For some reason, word of Uchiha Jin's illness had spread through the village.
"Heavens, I told you there was something wrong with that guy."
"Keeping someone with such a serious mental illness in the village is a huge threat. I suggest we ask Lord Hokage to banish Uchiha Jin!"
"What if he has an episode one day and starts killing people at random?"
"We have to get Lord Hokage to deal with him."
Not long ago, Uchiha Jin had cracked down hard on the villagers, arresting a group who had gone to the Uchiha Clan Compound to cause trouble.
But those troublemakers never learned their lesson, no matter how hard they were beaten, and had long since put the incident out of their minds.
In their eyes, Uchiha Jin was severely mentally ill, and leaving such an unstable element in the village could lead to trouble at any moment.
He had to be locked up or driven out of Konoha!
The Hokage's Office.
"Who did this?"
Minato Namikaze's expression was grim.
He had already ordered everyone to keep quiet about Uchiha Jin's illness.
Who had spread the news in secret?
Didn't they know this would cause unnecessary panic?
Jin's mental state was already unstable. Who knew what would happen if someone provoked him again?
Since becoming Hokage, Minato had gained a firsthand understanding of the villagers.
They lacked judgment and were especially easy to incite.
Public opinion was a frightening thing.
One slight misstep could ruin someone's reputation completely.
He stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, looking toward the Sarutobi Clan Compound, and murmured.
"Was it you?"
"Lord Third..."
Sometimes, he really didn't want to believe Hiruzen Sarutobi was responsible.
But aside from him, Minato couldn't think of anyone else in the village.
In the past, he could have suspected Shimura