Ninja at the top of the food chain

Chapter 368 Hatred

Makoto seems to be a person with a story - this is what Lei Luo intuitively felt after listening to the other party's words.

Although he didn't understand the story between Makoto and the patriarch of Uzumaki, and what kind of conflicts they had, there was one thing that Lei Luo could vaguely detect:

The reason why Makoto initiated this usurpation operation should have a lot to do with revenge against the patriarch of Mazu and others.

"Can't you live without this ability?" Lei Luo first repeated Xuan Wocheng's words to himself, and then asked in doubt:
"Based on my observation, the whirlpool patriarch seems to have a lot of trust in you, and trust cannot appear out of thin air."

"Could it be that the old guy's trust in you is all supported by your disguise for so many years?"

Noticed the confusion in Lei Luo's tone, Whirlpool Makoto didn't look back, his face was very calm, and the tone of his answer didn't fluctuate:
"You should know... the whirlpool patriarch who was killed by us was actually the great elder of our clan, right?"

Saying that, without waiting for Lei Luo to answer, Makoto continued on his own:
"My grandfather is also an elder of our clan, but his old man and the Great Elder are not in the same faction. Strictly speaking, my grandfather should still be regarded as a competitor of the First Elder and their lineage."

"I don't want to say more about the specific reasons. To sum it up, it's probably... After a certain political struggle in my clan, my grandfather was killed by the hands of the elders."

"Afterwards, my parents were also suppressed by those guys, and it was almost impossible for them to move an inch in the clan. So, when I was a teenager, they died of depression."

"But in my generation, maybe my vigilance has dropped, or maybe I have been discerning since I was a child, and I have been hiding my true thoughts. In short..."

"After spending a long time, more than ten years, and at the same time experiencing several tests by the elders, I finally gained the trust of those old guys."

"Finally, it's the war between our clan and Wuyin Village..."

Having said that, Makoto paused for a while, he turned his head slightly, looked at Lei Luo from the corner of his eye, and then said:

"Your Excellency Lei Luo, I have to say that your presence has really helped me a lot."

"Facing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I finally made up for the top-level combat power that I have been lacking all along, so now I have finished——I originally expected to spend ten years to complete this journey."

After the words were over, Whirlpool raised his arms flat, with a deep sense of satisfaction on his face, as if he was embracing the Whirlpool Village in front of him, and sighed in his mouth:
"At this moment, I seem to suddenly realize that whether it is revenge, power, wealth, or my own dreams, it seems that they will all come true soon."

At this time, there was a stream of people pouring out of the building complex in the distance, the number of which was probably in the hundreds or thousands.

A large number of Whirlpool people ran towards Lei Luo and Whirlpool Cheng. They jumped over pieces of ruins, and as they ran, their red hair seemed to form a red ocean.

However, both Uzumaki and Lei Luo seemed to turn a blind eye to the Uzumaki people who were about to rush in.

After listening to Vortex Cheng's confession, although Lei Luo had some doubts in his heart, he didn't show it on the surface. He thought for a moment, and then asked:

"Whirlpool, is your dream just to be the whirlpool patriarch?"

Hearing Lei Luo's question in his ear, and sensing the intertwined curiosity of confusion and disapproval in the other party's words, Makoto smiled slightly. He slowly withdrew his hand and said calmly:

"I'm just a small person, Lord Lei Luo."

"I have neither your strength nor your ambition. For me, becoming the patriarch is enough."

Whirlpool Cheng's words at this moment contradicted Lei Luo's communication with him last time. A strange look flashed in Lei Luo's eyes, and he continued to ask:

"Whirlpool, do you want to go back on your word?"

Having said that, Lei Luo's tone unknowingly became a bit blunt. Wu Wucheng knew that the other party might have misunderstood him, so he replied with the same smile:
"That's not the case, Your Excellency Lei Luo."

"It's just that, judging from the current situation, I can only be the patriarch, and the desire in my heart can only stay at this step for the time being."

"If you don't do it, if you don't think that way, it won't do you or me any good."

Makoto's words seemed to have something else to say, so Lei Luo suppressed his agitated heart and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want to express?"

This time, Makoto turned his head completely. He didn't move his body, but his head seemed to turn a 180-degree angle. He looked directly at Lei Luo behind him, and said with a slightly serious expression:

"Your Excellency Lei Luo, I only have one question. Do you think the time is ripe for me to help you usurp Hokage?"

This question from Makoto seems to have awakened Lei Luo all of a sudden. He thought about it for a few seconds before slowly answering:

"Now...my foundation in Konoha is still too shallow, and there are too few people who support me. If I start now, even with the help of your whirlpool clan, I'm afraid I won't be able to succeed at all."

Usurpation, or a coup d'etat, revolution, this kind of thing can't be achieved by violence alone, even if Lei Luo is going to kill Sarutobi Hiruzen right now, let's not talk about the remaining elders, Hokage and elders The direct line troops of the Ninja Clan, let’s say the patriarchs of the Ninja Clans...

Without reaching a tacit understanding with those people, even if Lei Luo is the top Hokage, then he, the few people in his team, and even the power of the Uzumaki Clan, may not be able to suppress the opposition that keeps pouring out.

The most important thing is that his current reputation is not enough, and he has not yet established a subordinate relationship with a large number of civilian ninjas in Konoha.

Although he, Lei Luo, has fought many powerful enemies, except for the battle of Hanzo and the battle of Mizukage, which will soon be spread, most of his achievements are unknown.

Especially like Kato Duan's battle and Uzumaki Patriarch's battle, these two battles cannot be exposed anyway, otherwise he will not only lose the support of most ninjas in Konoha, but will also make the only hopeful one. The forces he took back under his command——the Whirlpool Clan were at odds with him.

In this case, he rashly attacked Hiruzaru Sarutobi and others, making him an enemy of the entire Konoha.

Lei Luo knew that Makoto Uzumaki was right. Now was not the time to turn against Konoha's high-level officials. At the very least, he needed to master a ninja army that had risen to a certain scale before he could launch an action to usurp the throne.

(End of this chapter)