allendalepharm Chapter 137 The Missing Hiruzen Sarutobi
Chapter 137 The Missing Hiruzen Sarutobi
Chapter 137 The Missing Hiruzen Sarutobi
The tightness in my chest was intense, a feeling akin to Louis XVI inventing a better guillotine only to end up lying on his own invention—utterly baffling and incredibly frustrating.
If he cannot seize Uchiha Tsukuyomi's power, he would rather destroy that invincible power!
Hiruzen Sarutobi has disappeared!
"Didn't find it?"
Tsunade looked at the figure in front of her, sighed, and asked.
"Yes, no, we've searched the entire Hidden Leaf Village, but we haven't found any trace of the Third Hokage's head!"
The ninja village of the Anbu shook its head.
"Teacher, are you really dead?"
Tsunade looked helplessly at the table not far away. Just a short while ago, Hiruzen Sarutobi's head was still sitting on it, and Jiraiya was also there. They were discussing matters concerning Konoha. How did it all turn out like this in the blink of an eye?
They've already tried using wild people from the Land of Fire, but they couldn't summon Hiruzen Sarutobi's head at all. Some researchers speculate that perhaps the Third Hokage is truly dead.
After all, the Third Hokage's soul was already damaged, leaving only his head. His soul suffered severe damage in the Realm of Death, leaving only his head, which may have caused his resurrected body to also be incomplete.
Ultimately, Naruto's attack was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, directly causing Hiruzen Sarutobi's Edo Tensei body to shatter completely, and his already weakened soul to disappear.
Tsunade sighed helplessly. Ever since the incident with Uchiha Tsukuyomi, Konoha has been getting worse day by day. Even the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki has become alienated from them.
"Oh shit!"
Tsunade gritted her teeth and slammed her fist into the desk. The fragile table shattered under the blow. Helplessness, powerlessness—this feeling was like an abyss frantically pulling at Tsunade, as if trying to drag her into it.
Uchiha Tsukuyomi—those bright eyes, those invincible Mangekyou Sharingan…perhaps only such power can solve the village's current problems.
Konoha is so weak now. If it were before, those ninja villages would have already launched an attack on Konoha. But now, the matter of Uchiha Tsuki has attracted their attention, and there are more important interests involved!
She knew that not only their Miyake Village, but other ninja villages were also researching ways to deal with Uchiha Tsuki and seize his power.
Heh, if they defeat Uchiha Tsuki and take away his invincible eyes, what awaits Konoha will be a hell worse than slavery. Who knows how much of the bounty those beasts will make them hand over?
Mission quotas? Once a village acquires the power of Uchiha Tsuki, there will be no more competition for mission quotas; the only difference will be between slaves and slave owners. No, mission quotas are still useful, actually.
After all, when a ninja completes a mission, the spoils are shared with his village. But in the past, if a mission was split 50/50, the village would get 50% and the ninja 50%. Doing ten or even a few high-level missions a month was enough to support oneself and even have a family. But the future will be different.
For every mission, 80% of the bounty goes to the strongest ninja village, and the remaining 20% is split between the ninja who completed the mission and their own village. Damn it!!!
The thought of such a future made Tsunade clench her fists, feeling an overwhelming sense of suffocation and oppression. That future was too hopeless and terrifying. At that time, the ninjas of Konoha would probably have to work themselves to death just to earn enough to support themselves.
Furthermore, the task quota for a village is limited.
In such a hopeless future, if a ninja village doesn't have enough mission quotas, the ninjas in the village might starve to death.
"Hiss, that kind of power shouldn't exist in this world! If we could destroy Uchiha Tsuki's eyes... Hiss—"
Tsunade covered her face, her voice trembling slightly. At that moment, she suddenly realized, realized that terrifying future, realized the consequences if other villages obtained Uchiha Tsuki's power, especially after they had already failed.
The last shred of hope she held onto suddenly dissipated. If she couldn't take Uchiha Tsukimi's eyes, Tsunade would rather let Uchiha Tsukimi's power disappear! She would rather destroy those eyes.
That kind of future is too hopeless!
She couldn't let the village her great-grandfather and his family had built be destroyed by her own hands!
Compared to that, the future of destroying those invincible Mangekyou Sharingan was easier for her to accept. She knew that if Uchiha Tsuki's eyes were destroyed, and she lost this decisive ultimate power—the power that could destroy a village or even a country with a casual stroll—she would be in trouble.
That blood-sucking system would not exist. Although by then, the already extremely weak Konoha would be unable to resist the invasion and attacks of other ninja villages, and would lose a lot of benefits and mission quotas, as long as it is not blood-sucked, everything will be fine. As long as the village still exists, sooner or later, Konoha will become great again.
Tsunade arrived at the hospital, her body wrapped in bandages, her lower body completely gone, her left arm also gone, and an IV drip attached to her body. Jiraiya, looking utterly miserable, lay quietly on the hospital bed. To this day, Jiraiya has not yet woken up, barely clinging to life, truly barely clinging to life.
Jiraiya-sensei has disappeared—
Tsunade looked at Jiraiya, who had been unconscious since that day, clenched her fists, and felt an immense tightness in her chest.
It's painful. Even if I don't want to admit it, Jiraiya ended up like this entirely because of their own actions. If they hadn't pushed Sasuke to his death and let Naruto know the truth about their so-called Will of Fire, Naruto wouldn't have turned evil and gone berserk.
He kept talking about the village and his comrades, but he didn't care about their lives at all. He was all talk and no action, but he was full of malice and viciousness.
With the disappearance of the Third Hokage and Jiraiya's coma, the entire burden of Konoha now rests on Tsunade's shoulders. She feels like she's going crazy!
"Lady Tsunade, something terrible has happened! There's been an emergency!"
However, just as Tsunade was feeling sad, an ANBU rushed over and handed her some documents with a somewhat flustered expression.
"What happened again? Has something gone berserk again?"