"That's how it should be! That's how it should be!"
Listening to Takahashi Yū's account, Danzo waved his arms and stamped his feet in excitement!
"What!?"
"Masato, Lan, and Hideki are all still alive!"
Danzo suddenly grew calm again, sitting dazedly on a rock and staring into the fire, his thoughts unknown.
By the time Takahashi Yū finished recounting everything up until he crossed over, Danzo looked even more desolate, and even a little lost.
"The Shimura Clan didn't lose all its young and able-bodied members either..."
"That's wonderful... brother..."
Takahashi Yū looked at Danzo with some surprise. He had thought the Danzo of this time would be closer to the deranged man he became later, but he did not seem quite that extreme yet.
The end of the Third Shinobi World War was a particularly important turning point for Danzo, as the war grew increasingly deadlocked.
The Third Hokage actually wanted to abandon the favorable position won through tremendous sacrifices and initiate peace talks. Of course Danzo vehemently opposed it!
Wouldn't that render all of Konoha's earlier sacrifices meaningless?
Yet after the Third announced that he would take responsibility for this war, which had cost so many lives only to end so hastily, and step down, Danzo still compromised!
Because he no longer wanted to endure Konoha's weakness in domestic and foreign affairs!
At the nomination meeting, he recommended Orochimaru, whose political views closely aligned with his own, because he knew that as the "Darkness of the Shinobi," he was no longer eligible to take office through legitimate means...
But what happened?
An established, renowned Kage-level ninja lost to the newly famous Yellow Flash!
Orochimaru had commanded more troops than Minato had even seen!
Faced with Danzo's objection that "Minato is too young," the Third merely said mildly that