Konoha Village.
Senju clan compound.
Seeing Hiruzen Sarutobi choose to lower his head, Chiba turned his gaze toward Danzo, who was still rolling on the ground.
Soon, Danzo’s wails began to weaken.
He lay in the mud, panting heavily.
Cold sweat mixed with dirt covered his deeply wrinkled, aged face.
Although one of his arms had been brutally torn off, he was still a Kage-level powerhouse after all; naturally, he wouldn’t lose consciousness on the spot.
His rolling on the ground earlier was merely a signal thrown to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
He was waiting for Hiruzen to step forward—waiting for Hiruzen to use his firm political maneuvering to forcibly save his life.
However, Hiruzen Sarutobi had failed.
Danzo knew very clearly in his heart that to preserve his seat as Hokage, Hiruzen had completely abandoned him.
Since he couldn’t escape it, Danzo naturally wouldn’t continue pretending to be dead.
Using his remaining left hand to push against the ground, he stood up shakily.
Blood dripped down from his shoulder, splattering onto the dirt and quickly staining a large patch of ground red.
Danzo looked around at his surroundings.
The crimson Sharingan of the Uchiha clan.
The cold Byakugan of the Hyuga clan.
The undisguised contempt from the Ino-Shika-Cho clans.
Every single prominent clan in the village was currently staring at him as if looking at absolute garbage.
Danzo suddenly burst into laughter.
His laughter was hoarse and grating, sounding like the cry of a night owl.
“What do any of you know?!”
“Konoha is a towering tree!”
“Where there is sunshine, there must also be shadows!”
“I am those very shadows!”
He raised his remaining left arm, pointing at everyone present.
“Over these past years, if I hadn’t been handling the matters that couldn’t see the light of day, Konoha would have long been swallowed up by the other Four Great Shinobi Villages!”
“Do you think peace fell from the sky?”
“No!”
“It was traded for with my endless schemes, assassinations, and betrayals!”
The more Danzo spoke, the louder his voice became.
The wrinkles on his face bunched together from extreme excitement.
Then, Danzo suddenly snapped his head toward Chiba, staring dead at him.
“The Senju clan has declined!”
“And the Uchiha clan is full of ungrateful white-eyed wolves!”
“Was I wrong to want to master your power?!”
“Only by perfectly combining the First Hokage’s Wood Release with the Uchiha’s Sharingan can Konoha give birth to a new god!”
“Everything I did was for Konoha!”
“You group of fools are not worthy of judging me at all!”
Danzo’s voice echoed across the open clearing.
What returned to him, however, was an even more eerie silence.
Not a single person was moved by his twisted fallacies.
“What a fine ‘for Konoha’.”
“So, that gives you the right to use the corpses of your comrades as experimental materials?”
“So, that gives you the right to recklessly plunder the foundation of bloodline limit families?”
Chiba sneered, his tone dripping with sheer contempt.
Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Chiba turned sideways to look at Fugaku Uchiha standing at the front of the crowd.
“Clan Leader Fugaku.”
“Since this old dog is so starved for the Uchiha’s power…”
“Why don’t we do this?”
“Show a little mercy and adopt him as an foster son.”
“Have him change his surname to Uchiha.”
“As long as he kowtows to you three times every morning on schedule, whenever you’re in a good mood, you can reward him with a pair of Sharingan. How about that?”
As soon as those words were spoken, the entire field fell dead silent.
No one expected Chiba to say something like this.
This was dragging Danzo’s dignity onto the ground and grinding it mercilessly into the dirt!
“Lord Chiba must be joking.”
“Although our Uchiha clan’s recent situation hasn’t been great…”
“We don’t just take any garbage into our family.”
“A beast like Danzo, who is worse than pigs and dogs…”
“If he were to step foot inside our Uchiha doors, I’d fear he would pollute the eyes of our ancestors.”
Hearing Chiba’s words, Fugaku Uchiha immediately understood his intent.
Without the slightest hesitation, he straightened his back instantly and replied with a face full of disdain.
The two of them played off each other seamlessly.
Every single word was like a loud, stinging slap across Danzo’s face.
“You brat… how dare you humiliate me!”
Danzo’s face instantly flushed the color of pig liver.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his remaining left fist clenched tightly.
Chiba pulled back the cold smile at the corner of his mouth.
He couldn’t be bothered to waste any more words with such trash.
A surge of emerald-green Wood Release chakra began to gather wildly.
The surrounding air instantly turned unnaturally heavy.
Killing intent locked firmly onto Danzo—Chiba was prepared to crush this pest to death directly.
“Lord Chiba!”
Right at this moment, Fugaku Uchiha suddenly took a step forward.
He cupped his fists and bowed deeply toward Chiba.
“This old dog not only desecrated the Senju clan, but also deeply insulted our Uchiha.”
“I request that my lord raise his hand in mercy and leave this old dog for me to deal with!”
“The Uchiha’s blood debts must be settled by the Uchiha themselves!”
Fugaku Uchiha’s request caught everyone off guard.
He was usually timid and subservient, backing down time and again when faced with suppression from the village high command.
Today, he actually dared to actively demand execution rights right in front of the Third Hokage!
Chiba raised an eyebrow.
He understood Fugaku’s mindset.
The Senju clan had stolen the spotlight today, and the terrifying power of Wood Release had shocked the entire field.
If the Uchiha didn’t want to fade into a mere background foil, they had to display matching strength at this very moment.
Killing Danzo was the absolute best opportunity.
“Suit yourself!” Chiba shrugged nonchalantly.
To him, it didn’t matter in the slightest whose hand Danzo died by.
From start to finish, Chiba’s only goal was to make Danzo vanish.
“Thank you, my lord, for fulfilling my request!”
Hearing Chiba agree, Fugaku Uchiha’s spirits instantly soared.
He turned around and walked toward Danzo step by step.
All the ninjas present stepped back automatically.
Within a few short seconds, an arena of over two hundred meters was cleared out.
Hiashi Hyuga opened his Byakugan, staring fixedly at the center of the field.
Shikaku Nara had his brow deeply furrowed, his brain spinning rapidly.
Hiruzen Sarutobi held his pipe, veins bulging on the back of his hand.
Yet he remained nailed to the spot like a wooden post—neither stopping them nor pleading for mercy.
As the Third Hokage, he tacitly acquiesced to this execution.
In the center of the clearing, Fugaku Uchiha confronted Danzo Shimura.
The cold wind whipped up dust from the ground, creating an atmosphere of absolute lethality.
Even with one arm torn off, Danzo was still a genuine Kage-level powerhouse.
The decades of life-and-death combat experience he had accumulated were far beyond what ordinary people could compare to.
Most importantly, he knew clearly that he would never leave this place alive today.
Since death was inevitable, he had to drag someone down to hell with him.
Chiba was too strong; he couldn’t kill him.
However, if he could drag the clan head of the Uchiha into hell, it would still count as clearing a massive threat for Konoha.
“Fugaku.”
“Even if I only have one hand left, killing you is still as easy as slaughtering a chicken!” Danzo said coldly, his left hand already gripping a kunai.
Hearing Danzo’s taunt, Fugaku Uchiha stopped in his tracks.
Yet there was not a trace of anger on his face—only a bone-chilling killing intent.
“Danzo.”
“You keep claiming that you want the power of the Uchiha.”
“Then today, I will let you witness the true power of the Uchiha!”
The moment his words fell, Fugaku Uchiha’s three-tomoe Sharingan suddenly began to warp unnaturally.
They elongated and fused continuously, weaving into an incomparably complex pattern.
In an instant, a cold, violent chakra erupted from within Fugaku Uchiha’s body.
The Mangekyo Sharingan!
This was Fugaku Uchiha’s trump card, hidden for many years—a secret unknown even to his closest wife and son.
But today…
To establish his authority…
To completely sever the upper management’s greed toward the Uchiha…
Fugaku Uchiha exposed his Mangekyo Sharingan in front of the entire public!
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