The conference room was full of people, and all the high-level officials and jounin in Konoha Village gathered here.
There were three documents placed in front of Sarutobi's desk.
One was an autopsy report. The mole ninja who was escorted back from the front line had a fatal wound in the heart in addition to the shuriken stabbing. The technique was the Hyuga family's soft fist.
The other is a few letters, which record some important secrets of Konoha, the current troop deployment information on the Kirigakure battle front, and letters exchanged with some wealthy businessmen. The general content is about the opponent after Konoha destroyed the village.
Will provide funds to support the Hyuga clan in building a village.
There was even a letter containing the Daimyo’s recent movements in detail.
The last document was a suicide note left by Hinao Hinao, saying that Hinata Hizu and the ninjas of Iwagakure Village conspired to overthrow Konoha. He wanted to dissuade him but was severely tortured by Hiuga using a curse seal.
Hiuga Hinio is dead.
Everyone present was speechless, and the conference room was completely silent.
Sarutobi sat on the left and right and passed around Koharu, Mito Kaden, Shimura Danzo and Orochimaru.
Everyone was notified here by ANBU early in the morning. After learning that Hinata Hizatsu was a mole and was dead, they were all immersed in indescribable shock.
Everyone here has come into contact with the head of the Hyuga clan, and he is usually quite kind to others.
He is actually a traitor?! He has also plotted so many things to harm the village!
Everyone thought it was ridiculous, even Uchiha Fugaku, Mito Kadeni and Koharu Kasumi.
But with the pieces of evidence placed in front of Sarutobi, any one of the crimes was enough to kill Hinata Hiashi ten thousand times!
But after the shock, there was intense anger and resentment.
During the war with the Iwa Ninja, Konoha was really pushed to the point of desperation. So many companions died. How could Hyuuga and Hyuzu pay for this with his life!
At this moment, there was a knock on the conference room door.
"Enter."
Sarutobi felt confused, everyone who was supposed to come had already arrived.
The person who opened the door and walked in was the great name of the Fire Country, Lord Minamoto, followed by the twelve guardians behind him.
"Master Minamoto!" Sarutobi stood up immediately upon seeing this.
Why is the name here...
Sarutobi had a bad feeling for no reason.
All the ninjas present saw that the visitor was a daimyo, and they all stood up and saluted with Sarutobi.
"Did I disturb your meeting?" Master Yuan said.
"No, I just didn't expect you to come, Minamoto-sama." Sarutobi said, "You can send someone to notify you in advance so that we can be ready to receive you."
Master Yuan did not accept the polite words, but went straight to the point and said: "I heard that the matter of the mole has been found out."
Sarutobi's peripheral vision quickly glanced at everyone present and responded: "Yes."
Master Yuan asked again: "Do you mind if I listen here?"
Sarutobi immediately said: "Konoha is under your rule, we are all your subjects, Minamoto-sama can do whatever he wants!"
He made way for the first person, and Mr. Yuan sat down there without any politeness.
Seeing this, everyone on the left moved a seat to the end for Sarutobi to sit down.
"Last night, Hinata Hizu left the village with strange movements. He was noticed by Orochimaru. He followed him and found out that he was conspiring with an Iwa nin. Orochimaru stepped forward to question him, but was met with resistance by the two. After a fierce fight,
Lieutenant General, kill both of them." Sarutobi once again told the Daimyo what happened last night.
All the fingers pointed at Hinata Hizu, but Hinata Hizu was a dead man.
The dead cannot speak, and all information is spoken by living people. Who can tell whether it is true or false?
Whether a person knows this information or not, whether he or she believes it is entirely up to him or her, but as this is something that everyone knows, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, and it does not affect it as an established fact.
Sarutobi told the daimyo what those three documents contained.
After hearing this, Lord Minamoto said: "So, the Mist ninja who assassinated me yesterday was also planned by Hinata Hizu?"
Sarutobi nodded and said, "Yes."
Lord Minamoto sneered: "This man is so brave, he still wants to overthrow Konoha and stand on his own feet!"
After he said that, his eyes turned to Sarutobi.
"Sandaime, Hinata is from a famous family in Konoha, right?"
There was a questioning tone in this tone, which made Sarutobi's inner uneasiness even stronger.
"The Hyuga clan has been in Konoha since the village was founded. Their clan's unique blood stepchild technique, Byakugan, is also well-known in the ninja world, and they are the elders of Konoha."
Master Yuan asked again: "Is that his problem alone, or is it the problem of this clan?"
"Master Yuan!"
Someone suddenly stood up from the seat below, it was Hinata Hizashi.
Sarutobi introduced to Master Minamoto: "This man is Hinata Hizashi, Hinata Hizashi's younger brother. Before last night's incident, he took the initiative to find me and confessed to me all of Hinata Hizashi's crimes."
Mr. Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly: "Just destroy your relatives for the sake of justice."
Hyuga Hizashi lowered his head and said: "Master Minamoto, our Hyuga clan is different from other families. We are divided into clan families and branch families. All branch family members will be marked with a curse seal called a caged bird since they were young, which is called to protect their own family.
The blood stepchild technique cannot be stolen by others, but in fact, the life and death of the branch family will be in the hands of the Zong family from now on!"
He began to tell Hinata and Hinata that they had always controlled his life and death and had to be enslaved by him. He also wanted to confess everything to the Hokage but never had the chance.
It wasn't until today that Hinata Hizu was conspiring with the Kirigakure Village again, wanting to make Konoha experience the horrors of the war with the Iwa Ninja again, so he risked his life to find the Third Hokage and confess everything.
He also mentioned that the only people in the entire Hyuga clan who knew about this were him and Hitoshi, and the rest were unaware, otherwise they would not have sacrificed most of their clan members to protect Konoha.
Everyone present listened in silence.
Master Minamoto sneered after hearing this: "This Hinata Hizashi is really amazing. Konoha really produced an amazing ninja."
Sarutobi sighed inwardly, lowered his head and said, "Master Minamoto, the blame lies with me, because I don't recognize people well."
At this time, Mr. Yuan glanced at everyone in the banquet, and said with great emotion: "When I first came to Konoha, the first thing I did was to go to the commemorative monument and the place where the heroes rest."
"Looking at the names on the commemorative monument and the tombstones around me, I feel extremely sad and angry, and I also have a lot of emotions. I have heard how brutal the battle between you and the Iwa Ninja was. There were so many people who fought to protect their homeland.
Regardless of life, I feel extremely proud to have such subjects! I have since then firmly believed that no matter what enemies we encounter, we will defeat them!"
"But now, let me go there again, let me stand in front of the memorial monument again, but I will only feel ashamed and ask myself, being killed by the people around me, being killed by the companions I trust so much
,Are their deaths really worthy?!"
"Who made the honor that should belong to them suffer humiliation?!"
"Who should be responsible for this!"
At the end of the sentence, Master Yuan sounded fierce.
Sarutobi looked calm, he already knew why the daimyo was here.
Looking at the sad expressions on everyone's faces at the banquet, Sarutobi sighed inwardly. He asked himself that he was indeed sorry for the thousands of companions who died in vain.
Sarutobi stood up and said, "Me."
"I'll be responsible!"
Master Minamoto's voice also calmed down: "Sandaime, those are thousands of lives, how can you be responsible?"
Sarutobi said slowly: "I will step down as Hokage."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.
"Sandaime-sama!"
"Hokage-sama!"
No one could help but shout softly, but the Sandaime was indifferent to this.
The daimyo said calmly: "Sandaime, you are getting old, it's time to make way for the young people."
Young people...
Sarutobi sighed inwardly, Minato's appearance flashed in his mind.
Watergate……
Watergate……
Watergate?!
Sarutobi's eyes widened in anger, and he felt that something was wrong.
Minato is not in the village now!
Not only Minato is not there, Shikaku, Haiichi and all other Minato supporters are also not here!
They are all fighting desperately against the Mist Ninjas on the front line right now!
His eyes once again glanced at everyone present, Shimura Danzo, Orochimaru...
What's going on...why...why are the people who support Orochimaru here...
Where are Minato's supporters? Where's Jiraiya?
Sarutobi recalled the scene that day when Kirigakure was decided to be the leader of the battle. Orochimaru's humble words made Sarutobi feel that Orochimaru was overthinking that moment.
Master Minamoto asked calmly at this time: "The Fourth Generation, is there a suitable candidate?"
Danzo finally opened the eye that had been closed: "I recommend Orochimaru."
As soon as this statement came out, there were constant echoes in the conference room.
Sarutobi turned his attention to Mito Monobu and Koharu Koharu, his eyes seemed to want to eat people, but these two people lowered their heads and remained silent.
Orochimaru, who had never spoken a word, finally showed a smile.
Sarutobi looked at this smile, but his heart felt like it was falling into an ice cave.