every gesture... he was so much like my son, who died so horribly all those years ago..."
"Because of him, my heart softened!"
"I let go of a blood feud I had carried for decades!