"Danzo! The Uchiha are Konoha's Uchiha. I will not agree to any requests targeting the Uchiha," Tsunade's gaze turned cold. If the other party dared to make trouble unreasonably, she would deal with him without hesitation according to Sarutobi Hiruzen's wishes.
However, what Danzo said next caught her completely off guard.
"I think the same way!"
"Since you also think that way, then… huh? You also think that way?"
Danzo said, in the calmest tone, the words that Tsunade least expected.
At this moment, Tsunade's eyes were wide open, and she stared at Danzo with a dumbfounded expression, "Say that again?"
"Hmph! Becoming Hokage, does it mean you can't even listen seriously to what others are saying?", Danzo snorted coldly.
"This operation, the Uchiha sacrificed dozens of elites to resist the attack. They are true heroes of Konoha. We must reward them. We absolutely must not chill the hearts of Konoha's loyal subjects!"
At this moment, Tsunade's mouth was wide open, looking like she had seen a ghost.
'This is Danzo? That Danzo who saw the Uchiha as Konoha's greatest threat?'
"Then how do you think we should reward the Uchiha?", Tsunade asked involuntarily, as if compelled by some unseen force.
"Hmph! As Hokage, you don't even know how to reward Konoha's heroes?", Danzo snorted again and raised his cane, slamming it heavily on the ground.
"I propose letting the Uchiha move back to their original clan land."
Tsunade felt like she was either seeing ghosts, or the Danzo in front of her was an impostor.
"Wouldn't that shake the interests of the other ninja clans?"
Upon hearing this, Danzo walked to the window and looked out at the bustling scene outside the window, "I just think we should return what originally belonged to the Uchiha."
Tsunade said nothing. She had already begun to suspect that the Danzo in front of her was an Uchiha in disguise.
Yet such a sophisticated transformation jutsu, even she couldn't see through it?
Danzo saw that Tsunade said nothing and thought she was agreeing with his opinion, so he continued.
"If the Uchiha suffered heavy losses, the Police Force might not be able to function properly. If the Uchiha clan is lacking in manpower, my Root is willing to provide manpower unconditionally to help the Uchiha clan maintain Konoha's public security…"
While Danzo was speaking grandly, completely unguarded, Tsunade had already silently appeared behind him.
With one punch, she knocked him unconscious.
For the whole morning, Tsunade didn't deal with any other matters. She was focused on handling the issue of Danzo.
A village's advisor being silently replaced, this was no small matter.
However, after multiple forms of examination and verification, the Interrogation Division gave her a jaw-dropping conclusion.
'This guy, whether mentally or physically, is undeniably the real Danzo!'
'What a joke!'
'This guy who whole-heartedly cares for the Uchiha, is actually really Danzo?'
'Am I crazy, or has the world gone mad?'
In the interrogation room.
Tsunade looked at the unconscious Danzo and asked Yamanaka Inoichi, "Was he under any genjutsu?"
The Yamanaka clan's secret techniques could peer into a person's heart and tell if they had fallen under genjutsu.
Kotoamatsukami is not an ordinary genjutsu. Perhaps during the brain invasion, it was executed in the form of genjutsu.
Once the will is altered, the genjutsu ends, leaving only the altered will as the result.
Genjutsu is just the method. The alteration of will is the outcome. Ordinary genjutsu needs the caster to constantly maintain it in order to preserve the result.
Kotoamatsukami, once cast, results in a permanent effect.
This is the terrifying strength of Kotoamatsukami.
So even the Yamanaka clan could only see the will-altered version of Danzo, with no trace of genjutsu present.
"I'm sorry, Lady Tsunade. I couldn't find any signs that Danzo was under genjutsu," Yamanaka Inoichi's face was also filled with disbelief.
When he heard Danzo shouting "The Uchiha clan are heroes," his first reaction was also that this guy was a fake.
But this conclusion…
Both of their expressions became strange.
"Could it be because the old man died, and Danzo was too affected, so he went mad too?", Tsunade hesitantly voiced her guess.
Yamanaka Inoichi, thinking of the relationship between the two, had an expression like he had eaten a fly. It seemed he might have had a hand in spreading that rumor too...
But he quickly shook off those distracting thoughts.
"I can't rule out that possibility. But it could also be an extremely high-level genjutsu, beyond my ability to detect."
"It's just that I've never seen such a high-level genjutsu before."
"A high-level genjutsu?", Tsunade immediately thought of the Kotoamatsukami that Sarutobi Hiruzen had once mentioned.
'Capable of silently and directly altering someone's will…'
"Lock him in the interrogation room for now and observe for a while."
"Understood!"
Tsunade returned to the Hokage office. A white-haired ANBU walked in.
"Did you figure it out?"
"Danzo has been staying in the Root base these days, but last night he met with Uchiha Itachi," Kakashi reported truthfully.
"Uchiha Itachi? What was he doing meeting Itachi in the middle of the night?", Tsunade was puzzled.
"Apparently he brought a secret letter from the Third Hokage."
"The old man?"
A flash of lightning passed through Tsunade's mind, and everything suddenly connected.
"So that's it!"
'The old man knew he will die, so he set up a double insurance?'
'He really does value Danzo.'
'But Uchiha Itachi probably had some personal agenda in this too.'
"I understand. You may leave."
"Yes!"
After Kakashi left…
Tsunade hadn't been quiet for long when another troublesome person came knocking.
"Tsunade! I heard you arrested Danzo?"
Koharu Utatane stormed in and questioned Tsunade angrily.
Behind her, Homura Mitokado's face also didn't look good. She hadn't even officially taken office yet, and she was already arresting high-ranking officials.
If she officially took office, wouldn't she just purge all of them old fossils?
"Tsunade, what you did this time went too far. Danzo has made contributions to Konoha and shed blood for Konoha. Arresting him just like that without a word, it's against the rules!"
"Against the rules?", Tsunade's eyebrows furrowed.
Though these two old fossils didn't know the full truth yet, their attitude the moment they entered, pointing fingers and scolding her to her face…
Her temper couldn't help but flare up.
Back when she wasn't Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen used this kind of reasoning to suppress her. Now that she was Hokage, these two old geezers who refused to step down were still pointing at her nose and yelling?
Then what's the point of her being Hokage?
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