Chapter 170: A Debt to Settle

"Oh, what a pleasure!" Funan leaned back further in the Hokage chair, letting out a sigh of satisfaction. "Finally, an Uchiha is Hokage. How is it possible that the Namikaze clan, which no one has ever heard of, produced a Hokage, while the Sarutobi, close relatives of the Apes, did as well, and we, the Uchiha, didn't? What happened in the past?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen was very upset.

"Funan!" Nara Shikaku shouted.

"What did you call me?" Funan stood up, staring at Shikaku with murderous intent in his eyes.

Shikaku said helplessly: "The fifth Hokage!"

"Yeah!" Funan nodded with satisfaction, restrained his murderous aura, and said: "However, you should address me as 'Hokage-sama', understood?"

"...I understand!"

"Well, what do you need?" Funan sat up straight, taking a pen and a document, taking on the appearance of someone working hard.

'Brother, the document is upside down!' Shikaku complained in his mind, and said: "The Hokage selection is over, you officially became the fifth Hokage, but you still need the canonization of the daimyo. I wonder when you are going to go to the daimyo's mansion?"

"Let's talk about it later!" Funan's hand holding the pen paused slightly.

He has always been confused in his heart, why should a shinobi with powerful power listen to the orders of ordinary people like the daimyo?

Although the daimyo also has an army under his command, those ordinary people will only be slaughtered one-sidedly when facing shinobi.

The strong kneel down to the weak?

That's absurd!

However, in terms of economy, being controlled by the daimyo, if the boundaries are drawn rashly, economic problems are likely to occur. Konoha now needs economic support more.

He has just taken office, once there is a problem...

He glanced at the Third Hokage.

He can't mess around before this bastard is killed.

For now, he would leave it on hold.

When the time was right, he would eliminate the Daimyo along with everyone else.

"Hokage, please give me a definite answer." Shikaku said helplessly: "Please don't forget that Sunagakure has gathered 5,000 shinobi on the border."

"Oh, them!" Funan didn't care at all and said: "I will send them a letter later and ask them to withdraw their troops."

Good friend, you're not hiding it at all, you're the one who summoned Suna!

Many people frowning.

[Bang!]

Suddenly, Funan slapped the table hard.

The huge noise scared everyone to react.

Hiruzen was the fiercest and directly pulled out the staff.

Are the Uchiha finally moving?

Fugaku thought so too, but wondered why Funan hadn't reported it before.

"Everyone, a new era has arrived, and we have to fight for Konoha... Monkey, what are you doing?" Funan was giving an impassioned speech when he noticed Hiruzen glaring at him while holding his staff. Annoyed, he shouted at him: "Are you trying to attack the Hokage? Do you want to rebel?"

Hiruzen was cursing furiously in his mind.

"Ahem!"

Shikaku also panicked, thinking that Funan was going to kill them, and was already preparing his shadow restraint technique.

Who knew that it turned out that Funan was mentally ill.

He said helplessly: "Hokage-sama, the Third Hokage-sama is a little tired recently, please don't get too excited."

"Why? Tired?" Funan sneered and said: "Your wife is dead, and you have no place to use your energy. How can you be tired? Is it because Danzo is gone, and you can't sleep alone at night?"

"Uchiha Funan!" Hiruzen roared.

Shikaku and Torifu ran towards Hiruzen, trying to hold him back.

"Hokage-sama!" Shikaku said, raising his tone.

Funan glanced at him, smiled coldly, and said nothing.

...

With the rise of the new Hokage, the village of Konoha began to slowly stabilize.

Although many shinobi secretly criticized Funan's way of ascending to the throne, they remained surprisingly quiet on the surface, and gave Funan enough respect when they saw him.

The reason is very simple.

Funan's ascendance was really based on strength.

Funan's strength is second only to the God of Shinobi and Shura of Shinobi World in the history of Konoha.

Unlike Uchiha Madara back then, he has been recognized by almost all Uchiha, and those who do not recognize him have disappeared long ago.

Funan will not be polite to those people.

Of course, these people are not all waste, they are also useful.

It was the tragic death of these people that made Fugaku and others completely quiet and surrender to Funan.

Their eyes can also be used to activate Izanagi and Izanami.

After Funan took office, he immediately started his big move.

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Three days later.

"What did you say?" Shikaku said angrily: "Hokage-sama, we agreed that you will become Hokage, and you will not care about the past."

[Bang!]

Funan slammed the account books on the table, looked at Shikaku with cold eyes, and then looked at Torifu and Hiruzen. "Yes, I said I'd let them go this time. But do you expect the Uchiha clan to cover Konoha's financial holes? What a good idea you have!"

The three remained silent, their faces grim.

"Either return the money, or I will make the account book public and let the villagers have an open trial!"

Funan said coldly: "The Uchiha clan is already autonomous, I'm not afraid of anything. If something happens to Konoha, I'll take the Uchiha, and we'll survive just the same. But you guys, will you be able to withstand it?"

Torifu sighed and looked at Hiruzen.

He was not worried. Even the money owed to Funan was written off as Funan became Hokage.

What about Sarutobi Hiruzen?

Torifu smiled bitterly. This was just a short alliance. Would the ally be finished?

Hiruzen sighed deeply and said: "Sarutobi, Shimura, Utatane and Mitokado, four shinobi clans, will put together 400 million ryo for the village. This is our limit."

"Not enough!" Funan said without hesitation. "It is far from enough."

"Funan, do you really want to fight to the death?" Hiruzen looked at Funan quietly.

"Of course not!" Funan suddenly smiled and said: "But if you don't have enough money, there is someone who does."

"Huh?" Hiruzen was stunned, and then his eyes lit up.

He looked at Torifu!

Suddenly, the old fat man's face turned pale.

Fuck!

Damn!

Why is it me?

Why am I always the one who gets hurt!

"Torifu." Hiruzen said seriously: "Lend it to me, I will definitely pay you back in the future!"

The fat on Torifu's body began to tremble again.

Ever since he became the acting Hokage, the fat on his body would tremble from time to time.

Sometimes, Torifu felt like he was going to develop eight-pack abs from shaking so much.

"Don't even think about it!" Torifu gritted his teeth and spat out those words, filled with rage.

"Torifu!" The eyes of Hiruzen were moist.

However, Torifu shuddered.

"You and I are sworn brothers!" Hiruzen looked at Torifu with 'affection' and said: "At this moment, I have nowhere to go. Could it be that you can't even help me..."

"I won't help you!" Torifu interrupted Hiruzen directly.

It's not that the fat old man didn't want to help, but he himself didn't have any money either.

'Damn, if I had known things would get this complicated, I would never have agreed to be the interim Hokage.'

He was only in office for a few days, and instead of reaping benefits, he ended up handing over a large sum of money to the Uchiha.

Furthermore, his power had grown so quickly that he feared the Uchiha would turn against them, forcing him to join Hiruzen.

'I feel so depressed!'

As for the loan Hiruzen asked for...

If they helped Hiruzen pay off the village's debts, wouldn't that mean the Ino-Shika-Cho clans would be funding the Sarutobi clan with their own money?

"Torifu!"

"I don't listen! I don't listen!"

Hiruzen fell into a deep silence, smoking his pipe sadly.

Funan also remained silent, watching the scene with a calm smile.

Hiruzen sighed and looked at Funan.

Funan immediately gave a thumbs up and said, "Third Hokage, at this moment, I believe in you! Come on!"

[Ding!]

His teeth flashed, causing Hiruzen and Torifu to flinch.

"Shikaku!"

"Yes, Third Hokage-sama!" Shikaku looked at Hiruzen helplessly.

"Come with me."

They both stepped away and began to murmur amongst themselves, arguing in low voices.

In the end, the old fat man was also dragged over by them and had a heated discussion.

Funan watched with a smile.

The last one left in the office was Fugaku.

"I feel so weird!"

"Don't worry, there will be a large amount of money coming in soon." Funan was full of confidence.

The Ino-Shika-Cho clans will never abandon Hiruzen.

In the end, Ino-Shika-Cho took out another 50 million ryo.

With those 450 million ryo, Konoha would have no financial problems, although the price would be the total bankruptcy of the Ino-Shika-Cho clans.

In fact, the hole in Konoha's account now is enough to be filled with 100 million ryo, and there is still a lot left.

Although Hiruzen's faction had drained many resources from the village over the years, they had done so gradually over the course of decades.

Paying everything at once was impossible, but that didn't mean Funan was going to pass up the opportunity to recover what the Four Sacred Beasts of Konoha had stolen.

With this money, Funan is enough for big moves.

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