LRAB Chapter 394 Sesshomaru and Indra
Chapter 394 Sesshomaru and Indra
Chapter 394 Sesshomaru and Indra
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【00:11:11】
More than half the time had passed, and the all-knowing gods were discussing the question: "Whose path is correct, Indra's or Asura's?"
Meanwhile, their attention kept wandering, and some "gods" had already drifted their thoughts to other dimensions, talking about the settings of other anime.
【"The older brother is stronger than the younger brother? If you say that, Yoriichi Tsugikuni will be the first to disagree!"】 10+ people think this is great. 【Yoriichi Tsugikuni is second, Kusuo Saiki is first.】 10+ people think this is great. 【Toguro's younger brother is also stronger than Toguro's older brother, and Cooler's transformation has one more stage than Frieza's, and his fighting power is 4.7 million.】 10+ people think this is great. 【Doesn't Goku have any prestige? Compared to his brother Raditz, he, the younger brother, is much stronger!】 10+ people think this is great. Goku saw someone mention his and Raditz's names, and remembering the comments saying that their father Bardock might not be dead yet, he became even more determined to use the Dragon Balls to revive Raditz as soon as possible after returning.
"Actually, Raditz used to be quite strong, but as more and more powerful enemies came along, he didn't seem so strong anymore."
Timeline before the Uchiha Clan Massacre—
Goku chatted with Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze beside him, saying, "I even died once to fight him, but fortunately I was revived by the Dragon Balls a year later."
"————"
Tobirama and Minato were silent for a moment, looking at the cheerful man in front of them, and couldn't help but wonder if he was indifferent to life and death, or just naturally naive?
[Kakarot's power level was achieved through hard work. Based on his birth power level, Raditz was able to accompany Prince Vegeta on his expeditions. Kakarot's power level was only 2. In the early manga, even Bardock said: "A power level of only 2? Useless trash!"] 10+ people liked this. "?!?!" Goku exclaimed in surprise, "Is that so?!"
Others instinctively cast pitying glances at him.
But then I thought about his fighting power—the ability to destroy a planet with the flick of a finger—
The ninjas: "Forget it, let's pity ourselves first."
【Does this count for Fuji Syusuke and Uchiha Itachi? Their younger brothers didn't steal anything from them.】10+ people liked this. 【Does Itachi's eye power not count?】10+ people liked this. 【That was something Itachi painstakingly wanted to give to Sasuke. If it weren't for revenge against Konoha and Danzo, Sasuke wouldn't have transplanted his brother's eyes.】10+ people liked this. 【Most younger brothers, even if weak, didn't steal anything from their older brothers. Only Indra and Sesshomaru are truly pitiful.】10+ people liked this. 【Neji is pitiful too! He's practically Cupid!】10+ people liked this. 【Neji really doesn't count. Like Itachi, he willingly sacrificed himself in terms of plot and character design. But Indra and Sesshomaru are truly pitiful; they were completely forced to become stepping stones for Ashura and Inuyasha.】
10+ people think this is great! [Indra/Sesshomaru: So all this hard training is just to give our little brother a beginner's gift pack?]
10+ people found this very helpful. [I suggest Indra and Sesshomaru create a group chat called "Did My Little Brother Understand My Good Intentions Today?"] 10+ people found this very helpful. The Ninja Clan Successor Trial Timeline—
"I understand, brother!" I understand your good intentions.
Indra, enraged, yelled, "Shut up! Asura!!"
The Sage of Six Paths sighed.
The disciples of the Ninja Sect were speechless.
[As it turns out, even the most perfect older brother is just a punching bag in the face of his younger brother's protagonist aura.] 10+ people think this is great. [I don't know if you've seen this:]
Sasuke: I suffered misfortune in my childhood.
Inuyasha: My past is full of hardships.
Sasuke: Sigh, my family has no warmth.
Inuyasha: Sigh, I have no social standing.
Sasuke: My goal is to hunt down my brother everywhere.
Inuyasha: My brother's goal is to hunt me down everywhere.
Sasuke: Two girls like me, it's really annoying.
Inuyasha: I like two girls, I'm just asking for trouble.
Sasuke: That idiot Naruto, he's always causing me trouble.
Inuyasha: Kagome, that woman, she just keeps nagging. 】100,000+ people think this is great. 【hhhhh, so Naruto and Kagome are counterparts?】100,000+ people think this is great. 【This is an old joke, from when the Chunin Exams were first introduced, right? Indra and Ashura weren't even around then.】100,000+ people think this is great. You can't judge Inuyasha with modern values. Not only did he give all his wealth to his mistress's child, but he also made his wife's son practice swordsmanship with his mistress's child. Sesshomaru had already mastered Meido Zangetsuha to 90% perfection, only to realize that it could only reach 100% in Inuyasha's hands. It turns out that the only sword his father, Inuyasha, left him was just temporarily kept by him, to be given to Inuyasha for free once it was properly honed.】100,000+ people think this is great. 【First: The manga says that Inuyasha's mother was Inuyasha's human wife, not his mistress.】 Second: Dog General knew Sesshomaru could forge his own swords, which is why he gave all the swords to Inuyasha, a half-demon. 】100,000+ people liked this. 【Your understanding is truly divine. So, a race can have one wife? Does your dad have a white wife and a black wife besides your mom? If you had a younger brother, and your family thought you had a good job and would be successful in the future, so they could buy their own house, they would naturally transfer two or three school district houses to your brother. Would you accept that? 】100,000+ people liked this. 【Hilarious! Thinking about it this way, one of the houses should be given to Sesshomaru as a pretense, and then he should be told after he's finished decorating it, "Oh, the property deed is in your brother's name." 】100,000+ people liked this. 【Sesshomaru has a strong sense of pride! He doesn't need his family's help! Inuyasha is his brother, and a weak half-demon at that! What's wrong with giving him more?! 】100,000+ people liked this. 【Don't get excited, listen to me, big sister.】 We don't usually call someone who voluntarily leaves all the good things to their younger brother "having a strong sense of self-respect." We call such a person a "brother-supporting demon." [100,000+ people liked this] [Sesshomaru isn't a brother-supporting demon, he was forced to, hahaha] [100,000+ people liked this] [So, the older sister above insisted on defending Inu no Taisho and Inuyasha, making it seem like Sesshomaru has a strong sense of self-respect and therefore voluntarily left everything to Inuyasha.] [100,000+ people liked this] Although Hagoromo Otsutsuki had never met the "Inu no Taisho" mentioned in the comments, through the barrage of comments and the surging accusations, this Sage of Six Paths, the founder of Ninja Sect, objectively understood the family conflicts of others and seemed to understand the root of the "gods'" anger towards him—
"Looking back now, it was precisely because Indra was so intelligent and sensible from a young age that I gradually overlooked his true feelings deep inside," the Sage of Six Paths reflected.
Shuanghai stepped forward and comforted him, saying, "The affairs within the Ninja Sect are too chaotic and demanding, taking up too much of your time."
Hagoromo Otsutsuki shook his head and sighed, "Even when I later realized that Indra's path had gone astray, I never really put in the effort to guide him. I just arrogantly hoped that he would wake up on his own. This is my dereliction of duty as the father of Indra and Ashura."
Indra deliberately avoided looking in his direction; this had nothing to do with whether his father treated everyone equally.
Well, it's certainly not the biggest factor.
What he really wanted to know was whether his father and Asura's path was wrong, or his own path was wrong.
Where exactly is the path to peace?! How can we govern the Ninja Sect and this world to create an ideal nation?!
[The Sage of Six Paths and Inu no Taisho are birds of a feather, perfectly illustrating how to use the guise of "it's for your own good" to force the eldest son into becoming a villain, then give all the family's wealth to the younger son.] 10+ people found this very helpful. [There was no other way; Inuyasha and Ashura were too weak. If they weren't given some power-ups, they might really be done for.]
10+ people liked this: 【Your "the weak are always right" logic is utterly fallacious! Excellent children deserve to be sacrificed? This is essentially moral blackmail! A father's responsibility is to raise his two sons fairly, not to create new injustices by "robbing the strong to help the weak."】 10+ people liked this: 【But genes and talent are inherently unfair!】 10+ people liked this: 【Those are factors beyond our control from birth; nurture is something we can control. If you really want to link innate and nurture together to argue for fairness, then to put it bluntly, why don't you donate your corneas to congenitally blind people to help them achieve "fairness"? You're clearly the kind of saintly figure in a post-apocalyptic novel who stands on a moral high ground, ordering others around.】 10+ people liked this: The ninja sect members' gazes followed the rapidly flowing barrage of comments, their thoughts undergoing an unprecedented transformation.
These pronouncements and ideas from "the gods" clashed violently with the beliefs upheld by people of their time.
This goes far beyond the scope of "predicting the future" or "knowing the truth." Instead, it involves being caught in the fierce arguments and debates of the "gods," and being forced to begin a profound self-examination by using the numerous examples they cite in their arguments!
In this profound self-reflection on themselves, on the Ninja Sect, and on the times, they are undergoing a mental storm of refinement, a growth that is a reshaping of cognition after being overturned!
"Indeed, thinking about it that way, Lady Hagoromo is indeed—"
"But there can only be one Ninjutsu sect, and it's impossible for two brothers to inherit it at the same time."
"But if only the eldest son inherits, wouldn't that be unfair to Ashura, the second son?"
[I just watched the anime again. The Sage of Six Paths never actually said that Indra was definitely the successor. It was Black Zetsu who instilled in Indra the idea that he was the successor from a young age!] 10+ people liked this. [But in that era, Japan valued primogeniture, right? Everyone assumed Indra was the successor, so there's no problem with that!] 10+ people liked this. [You guys are going off-topic! And the topic has already strayed far from the point! The issue is whose path is correct, Indra's or Ashura's. You keep saying the Sage of Six Paths was unfair to Indra, but the fundamental problem is that Indra's own ideas became increasingly extreme, leading to dissatisfaction among the Ninja Sect disciples, right?] 10+ people liked this. [Indra really doesn't have bad intentions! He's just too meticulous and rule-obsessed, a bit harsh on his disciples. Is that wrong?]
Ashura leads the entire Ninja Clan in team-building activities every day; who wouldn't like a leader like that? But he's an overpowered character, and the others are just a mob! The Ninja Clan is certainly stable while Ashura is alive, but once he dies, you'll see these lax disciples fall apart.
How many major wars have been fought in the ninja world since Hashirama's death? This is a living example! Back when Hashirama was alive and Madara hadn't been forced out, did the other villages dare to utter a sound? Not a single fart! 】10+ people found this very helpful. 【Madara even beat up and humiliated the Second and Third Hokage, yet these two only dared to strongly condemn them!】 Hilarious!
! 】10+ people think this is great【I'm rewatching the Ninja Trials anime, and I feel like Indra's right to inherit the throne was really killed off by the plot.
He helped the villagers dig a well, and later a dispute arose with them over the ownership of the well. Is there a necessary connection between these two events?
The root of the problem has never been the well itself! Even without the well, as long as the villagers harbored greed...
Those with wicked intentions will inevitably engage in struggles for other interests in the future.
Even if it is the path of mutual assistance advocated by Ashura, if it is faced with a group of villagers who are blinded by greed, they will still kill each other in the future because of the struggle for water!
Even assuming the villagers are currently living in peace, it's only because their tranquility hasn't been disrupted. Once outsiders seize resources, how can these people, accustomed to peace, possibly hold on? [10+ people liked this. Kanna and the others who followed Ashura to the Ninja Clan excitedly retorted upon seeing the comments: "That would never happen!"]
"No matter what, we will risk our lives to protect this well—the well that Lord Ashura dug for us!"
Ashura gently but firmly corrected them: "No, it wasn't me who dug the well for you," but rather "it was a well we dug and built together."
"Lord Ashura~" Kanna and the others were so moved that they wished they could follow him to the death.
"Hmph! It's just empty talk!"
Upon hearing this, Indra let out a clear, cold snort, his crimson Sharingan eyes filled with contempt and mockery for such "deep affection and loyalty".
In the comments section—
The essence of war is the plunder of resources. When the distribution of resources is uneven to a certain extent, resistance will occur; or the strong will take action to seize more resources.
Indra's theory of absolute military force can make foreign powers that want to plunder resources think twice about their own strength.
However, this development direction inevitably requires the promotion of talented people. Since talented people are to be used, a more distinct hierarchical system will inevitably emerge. The stronger and more useful a person is, the more resources they can obtain, leading to the gradual solidification of classes within the country. Over time, the lower classes begin to be oppressed.
Even if he had the Sharingan, he couldn't see everything. In the end, the upper echelons would be out of touch with reality, the middle class would be rolling in wealth, and the lower classes would be suffering. Internal strife was inevitable. [10+ people liked this.] After a long and extensive barrage of comments, Indra was no longer as impatient as before and could calmly reflect.
Seeing someone make a reasoned and well-founded criticism of Asura, Indra nodded inwardly, realizing that this was exactly the problem he had been worried about.
Ashura is naturally open-minded and even somewhat naive, so he is completely unaware that he is being taken advantage of. He treats people with no distance, which makes people habitually rely on him when they encounter problems, and they always seek his help immediately even when they should overcome difficulties on their own.
Under his rule, the Ninja Clan appeared united and harmonious, but in reality, it was like a tower built on the foundation of one person. As long as Ashura, the cornerstone, remained, the tower would stand tall; but once the cornerstone was removed, the entire structure would crumble in an instant.
Perhaps because of the initial critique of the Asura path, Indra was later able to calmly reflect and introspect when he saw the analysis of the potential problems arising from his rule over the Ninja Sect.
His pursuit of managing the Ninja Clan by force reduced the problem of generally low strength and ability among those except himself under Ashura's rule, but at the same time, it was indeed very easy to create a hierarchy based on ability.
Class solidification —
This is a word that even Indra, and even the Sage of the Six Paths, had never heard of.
They saw comments on the screen saying that once any social structure becomes completely rigid, the pressures it generates within have nowhere to be released, and the accumulated contradictions become irreconcilable. At that point, the only way to change this situation is through a war, either from within or without, to reshape the social structure.
Unlike the trials their father gave them, which only provided results, Indra found it difficult to believe the reasons for their failures.
The arguments of the all-knowing gods are more specific, well-reasoned, supported by evidence, analysis, and case studies.
In Indra's Sharingan, which sees the future, the ultimate outcome of his path was already reflected: within fifty years, everything would be in perfect order; after a hundred years, cracks would begin to appear, and conflicts would arise; by two hundred years, the accumulated problems would be irreversible, with no chance of redemption; and after three hundred years—
Perhaps their fate has run its course, and there is no way to reverse it.
"My path cannot last forever, nor is the path of the Asuras a permanent solution!" Indra anxiously asked the gods, "Then what is the right path?!"
The complete dialogue between Itachi and Sesshomaru, and between Sasuke and Inuyasha, is included in the author's notes.
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