“Ahem…Konoha has a kind heart.”

Gojo Jieyue coughed lightly and rejected the suggestion of Minato, the bad student.

Some villages are not weighed, so they only weigh three or two. But if they are weighed… compared with Konoha at this stage, it is hard to say which one is heavier.

Even if Konoha wins in the end, it will probably be an extremely tragic victory.

Until several factors are gathered, including the head kick, Itachi’s health, and Jiraiya’s return to the village… Gojo Jieyue has no intention of taking action against the Rain Country.

“Is that so? That’s a pity.”

Minato felt a little regretful and scratched his head a little embarrassedly: “Um… Jieyue-kun, I have something to ask of you.”

“Oh, you say.”

“Can you please ask Lady Tsunade to return to the village?”

“Tsunade?” Gojo was startled: “What’s wrong?”

“I’m worried that there will be more masked ninjas similar to the ones that appeared today. Although the Flying Thunder God Kunai has been entrusted to Kushina, it’s still more reassuring to have someone protecting you at all times.”

“I see. You want Tsunade to be Kushina’s bodyguard?”

“Although I feel a little embarrassed, this is my lifelong request…”

“It’s covered.”

……

……

The next day.

Although the old and new commercial streets of Konoha were still prosperous, they were much less popular than before. The teams of alert ninjas that appeared everywhere on the streets silently spread the dark cloud of martial law.

Hokage Building.

The new era Konoha F3 and representatives of all the major and minor ninja clans have gathered here.

Namikaze Minato sat in the first seat, with Uchiha Fugaku sitting upright on his right. The person who was supposed to be sitting on the left did not show up.

Everyone in the conference room was overwhelmed with gloom. Could something really have happened last night?

After Fugaku, all the prominent ninjas in Konoha Village, including Hyuga Hizashi, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza, arrived.

All major ninja clans have arranged for their members to enter the Anbu.

Although the Anbu has strict confidentiality regulations, some things cannot be hidden.

The assassination that took place yesterday was no secret to the representatives sitting in this conference room, but no one witnessed the final result.

For example, how is Gojo Kezuki, the protagonist of the incident, doing now?

People were panicked for a while.

Assassin politics is not scary; what is scary is the aftermath of the assassination.

This is an almost universal reason, because no one has seen the masked man’s face and no one knows his identity, so he is a handy knife.

Internally, it can purge the “feudal remnants” of the village and target the families that lean towards the Sandaime and Danzo. Externally, it can be a reason to start a war…

Where will the knife handed over by the masked man be used?

The ninja representatives raised their heads in tacit understanding and looked at the person sitting in the first seat without leaving any trace.

Originally there were supposed to be two people, but now, there is only the Yondaime left.

It all depends on this person’s will.

Seeing everyone present, Namikaze Minato spoke first with a frosty face:

“I’m sure everyone here has learned about what happened last night through their own intelligence channels.”

“A mysterious masked man who called himself Uchiha Madara launched an assassination attempt on our Konoha elders. I have killed the enemy and tortured him to extract information.”

“This was an organized and premeditated assassination attempt initiated by forces outside the village…”

coming soon!

The ninja representatives all breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that the butcher knife in the Fourth Hokage’s hand probably would not fall on their heads.

After all, the first move was made by forces outside the village. Which village are they going to impose sanctions on?

“One is to assassinate our Konoha elders, and the other is to call himself Uchiha Madara and want to alienate the relationship between the Uchiha clan and Konoha…”

Minato Namikaze slowly spoke the lines that Gojo Kegetsu had arranged for him during their last meeting last night, setting the tone for this meeting.

“Regarding the masked man who assassinated Advisor Gojo yesterday, the information summarized is as follows—”

“The target has the ability to travel through space over medium and long distances, and can only travel through space at the ‘nodes’ left beforehand.”

“Through the all-night investigation by the Hyuga clan ninjas, we have cleared the nine nodes of the masked man within the Greater Konoha area, and are further investigating the locations of the nodes that may be left behind.”

“The target has the ability to ‘Hollow’, which makes it immune to most damage caused by ninjutsu, taijutsu, and ninja tools. But it takes time to activate the Hollow. Theoretically, as long as the attack speed is fast enough, it can cause damage to it.”

Hearing this, Nara Shikaku raised his hand:

“How about the shadow manipulation technique? Can it have any effect on the masked man?”

“In theory, shadow manipulation and illusion techniques can have an effect on the target. But theories are just theories after all, and the information I have now is not sufficient, so I cannot jump to conclusions.”

Konoha is so rigorous.

Even if the enemy is already a corpse, detailed file integration is still necessary.

As the “prehistory” of future generations, we should learn from history.

Uchiha Fugaku, who was sitting on the right side of Namikaze Minato, crossed his arms and was secretly frightened.

Others may not know, but he knows it very well…

These two items are different from conventional ninjutsu and involve abilities such as “rules”. They sound very much like the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Yes, he is probably the only one in the entire ninja village who knows that after awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, two unique eye techniques will be born.

The left eye and the right eye are like two keys. Only when they are installed on oneself can the kaleidoscope pupil technique be brought into play.

“Teleportation” and “Blurring”, two exaggerated pupil techniques, but they are only the masked man’s right eye.

He personally checked the body of the masked man. Only the right eye was found, and the left eye socket was empty.

Where is his left eye?

Could it be that these really came from Uchiha Madara’s eyes?

The holy relic of the ninja world?

Fugaku fell into deep thought, can the dead be resurrected? As the lifelong rival of the God of Ninja, Uchiha Madara was clearly recorded in the clan as having awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

However, there is no record of how long a kaleidoscope can last after its owner dies.

The abilities of the Mangekyō Sharingan are varied and bizarre.

Fugaku is not sure, what if Uchiha Madara awakens the eye technique of resurrection from the dead? But two eyes can only have two eye techniques, and the human body cannot have a third eye…

It is also possible that he lost an eye as a price to survive until now.

But the strength of the masked man is too weak, which does not conform to the traditional Konoha people’s stereotype of Uchiha Madara.

so……

“The other party is most likely a member of our Uchiha clan, pretending to be Uchiha Madara and trying to split the clan and the village.”

Fugaku’s expression also became serious. For both public and private reasons, he had to do his best to catch the masked man.

Once the other party’s identity as a member of the Uchiha clan is exposed, it is hard to say whether the clan’s situation will return to its original starting point.

“After we return, ask Elder Shanna to compile a list of the tribesmen who have died in battle or are missing over the years.”

Over the years, the Uchiha clan has actively participated in the Second and Third World Wars, and countless clansmen have died on the battlefield, but there has never been any news of anyone escaping from the clan.

It now seems that there are only two possibilities: the person in charge of statistics in the tribe concealed the information, or a member of the tribe was identified as dead but unexpectedly “came back to life”.

Uchiha Fugaku was determined to initiate an internal self-examination procedure and find the Uchiha ghost wandering outside the clan.

Retrieve the [Left Mangekyō Sharingan] that was supposed to appear on the corpse.

Once he locks onto this dead soul, Uchiha Fugaku will use the pair of eyes in his body to enforce the clan’s laws!

Regardless of what Fugaku thinks, Minato Namikaze’s extreme left-wing speech continues:

“Also, everyone has noticed this, right?”

“I said that this attack was an organized and premeditated terrorist attack against Konoha.”

“We in Konoha must respond strongly to this!”

Namikaze Minato clenched his right fist, slammed it heavily on the table, and said in a loud voice.

These radical remarks immediately aroused heated discussions among some small ninjas.

Since the beginning of the Kirigakure Free Action Plan, Gojo Kegetsu has shown his fangs in front of these ninja forces and used tough measures to push for the increase of the military budget.

Now, after the assassination attempt, Gojo Kegetsu did not attend the Konoha meeting. The Yondaime stood up again, representing Gojo Kegetsu’s will and drawing his butcher knife to target forces outside the village.

Such a person is unprecedented in the entire Konoha Village. No Hokage or powerful minister has ever tried to start a foreign war like this during his tenure.

You have to know that in all the Ninja World Wars, Konoha has always been the one that was invaded and had to fight back passively.

The Aburame clan, who had an unclear relationship with Danzo’s Root forces, was the first to stand up.

Aburame Shiwei raised her hand and asked slowly:

“The identity of the masked man has not been confirmed yet. If we make a strong statement to external forces at this time… it will inevitably leave the impression in the ninja world that Konoha is overbearing and heartless, and arouse their psychology of uniting against Konoha. I think this is inappropriate.”

With a leader, the flock has a voice.

Although not all of them sided with the Third Generation Danzo, due to their own political demands and the interests of the ninja clan, not all of them wanted war.

Nara Shikaku also stood up:

“We can indeed use the assassination attempt as an excuse to make a strong statement, but, Fourth Hokage, don’t forget… Kumogakure has been trying to build the Greater Kumogakure Co-Prosperity Sphere.”

“Our tough stance at this time will undoubtedly push potential allies to the opposite side of ours.”

Despite being dissuaded repeatedly, Namikaze Minato did not show any anger. He asked back: “In the opinion of the Nara clan leader, who should we target?”

Who are we targeting? In other words, who is the enemy that Konoha should attack the most now?

Hidden Cloud Village?

When the words came to his lips, Nara Shikaku felt that things were not that simple. The Yondaime’s uncharacteristic behavior was probably caused by the influence of Gojo Jieyue.

Nara Shikaku answered with a question:

“I wonder what the current situation of the five counselors is like?”

He expressed the doubts in the hearts of the ninja representatives. In the past, as long as Gojo Kegetsu was still able to walk, he would never miss such an important occasion to express his political views.

I didn’t show up today, why…

Hearing this question, Minato Namikaze looked sad:

“Advisor Gojo was assassinated and severely injured. His life is in danger. I have arranged for people to do their best to treat and defend him.”

“In order to prevent the enemy from assassinating him again, no one is allowed to contact him without my permission.”

Hearing this, Nara Shikaku sighed in his heart and remained silent.

It is clear that this matter may not be able to be eliminated. Once the five counselors die… the village will definitely launch a war, or at least a special military operation.

Repay blood with blood and declare to the ninja world that Konoha is inviolable.

Otherwise, the elder of a village would be stabbed to death in his own village in such a cowardly way. If this were to be spread out, it would become a laughing stock in Konoha.

Before that, they could only pray that the five advisors were safe and that a target that was relatively easy to demonstrate Konoha’s majesty could be selected to take special military action.

Nara Shikaku asked tentatively, “What information did the Yondaime extract from the enemy?”

After thinking for a moment, he took the initiative to hand over the knife as if answering his own question: “I think this assassination was planned by the Hidden Rain Village!”

Yuyin Village.

Being sandwiched in the middle of the adult village became the place of the first battle. Under the leadership of Hanzo of the Salamander, the Hidden Rain Village once showed signs of becoming the sixth largest ninja village.