After speaking, Shizune followed Tsunade to look at Sarutobi Hiruzen. Without needing to think, the secret technique that Tsunade-sama has deeply investigated is likely...real, and far more than that.
"Clatter~"
Silence filled the Hokage office at that moment.
Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't answer immediately,
He veered off-topic: "Do you think this secret technique is worth widespread promotion?"
Tsunade furrowed her brows in thought for a while, and even attempted to verify the technique using the methods summarized by Roy. After a good while, she nodded resolutely: "Yes,"
"The technique itself isn't complicated, but the angle is novel. More surprisingly... the author's understanding of [Yang Release] is almost like..."
"Like who?"
"Like my grandfather."
Grandfather... The Hokage office suddenly fell silent again!
Shizune's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at Tsunade... Her grandfather, isn't he... the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju?!
Outside the window, the sun was shining brightly,
The gigantic Hokage Rock could be seen from across the business district,
The figure on the far left looked down upon Konoha, as if watching over Shizune, Sarutobi Hiruzen, leaving the two in silent contemplation....
"Clatter~" He took another puff of his pipe,
Sarutobi Hiruzen felt the smoke enter his lungs, fiercely stimulating him to lift his spirits. Once more, he glanced through the smoke, silently watching Tsunade. For the first time in his life, he heard a comparison akin to the "First Hokage" from his own disciple's mouth...
But, is that boy from the Fugaku family worthy of such a compliment?
The old man squinted his eyes, recalling the [Wood Release] he had recently seen from that young boy. Putting down his pipe, he sighed: "The technique needs to be promoted, even if I don't tell you, with your personality, you'd investigate on your own anyway."
Tsunade did not refute this,
She had given up, she had been deeply hurt, but when it came to "family," especially in understanding the representative [Yang Release] technique of the Senju clan, Tsunade immediately perked up, determined to pursue the truth at all costs. After all,
Who would have thought she is now the last descendant of the "Senju"?
She grabbed the scroll, staring fiercely at Sarutobi Hiruzen: "So who exactly?"
Her voice was dry, almost trembling as she asked again: "Is it a Senju?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen tapped out the ash from his pipe, shaking his head slowly: "He is not a Senju, rather, he is... the nemesis of Senju."
"The nemesis of Senju..." Shizune silently chewed on this sentence, her mouth gaping wide, blurting out: "Uchiha?!"
"Impossible!" Tsunade denied it outright without even thinking!
The inherent evilness of the Uchiha was no mere saying in today's Konoha, even though nobody knew that "Senju" and "Uchiha" had inherited the reincarnations of [Yang Release] and [Yin Release], the "Asura" and "Indra," respectively....
The incompatibility of [Yin] and [Yang] is like the disharmony of [Water] and [Fire], and has become an accepted truth deeply ingrained in every Ninja's heart,
Uchiha, as the embodiment of [Dark], naturally conflicts with [Light],
No matter how Tsunade contemplated, she was more willing to believe that the [Limb Regeneration Technique] was developed by some civilian ninja rather than by the Uchiha!
Moreover, in Tsunade's understanding, anything related to [Yang Release] is likely connected to the Senju clan or the bloodline left in the world by the Senju; this is the correct reasoning, the right answer!
"It seems you don't believe it either." Sarutobi Hiruzen noticed Tsunade's expression, knowing his disciple's temperament well, he pushed aside his chair and stood up, turned his back to the two, looking through the massive floor-to-ceiling window at the Uchiha clan's residence, he said quietly: "I know what you're thinking... At first, I didn't believe it either when I got hold of this secret technique, but, the truth is...."
"He indeed presented it from the Uchiha clan,"
"Moreover,"
"I've met the developer himself,"
Sarutobi Hiruzen squinted his eyes, looking solemnly at Tsunade: "Believe me, Tsunade, he's far more incredible than you think!"
"I want to see him," Tsunade suddenly said: "Unless I see him with my own eyes, otherwise..."
"You can't deceive me!"
"Crack~" The coffee table in front of the sofa was suddenly cracked off a corner by some strange force,
Tsunade grasped the scroll in one hand, and clenched a fist with the other, sawdust trickling down from her palm... seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyebrow twitch....
Damn it!
The old man came to himself, angrily pointing at Tsunade,
The woman stubbornly stood with her neck held high, looking defiantly at him,
In the invisible confrontation, Shizune was caught in the middle of the two, secretly anxious... hands twisted together not knowing what to do.....
Fortunately, Sarutobi Hiruzen, after all, was experienced, after all, was the Hokage, had to display composure even if lacking it, he relaxed his hand after a moment, gave Tsunade a cold glare: "Walk out of this door, I won't say it a second time."
"His name is Uchiha Jin,"
"Get out!"
"Uchiha Jin...." Tsunade silently remembered this name, turned around, her chest with its ample snowy peaks swinging as she left.....
"Hokage-sama, Shizune bids farewell." Seeing this, Shizune quickly bowed to Sarutobi Hiruzen, then hurriedly followed Tsunade out of the Hokage office.
The vast Hokage office, leaving only Sarutobi Hiruzen alone in the quiet, along with a revolver resting on the desk, falling into a long contemplation....
After a moment, the old man glanced again at the Hokage Rock outside the window, Hashirama Senju's huge head, murmuring softly: "Uchiha Jin, if it's you, can you reignite Tsunade's fighting spirit?"
"Whoosh~" A gust of wind came, sweeping the green leaves flying, uncertain of where to go, perhaps vanished in some unremarkable old papers... or perhaps transcended the limitations of time and space, like many green leaves in the Demon Slayer world, drifting past in front of some young boy, only to be crushed into fragments by the nen emanating faintly from the boy.....
Demon Slayer world,
At the Kamado family's backyard,
In front of the graves burying [Poetry] and [Ryouta]....
A fiery red mane fluttering,
Roy stood alone in the moonlight, savoring the pure [Power of the Sun] brought to him by the otherworldly flower, at this moment, it was as if he were thrown in front of the sun,
Facing the sun's high temperature directly,
Watching "Sunspots," "Solar Flares," "Prominence," and the "Solar Wind" erupt....
Humans immersed themselves, merging within,
Sometimes becoming a dark spot on the sun's sphere,
Sometimes delving into the chromosphere as a surge of erupting energy instantaneously,
Sometimes spraying particles from the corona, forming part of the solar wind.....
In the dense forest, the fluctuating nen covering Roy became more and more abundant, hotter, more resplendent... with his deepening immersion, spontaneously radiating outward....
Gradually,
A ray of light pierced the darkness unexpectedly,
Allowing more light to display,
Lifting Roy towards the heavens......
In a daze, a hibernating brown bear in a cave mistakenly thought spring had returned, blearily poking its head out from the entrance, taking a glance... its huge lantern-like eyes suddenly widened, lifting its paw in confusion to scratch its head....
"What's happening?"
"It's clearly still midnight, why is the sun out?"
Nobody answered the brown bear's question,
It just stood upright, looking up at Roy, glowing with light and heat, rising into the heavens,
Surpassing the peaks, flying alongside the moon.....
At the Kamado family, having just said goodbye to Roy, Tanjuro sat alone in the wooden corridor, cup after cup using tea as wine, to relieve grief from before, at some moment, he suddenly noticed it getting brighter in front of him,
A beam of sunlight broke through the night's barriers, squeezing past the moonlight, and projecting into the small courtyard in front of the corridor,
The man paused for a moment, then hurriedly donned his cloak, descended the wooden corridor in two steps, looking up....