Chapter 82 (Patreon)

A voice like a Shinigami rising from the depths of hell echoed through the air.

In the next instant, a dark blade flashed.

Even Danzo Shimura himself had not expected the slash to be that fast.

Still, in the following second, he tried to activate Izanagi.

But then he realized something was wrong.

He could no longer feel his right arm.

Danzo turned his head.

His expression changed at once.

His right arm had been severed by Yujiro.

In that single moment, Danzo Shimura lost all ten Sharingan implanted in his arm.

“Yujiro!! I’ll kill you!!”

Danzo raised his head and roared.

But at that very moment, a sharp pain pierced his right eye.

Then, only an empty socket remained.

Uchiha Fugaku slowly opened his right hand.

Resting in his palm was the Sharingan that had been transplanted into Danzo’s eye.

Now that he had lost every Sharingan, Danzo Shimura fell completely into madness.

“You people…”

His voice trembled with hatred.

“All of you… every last one of you will die!”

“You will all be buried with me!!”

As he shouted, Danzo tore open his clothes.

Then he roared.

“Reverse Four Symbols Sealing!!”

Yujiro narrowed his eyes.

Naturally, he knew what the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing was.

It was powerful.

Powerful enough to seal away half a bridge.

If it was unleashed here, the entire Hokage Building would be swallowed into it.

Yujiro patted Kurama’s head on his shoulder.

“Kurama, kick him into the sky.”

He said it calmly.

“With everything you have.”

“Got it!”

Kurama bared his teeth in a grin.

In the next moment, he returned to his original size, his massive body occupying the entire trial platform.

“Then fly!”

Kurama kicked Danzo Shimura with all his strength.

There was no hesitation.

Danzo was launched straight into the sky.

Several seconds later, black sealing formulas began to spread outward.

A small black sphere appeared high above.

Then it vanished.

Roughly five minutes later, Danzo Shimura’s body crashed violently back down from the sky.

The physical strength of shinobi in this world was indeed exceptional.

Even after that fall, his body had not been shattered into pieces.

With this, every member of Konoha’s upper leadership had been cleared out by Yujiro.

Not one remained.

As for the ordinary high-ranking officials of Konoha, the Anbu had already dealt with them before dawn.

Yujiro did not even spare those people a glance.

They were no different from Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.

“Next, there is one final matter.”

Yujiro stepped onto the tribunal platform and spoke calmly.

“Anbu, listen.”

The moment he finished speaking, hundreds of elite Anbu appeared behind him.

“Sarutobi Hiruzen is unworthy of being called Hokage.”

Yujiro’s voice carried across the entire square.

“Therefore, from this moment onward…”

“Destroy the Third Hokage’s face on the Hokage Rock.”

No one objected.

“Yes, Yujiro-sama!”

The Anbu behind him immediately vanished to carry out the order.

And then, in less than half an hour, the statue of the Third Hokage carved into the Hokage Rock was completely erased.

Just as Yujiro had declared before.

After today, Konoha would no longer have a corrupt upper leadership.

Every high-ranking official in Konoha had been eliminated by Yujiro.

From now on, Konoha would truly stand as one.

A full week had passed since the purge of Konoha’s upper ranks.

News spread quickly.

Yujiro had not deliberately blocked it.

Besides, this was not something shameful.

So, when the news swept through the shinobi world, the other four great nations among the Five Great Nations were shaken.

Yujiro had directly purged Konoha from the inside out.

He had cleaned out every member of Konoha’s upper leadership.

Not only that, the many crimes of Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo, and Konoha’s former top brass had also been exposed one after another.

And even the Hokage Rock, the supreme symbol of the Hokage, had been altered.

The Third Hokage’s face had been erased.

They were shocked.

But the other great nations also understood something very clearly.

From this day onward, Konoha was truly united.

If anyone wanted to interfere with Konoha again, it would no longer be easy.

In fact, it would be far more difficult than before.

Among all the changes that had swept through Konoha, every nation noticed one name.

Yujiro.

The most important figure in the incident.

The man who had changed the history of Konoha.

And now, that very man was leisurely eating grapes in his own courtyard.

In the courtyard of his new residence, under the warm glow of the red evening light, Yujiro lay lazily in a rocking chair.

On his left was Yugao Uzuki.

At that moment, Yugao was carefully peeling the skin from a purple grape, then gently placing it beside Yujiro’s lips.

Yujiro only had to open his mouth to eat it.

On his right, Uchiha Izumi, who had a beauty mark beneath her right eye, was obediently massaging Yujiro’s leg.

Inside the house, Kurenai Yūhi was cooking, preparing today’s lunch.

These past few days, Yujiro had been living far too comfortably.

Actually, even Yujiro had not expected Uchiha Izumi to be here.

He had no idea what part of Uchiha Fugaku’s mind had taken a strange turn, but without saying a word, Fugaku had gone and obtained permission from Izumi’s parents.

Then he had placed Izumi directly in the small residence where Yujiro was currently living.

As for that, Yujiro could hardly say to Izumi, “Please leave. You are not welcome here.”

Still, having one more person around did make things a little livelier.

“Hey, hey. You two young ladies.”

On Yujiro’s right side, Kurama was also lying comfortably on a rocking chair.

“I’m thirsty too. I want grapes as well.”

“Of course, Kurama-sama.”

Uchiha Izumi hurriedly picked up two grapes and placed them directly into Kurama’s mouth.

After that, she immediately returned to Yujiro’s side.

Kurama froze for a moment.

Why did that brat get treated like this?

Was it because he was not cute?

Or was it because he was still not cute enough?

Kurama scratched his head.

That should not be the case.

He was confused.

Even after thinking about it for a long time, he still could not figure out what difference there was between him and Yujiro.

However, since the girl had called him Kurama-sama, he decided to let it go.

For now.

Yujiro was no longer in a hurry to train.

His strength had already reached a state of saturation.

If he wanted to increase his power further, he would need to obtain new Kekkei Genkai.

Unfortunately, within Konoha, Yujiro had already completely mastered Wood Release.

If he wanted something new, he would have to leave Konoha.

Of course, Yujiro already had several plans in mind.

But before carrying out those plans, he intended to relax for a while.

“Open the personal status panel.”

[Personal Attributes]

[Host: Yujiro]

[Attribute: All Attributes]

[Chakra: 3,000,000 — equivalent to roughly ten times the chakra volume of an Uzumaki physique]

[Skills: One-Sword Style: Iai Slash (S), One-Sword Style: Shura (S), Thunder God’s Descent (S), Great Flame Emperor (S), Flame Emperor’s Descent (S), Lightning Water Dragon Bullet (S), Thunder Dragon Destruction (S), Thunder-Flame Devouring (SS)]

[Ninjutsu: Several]

[Kekkei Genkai: Wood Release]

[Limiter: Level 3 (20.0%)]

[Current Goal: Unlock the Level 4 Limiter]

Yujiro scratched his head.

The unlocking progress had only increased by two percent.

It seemed that staying in Konoha would make it basically impossible for him to continue unlocking the Limiter.

Today’s Konoha could be said to be completely under Yujiro’s control.

And since Konoha was now his, the next step was development.

However, development required resources.

It required manpower.

It required materials.

And above all, it required money.

Yujiro narrowed his eyes.

“Kurama, we’re going to be very busy for a while.”

“What are you planning now?”

Kurama immediately sensed that something was not quite right.

“Think about it. How large is our Konoha Village?”

Yujiro smiled faintly.

“It isn’t especially large, but it is reasonable enough.”

Kurama shook his head as he answered.

“Then shouldn’t we expand it?”

Yujiro continued.

“Expansion is fine.”

Kurama nodded.

“Does expansion require money?”

“Of course.”

“Konoha only has so much land and so many resources. That means our funds are limited, right?”

“Mm.”

Kurama gave a low sound of agreement.

“So, our next goal is to visit a few other great nations and collect some money.”

Yujiro smiled as he said it.

“Collect?”

Kurama paused for a moment, then looked Yujiro up and down.

At that moment, Minato, who had just arrived, happened to hear Yujiro’s plan.

Behind Minato were Kakashi and Shisui.

“That absolutely won’t work.”

Minato gave a helpless smile.

“Konoha has finally stabilized.”

“Expansion requires a great deal of manpower, resources, and money.”

“Besides, how could the other great nations possibly hand money over to Konoha?”

“Hand it over?”

Yujiro narrowed his eyes, the smile on his face growing deeper.

“That’s right. They’ll hand it over.”

By this point, Yujiro already had a plan in mind.

“Minato-sensei, if you hadn’t mentioned it, I almost would have forgotten.”

Yujiro looked at Minato with a smile.

“If I remember correctly, Konoha still sends money and supplies to the daimyo of the Land of Fire every year, doesn’t it?”

“Yes.”

Minato nodded.

“If we calculate the timing, then in about another month, the daimyo’s envoy should arrive.”

“How absurd.”

Yujiro sighed.

“What is?”

Minato froze for a moment.

Was it not normal for a shinobi village to pay tribute to the daimyo of its great nation?

“Konoha is the one protecting the country, yet the daimyo demands money from Konoha. Don’t you think that is absurd?”

Yujiro sneered.

“Those daimyo sit above everyone, act arrogantly, and squander the money that Konoha shinobi earn with their lives.”

“Do you really think that is normal?”

“But they are still the daimyo of the Land of Fire…”

Minato could only smile bitterly.

Yujiro shook his head.

He knew that in the early days of Konoha’s founding, the daimyo of the Land of Fire had indeed provided supplies and support to help the village.

However, after decades of development, the daimyo of the present was no longer the same as the one from that era.

Not only had the generation changed, but the current daimyo now basically did nothing but demand supplies and money from Konoha.

Especially in recent years, the daimyo had become increasingly greedy.

In the past, Yujiro had not cared about Konoha’s affairs at all.

Unfortunately for them, Konoha was now something Yujiro recognized as his own.

And since it was his, how could it make sense for someone else to take things from him?

Since Konoha belonged to him, Yujiro intended to build it into the strongest shinobi village in the entire world.

Furthermore, every unstable factor within Konoha had already been eliminated by Yujiro.

Now, Yujiro had the final say in Konoha.

Even the Hokage listened to him.

The daimyo?

That was nothing more than a hollow title.

The only reason it still mattered was because this world continued to believe in such things.

Unfortunately, whether others believed in it or not, Yujiro did not.

Only when everything was held firmly in one’s own hands could it truly be called power.