Everyone in the conference room froze when they heard Gengetsu's words.
Wasn't the Sharingan the Kekkei Genkai exclusive to the Uchiha Clan?
Could someone outside the Uchiha Clan have the Sharingan too?
Wait! Could it be...?
At that moment, some people remembered something, and their gazes involuntarily turned toward a white-haired young man at the back of the crowd.
That man was none other than Kakashi Hatake.
Although few people in Konoha knew that Kakashi Hatake had a Sharingan, and Kakashi usually kept his left eye tightly covered with his Konoha forehead protector.
Everyone who could stand in this conference room today, however, was either a jonin or a member of Konoha's high command.
Everyone present knew full well about the Sharingan in Kakashi's left eye, which had come from Obito Uchiha.
Kakashi Hatake did indeed possess a Sharingan!
Feeling the gazes around him, Kakashi Hatake instinctively reached for his left eye.
"Gengetsu, are you talking about Kakashi Hatake?!"
"Kakashi Hatake would never do such a thing!"
"Kakashi is Minato Namikaze's student! How could he possibly control the Nine-Tails and kill his own teacher?!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was the first to loudly object.
Immediately afterward, several elite jonin who were close friends with Kakashi Hatake hurriedly spoke up as well.
"Lord Third is right! Kakashi would never do something like that!"
"Kakashi's youth is filled with passion and justice! He would never do anything to harm the village or Lord Fourth!"
"We've all seen what kind of person Kakashi is in Konoha! How could he possibly control the Nine-Tails?!"
"Exactly! Kakashi only has one Sharingan, and he doesn't have an Uchiha's constitution. Even using the Sharingan normally consumes enormous amounts of chakra. How could he have enough chakra to control the Nine-Tails?!"
"..."
As far as everyone was concerned, Kakashi Hatake was Minato Namikaze's student.
As his student, Kakashi Hatake could never have killed his own teacher, Minato Namikaze.
Watching the agitated crowd around him, Gengetsu felt a surge of disdain.
Isn't students killing their teachers practically a Konoha tradition?!
Hiruzen Sarutobi would later die at the hands of his own student, Orochimaru.
Jiraiya would die at the hands of his own student, Nagato.
Although Minato Namikaze had not been killed by Kakashi Hatake, he had indeed died at the hands of another student, Obito Uchiha.
Of course, the other Konoha ninja knew nothing about these things.
"What are you all getting so worked up about?"
"I never said it was Kakashi Hatake."
Gengetsu's voice was not loud, yet it instantly cut through the clamor throughout the room.
His words left everyone in the conference room even more confused.
Not Kakashi Hatake?
Then who else could it be?!
In all of Konoha, Kakashi was the only person they knew of outside the Uchiha Clan who possessed a Sharingan!
If it wasn't Kakashi, could there be someone else in Konoha with a Sharingan?!
How was that possible?!
Sharingan weren't cabbages. How could outsiders just have them so easily?!
At Gengetsu's words, however, Danzo's heart tightened.
Because Danzo himself had Sharingan.
But Danzo soon relaxed again. He had had the Sharingan on his body implanted in secret.
Apart from himself and a few trusted subordinates, no one knew about them. Even Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and the others did not know, so there was even less chance that Gengetsu knew.
"Utter nonsense!"
"Uchiha Gengetsu, stop trying to be mysterious! Apart from Kakashi, there couldn't possibly be another outsider in Konoha with a Sharingan!"
"You clearly have nothing left to say and are deliberately trying to stall!"
"Do you think making up some nonexistent person will clear your Uchiha Clan of the charge of controlling the Nine-Tails?! You must give the entire village an explanation today!"
Shimura Danzō fixed his sole remaining eye on Gengetsu and let out an extremely unpleasant sneer.
Hearing Danzo's words, the others also stared at Gengetsu with doubt and confusion.
Under everyone's scrutiny, Gengetsu slowly stood up.
Gengetsu slowly rose from the spacious Hokage's chair, looking at Danzo as a cold smile curled his lips.
"Whether anyone else has a Sharingan..."
"You'll find out soon enough."
As his words fell, Gengetsu abruptly thrust out his right hand and drew the ninja blade at the waist of an Uchiha Clan guard standing beside him!
Immediately afterward, Gengetsu vanished from where he stood!
When Gengetsu reappeared, he was right in front of Shimura Danzō!
At the same time, the ninja blade in Gengetsu's hand slashed toward Shimura Danzō with a whistle through the air.
"What?!"
Faced with Gengetsu's sudden attack, Danzo's lone eye widened as far as it could, his pupil contracting violently.
Danzo had never expected Gengetsu to launch a sudden attack!
Even less had he expected Gengetsu to dare attack him directly in Konoha's highest-level Hokage conference room, in front of the Third Hokage, the two advisers, and all the village's clan heads and elite jonin.
Had Gengetsu gone mad?
Caught completely unprepared, Danzo had no time to react or dodge.
He could only watch helplessly as the ninja blade in Gengetsu's hand slashed toward him.
Rip!
A loud tearing sound rang out, followed by a spray of blood.
Gengetsu's slash severed Danzo's right arm, which had always been wrapped in thick bandages, clean off at the shoulder!
"How dare you!"
"Gengetsu, what are you doing?!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura, seated in the front row, were utterly shocked to see Gengetsu suddenly lash out.
Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined that Gengetsu would dare resolve the issue through such direct violence!
Not only those three, but even the elite jonin and clan heads around them were badly startled by Gengetsu's sudden, crazed act.
Publicly cutting off the arm of a member of Konoha High Command during a Hokage meeting was something that had never happened since Konoha's founding.
"Aaah..."
With his arm severed, Danzo let out a scream, his features twisting in pain.
Although losing his arm left Danzo in excruciating agony, there was more panic and fear in his lone eye at that moment!
No, my arm!
"My hand! You can't..."
Enduring the agonizing pain, Danzo desperately reached out with his remaining left hand, trying to grab his severed, bandage-wrapped arm.
He absolutely could not let that arm fall into someone else's hands!
But how could Gengetsu let him succeed?
After severing the arm, Gengetsu immediately raised his right leg and drove a vicious kick into Danzo's abdomen.
Thud!
Another heavy crash rang out as Danzo flew backward, tracing an arc through the air before slamming hard into the conference room's solid wall.
The tremendous impact sent cracks spreading across a large section of the wall. Danzo violently spat out a mouthful of blood, then collapsed heavily onto the floor like a heap of sludge.
From drawing his blade to severing Danzo's arm, then kicking him into the wall, Gengetsu completed every movement in one seamless sequence, all within an instant.
No one present even had a chance to stop him.
By the time they finally reacted, Danzo's arm had already been severed and fallen to the floor, while Danzo himself lay sprawled on the floor in the distance like a dead dog.
"Gengetsu, what have you done?!"
"Gengetsu, you're murdering a member of Konoha High Command! This is rebellion!"
"Anbu! Seize Gengetsu immediately!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura immediately shouted, their voices filled with fury and disbelief.
The surrounding ninja and clan heads also looked at Gengetsu in disbelief.
Mad!
Uchiha Gengetsu had absolutely gone mad!
Even if Gengetsu was the successor designated by the Fourth Hokage, even if he possessed extraordinary strength, he still couldn't just draw a blade and cut someone down during a Hokage meeting!
This was sheer madness! He was showing complete disregard for Konoha's rules and high command!
Faced with the uproar throughout the room and the Anbu who suddenly appeared, Gengetsu showed not a trace of fear in his eyes.
"Hmph, what are you all yelling about?"
"Take a look at what this is first!"
Rip!
Gengetsu forcefully swept the ninja blade in his hand across Danzo's severed arm.
The bandages on the severed arm split apart, revealing what lay beneath.
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