Chapter 42: Grooming a Successor for [Absolute Justice]?
When Sarutobi Hiruzen returned, a ninja from the Sarutobi Clan stepped forward to greet him, only to spot a figure in the distance wearing the uniform of the Konoha Military Police Force.
This made his pupils contract, and he quickly asked Sarutobi Hiruzen, "Hokage-sama, that guy..."
"No need to mind him."
Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head with a grim expression, but anyone could tell his tone was slightly off.
It was as if he were suppressing something.
Sarutobi Hiruzen silently walked to the side of Sarutobi Shinosuke's coffin and stood quietly behind his daughter-in-law, Sarutobi Fuyuko.
At this moment.
He heard Sarutobi Fuyuko's voice, "Hokage-sama, you don't need to worry about me. I've calmed down. Everything... everything must prioritize the village's overall situation, mustn't it?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen remained silent for a long time.
He felt some guilt, but only a little. He said, "This old man has his own difficulties. Fuyuko, you and I both know the current state of Konoha. The village desperately needs a ninja with a fearsome reputation to deter the petty criminals of other villages."
"Konoha Village has successively lost Sakumo, Orochimaru defected, Jiraiya left, Tsunade left, and Shisui is gone. Uchiha Chisen is already one of the few pillars of the village."
"Moreover..."
"Uchiha Chisen's existence can also deter certain ambitious individuals within the village, including some within the Uchiha Clan."
Sarutobi Hiruzen paused and continued, "Even if Shinosuke were alive, he would do the same as this old man. You and he are my right and left hands. He understands me, and you should understand me too."
Sarutobi Fuyuko nodded gently, "Hokage-sama, I understand everything."
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed softly, "For Konoha, you've worked hard."
Immediately.
Sarutobi Hiruzen opened his mouth to warn the Sarutobi Clan members who, upon seeing Uchiha Chisen appear, had become indignant and restless.
"No one is allowed to make any rash moves! He's just here to apprehend a criminal!"
...
Yamada Binjiro also saw Uchiha Chisen.
Even though he believed the possibility of his exposure was slim, he instinctively took a few steps back.
He carefully hid his figure behind the crowd.
"Hiss, I remember now!" Yamada Binjiro heard his companion gasp in sudden realization. "Uchiha Chisen, isn't that the Konoha Military Police Force's plague... Oh no, is that guy... walking towards us?"
Yamada Binjiro's heart suddenly jolted.
Cold sweat instantly broke out on his palms.
The last sliver of hope he had was extinguished by Uchiha Chisen's cold voice, "Yamada Binjiro. Due to accumulating a large amount of debt. More than four years ago, after his elder brother 'Yamada Binichiro' passed away, he attempted to seize his brother's inheritance but failed. In a fit of rage, he murdered his brother's surviving wife and daughter and dismembered their bodies before discarding them."
The extremely cold, emotionless voice was undoubtedly the death knell sounding for Yamada Binjiro.
He even saw his companions beside him, startled, quickly distance themselves from him and look at him with horrified eyes.
He could also see his companions, out of sheer fear of Uchiha Chisen, quickly making way for him.
This completely exposed his carefully hidden figure.
Yamada Binjiro watched as Uchiha Chisen walked up to him and stood quietly about two meters away.
He didn't dare to look directly at this young man who was more than ten years his junior.
The drizzling rain could not soothe the fear in his heart.
He wiped the rain from his face, lowered his head, and forced a calm demeanor despite his dry mouth and tongue, "I... I don't understand what you're saying."
"Uchiha Izumi."
"Here!!!" Izumi immediately stepped forward from behind.
"Interrogate."
Izumi froze. She took a deep breath, quickly prepared herself mentally, and immediately said, "Yes! Senior!"
She knew what Senior Chisen meant by "interrogate."
Because the first time she met Senior Chisen, she had been asked to interrogate a prisoner.
And it was in broad daylight, in front of everyone, inflicting bloody torture on the prisoner!
This time...
It would likely be the same as last time.
Moreover.
Izumi also realized that this time it wasn't just in front of everyone, but also under the watchful eye of the Hokage not far away! This might be considered a new test from Senior Chisen.
She felt a lot of pressure.
However, compared to the pressure of disobeying Senior Chisen's orders, Izumi felt that the current pressure was nothing.
Thinking of the mother and daughter who had been reduced to shattered bones.
Izumi's hesitation and uncertainty vanished from her eyes, visible to the naked eye.
She drew her ninja sword.
She walked forward a few steps.
"Hey! You... What are you doing?!" Yamada Binjiro's cold sweat poured down his face. He stumbled backward in panic, not expecting the girl with slightly colder eyes in front of him to press forward step by step.
"You have two choices now," Izumi felt she was becoming a bad person, but for scum like this, perhaps any extreme measure was justifiable.
She tried to imitate a senior's tone: "First, you refuse to cooperate, and I'll kill you, letting the Yamanaka Clan investigate your memories. Second, you confess everything you did four years ago."
"I told you! I don't understand what you're saying... Ahhhhhh!!!"
Yamada Binjiro suddenly let out a piercing scream.
He hastily covered his crotch and knelt down. The indescribable pain turned his face completely pale.
"I'll give you thirty seconds to consider."
Izumi gritted her teeth and kicked him to the ground again.
Her eyes sharpened, and she stabbed her sword through Yamada Binjiro's left palm, pinning his hand to the ground.
"Ahhhhhhh!!" Yamada Binjiro continued to scream.
"Twenty-nine."
Recalling the bone-crushing sound that made her hair stand on end, Izumi twisted her wrist, and the blade instantly sliced off half of his palm.
"Twenty-eight."
"Twenty-seven."
Izumi flicked her ninja sword, and an ear flew high into the air. The splashing blood was quickly washed away by the rain.
"Twenty-six."
...
"Hokage-sama! They are clearly using torture to extract a confession! And... they're doing this at Shinosuke-senpai's funeral, in front of you, Hokage-sama!"
A friend of Sarutobi Shinosuke said in horror to Sarutobi Hiruzen, "Isn't this coerced confession? Perhaps that guy was innocent, but under torture, he was forced to admit guilt."
"Such behavior is already..."
Sarutobi Hiruzen stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.
He interrupted, "Uchiha Chisen often disappoints me in many ways. However... when it comes to law enforcement, no matter how extreme his methods are, the results he provides me with are always something I cannot refute."
"When Uchiha Chisen determines someone is a murderer, that person... is definitely a murderer. He has never made a mistake, not once."
Sarutobi Hiruzen gazed at the girl's back.
He murmured to himself in a low voice, "Are you preparing to train a successor for [Absolute Justice]? Chisen..."
Sarutobi Shinosuke's friend hadn't expected the Hokage to speak up for the murderer of his son.
Moreover.
In the Hokage's words, wasn't Uchiha Chisen being "deified" a bit too much?
How could a person never make a mistake?!
...
"Ahhhhh! I confess! I confess!!!"
The bones of a civilian were, after all, much softer than those of a ninja, especially one who had never undergone strict ninja training.
The pain from all over his body and the oppressive aura from the Konoha Military Police Force had already caused his spirit to break.
His already shaky psychological defenses, due to Uchiha Chisen's appearance, completely collapsed at this moment.
Tears and snot streaming down his face, he shouted in terror, "Don't kill me, don't kill me!"
"I, I did kill my brother's wife and daughter! It's because when I asked them for money, that damned woman told me directly that she absolutely wouldn't lend money to someone addicted to gambling!"
"They were the ones who disregarded family ties! No! That's not right, they were outsiders to begin with, they just wanted to pocket my brother's inheritance!"
Yamada Binjiro went from emotional breakdown to suddenly justifying his actions.
Not even ten seconds had passed in between.
He gritted his teeth and shouted in his breakdown, even developing a furious rage, "I was just cleaning house for my brother!"
"I didn't do anything wrong! Why are you arresting me!"
"Why aren't you arresting that woman who embezzled my brother's inheritance!"
"You're not fair at all!!!"
"You..."
As Yamada Binjiro looked up at Uchiha Chisen in his emotional fervor, he suddenly saw a pair of scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan enter his field of vision.
His entire vision seemed to be occupied by those Sharingan.
Yamada Binjiro's expression gradually shifted from anger to terror.
It was as if he was seeing something others could not.
"Aaaahhhhhh!!!"
Izumi paused. She quickly realized that Chisen-senpai had directly implanted the Sharingan genjutsu into the opponent!
Izumi didn't know what terrifying scene Yamada Binjiro was seeing within the genjutsu, or what dreadful illusion he was experiencing.
But…
She felt he had brought it upon himself!
"Newcomer, this is the 'evil' of the ninja world. Even with the blade of justice at their necks, they still won't repent. Gentle laws cannot bring justice for the dead."
Uchiha Chisen said softly, "Use your [Absolute Justice] to bring justice for the dead."
"Kill him."
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