I, who just wanted to be lazy, was forced to become the Hokage.

Chapter 390 Using the most cowardly tone to say the harshest words!

One second he was like a kind and gentle old man who was at peace with the world.

The next second his face turned icy cold, and every wrinkle on his aged face seemed to radiate a chilling aura.

Although Nara Rinkazu believes that Hiruzen Sarutobi is soft-hearted, indecisive, incompetent, and incapable of achieving great things.

However, it must be admitted that Hiruzen Sarutobi's personality is such that he has to be selective about who he treats!

Even "Shimura Danzo" and "other ninjas" are different.

Not to mention Konoha and the other ninja villages!

If this is a few years later on the normal timeline (more precisely, December 27th, Konoha Year 54),...

Konoha has experienced major events such as the Fourth Shinobi World War, the Nine-Tails' attack, and the departure of the Sannin. The village's high-level combat power has been almost completely wiped out, and the young ninjas have not yet grown up. Only Hiruzen Sarutobi is struggling to hold on.

Given this reality, and faced with the shameless act of the Hidden Cloud Village using peace talks as a pretext to forcibly seize the Byakugan from the Hyuga clan, Hiruzen Sarutobi chose to hand over Hizashi Hyuga in order to appease the situation and gain more time for peaceful development.

But what is the current situation in Konoha?

Leaving aside Hiruzen Sarutobi, and also Orochimaru and Danzo Shimura.

Nara no Utsuri, Minato Namikaze, Jiraiya, Tsunade...

This even includes Uchiha Kagami, who has not yet returned to the Pure Land!

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This doesn't even include Kushina Uzumaki and Kakashi Hatake, the two Jinchūriki! And the Five-Tails Kokuō mentioned on the other side!

In any other village, any one of these ninjas could easily be a "Kage"!

With such elite troops and powerful generals at your disposal, do you still expect Hiruzen Sarutobi to continue feigning weakness?

Hiruzen Sarutobi felt that if he really did that, he wouldn't even need to wait until he returned to the village. He could just commit seppuku right here in the meeting room and go with Danzo Shimura to kowtow and apologize to the First and Second Hokage of the Pure Land!

The Fourth Tsuchikage of Iwagakure must have gone mad!

Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was about to angrily rebuke Rōshi's delusional fantasies...

Upon hearing what the Fourth Tsuchikage said, Troy, seizing the opportunity, promptly joined the conversation.

"It's not just the Five-Tails from Iwagakure, but also the Eight-Tails from our village!"

Troy's eyes were fixed on Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"When will Konoha release our Eight-Tails Jinchuriki back to our village?"

In fact, the Kumogakure lost more than just the Eight-Tails.

The other ninjas present might not know, but how could the Fourth Raikage, Troy, not know that neither the Eight-Tails nor the Two-Tails of their village were currently in the village?

Killer Bee, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, was captured on the battlefield by the combined forces of the Dark Shadow and the Yellow Flash.

As for the disappearance of the Two-Tails, the Hidden Cloud Village has yet to find a single clue.

Based on the information we currently have, we can only pin the blame on Madara Uchiha…

After all, the Third Raikage also disappeared along with the Two-Tails...

If Madara Uchiha was truly the culprit behind the Third Raikage's disappearance, then the Two-Tails could only have been in his hands.

No matter what, the Hidden Cloud Village will definitely not let the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki go easily!

Family members know each other's secrets.

Although Troy is a ninja with a bloodline limit, his strength level is at most that of an elite Jonin, and there is a certain gap between him and the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure, Rasa.

After becoming the Fourth Raikage, Troy also specifically trained in the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, which improved his strength.

But he has not yet reached the threshold of "shadow".

Even the "strongest" Raikage isn't considered a true Kage-level ninja, so you can imagine how weak the other ninjas in Kumogakure are.

If we could retrieve the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki from Konoha.

Both Killer Bee himself and the Eight-Tails within him can provide a stabilizing effect to the Hidden Cloud Village, which lacks high-end combat power, comparable to a stabilizing force.

Seeing that the Tsuchikage and Raikage had spoken up one after another, Yagura Karatachi, who had just been on the same side as Hiruzen Sarutobi, also chose to speak up in support.

"Our Three-Tails, the Hidden Mist Village's beast, is now in Konoha's hands, isn't it?"

Yagura thought for a moment and then added.

"Seven more ninja swords!"

The Kage of the other three villages launched attacks on the Third Hokage of Konoha, and Rasa of Sunagakure was not to be outdone.

Although Sunagakure did not lose any tailed beasts in the war—they only had one tailed beast in total, and it had never been deployed to the battlefield—this did not stop Rasa from taking advantage of the chaos.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for several villages to attack Konoha at the same time, perhaps... Sunagakure can also gain some benefits?

Konoha, situated in the heart of the ninja continent, is the Land of Fire, a land rich in resources.

Even a tiny bit of food leaking from between Konoha's fingers would be enough to feed the impoverished Sand Village for a while.

Luo Sha, who has been mining for gold lately, is now dreaming about how to make money for the village.

In a very short time.

The Tsuchikage, Raikage, Mizukage, and Kazekage launched their attacks one after another, focusing their fire on the Third Hokage.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's cold gaze swept across the faces of every ninja from other villages in the conference room, a cold smile creeping across his face.

This is not the first time that Konoha has been attacked by a coalition of other villages.

Today, the Hokage being personally targeted by the Kage of other villages is simply a different form of attack.

But I'll say it again.

Konoha today may not be considered to have "many soldiers," but it certainly has "a large number of generals."

A very few ninjas even possess terrifying strength, capable of taking on a thousand or even ten thousand opponents single-handedly.

Even when Hiruzen Sarutobi was being attacked by several Fourth Hokage, he remained completely calm and even felt a little amused.

The international situation has developed to the stage of the Five Shadows Conference.

Aside from Konoha, the other ninja villages' intention to cease hostilities and recuperate is also quite obvious.

Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't believe that other villages really had the guts to fight another war with Konoha!

Moreover, even if a fight were to break out, Hiruzen Sarutobi would not be afraid at all.

Having people at your disposal gives you confidence!

"The Five-Tails of Iwagakure, the Eight-Tails of Kumogakure, and the Three-Tails of Kirigakure."

The cold expression on Hiruzen Sarutobi's face suddenly disappeared. He stroked his goatee, looked at Shikaku Nara beside him, and asked with feigned confusion.

"Shikaku, I remember that the reason these tailed beasts were able to return to Konoha's hands was because we recaptured them on the front lines, right?"

As the leader of the Jonin class and a capable assistant to the Hokage, Nara Shikaku naturally accompanied Hiruzen Sarutobi to the Five Kage Summit.

Having received a signal from the Third Hokage, Nara Shikaku chuckled inwardly and calmly replied.

"Yes, Third Hokage, these tailed beasts were basically captured one by one from the battlefield by the clan chiefs of our Nara clan—outsiders like to call the clan chiefs 'the Dark Shadows'."

The sight of two Konoha ninjas putting on a show caused the Fourth Hokage from other villages to twitch their brows and feel inwardly agitated.

The name of the Dark Shadow is legendary.

Almost every ninja who participated in the Third Shinobi World War had heard of Nara Rinka's reputation.

Even Rasa of Sunagakure knew the immense contributions that the shadowy figure of Konoha had made in the war.

What can we do?

No matter how strong the shadowy figure is, he's not here now!

And even if the Shadow of Darkness were present, we would still dare to speak like this!

If our four great nations, four great villages, and four Kage unite together, that dark shadow might not be able to kill so many of us before it runs out of chakra!

"By the way, Lord Tsuchikage."

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at the ashen-faced Old Purple and asked with a smile.

"As far as I know, the Five-Tails has already signed a summoning contract with the Nara clan chief."

"If Iwagakure truly wants the Five-Tails back, why don't you go and discuss it with that person personally?"

I'm late... Sorry

(End of this chapter)