"Tsunade, do you remember what I said to you that day?"
Tsunade looked up at Li Anshi. In her ears, the words Li Anshi was saying now seemed to overlap with that night after her grandfather's funeral last year.
"The original intention of the First Hokage in establishing Konoha was to prevent children from going to war."
"The Second Hokage inherited the will of the First Hokage and, with his own strength, kept the war outside the country's borders. Before the Second Hokage's sacrifice, I didn't even know that the other three ninja villages had been harassing the Land of Fire since the death of the First Hokage..."
Well, Li Anshi was lying about the last sentence.
As someone who had finished watching the Naruto saga, how could he not know about Konoha's situation during this period?
But, from the perspective of an ordinary Konoha villager, before that, the villagers really hadn't felt the atmosphere of war.
"And the Third Hokage has only been in office for a year, and before we even die, he can't wait to let children who haven't even graduated from the Ninja Academy become ninjas and enter the battlefield..."
"I think he's forgotten the words he said when he took office, about inheriting the will of the First Hokage and the Second Hokage, hasn't he?"
"The Will of Fire, established by the First and Second Hokage over more than ten years, has become a joke with the Third Hokage!"
"Especially you, Tsunade."
"You're only six years old this year, right?"
"At your current age, you should be staying in the Ninja Academy, enjoying your carefree student life, and at the same time enriching yourself and laying a solid foundation. By the time you graduate from the Ninja Academy, you will have the strength to barely protect yourself."
"Not like now..."
At this point, Li Anshi paused.
"Of course, the most important thing is, Tsunade..."
"The young ninjas I've seen in this camp are almost all civilian ninjas. There are almost no children under the age of twelve from those ninja clans on the battlefield."
"At the very least, the two ninja clan children I've seen, one is the son of the current Uchiha clan leader, Fugaku Uchiha."
"The other is you, the granddaughter of the First Hokage, the princess of our Konoha Senju clan, Tsunade Senju!"
"But Fugaku Uchiha has Kagami Uchiha to protect him."
"And you, Tsunade, have the Third Hokage to protect you."
"This war may stimulate your potential and make you more diligent in your future training."
"However, for those civilian ninjas, not only do they not have powerful seniors to protect them, but they also have to charge at the most dangerous front lines, using their lives to consume the enemy's shuriken, kunai, traps, and chakra..."
"They simply don't have the chance to grow up!"
"Tsunade, do you believe that out of these more than one hundred civilian ninjas, I'm afraid not even ten will be able to return to the village alive."
Tsunade stopped walking, a trace of horror flashing in her eyes.
She was also shocked by Li Anshi's words.
After all, Tsunade was just a six-year-old girl.
Perhaps she had also witnessed the cruelty of war on the battlefield, but because she herself was well protected by Hiruzen Sarutobi, if she hadn't accidentally discovered Li Anshi's figure today, Tsunade might not have gone to the place where the injured ninjas were staying.
Thinking about it carefully, every time there was a large-scale battle, the first to rush out were these civilian ninjas, followed by the ninja clan ninjas, and finally the Jonin would take the field...
Tsunade felt that Li Anshi's estimate of ten was perhaps even too high.
"Tsunade, I remember you used to call the Third Hokage Master Hiruzen. Then, as a disciple of the Third Hokage, do you think everything the Third Hokage is doing now is right?"
Tsunade was silent.
In fact, if Li Anshi hadn't talked to her about this issue now, before this, she wouldn't have felt that there was anything wrong with her teacher letting the fourth, fifth, and sixth-year students in the Ninja Academy graduate together.
But once Li Anshi pointed it out, Tsunade could instantly feel the gap between Master Hiruzen and her two grandfathers.
If Tsunade hadn't been accepted as a disciple by Hiruzen Sarutobi, she could completely go along with Li Anshi's words, wrong is wrong.
But Tsunade had been accepted as a disciple by Hiruzen Sarutobi for two months, and during these two months, Hiruzen Sarutobi had treated the three of them very well.
It was a little difficult for her to speak ill of Hiruzen Sarutobi at this time.
"Anshi, can you not attack Master Hiruzen?"
"Eh?"
Li Anshi raised his eyebrows slightly. "That's rare, Lady Tsunade. You actually think I would really attack the Third Hokage?"
Tsunade rolled her eyes at Li Anshi.
This guy, was he still playing around with her here?
Indeed, at first, Tsunade thought that Li Anshi was just bragging.
But Lady Mito had said that Li Anshi might really possess the power to threaten the Third Hokage.
"Lady Mito told me that you might have a kind of attack that can instantly burst out beyond the 'Kage' level, and even Master Hiruzen might be killed by you."
Hearing Tsunade say this, Li Anshi was also a little surprised.
He had only felt a great threat approaching that night when he was sending Tsunade back, and he almost launched the flying knife in his hand.
He didn't expect that Mito Uzumaki could judge his attack method based on his aura at that time.
"If I were to make a move, what would you do?"
"I would stop you!"
Tsunade said sternly.
Although after what Li Anshi had said before, Tsunade also felt uncomfortable about Hiruzen Sarutobi bringing the civilian ninjas who hadn't graduated to the battlefield.
However, Tsunade also knew that Master Hiruzen had only been in office as Hokage for a year. If Li Anshi launched a rebellion in Konoha at this time and attacked the Third Hokage, Konoha might be destroyed by the other ninja villages.
Indeed, there was still Lady Mito in Konoha.
As the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Lady Mito's strength could be said to be the strongest at this stage.
But no matter how strong Lady Mito was, she was not as strong as her grandfather, who could suppress the entire ninja world with his own strength.
If Lady Mito was besieged by the Kage and Tailed Beast Jinchuriki of the other ninja villages, her life would also be in danger.
And Konoha would inevitably be destroyed by the other ninja villages.
Therefore, for the sake of Konoha, Tsunade felt that she must stop Li Anshi from launching a rebellion.
"This is the concrete manifestation of the dream created by Grandpa, Great-Uncle, and the members of the Senju clan with their lives. I will absolutely not allow anyone to destroy it!"
Tsunade said these words decisively!
At the same time, Tsunade also reached into her ninja tool bag and took out two kunai, holding them in her hands, assuming a fighting stance towards Li Anshi.