16 years old, fourth generation Mizukage

Chapter 245 About the Successor

(first send and then change)
"...I, who clearly failed at the most fundamental level, am I still the winner in your eyes, Fourth Mizukage?"

Hearing Kaguya Ren's evaluation of himself, Senju Zhuma couldn't help showing a somewhat flattered expression when he came back to his senses, "Even when I was lying on the bed and looking back on my life, I only thought that I was He's just an ordinary person with merits and demerits..."

"Since success is the experience that occupies the main theme of your life, you will be particularly impressed by those things that failed because of various external realities."

Kaguya shrugged and said calmly:

"Even if you violated your original heart and didn't do everything you can do as a human god to the best of your ability, you at least quelled the endless chaos of the Warring States period and established a system that is tolerated by the whole world." The ninja village system widely accepted by the world and still in use today... Even if Konoha declines and is conquered by other ninja villages one day in the future, the people in that ninja village will still remember your identity as the founder of the ninja village era .”

"The creator of an era that is neither perfect nor healthy?" Senju Zhuma shook his head with a wry smile, "This is really... an embarrassing evaluation whether you accept it or not."

"It's already very good...at least you didn't realize the many immaturities and imperfections of the Ninja Village system until you died. No matter how annoyed and regretful you are, you don't need to think hard about how to solve those problems. Issues surfaced."

Kaguya sighed, and complained in a melancholy and envious tone:

"Unlike me, when I'm alive, I not only have to find a way to clean up the mess left by you and Uchiha Madara, but also have to find a way to push forward the reforms I want to do step by step...Damn it, why can't I be like Uchiha Madara? Like Madara, choose a path that doesn’t require so much effort, but only needs to be able to fight enough to reach the end?”

"You seem to be in a hurry, Fourth Mizukage..."

Senju Bashima narrowed his eyes, and looked thoughtfully at Kaguya Rei who had finished complaining, "Although your last sentence is more of a joke, combined with your previous speech, I feel vaguely There is a feeling that you desperately want to rely on your own strength to handle all the things in the ninja world properly in your own era...why?"

Senjujuma's tone was not sharp, but instead seemed to be concerned about the outstanding successors in the family, while Kaguya Rei was slightly startled, and then replied with slightly fluctuating eyes and hesitation:
"Sense of responsibility, and pride... Is this kind of answer enough?"

"That's not what you really think."

Qianshou Zhujian shook his head and said seriously:

"Similar to Madara, whose pride is mine? Naturally, I can see this; a strong sense of responsibility? I can also feel it from the conversation just now...but with my own strength in my living The determination to solve all the problems in sight at all times is not something that sprouts from either character."

"Strange, really strange... Are you so worried that your thoughts will be distorted, alienated, or even distorted in the process of being passed on to your successors? But you are so young, if you start cultivating yourself early For the successors, the probability of such a thing happening should also be suppressed to the point where it will hardly happen, right?"

Hui Yeren didn't answer, but took a deep look at Senju Hashirama who was sincerely making suggestions to him, and then shook his head slowly.

In the process of continuous inheritance, one's own thoughts may be gradually distorted, alienated, or even distorted?inevitable!

As long as they are carefully selected, those successors who have been trained by their side since childhood will be able to fully accept their own ideological system?dream!
The core of my thoughts comes from another world, where there is a completely different history, culture, and biological evolution process from the ninja world. The development direction of civilization is completely separated because of the presence or absence of an extraordinary power system like Chakra. After arriving in the ninja world, in order to be able to adapt to the historical process of this world, I have carried out a certain degree of transformation and adjustment on my thoughts, and its true core cannot be reproduced in this world.

Even if I bring the chosen successors by my side to teach by example, it is impossible to create the same social and cultural atmosphere as when I learned those ideas in my previous life. Without these necessary atmosphere and history as the foundation, then My successors will always only be able to learn from myself those things that are forced to specialize in the ninja world.

And this kind of behavior of learning only half of something is often more dangerous than learning nothing.

Therefore, from the very beginning when she decided to completely change the social structure of the ninja world, Rei Kaguya was already prepared to lead all major changes in the ninja world by herself, and to be an absolute dictator.

What's more, in addition to possible internal problems, the ninja world is also facing the threat of one after another from the Jupiters who have come here one after another. When facing this kind of enemy with little room for communication, Kaguya Rei is still more willing to Believe in yourself, not those protagonists whose fate lines have been greatly tampered with by you, God knows whether they can grow to their due strength.

But these words obviously cannot be used publicly.

So Kaguya Rei naturally thought of a convincing reason that could be used to explain this topic.

His eyes shifted slightly, he looked at Jiraiya who was thinking about something, and then said in a deep voice:

"A person's growth is realized by constantly surpassing the immature self in the past, but not every growth can bring positive improvement... I am not sure whether I will be able to do so in ten or twenty years. Like you in the first generation of Hokage, you have degenerated from an idealist to a narrow-minded person with the supremacy of Kistokakure, how could you possibly think of entrusting ideas and changes, which are so easy to deteriorate in the process of progress, to the later ones? What about the successor?"

"But didn't human beings stumble all the way to where they are today by passing on their will and ideas to the next generation?"

Senju Zhuma opposed this point of view, "If you don't believe that the successor can do better, it is tantamount to denying the meaning of human existence and continuation, and alienating yourself into a god who is divorced from human beings... This kind of arrogance and Arrogance will inevitably lead to the end of depravity."

"But we are already the closest to God."

Hui Yelian shook his head and said calmly:
"After reaching our position, no matter how small mistakes we make, they will be infinitely magnified under the power of time, especially when it comes to selecting and cultivating successors. What is suitable for a while may not be suitable for a lifetime. , And once our choices are wrong and the wrong successors have the power of the gods, then no one will be able to overthrow them and the power they represent."

"What do you say, as if you have seen such a future with your own eyes?" Senju Zhuma carefully looked at Kaguya Rei's young face, which was no more than 20 years old, and asked incomprehensibly: "With you At my age and background, I shouldn't have this kind of experience..."

"I have indeed seen that kind of future."

Hui Yeren took a deep breath, squinted at Jiraiya who was stared at uncomfortably, and said slowly:
"With that guy over there, I saw another future without my worldline."

　Today's state is really stretched, and I felt dizzy when I stayed up late yesterday...

　　Let's see if I can recover a little from going to bed early.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)