Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"You mean... after peace truly comes, shouldn't the descendants of ninjas continue to become ninjas?"

Senju Hashirama frowned, and in as calm a tone as possible, he asked the question that most needed to be answered among the many questions he had about Kaguya Rei's speech.

"Then do you think that ninjas born for espionage, assassination, and war employment are not a profession born for peace?"

Kaguya Rei responded with an unceremonious question and threw the question back to Senju Hashirama.

"Uh... This, maybe, indeed, there is a little problem..."

Senju Hashirama is not a simple hot-blooded idiot. As an elder with rich life experience, he only thought about it briefly and realized the fundamental contradiction contained in this problem:

The professional characteristics and work content of the ninja determine that it is not a profession that can adapt to a peaceful environment.

Even among the genin group, only the rookies who have just graduated from the ninja school and need to accumulate mission records will take the initiative to drive away wild beasts, find pets, and handle chores. The more advanced ones will do it. Ninja, how many people are willing to deign to do such low-level tasks with pitifully little pay?

If they are unwilling to do tedious and boring low-level tasks, the major ninja villages will inevitably face a new problem——

When the world is at peace, the security environment of various countries has greatly improved, and the diplomatic relations between countries have entered the honeymoon period, it is impossible to produce tasks and commissions that are difficult enough to support so many high-level ninjas like in the era of confrontation between countries. At the same time, due to the lack of war consumption, the number of intermediate and high-level ninjas in various countries will definitely continue to increase compared to the war years...

So the question is, when mission resources become limited, will the ninjas who have made a living from childhood really be willing to become poor in order to enjoy peace?

"Won't."

Senju Hashirama murmured his answer.

"They will only try their best to put pressure on the village and ask the village to solve the problem of sharp decline in their quality of life..." Kaguya Rei seemed to have completely seen through Senju Hashirama's thoughts, and answered naturally:

"Then the question is, when the ninjas in the village continue to protest, how can a group of leaders who insist on the ninja system resolve their internal conflicts?"

"There is only one answer, which is to start a war again and transfer domestic problems to foreign countries."

"But the problem is that the person who has mastered the greatest violence in time and space is a clumsy but absolute pacifist and idealist. The only person who can compete with him has been influenced by his bonds and friendship and will not treat him To raise objections to the idea..."

"Although relying on the existence of the Otsutsuki clan, a foreign enemy that once threatened the entire world, they can barely make people who have experienced the Infinite Tsukuyomi incident put aside their prejudices and join hands to fight against the returning Otsutsukis, but to put it bluntly, that time and space can The people who faced Otsutsuki head-on were the two of them in the past, the two of them now, and in the future it will only be them and the descendants who inherit their bloodline."

"There are terrible enemies outside, but the biggest conservatives who block internal reforms are the only ones who can fight against external enemies. What kind of future do you think such a world will eventually lead to?"

After Kaguya Rei's words fell, Senju Hashirama had already closed his eyes and shook his head very awkwardly:

"I don't know, I can't think of it."

"This is not appropriate for you," Kaguya Rei looked at the broken Senju Hashirama and pressed his eyebrows speechlessly, "In that time and space, they inherited everything from your soul to their will. The orthodox successor of Madara Uchiha..."

"That was a choice I made in that time and space over there. Oh no, it can't even be said to be a choice I made, because I was already a dead person."

Senju Hashirama sighed, spread his hands helplessly, and said frankly:

"To put it bluntly, even if I am talking to you through the air now, I am already a dead person who cannot and should not affect the living world. Let me talk to you about the past so that you can understand what people of our time thought. , and how the decision was made, there is no problem, but if you want to condemn me for the mistakes made by people in the future, then there is no need..."

"Too."

Kaguya Rei nodded, agreeing with Senju Hashirama's speech, and turned around to pour some more black water on Jiraiya, who had reached the critical point of self-doubt, to help him ride off the cliff and get out of the fire as soon as possible. The ideological seal of his will and the way of tolerance have become the only important help for his subordinates to study humanities and social sciences on their own——

Then, he was interrupted by Senju Hashirama.

"But... listening to what you said, the Fourth Mizukage, you seem to think that the blood inheritance limit, or the power that can be continuously passed down through blood, is a bad thing. Why is that?"

Senju Hashirama thoughtfully asked this question for Kakashi Hatake and Jiraiya who were present, and then turned his attention to Orochimaru who raised his eyebrows.

"And you have said before that I did not pass down Wood Release as a stable Blood Succession Limit. It was my success as a ninja... Do you dislike the Blood Succession Limit so much?"

"I don't mean I don't like it. After all, I relied on the Kaguya clan's bloodline limited corpse veins to achieve the strength and achievements I have today."

Kaguya shook her head and said in a deep voice:

"But, for what you said, a world where people understand each other, the limit of blood inheritance is a big problem that cannot be avoided... Even for the future I want to build, it is also a big problem. A tough problem that must be addressed early on.”

"Why?"

"How do you think an ordinary ninja without blood inheritance limits can reach mutual understanding with people like us who have vested interests in becoming gods and humans in the world by relying on blood inheritance limits?"

Kaguya sighed and said with a somewhat sad expression:

"Things like the blood succession limit are privileges independent of the ninja class. The powerful blood succession limit, which comes directly from the Six Paths Sage and his younger brother Otsutsuki Hamura, is a privilege among privileges."

"When we know that enemies of the Otsutsuki clan will come to the world in the future, it is an inevitable choice to choose ninjas who have inherited the blood inheritance limit that can fight them to become leaders... But they are really the most suitable ninjas. A leader in the world? I can’t see it.”

"As I said before, I don't think the two people in that time and space are qualified leaders, but the only ones who can fight against the enemies of the Otsutsuki clan are the two of them, and the descendants who inherit their blood... As long as If the ninja world cannot eliminate the threat of the external enemy of the Otsutsuki clan, the position of the supreme leader of the ninja world will always belong to the Uzumaki, Hinata and Uchiha clans."

"Privileges bring pride, and privileges within privileges will inevitably lead to corruption... Even if one day in the future, the descendants of these three tribes really deal with the external enemy Otsutsuki, they will be willing to give up the wartime privileges they have become accustomed to. , return it to the people of the ninja world?"

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