Andy held Yellow Dog's leash and cradled a languid Tabby Cat in his arms. Mingling with the ordinary villagers, he occasionally joined them in muttering curses at the higher-ups. As he watched the chaos before him, he was utterly dumbfounded.
He inwardly ranted nonstop.
This turn of events was completely outside my expectations!
From beginning to end, he had never arranged for Genno to cause trouble. The man had bottled up decades of hatred, then finally snapped after watching the Sky Screen and taken it upon himself to exact revenge on the Konoha High Command.
And honestly, Andy had barely remembered Genno at all before this.
If the man hadn't revealed his identity today, Andy would never have remembered that the Shinobi World had such an old survivor of a fallen nation, someone who had endured in silence for so long.
At that moment, Andy truly felt how terrifying human obsession and hatred could be.
People really couldn't withstand too great a shock, nor could they bottle up grievances and hatred for too long.
Once they were driven into a corner and all those accumulated negative emotions erupted, they really could commit any extreme act.
Just as all of Konoha was dealing with the aftermath and demanding accountability, with everyone heatedly discussing events and cursing, the images on the Sky Screen high overhead rapidly shifted again, opening an entirely new chapter.
The chaotic scenes of the present faded away, replaced by gentle fragments of everyday life from the past.
Then a somber scene slowly emerged: the elderly Mito Uzumaki reached the end of her life and passed away peacefully, bidding Konoha farewell forever.
This elder of the Uzumaki clan, who had protected Konoha all her life and spent half of it keeping the Nine-Tails sealed to preserve the village's peace,