"I am lucky. Even in such cruel times, I have waited time and time again. But these children of the Senju and Kurama clans lost their parents forever in just one afternoon."
"I have never thought that politics, other than war, could bring such a big disaster..."
The sound suddenly stopped here, and Uchiha Mitsuki subconsciously raised his head and looked at the man beside him.
He noticed that his teacher, who had always been lazy, actually had two lines of tears flowing down his resolute cheeks at this moment.
"teacher……"
Uchiha Mitsuki called out softly. He wanted to say something, but suddenly found that he couldn't speak at all.
After thinking for a moment, he tried to comfort the depressed man next to him with what he had done.
"I often go to Senju, the Kurama tribe. Among these children, the eldest is now fifteen years old, and the youngest has just celebrated his fourth birthday."
"Although they have experienced great pain in their lives, they have to look forward to life, right?"
Even so, Nara Shikadai disagreed.
"They could have lived a better life! Why...!? Why..."
The man's incoherence moved Uchiha Mitsuki. However, he had different ideas from his teacher. As a human being, he never cared about the facts that had happened in the past. For him, as long as he lived, the future was
the most important.
But - at this moment, Uchiha Mitsuki didn't want to argue with the teacher. He just wanted to be a quiet listener, because this was the greatest help to a sad person.
"They didn't even ask these children, Jian Yue, if it weren't for you, if it weren't for you, these children wouldn't even be able to survive."
Nara Shikadai angrily vented the anguish that had been weighing on his heart over the years.
Hearing this, Uchiha Mitsuki knew that the teacher had almost adjusted.
He tried to steer the conversation toward the three sides of the Zhu, Lu, and Die families.
"So, this is exactly why I want to become Hokage."
At this time, Uchiha Mitsuki suddenly noticed that Nara Shikadai had a look of pain in his eyes.
He couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, do you have any questions?"
"question?"
Nara Shikadai shook his head and said slowly.
"Oh, Miyuki, the Hokage-sama was the same as you back then, but what about now? Sitting in that position, people change very quickly. This kind of change is inevitable. Even if you don't want to change, someone will push you.
You go and change.”
"Hashirama-sama and Madara-sama are close enough, don't they eventually turn against each other and fight to the death in the Valley of the End?"
Uchiha Mitsuki nodded, he quite agreed with this point.
Nara Shikadai did not stop talking and continued talking.
"Think about it, at the beginning, among the people that Master Hashirama wanted to protect the most, there must be Master Madara. But what happened later? The people closest to him became enemies. There are countless invisible hands here.
It made Master Hashirama make changes."
"Master Tobirama was originally a mean person, but since he became Hokage, he seems to have changed into a different person, and he has begun to have the broad-mindedness of his brother Hashirama."
"The Third Hokage initially regarded everyone in the village as family, and even when faced with the aggressive Senju faction, he was able to make generous concessions. But what happened later?"
Speaking of this, Nara Shikadai's mood became even more excited.
"There is more or less influence from family, family, cronies, and friends. When faced with the issue of profit distribution, people will always subconsciously make choices that are beneficial to themselves. This is human nature! It cannot be changed!"
"So, Miyuki! I won't support you if you become Hokage! I really don't want to see you become like Hokage-sama!"
Uchiha Mitsuki didn't speak in a hurry. He paused deliberately, saying that he came up with this answer after careful consideration.
"No, teacher, you are wrong! People are different. What they didn't do well doesn't mean I can't do it well!"
Hearing the young man speak so firmly, Nara Shikadai directly raised his biggest doubt.
"Then have you ever thought that the village finally ended the struggle between the Hokage clan and the Senju clan and ushered in a relatively stable period of development. Wouldn't the new struggle you started ruin such a good situation?
"
Seeing that the young man was unmoved, Nara Shikadai felt anxious and his tone could not help but become a little more serious.
"The previous struggle has turned the Senju and Kurama clan into sacrifices, and do you plan to turn the Ino, Deer, and Die families into new sacrifices?"
This sentence was the same as Nara Shikadai's thoughts. He did not think that the Third Hokage would have a chance of winning against the young man in front of him.
Uchiha Mitsuki understood it easily. He understood what the teacher meant. He was not talking about what would happen to Inokacho, but that the new struggle would cause heavy losses to the village, and new families would be destroyed because of the struggle.
decay!
However, what Nara Shikadai said was something Uchiha Mitsuki didn't want to see.
Otherwise, he would have had a showdown with his master, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
You know, now, he not only holds the resources of the Hinata, Inuzuka, and Aburame families, but also the resources of the Senju Kurama family.
Despite the decline of the Senju and Kurama families, the actions of Master Sarutobi Hiruzen indirectly made some civilian ninjas who were already close to the Senju faction come to his side.
As of now, Konoha's ANBU is apparently controlled by the Third Hokage, but in fact it has long fallen into his hands.
Uchiha Mitsuki, who possesses the powerful hypnotic eye technique of Aman no Gochu, used genjutsu to control ANBU in several key positions without even knowing it, and "witnessed" the sanctimoniousness and duplicity of the Third Hokage.
After experiencing huge disappointment, these ANBU had new ideas in mind.
In the past, the Will of Fire mentioned by the Third Hokage was the golden rule that they strictly adhered to.
But now, they discovered that the real inheritor of the Will of Fire was not the Third Hokage, but Uchiha Mitsuki, so they resolutely sided with the latter.
In addition, the Uchiha clan, which is openly siding with the Third Hokage, is also under his control.
Moreover, he and Tonqiu deliberately made the Uchiha clan's alignment for others to see.
Two years ago, Uchiha Mitsuki had been waiting for the elder to die of old age, and then planned to let Tonqiu take over the Uchiha clan, but the elder who was nearly 70 years old refused to die.
In order to speed up the process, he was ruthless and sent Zhengqing to use illusion to simulate the scene of the great elder dying of old age. After the latter was convinced, the pommel horse blood attack was launched and he died directly. The assassination was done perfectly.
And he took advantage of the death of the great elder to put on a big show with Dunqiu.