"Fourth, you've been far too lenient with Uchiha Jin."
In the Hokage's Office, Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned deeply upon learning how the matter had been handled.
Uchiha Jin had openly arrested villagers and tortured them.
They had merely voiced reasonable suspicions, yet they had been treated like this.
It was utterly lawless.
Surely he couldn't abuse his authority to arrest people simply because they questioned him.
How would such conduct make others view the village leadership?!
In Hiruzen's opinion, Uchiha Jin deserved severe punishment. Merely removing him as Acting Captain Commander should not have settled the matter.
It seemed Minato really had been blinded by the Uchiha Clan.
"Lord Third, I don't believe Uchiha Jin was in the wrong."
Minato Namikaze wore a gentle smile, but he did not yield an inch.
It was time to clean up the village's unhealthy atmosphere.
Over the years, quite a few shinobi had been maliciously slandered by villagers.
If the accusations were true, then so be it.
The problem was that most of what they discussed was fabricated or hearsay, completely different from what had actually happened.
Such behavior had caused considerable distress to many people.
The most consequential example in recent years had been the death of Konoha's White Fang.
Hatake Sakumo had been one of the village's strongest fighters. Even Minato had to address him as his senior whenever they met.
A powerful shinobi with such illustrious battlefield achievements had been condemned by everyone over a single failed mission.
Although Hatake Sakumo's abandonment of the mission had indeed caused the village losses, those losses amounted to little compared to his achievements over the years.
He could have made up for them simply by completing a few more S-rank missions.
Besides, White Fang had abandoned the mission entirely to save his comrades.
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