“Big Brother, I support you in becoming the leader of the village!” “The Senju Clan also supports you in becoming the village leader!” “Even the members of the Uchiha Clan will support you as the leader!” Tobirama Senju firmly stated his stance.
Martial prowess, prestige…
and that pure, innocent heart that wished to bring peace to the Ninja World—Hashirama Senju possessed countless virtues, and Tobirama Senju was well aware of them all.
Even if his big brother was sometimes lacking in the brains department, he would have absolutely no issues serving as the leader of the village.
As his younger brother, Tobirama Senju would make up for Hashirama Senju’s intellectual shortcomings!
“But I still think Madara is more suitable than me.” Faced with Tobirama Senju’s full support, Hashirama Senju pondered for a moment but still felt that Madara Uchiha was more suitable to become the leader of the village.
The reasons behind this were highly complex.
It wasn’t just because Hashirama felt he wasn’t good at management.
Part of it was that Hashirama believed Madara Uchiha had sacrificed far too much to achieve peace and reconciliation between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, and both he and the Senju Clan owed Madara too much!
*Tobirama, you too!
You also owe Madara Uchiha too much!* Hashirama wanted to use this opportunity to compensate Madara Uchiha.
*Madara, I’ve seen everything you’ve sacrificed.
Since you didn’t let me down, I will absolutely never let you down!* Therefore, in terms of both reason and emotion…
Madara was fully qualified to be the leader of the village.
This was what Hashirama thought.
In an instant!
A mix of helplessness, resignation, and exasperation at his brother’s failure to live up to expectations flooded Tobirama’s heart.
No matter how many schemes Tobirama could conjure up, or how his strategies could pacify the entire Ninja World, he felt utterly powerless right now.
Because his own big brother had surrendered first!
Instead of cooperating, Hashirama was actively dragging him down!
“Madara, Madara, Madara—all you ever think about is Madara!” “What is so good about that naturally evil Madara Uchiha anyway?!” *I really should have…* Tobirama kept muttering complaints in his mind, but ultimately, he still had to face reality.
Madara Uchiha absolutely could not become the leader of the village!
“Big Brother, I won’t argue with you right now!” “Either way, I don’t agree to let Madara Uchiha be the leader of the village.” “Fine…
regarding the leader of the village, let’s decide by a vote.” There was no other way.
Tobirama could only come up with this compromise.
Since his brother wouldn’t cooperate, he had to use a democratic vote to push his brother into the leader’s seat.
“Alright.” Hashirama nodded.
Since Tobirama had already put it that way, if he kept insisting, his younger brother would truly blow a fuse in anger.
Moreover, Hashirama felt this method was very fair.
He believed that with Madara’s abilities, he would surely win everyone’s support and smoothly become the leader of the village.
“Then it’s settled!” Tobirama let out a long sigh of relief.
*Big Brother, you’re finally willing to listen to me!* *Now, let me, your younger brother, personally lift you into the position of the village leader!* That night, Tobirama did not sleep.
He was trying to figure out how to make his big brother successfully ascend to the position of village leader with a landslide vote.
First, Tobirama felt it was necessary to make his brother—and the rest of the village—believe that Hashirama was far more suited to lead the village than Madara Uchiha!
To this end…
Tobirama decided to conduct a questionnaire survey within the village before holding the official democratic vote.
He would use the survey report to build momentum for his big brother!
As for the members of the Senju Clan, Tobirama wasn’t worried.
Hashirama enjoyed immense prestige within the clan.
If it came down to a vote for the leader, the Senju Clan would definitely support his big brother!
The most important factor, however, was the Uchiha Clan!
Even though Hashirama’s strength and magnanimity had already won over some of the Uchiha, there was still a large faction within the Uchiha Clan that supported Madara Uchiha.
They were the ultimate key!
To play it safe, Tobirama decided to find a way to manipulate the survey results.
How could he manipulate the survey results?
Simply tampering with the results manually was out of the question!
Such a method was too clumsy and unseemly, and it would be easily exposed.
Tobirama immediately dismissed this idea from his mind.
After a period of hard thinking, a brilliant idea came to him.
The next day…
Tobirama dispatched a gentle, voluptuous young lady wearing black fishnet stockings deep into the Uchiha territory to begin the survey.
Clutching the questionnaire, the young lady found an Uchiha clan member and began asking questions.
Young Lady: “Excuse me, Mr.
Uchiha, are you worried about the rising number of jobless shinobi in the Ninja World?” Uchiha Member: “Of course.
If shinobi can’t get missions, they might resort to robbing ordinary civilians, which would harm innocent people!” Young Lady: “Are you worried about the increasing rate of young children from your clan being sent to the battlefield?” Uchiha Member: “Yes.
I don’t want the children of our clan to go to the battlefield.
They deserve a better future!” Young Lady: “Do you feel that shinobi are becoming increasingly undisciplined?” Uchiha Member: “Without a doubt.
The cruelty of war has caused many shinobi to lose their sense of discipline.” Young Lady: “Do you think young people welcome authority and leadership?” Uchiha Member: “Of course they do!” Young Lady: “Then you believe they will rise to the challenge, correct?” Uchiha Member: “Yes!” Young Lady: “If Hashirama Senju were to serve as the leader of the village, would you support him?” Uchiha Member: “Uh…
I suppose I would.” Young Lady: “Thank you for your support with our survey.
Please sign here.” After a busy day, the young lady collected enough completed questionnaires and returned to deliver them to Tobirama Senju in his office.
Inside the office, Tobirama stared at the questionnaires piled on his desk.
He could not wait to pick them up and read through them from start to finish.
The results of the survey were exactly as Tobirama had anticipated.
The approval rating for his big brother becoming the village leader had exceeded half, reaching as high as eighty percent.
All that was left was to present these results to his big brother…
of course, after stripping away all the irrelevant questions at the beginning and leaving only the final one!
Generally speaking, reputable, conscientious, and ethical researchers would never do such a thing…
but this was all for the sake of the village!
If it was for this cause, Tobirama could completely accept a slight compromise of his principles!
In an exceptionally good mood, Tobirama did something completely uncharacteristic and opened a bottle of wine.
As a qualified shinobi, he usually never drank alcohol, but…
today was an exception.
He wanted to celebrate this hard-won survey report.
“Big Brother, I have truly racked my brains for your sake!”