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Sakumo is dead, and the root exists, so what kind of protection of talented shinobi is the author talking about? Hiruzen is already a de facto coward and rotten who does not want to admit his sins. And I didn't fully understand whose opinion of the power of the hiruzen? In fact, in the story, we won't even take hashirama, one ōnoki and ei should be enough to suppress the shinobi world, but for some reason the kishi didn't really think it through