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There was only one outsider who came to the wedding, and that was Uzumaki Kushina. The others were from the Uchiha family.
"Minato, damn it! Can't you postpone your training for just one day? You just had to follow Mr. Jiraiya for practice, so I ended up coming to Mikoto's wedding alone," Kushina muttered softly.
"Congratulations, Mikoto."
After seeing Mikoto come out, Kushina congratulated her.
Unexpectedly, she had just spoken with Mikoto the day before yesterday, and now Mikoto was getting married today.
"Thank you, Kushina," Mikoto replied, looking at Kushina's smiling face. A flicker of guilt flashed through her heart.
Between her husband and her best friend, Mikoto had already made her choice. In her heart, her husband held a higher status, so she could only feel sorry for Kushina.
The carefree Kushina didn't notice anything wrong with Mikoto and took a glass of wine, drinking with her.
The wedding was not very complicated, because Kisaragi hated that sort of thing.
"Those major clans, along with the ninjas from Konoha Village, didn't even bother to show up to our wedding. How disrespectful," Kisaragi said coldly that evening as he held Mikoto, who had now become his wife.
"Kisaragi, you've offended too many people," Uchiha Mikoto replied, raising her head as she lay in Kisaragi's arms.
If it weren't for Kisaragi offending the major families in Konoha Village, they would have at least paid some respect by attending.
"Regardless, it's their fault. They made me unhappy today, so I won't make life easy for them," Kisaragi responded.
'I always feel like my husband is deliberately trying to cause trouble,' Mikoto thought to herself.
Her guess was correct. Kisaragi was indeed intentionally looking for trouble.
His current goal was to obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, but that required one million evil points. As of now, Kisaragi had only collected a quarter of that amount, so he had to work hard to achieve it.
And the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan was just a small goal. Kisaragi was actually aiming for the Rinnegan, or even the Nine Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
For the time being, that goal was far off. So for now, he focused on getting the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. At least once he obtained it, he wouldn't have to worry about blindness.
The day after the wedding, Kisaragi went to the Konoha Police Force.
Just as he was about to hatch a plan to gather more evil points, Uchiha Sota, one of his subordinates, reported an important matter.
"The news of Hatake Sakumo's mission failure has spread throughout the village. The information got out quite quickly," Sota said.
Kisaragi wasn't surprised at all by this news.
The one who spread it must have been Shimura Danzō, that cunning old man. And the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, had surely played a part as well. If Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to suppress the news, it wouldn't have been difficult for him as the Third Hokage.
'If I add fuel to the fire, I should be able to earn a lot of evil points,'Kisaragi thought.
He didn't have the slightest moral qualm about going after Hatake Sakumo. After all, they had no personal connection.
"Never mind."
At the moment, Kisaragi still had a shred of decency. He had just learned Hatake swordsmanship from Hatake Sakumo, so going after him right away seemed a little too shameless.
Kisaragi still had some bottom line. Otherwise, he would have already started killing civilians to collect evil points. You could get at least 100 points for killing someone.
While 100 points wasn't much, it would add up if he killed enough people.
Still, Kisaragi didn't want to become a puppet driven solely by the pursuit of power.
"Ah, I'm still not wicked enough," Kisaragi sighed inwardly.
"Not wicked enough?" Uchiha Sota would have a thing or two to say about that.
"I got married yesterday, and none of those Konoha clans showed me any respect. You know what needs to be done, right?" Kisaragi said.
"Understood, Patriarch," Uchiha Sota replied.
Of course, he understood what Kisaragi meant. They were to create trouble for those clans—something they had gotten quite good at by now.
"Any movement from Uchiha Fugaku's group?" Kisaragi asked.
Recently, he hadn't been paying attention to them, but he knew they wouldn't sit still.
"It's been confirmed that they've been spending time with the Sarutobi clan. There were some Anbu members around, so we couldn't figure out what they were doing," Uchiha Sota reported.
Uchiha Fugaku and those who betrayed the Uchiha clan after Uchiha Rin's death were all with the Sarutobi family.
"Third Hokage, so it really was you."
When Uchiha Fugaku was taken away by the mysterious man, Kisaragi had already guessed it was Sarutobi Hiruzen's doing, and now it was confirmed.
"Sarutobi Hiruzen's youngest son is still in the ninja academy, right?" Kisaragi asked with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
"Yes, Third Hokage's youngest son, Sarutobi Asuma, is indeed still at the ninja academy."
"Good. I understand."
Sarutobi Hiruzen was clearly planning to use Uchiha Fugaku against him, but Kisaragi wasn't going to sit idly by without retaliating.
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Kisaragi made his way to the Konoha Ninja Academy just as classes were ending for the day.
This academy was established by the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, and Kisaragi himself had graduated from it.
"Good grief, he looks so old," Kisaragi muttered when he saw Sarutobi Asuma.
Students could join the academy at five years old, and Sarutobi Asuma was only five, but he already looked a little world-weary.
At that moment, Sarutobi Asuma was following a girl—a cute little black-haired girl with red eyes. This must have been Kurenai Yuhi.
Kisaragi stood at the academy gate, catching the attention of many students. Precocious little girls couldn't help but steal glances at him.
Ignoring the girls, Kisaragi waited until Sarutobi Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi were about to pass by. Then, without warning, he kicked Asuma, sending him flying.
"Pfft!"
Asuma spat out a mouthful of blood, nearly fainting from the pain.
Thanks to Kisaragi controlling his strength, Asuma wasn't killed outright, but he was badly hurt.
Kisaragi walked over and placed his foot on Asuma's head, not showing any mercy. He didn't feel the slightest bit ashamed for bullying a child and had no intention of letting him go.
[Ding! The host is bullying the weak and has earned: B-Rank Ninjutsu Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, Evil Points +3000]