Chapter 79: Konoha Crumbles
Bang!!
A crisp sound echoed through the Hokage's office—the sound of Koharu's head hitting the ground.
Silence.
The entire office fell deathly quiet.
Uchiha Yuta had just executed Mito Menyan and Koharu without hesitation. Uchiha Fugaku and Hiruzen Sarutobi stood frozen, eyes wide in disbelief, as if struck by lightning.
Terrifying.
Absolutely terrifying.
No one expected that Yuta would act so swiftly and decisively. There wasn't even a chance for Mito Menyan or Koharu to plead.
"Gulp..."
A few seconds later, Uchiha Fugaku swallowed nervously. His gaze toward Yuta shifted from shock to admiration and reverence.
To kill three of Konoha's top leaders—Koharu, Mito Menyan, and Shimura Danzo—while barely breaking a sweat...
In the ninja world, only Uchiha Yuta could pull off something this bold.
He was too fierce.
Too wild.
"It's over... Konoha is completely finished..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi felt his vision blur and his body sway.
He had just wanted to step in and stop Uchiha Yuta, but the boy moved too quickly. Before he could do anything, his comrades lay dead.
Now...
Danzo, Koharu, and Menyan were all gone.
Root's elite force had been wiped out.
The Sarutobi clan's ninjas had been annihilated.
Konoha's power had been reduced by nearly a third.
Once news of this spread, it wouldn't take long for other villages—Sunagakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure—to seize the opportunity and strike.
After all, Konoha had emerged victorious in both the Second and Third Great Ninja Wars. But now, civil war had weakened them. It was the perfect chance for retaliation.
The more Hiruzen thought about it, the more his heart chilled.
He had worked tirelessly his whole life, striving to maintain peace and guide Konoha forward as its Hokage... but now, it had all unraveled.
What he failed to realize...
Was that everything happening now was the result of his own actions. Uchiha Yuta had only erupted because he was forced into a corner.
Cause and effect. This was his retribution.
"Uchiha Yuta..."
Maybe it was regret.
Maybe it was despair.
Hiruzen's expression turned grim as he roared, his voice hoarse with emotion.
"What are you trying to do?! You'll drag Konoha into the abyss! There'll be no return from this!"
"Oh?"
Uchiha Yuta looked down at the trembling old man and sneered.
"You did this to yourself."
Yes, Hiruzen had once been a great man.
Otherwise, the Second Hokage wouldn't have named him successor over Danzo. Back then, he won because of his devotion to Konoha.
But the moment he sat in the Hokage's seat...
He changed.
He became obsessed with power.
—He stood idle while Konoha White Fang was forced to suicide for prioritizing comrades over a mission.
—He turned a blind eye to Orochimaru's growing darkness for the sake of political balance.
—He failed to help Minato during the Nine-Tails attack and reclaimed the Hokage title afterward.
—He neglected Naruto, orchestrated the Uchiha massacre... and so much more.
"You... You think your Uchiha clan is normal?"
Hiruzen barked coldly.
"Which one of your strong Uchiha has ever been normal? Madara, Izuna, Kagami, Shisui, Itachi—even Fugaku wasn't right in the head. And you? You're the worst of them all!"
"The Uchiha clan had to be destroyed. For everyone's good."
Hiruzen pounded his chest bitterly.
"Do you have any idea how much I've endured for Konoha's peace?!"
"You're right."
Uchiha Yuta surprisingly nodded.
Most Uchiha who awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan were indeed emotionally unstable. Even Uchiha Fugaku had been manipulated by Kotoamatsukami to appear more 'normal'.
But what did that matter?
He was different.
He had awakened a system. He was never normal to begin with.
"It's over. Everything's over. Konoha is finished..."
Hiruzen mumbled, shaking his head. He looked like a man who had lost everything.
Buzz—!!
Suddenly, a massive surge of chakra burst from Hiruzen's body.
His composure was shattered.
His life's work destroyed.
Now, he had snapped.
"Good!"
Yuta's eyes lit up. He grinned with excitement.
"Since you've thrown caution to the wind, let's completely turn this place upside down!"
"Airquake—!"
With that, Yuta clenched his fists. Glowing white energy wrapped around his hands, infused with the power of Armament Haki.
He threw his fists into the air.
BOOM!!
A monstrous shockwave erupted, like a thirteen-magnitude earthquake crashing through the skies.
Crack—crack—crack...
Invisible cracks spiderwebbed through the air, spreading out from the Hokage Building like ripples on a pond.
The entire atmosphere of Konoha... shattered.
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