Zongman: Capturing the goddess from Demon Slayer

To attend the Five Kage Summit, naturally, only the Kage of the village can go.

At most, two close bodyguards can accompany them.

Minato himself is the Hokage, which means if Lan Mingang were to attend the Five Kage Summit with him, he would have to be his close bodyguard.

But is such a thing possible?

Even if Lan Mingang were willing, Minato wouldn't dare let Lan Mingang be his close bodyguard.

Let Lan Mingang be the Hokage?

If Lan Mingang wanted to be the Hokage, this position wouldn't be his.

Therefore, after much deliberation, Minato came up with a position called 'Fire Shadow - Super Shadow', which sounded more domineering and authoritative than 'Hokage'.

After Minato left, Karui and Omoi looked at Samui.

With an expression of how to deal with this.

"Since the Hokage has declared Lord Lan Mingang as 'Fire Shadow - Super Shadow' and also responsible for attending this Five Kage Summit, then, please, Lord Lan Mingang, do not be late."

With outsiders present, and in such a formal setting, Samui naturally couldn't call him Ming Ang repeatedly.

After handing the invitation to Lan Mingang, the three intended to set off back to the Hidden Cloud Village in the Land of Lightning.

"Samui!" Lan Mingang called out to Samui.

Samui turned to look at Lan Mingang.

"After the Fourth Shinobi World War ends, come with me! And Mabui too."

"How about it?"

Go? Go where?

Samui didn't ask.

Where she went didn't matter to her.

As long as she was with Lan Mingang.

"Okay!" Samui responded softly.

As for Mabui, Samui naturally knew her.

The two were good sisters.

The girl Lan Mingang saved from the Eight-Tails that day was her.

And both of them had remained single until now because they each had someone they loved in their hearts.

Samui knew without thinking that the person Mabui loved was Lan Mingang.

But Mabui didn't know that Samui also loved Lan Mingang.

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The Five Kage Summit was held as scheduled.

Apart from Lan Mingang, who was alone, the other four Kage: the Kazekage, the Tsuchikage, the Raikage, and the Mizukage, all had two bodyguards accompanying them.

In the shadows, White Zetsu had also set up his position.

He only waited for the right moment to appear as Tobi and declare war.

As for why Obito himself didn't come, it was naturally because he chose to retreat after seeing Lan Mingang.

Among the four Kage present, three of them—the Kazekage, the Tsuchikage, and the Mizukage—although they had never interacted with Lan Mingang, had all heard of his name through their respective intelligence networks.

Powerful, mysterious, invincible, handsome, an existence comparable to the Six Paths Sage, or even stronger.

After all, the Six Paths Sage would die of old age, but Lan Mingang's appearance, according to intelligence, had never changed.

This couldn't help but make people wonder if he was immortal.

Regarding Lan Mingang replacing Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze to attend the Five Kage Summit, the other four Kage did not show any dissatisfaction.

Even if they had, they wouldn't dare to show it.

As an older single woman, Mei Terumī was immediately attracted to Lan Mingang upon seeing him at the Five Kage Summit.

'Is this the legendary Lan Mingang of Konoha Village?'

'He's indeed as handsome as described in the intelligence.'

'I wonder what kind of person he is...'

'It's said that all the beautiful women in Konoha Village have some connection with him; he's truly a lecherous man.'

'By the way, why is he attending the Five Kage Summit?'

Not only the Mizukage had this question, but the other three Kage were also puzzled as to why Lan Mingang was attending.

Among those present, Mifune, who was one of the few who didn't know or understand Lan Mingang, looked at Lan Mingang and asked:

"Excuse me, are you the Hokage of Konoha Village?"

"No! I am not the Hokage; I am merely here to represent the Hokage at the Five Kage Summit," Lan Mingang said.

As for the 'Fire Shadow - Super Shadow' that Minato mentioned, Lan Mingang didn't have the nerve to say it out loud.

Such a strange title was truly embarrassing.

Hearing Lan Mingang's answer, Mifune was greatly surprised.

What was the Hokage doing?

Was he not afraid of angering the other four Kage?

Mifune looked around at the expressions of the other four Kage and found that they did not show the dissatisfaction and displeasure he had imagined.

A question arose in his mind: What was going on? The other four Kage would actually tolerate such a thing happening.

There must be something he didn't know!

Forget it, he wouldn't interfere.

"At the summons of the Raikage-sama..."

"The Five Kage Summit now begins!"

As the meeting began, the Kazekage, Gaara, as a former Jinchuriki, spoke first based on his own experience, but he was lectured by the Tsuchikage for being ill-mannered.

After all, among those present, the Kazekage was the youngest.

But fortunately, there was also a rational person, Mei Terumī, who spoke to stop Ōnoki's aggressive behavior and allowed the Kazekage to continue.

Subsequently, the Kazekage, Tsuchikage, and Mizukage all shirked responsibility, stating that they also bore responsibility for the Akatsuki Organization growing to this extent.

"Even if a Tailed Beast is taken away, it won't immediately become a fatal weapon threat."

"Controlling a Tailed Beast requires time and technique..."

Speaking of this, the Mizukage seemed to recall something and couldn't help but look at Lan Mingang.

'By the way, Lan Mingang seems to be able to control Tailed Beasts.'

'It's said that the Crimson Phantom, who became famous during the Third Shinobi World War, was his doing.'

'He linked Tailed Beasts and Ninja in a very strange way, allowing Ninja to use the Tailed Beast's chakra freely without its consent and without causing any harm to themselves.'

'If the Akatsuki Organization was cultivated by Konoha Village, then everything would make much more sense.'

'In the past, First Hokage Senju Hashirama was able to capture all the Tailed Beasts by himself and distribute them to other countries, and now it's not impossible for Lan Mingang to recapture them and restore Konoha Village's former dominant position...'

Ōnoki, Ay, and Gaara also thought of this point and all looked at Lan Mingang.

"Hmm?"

"Why are you all looking at me? Is there something on my face?" Lan Mingang asked, confused, touching his cheek and looking curiously at them.

The four Kage did not speak.

"Ah! Don't look at me like that. With my strength, if I wanted to destroy your countries, I wouldn't need Tailed Beasts at all."

"My strength is beyond your imagination!"

"Wouldn't you say so, Ay?"

Fourth Raikage Ay, seeing Lan Mingang ask him, recalled the scene many years ago when Lan Mingang had scared away the Eight-Tails with a single roar.

"Cough, cough!"

He lightly coughed and said:

"I'll speak fairly, as Mr. Lan said, with his strength, destroying any country truly doesn't require Tailed Beasts."

"Nineteen years ago, when the Eight-Tails rampaged in Hidden Cloud Village, Mr. Lan merely let out an angry roar, and the Eight-Tails fled in terror."

Gaara, Ōnoki, Mei Terumī, and the eight attendants hiding behind the scenes, upon hearing that Lan Mingang could scare away the Eight-Tails with a single roar, all had expressions of disbelief.

They knew Lan Mingang was powerful, but they never expected him to be *that* powerful!

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