When Feng Yao, Hashirama, and Tobirama returned,
the people locked in their standoff finally relaxed.
"Lord First!"
"Teacher!"
Seeing Tobirama and Hashirama return, everyone from Konoha breathed a sigh of relief.
Hashirama and Tobirama could now be called Konoha's pillars of support. More accurately, Hashirama was, because he was the only one capable of standing against Feng Yao.
"Yes. Are you all right?" Hashirama's gaze was complicated.
"We're fine, Lord First!" everyone answered.
"Lord First, Teacher, how did it go?" Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly asked, his expression somewhat apprehensive.
At his words, both the First and Tobirama fell silent.
Then Hashirama sighed. "I lost!"
Silence. Utter silence. Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression, in particular, was impossibly stiff.
"Teacher..." Hiruzen Sarutobi looked toward the silent Tobirama. Jiraiya, Tsunade, and the others looked over as well.
Tobirama said nothing, but his silence was an answer in itself.
At this, the anxious hearts of Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others went cold!
Even Lord First was no match for him. Was the Shinobi World really going to be ruled by Uchiha Fengyao?
Hiruzen Sarutobi's face froze, and his heart brimmed with unwillingness to accept it.
He had painstakingly researched the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu for so long, all in the hope that Hashirama could stand against Feng Yao.
But now that even Lord First had lost, was there any hope left for Konoha?
Or rather, did his Sarutobi Clan still have any hope of revenge?!
Hiruzen Sarutobi's feelings were impossibly complicated now. On the one hand, he bitterly regretted having insisted on wiping out the Uchiha back then.
Hiruzen Sarutobi knew that the destruction of the Sarutobi Clan had been Feng Yao's revenge against him.
But on the other hand, his clan's destruction filled Hiruzen Sarutobi with hatred for the Uchiha and an unwillingness to accept what