Uchiha Makoto looked at Senju Tobirama's exasperated appearance, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, a smile appearing on his face, and he even couldn't help but hum lightly.
He loved seeing this scene the most!
Never got tired of it!
Of course... Uchiha Makoto wasn't just doing this for fun now.
Considering his extremely bad image in Senju Tobirama's mind, he had to use a little trick to make him trust him first.
This involves a theory, the suspension bridge effect, which is the most commonly used method to conquer female characters in the official version of galgames on Earth.
Simply put, when a person is in a tense, dangerous, or exciting situation, the body will produce physiological arousal reactions such as accelerated heartbeat, rapid breathing, and sweating palms. At this time, the brain will misattribute this physiological reaction to heartbeat or affection for others, thereby enhancing the emotional connection with the other party.
—If the suspension bridge effect is used well, love and hate are actually in an instant, and trust is of course the same.
This is how you play galgames to conquer targets. You should talk to the other party more, interact... and finally find a way to get the other party's special CG.
However, Uchiha Makoto did not choose to stimulate Senju Tobirama further, because if he continued to increase the intensity... he might turn into a crow and flip the breakfast table.
Uchiha Makoto didn't want such a special CG.
"Tobirama, I've decided to agree to the Uchiha clan's request and give those students from Konoha a holiday."
"Uchiha Makoto, you naturally evil Uchiha brat, of course you would agree. Doesn't this just suit your wishes? But let me tell you..."
"Not to help the Uchiha, but to help you."
Uchiha Makoto started to bring up the main topic. He did intend to agree to the Uchiha clan's request to give the students from Konoha a holiday, ostensibly to help the Uchiha clan, but the actual purpose was to help Senju Tobirama.
Senju Tobirama's continuously clamoring mouth stopped immediately.
He even doubted his ears.
Uchiha Makoto did this to help him?
How is this possible!!
There must be a trick in this!!!
"What do you mean... help me?"
"Yes, help you. Otherwise, why would I specifically meet you urgently? You don't really think I met you just to mock you to your face, do you... am I that bored?"
"Yes!"
"Alright, I did want to mock you to your face again... and your exasperated look just now can make my mood good for a whole day."
Uchiha Makoto smiled and admitted his bad taste.
Senju Tobirama rolled his eyes at him.
What he hated most was Uchiha Makoto's extremely bad personality.
Whenever he saw Uchiha Makoto's continuously laughing face, he remembered Uchiha Izuna's arrogant smile, and then the Flying Thunder God Slash was ready to be launched.
However, at this moment, he was already filled with doubts by Uchiha Makoto.
Compared to these "small things."
He cared more about Uchiha Makoto saying he wanted to help him.
Disbelief aside.
But Senju Tobirama's current situation was really bad. What if... what if?
People always have a fluke mentality.
"The Uchiha clan recalled the students sent by the Konoha ninja clans. Their most important purpose is to use their mouths to promote the Akatsuki Ninja Village, thereby increasing their prestige in Konoha and belittling your status in Konoha. But they overlooked one thing, that is, during the process of these students studying in the Akatsuki Ninja Village, their thoughts have been mostly transformed by me. They are now all potential reformists and natural supporters of your promotion of internal reform in Konoha."
"Since the Uchiha are ready to build momentum for them, Tobirama, you can actually use this opportunity to promote reform ideas within Konoha."
"I will provide you with some convenience in the public opinion field outside Konoha."
Uchiha Makoto taught Senju Tobirama how to resolve this wave of public opinion.
The Uchiha clan's action this time was actually a double-edged sword.
They only saw the prosperity and strength of the Akatsuki Ninja Village and the positive effects it brought to the Uchiha clan, completely failing to take into account the ideological changes of this group of students. So with just a little modification in public opinion, Senju Tobirama could use the mouths of these students to build momentum for his Konoha reform plan.
—Ninjas are people who endure.
For a better future, they can actually endure suffering.
If the ninja clan children who personally studied from the neighboring village could stand up and paint a rosy picture, they would definitely be more effective than Senju Tobirama, a "loser."
Plus, Uchiha Makoto planned to provide public opinion support for Senju Tobirama outside Konoha.
The Uchiha clan's hard work might very well end up benefiting Senju Tobirama.
Senju Tobirama listened very seriously.
"If it weren't for Uchiha Makoto's reminder, I might have missed this excellent opportunity due to impatience and anxiety, making my current situation even worse.... The Uchiha clan are all staunch opponents of Konoha's reform. If the students they designed to bring back take the lead in opposing the Uchiha, then it would be really fun!"
"If used properly, at least it can make that group of evil Uchiha clan settle down for a while."
Senju Tobirama couldn't help thinking like this, but at the same time... the doubts in his heart grew bigger.
"What do you think of my idea?"
"It sounds really good, but Uchiha Makoto, why do you want to help me?"
"You're not digging a pit for me behind my back again, are you?"
Senju Tobirama showed a vigilant look.
Uchiha Makoto's character was in the worst and most untrustworthy category for him.
Now Uchiha Makoto, this naturally evil Uchiha brat, actually chose to take the initiative to help him?
Is there such a good thing?
Will pies fall from the sky?!
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Nine times out of ten, there's a pit in here!
"The Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha are allies. Promoting internal reform in Konoha is a great thing for Konoha. As the Kōkage of the Akatsuki Ninja Village, isn't it right for me to help my ally move on the right path...."
"....."
"Do you think I would believe such bullshit remarks?"
"This kind of talk can at most deceive my brother!"
Uchiha Makoto made a high-sounding statement. The Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha were allies. Internal reform in Konoha was undoubtedly a good thing for Konoha's long-term future. As the Kōkage, he must come to help. However, before he could finish these words, he was interrupted by Senju Tobirama.
We are all thousand-year-old foxes, what's the point of playing tricks!
These words might fool Senju Hashirama, but don't even think about fooling me, Senju Tobirama!
Uchiha Makoto wasn't annoyed. The foreshadowing was almost done, and it was time to have a heart-to-heart with Senju Tobirama.
—In some aspects, their interests were aligned, and both sides should be more frank about these matters.
"Tobirama, to tell you the truth, the political attack launched by the Uchiha clan against you this time has nothing to do with me."
"What?"
"Has nothing to do with you? Do you think such words can really fool me? Who else could it be but you?"
Uchiha Makoto said.
He had not been involved in this political attack against Senju Tobirama from beginning to end.
If he didn't know the level of the Uchiha clan well enough, even Uchiha Makoto might not have reacted in time.
—It has always been me, the Kōkage, putting the blame on others. Now someone is actually putting the blame on me, the Kōkage?
However, Senju Tobirama almost subconsciously refuted Uchiha Makoto's remarks.
In his view, Uchiha Makoto was the biggest supporter behind the Uchiha clan.
Uchiha Makoto had given advice to the Uchiha clan behind the scenes more than once, and provided so much funding to the Uchiha clan from the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
What did Uchiha Makoto, this naturally evil Uchiha brat, want to do?
Clearly, he was bent on supporting the Uchiha clan to rise to power in Konoha, overthrowing him, driving him out of the Hokage's office, and finally letting the Uchiha clan produce a Second Hokage of Konoha!
Uchiha Makoto's intentions were known to all the ninja clans in Konoha!
Now he wants to dissociate himself from this matter?
How is this possible!
However, seeing Uchiha Makoto's extremely serious expression at this moment.
Senju Tobirama could only suppress his mood and continue to listen to him.
"Whether you believe it or not, what I'm saying now is the truth. This matter really has nothing to do with me."
"And don't always think of me so badly. I'm not targeting you, Senju Tobirama, everywhere. Most of the time, Konoha suffers losses in front of the Akatsuki Ninja Village because of you. For example, last time when Konoha and the Akatsuki Ninja Village cooperated in the agricultural industry, I sincerely wanted to cooperate with Konoha on a fifty-fifty split basis. But later, wasn't it because you secretly tripped me up behind Senju Hashirama's back that things got so complicated?"
"There are even older examples. When the Akatsuki Ninja Village and Kumogakure went to war, if Konoha had chosen to intervene and help the Akatsuki Ninja Village immediately, when everyone shared the fruits of war afterward, Konoha definitely wouldn't have just gotten that little bit. And who was making trouble behind the scenes in this matter?"
"It seems to be you again, Senju Tobirama."
"And.... when signing the armistice agreement, you also.... simply treacherous and shameless!"
"....."
To increase his persuasiveness, Uchiha Makoto specifically cited a few examples to Senju Tobirama.
Although he deliberately targeted Senju Tobirama, in most cases, when Senju Tobirama stepped into a big pit, he had to find the reason in himself first.
The most recent one was the cooperation between the Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha in the agricultural industry. If Senju Tobirama hadn't deliberately tripped Uchiha Makoto up behind Senju Hashirama's back, how could this matter have become so complicated?
Later, coming to apologize to Uchiha Makoto personally was purely self-inflicted.
Of course, there were distant ones too.
When the war broke out between the Akatsuki Ninja Village and Kumogakure, Uzumaki Shinji next door rushed over with the Uzumaki clan to help without saying a word, while Konoha delayed and only appeared on the battlefield when the war was about to end, even wanting to snatch the fruits of victory from the Akatsuki Ninja Village.... Wasn't Uchiha Makoto's series of actions against Senju Tobirama later a matter of course?
Uchiha Makoto kept talking about those old stories.
Listening to these words, Senju Tobirama could no longer look directly into Uchiha Makoto's eyes... He thought about it carefully.
Uhm.... it seems that's really the case.
Put that way, he didn't seem to be a perfect victim.
After all, from Uchiha Makoto's perspective, he should be considered asking for trouble?
"Ahem... alright, alright, no need to give more examples."
"I believe you this time, okay?"
"Then who exactly is tripping me up behind the Uchiha clan?"
Uchiha Makoto was still talking, and his words became sharper and sharper.
Senju Tobirama couldn't listen anymore and quickly changed the subject.
If he listened any longer, his ninja way would collapse.
To this, Uchiha Makoto just snorted coldly and didn't argue too much with Senju Tobirama, this naturally evil old Senju demon.... Useless old thing, you are opposing me everywhere, now being stabbed in the back by those vermin of the Land of Fire, and in the end, I have to pull you up. You have to atone for your sins to me after you die!
"Senju Tobirama, why are you so dense? Why was your reaction so fast when you were thinking of ways to deal with me before!"
"Use your brain. In the entire Land of Fire, besides me, who else can contact the Uchiha clan, who has both the guts and the ability to interfere in Konoha's internal affairs!"
"So you mean, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire?"
"You're not that stupid!"
Uchiha Makoto just reminded him slightly, and Senju Tobirama understood.
The forces in the Land of Fire capable of stirring up Konoha's internal politics, apart from Uchiha Makoto, were the high-ranking Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
"But why..."
Senju Tobirama still had that traditional ninja thinking of ruler and subject in his mind.
Fundamentally speaking.
He still held unrealistic fantasies about the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
"Isn't that simple? I've actually said these words many times. We have a common identity, that is, ninja. Our ninja power is constantly expanding, while the power of the Daimyo and nobles is vulnerable, so they are afraid. Being afraid, they naturally have to find ways to suppress us ninjas."
"They have already tried with the Akatsuki Ninja Village, and then I killed batch after batch of their people."
"But your Konoha has never had such awareness. If they can't weaken the Akatsuki Ninja Village, weakening Konoha is the same. Provoking conflicts between the Uchiha clan and the Senju clan, making you fight internally, or even have a firefight, and then they find a way to drag the Akatsuki Ninja Village in, destroying the alliance between the two villages."
"Such logic, Senju Tobirama, you can't possibly not understand."
Senju Tobirama fell silent.
He understood the logic.
But he just didn't expect it.
And before this, Senju Tobirama's attention was all focused on Uchiha Makoto.
But these are not important anymore.
What is important is how to solve these things now.
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