Chapter 84: "Crush!! That's it??"
"The Third Hokage-sama... was crushed?"
"This... This Uchiha Yuta is too strong! He doesn't even have any weaknesses!"
"...."
Watching the nearly one-sided battle inside the barrier, all the ninjas at the scene fell into a heavy silence.
The patriarchs of major clans — Hyuga Hiashi, Akimichi Choza, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Aburame Shibi — couldn't help but shake their heads in helplessness.
There was no way around it.
Sarutobi Hiruzen — once hailed as the Strongest Hokage in History — was being completely overwhelmed by Uchiha Yuta.
Especially after Yuta unleashed his terrifying taijutsu, even the mighty Enma was defeated in one strike, leaving Sarutobi coughing up blood again and again.
Only now did everyone finally understand why Yuta had called Sarutobi "the weakest Hokage in history."
"He's way too strong..."
Might Guy furrowed his thick brows, unable to hide his amazement.
"The Third Hokage... seems doomed," Kakashi said with a complicated expression. He wanted to help, but... with the barrier and Uchiha Fugaku personally guarding it, there was simply no chance.
"Grandpa Hokage lost...?"
"Grandpa Hokage is supposed to be strong! Why does he look so weak?"
"This... he's being beaten way too badly, isn't he?"
Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuga, Nara Shikamaru, and the other young children — only five or six years old — stared wide-eyed at the battered Sarutobi inside the barrier. Their little faces twisted with confusion and fear, as if some pillar of faith had been shattered.
Meanwhile, within the barrier:
"Ape Sarutobi, you're far too weak."
Uchiha Yuta exhaled slowly, his voice cold as steel. "Do you have any last words?"
He knew.
After crippling Enma, Sarutobi Hiruzen's ultimate move — the Dead Demon Consuming Seal — could no longer be used. An old man past his prime... what was there to fear?
"I'm... not reconciled..."
Hiruzen wiped the blood from his mouth and struggled to stand, his old face twisted in bitter regret.
This was supposed to be a celebration — a day to commemorate the Uchiha's downfall — yet instead, it had become the funeral day of Konoha's senior leadership.
Thinking about it, it was almost laughable.
Still, despite his humiliating defeat, Sarutobi straightened his torn Hokage robe with trembling hands.
"Are you worthy of Konoha's White Fang?
Are you worthy of the Fourth Hokage — Minato Namikaze?
Are you worthy of Hyuga Hiashi of the Hyuga Clan?"
Yuta's words struck deep, unrelenting.
"Enough!!"
Sarutobi's body trembled violently as he roared, cutting Yuta off. "As the Hokage, I have done no wrong! You don't understand the Will of Fire at all! You're nothing but a disobedient traitor!"
After shouting this,
Hiruzen swept his cold gaze across everyone outside the barrier.
"I accept defeat," he said hoarsely. "But one day... everything I lost today, Konoha will reclaim!"
"You listen carefully—!"
"Hahaha!!!"
Sarutobi suddenly laughed madly, his expression wild.
In the next moment, he swiftly formed seals, roaring:
"Let's die together!!
— Four Symbols Sealing Technique!!"
Buzz!!
As his chakra surged, black sealing symbols poured from his body, rushing toward Yuta with lightning speed.
However...
"— Time Rewind."
Yuta's icy voice rang out.
His eyes had already transformed into the Mangekyō Sharingan, and with a single burst of astonishing pupil power—
Swish—!!!
In an instant, under Hiruzen's stunned gaze,
the Four Symbols Sealing Technique... reversed itself!
Time flowed backward, returning the jutsu to its pre-cast state.
"You... you even have the Mangekyō Sharingan?!"
True despair filled Sarutobi's heart.
He couldn't even commit suicide now.
Facing Uchiha Yuta, there was no hope. No escape.
He truly understood now:
The heavens had abandoned him.
"Stubborn fool."
Swish!!
A flash of cold light.
Before he could react, Sarutobi's right arm was severed and flew through the air, blood spraying wildly.
And that was just the beginning.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
More flashes of cold steel.
Before the eyes of countless witnesses, Hiruzen's left arm, right leg, and left leg were sliced off in succession — until finally, his head too was severed cleanly, flying high into the air.
Even in death,
Sarutobi Hiruzen's face was frozen in an expression of deep unwillingness.
He would never understand —
why the Uchiha Clan had produced such a monstrous genius like Uchiha Yuta,
why everything he had planned had fallen apart.
What he didn't know was...
If the Konoha high council hadn't tried to annihilate the Uchiha Clan in the first place,
then none of this would have ever happened.
This was their sin.
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"He's... dead."
"The Third Hokage — Sarutobi Hiruzen — is dead?!"
"This... this feels like the end of our youth..."
After the initial stunned silence,
the clan heads — Hyuga Hiashi, Akimichi Choza, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, Aburame Shibi — even Uchiha Fugaku himself — all felt an indescribable sense of loss.
For them,
Sarutobi Hiruzen had been a part of their lives for decades, a constant presence.
Now they had witnessed the fall of the Elders.
They had witnessed the death of the Hokage.
It felt like the light had gone out.
The old era... was over.
"Konoha's sky... is about to change," Might Guy murmured bitterly.
He knew very well:
With Sarutobi's death, Konoha would enter a hellish era of chaos.
And not just Konoha.
The entire ninja world... would be thrown into turmoil.
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As for Kakashi Hatake,
he stood silently, his heart hollow.
"If the Third Hokage really had a hand in my father's death...
then... what am I supposed to do now?"
Lost in thought,
he felt the ground beneath his feet trembling,
signaling the coming of a new, dark age.
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(To Be Continued...)
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