NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 117: Chapter 127
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: I was assassinated on the way back to Konoha.
[Tobirama]: Something like that happened?
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Yeah, but since the attempt failed, I didn't say anything.
[Tobirama]: …
[Tobirama]: Then, big brother, how did they try to assassinate you?
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: How do I put it… he seemed pretty confident, came at me with a kunai. I responded with Deep Forest Emergence.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Then he ran away. Since he was the first deserter I encountered, it left quite an impression.
[Tobirama]: …
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: …Unbelievable, Lord Hashirama.
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: I think the guy probably has severe psychological trauma now.
[Tobirama]: I agree with that point too.
I mean, the guy used a kunai, and big brother used Deep Forest Emergence. How is that even a fair fight?
If he didn't run then, when would he?
[Tobirama]: But this also means that guy named Kakuzu… is actually a living fossil of the ninja world?
[Minato Namikaze]: A living fossil?
[Tobirama]: Yes. He was around in the First Hokage's time and still is now.
[Tobirama]: But… if he's lived this long, he must be over 90.
[Tobirama]: Yet he doesn't look it.
[Tobirama]: Something's wrong with his body.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Hm?
[Tobirama]: I see, a forbidden technique.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: ???
[Tobirama]: It's a dirty, low-grade technique that requires stealing others' hearts and using their chakra to survive.
[Tobirama]: Kind of like Orochimaru's Living Corpse Reincarnation.
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: So that means… this Kakuzu guy really is over 90?
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: For someone who's lived that long, it's amazing he still has vitality.
[Tobirama]: What do you mean?
Tobirama has a short lifespan, so he doesn't really get what Ōnoki means.
But he does understand that Orochimaru's goal is extending life.
And Orochimaru is ambitious.
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: How should I say this—living too long becomes boring because you watch your friends and loved ones leave before you.
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: So it's easy to fall into despair.
[Nine Tails - Kurama]: That kind of thing is easy to deal with.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Hm?
[Tobirama]: True. The Nine Tails has lived for over a thousand years, so it's the most qualified to speak.
[Nine Tails - Kurama]: As long as you have something firm in your heart, you'll want to keep living and not dwell on gain or loss.
[Minato Namikaze]: So what's that "firm thing" in your heart, Nine Tails?
[Nine Tails - Kurama]: A mission given to me by the Sage of Six Paths.
[Nine Tails - Kurama]: But… none of the tailed beasts ever imagined that after a thousand years, we still wouldn't see a trace of it being fulfilled.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Uh…
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Can I ask—what was the mission?
[Nine Tails - Kurama]: To wait. To wait until a time when ninjas and tailed beasts could live together in peace.
[Tobirama]: …
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: …
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: …
Right, Hashirama is speechless.
Because the tailed beasts had hoped for peace with the ninjas, but he and Madara just captured them all and divided them among the Five Great Nations.
So to the tailed beasts… they probably hate them.
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: But this also shows that the Sage of Six Paths had a vast vision and noble ideals.
[Cowardly - Ōnoki]: What he envisioned and wanted… was true peace.
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu has come online]
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu]: The Sage of Six Paths wanted peace? What a joke.
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu]: If he hadn't spread chakra to ninjas, would we have so many wars today?
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu]: Now, in every ninja village, there are more people in the graves than alive.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Uh…
Black Zetsu seems a bit agitated today, but none of the Kage in the chat… can refute what it just said.
Like Ōnoki—even though he propped up Iwagakure, if Kitahara Kaede and the junior group and Rabbit didn't show up, Iwa would have preserved the most strength.
But he can't deny that in the ninja war, 10,000 Iwa ninjas were wiped out against the Third Raikage.
So from that perspective, if chakra didn't exist, people's lives might've been—
[Tobirama]: I don't agree with your idea.
[Tobirama]: It's like saying, if someone kills with a kunai, it's the kunai's fault? Isn't it the person's?
[Tobirama]: Weapons have no inherent good or evil—same with chakra.
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu]: Then what about the current ninja war? How do you explain that?
[Tobirama]: …
Tobirama is silenced.
He doesn't have an answer.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: …Mr. Black Zetsu, your ideology is very similar to Madara's.
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu]: Madara?
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Uchiha Madara.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: My big brother.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Madara believed in overpowering everyone into peace with his strength. He wanted to eliminate chakra entirely.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: He called chakra…
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu]: "Unholy power."
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Right. Oh? You knew that, Mr. Black Zetsu?
Did it know?
Of course it did.
Because Uchiha Madara is right beside it right now.
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In Ryūchidō (Dragon Cave).
"Black Zetsu… let me ask you something…"
"What happened all these years, and what year is it in Konoha now?"
The resurrected Battlefield Rose—Uchiha Madara—spoke.
He looked punk-style, but upon being revived with Edo Tensei, he was wearing black tights under red armor.
And—
Most likely because White Zetsu was used as the sacrifice, this Edo Madara is in his youth.
Obviously.
If it was the white-haired, hunched old man version of Madara, what good would that be?
Even though Black Zetsu loves exploitation, it still doesn't bully the elderly.
After all, in a way… Madara inherited Indra's chakra, so he's like its grandnephew.
"Wait a second!"
"Let me organize my thoughts."
"You know I'm just a fragment of your will, so I can't be exactly like you," Black Zetsu said.
"Hm…"
Uchiha Madara nodded. He could accept that answer.
In his understanding, White Zetsu was created from the Ten Tails summoned with his Rinnegan. Black Zetsu was created later with his own will.
So Black Zetsu is him, but because he was already old at that time, the creation wasn't complete. So he allows Black Zetsu to "think things through."
But in reality, Black Zetsu is thinking about how to fool him.
However, for now—
Its spiritual form continues roaming the group chat, and notices that Kitahara Kaede is still in Sunagakure.
Amazing.
So it just goes offline.
[Great Dutiful Son - Black Zetsu has gone offline to work]
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Mr. Black Zetsu really is busy.
[Tobirama]: But his mindset is far too extreme—very much like an evil Uchiha.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Hey, Tobirama, I've had it with you.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Always calling Uchiha evil.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Every time I read this chat, all I see is kind and naive Uchihas.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Like, after founding Konoha, they just wanted a peaceful life and abandoned my big brother.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Then obediently took over the police force.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Then got marginalized and suppressed for decades before finally being forced to rebel.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: And even during the rebellion, Uchihas full of love kept trying to find peaceful solutions.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: In the end, Uchiha Itachi slaughtered his clan for the village.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Now that Sunagakure's Edo Tensei trial is over, you want to bring back the victimized Uchiha in Konoha using Edo Tensei again.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Sacrifice someone like Mito Menyan or the dead Danzo, and have the Uchiha keep working obediently for you.
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: You guys… huh…
[Tobirama's Achievement - Izuna]: Do you have any conscience left!?
Uchiha Izuna suddenly bursts into furious ranting.
[Big Dumb - Hashirama]: Uhh… Tobirama, this…
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