Sarutobi Hiruzen departed with two Anbu squads, leaving Kakashi and six Anbu members to clean up.
"Lava Release Kekkei Genkai… the destructive power of this is truly exaggerated!"
Breathing in the sulfurous smell that even his mask couldn't block, Kakashi's gaze swept around in all directions.
His dead-fish eyes flickered with shock.
In his line of sight—the ground ahead was covered in cooling lava, and the earth was scorched with numerous pits, large and small, deep and shallow, by the lava. Houses covering a full half-street seemed to have been wiped out of existence. The high temperatures permeating the air made Kakashi feel uncomfortable even now.
Lava was still dripping down the edges of many ruined buildings. Anyone who didn't know better would think they had arrived at an active volcano!
Kakashi also saw the bodies of two Root ninja.
One was missing half its body, the other half nowhere to be found.
The second had a large hole ripped through its chest and was cut in half at the waist.
Kakashi put his hands in his pockets, looking quite troubled.
Those two bodies were easy enough to deal with… just tidy them up and have someone hand them over to Root.
But how was he supposed to clean up this devastated street?
Uchiha Chisen was really reckless!
However…
Perhaps he was one of the few in the village who still remembered the Fourth Hokage!
Kakashi recalled what Uchiha Chisen had said.
—"Only by doing this can we be worthy of the Fourth Hokage's sacrifice."
Absolute Justice…
It wasn't bad either.
Just as Kakashi was lost in thought, he suddenly saw a small figure staggering to their feet not far away. The person also appeared to be wearing the Konoha Military Police Force uniform.
After watching the Uchiha clan girl quickly follow in the direction Uchiha Chisen had gone.
Kakashi thought for a moment.
He chose to ignore it.
...
Meanwhile.
"I… I won't dare to do it again… Can you please put me down? I can walk on my own."
"Um… can you not close the door for so long? Iruka-sensei will be very disappointed if he finds out."
"I really know I was wrong…"
Naruto's pleas became less confident with each sentence, his voice growing quieter until his tone was choked with sobs.
Large teardrops uncontrollably streamed down his small face.
Naruto truly regretted his actions.
He knew he had caused a huge disaster this time. A prank had caused half a street in Konoha to be wiped out of existence!
This meant that many people had become homeless because of his prank.
It seemed like people had even died because of it!
But he realized that the man carrying him simply couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him!
"Chi… Chisen-senpai, wait for me!" a weak cry sounded from behind Uchiha Chisen and Naruto.
Uchiha Chisen slowed his steps, and a young girl hurried to catch up.
Her face was pale.
Her steps were also unsteady.
"I'm sorry, Senpai, I… I fainted because I used my Sharingan earlier and it consumed too much chakra…" Izumi felt so ashamed she wanted to disappear into the ground, feeling like she was holding them back too much.
During the Nine-Tails Night, she had awakened her Sharingan at the age of five, and it was a Three-Tomoe Sharingan from the start—talent that was unprecedented in the Uchiha Clan.
But…
To everyone's surprise, Izumi's chakra reserves were too small. Her chakra and the power of her ocular jutsu simply couldn't support her Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
If chakra were measured in "Kakashis," Izumi's chakra was at most 0.01 Kakashi.
Among her peers who had graduated from the Ninja Academy, her chakra reserves were at the lower end, if not the absolute bottom.
"Uchiha Izumi."
"Present!!!" Facing Chisen-senpai's call, Uchiha Izumi's instinctive reaction made her quickly gather her spirits.
"I'll ask you two questions to test you. What do you think of what just happened?" Uchiha Chisen glanced at the weak girl beside him.
"What just happened?"
Izumi blinked.
She vaguely recalled seeing Senior Chisen's conflict with the Konoha Root before she fainted. She also remembered seeing Senior Chisen's conflict with the Hokage after she woke up.
The cause of the conflict was merely a prank by a child that had triggered a small disturbance in the village.
In the end, so many contradictions and conflicts had arisen.
Was this…
Worth it?
As the question flashed through Izumi's mind, she suddenly remembered Senior Chisen's constant talk of [Absolute Justice], and recalled the many "evils" that had sprouted due to the sick nature of the ninja world, which she couldn't understand.
—A father who killed his daughter; a son who killed his mother.
These two shocking events alone were enough to cause a seismic shift in Izumi's view of the ninja world.
And also for Senior Chisen's [Absolute Justice].
She gained a deeper understanding.
"I think… Senior didn't do anything wrong," Izumi tried to take a deep breath, her small face serious. "Even the smallest evil, if left unchecked and unpunished, and simply indulged, will eventually escalate into a greater evil."
Izumi cleared her thoughts and continued, "Senior, I've always wanted to protect Konoha Village. But before, I didn't know what method I should use to protect Konoha."
"Until I met you, Senior, I think I know what to do. As long as I do my best and use my own strength to cleanse the evil in Konoha, Konoha will get better one day."
"This is the [Absolute Justice] I understand!"
Uchiha Chisen said indifferently, "Rookie, you're no longer at zero points. You have at least ten points."
Izumi asked weakly, "Senior, what's the maximum score?"
"One thousand."
Izumi: "..."
Well, as long as it wasn't negative points, it was fine.
"Senior, what about the second question?" Izumi tentatively asked again.
Uchiha Chisen said, "What do you think of my 'retreat' just now?"
Izumi was stunned.
"Senior, I don't think that was a retreat!" Izumi gritted her teeth, her small face serious. "In the entire Konoha, perhaps only you, Senior, are silently upholding [Absolute Justice]. Even though other seniors in the Military Police Force have been misunderstanding you, you have been upholding justice alone from beginning to end."
"If you had insisted on a physical confrontation with the Hokage and the others back then, Konoha's [Justice]…" Izumi took a deep breath, her courage gradually growing. "Perhaps no one would be left to protect it. It would be difficult for the village to produce another person like you."
"You're being too indirect."
Uchiha Chisen interrupted her, "To uphold [Absolute Justice], you need absolute power. Otherwise, you'll end up like just now."
"You need to remember this humiliation, remember this anger, and remember how the 'evil' of the ninja world celebrates above our heads."
Izumi nodded heavily.
"Sooner or later, in the name of [Absolute Justice], I will cleanse them all," Uchiha Chisen said frankly and openly, saying something that made Izumi dumbfounded. "Including the Hokage!"
"This is the third lesson I'm teaching you. Politicians only care about their power and the so-called balance. In their eyes, the word [Justice] is optional."
"The Hokage is also an enemy of justice."
Izumi's brain froze.
Uchiha Chisen, who was fiddling with Naruto, temporarily focused his attention on the "reward" for killing the three Red Name criminals.
Yes.
Three!
Danzō, who rewrote unfavorable reality with [Izanagi], was considered to have been killed once by his golden finger here.
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