Hinata Was Surprisingly Scheming

Hearing that Jiraiya intended to return to Mount Myōboku, Kakashi sighed inwardly. He gave Jiraiya a complicated look, but ultimately said nothing.

Once the great tide of the world had taken shape, it became like a raging flood, impossible to resist through human effort.

Gathering the strength of the Five Great Shinobi Villages to oppose Hinata?

If Hinata had wanted to overturn the Shinobi World, the shinobi would naturally have cast aside their past prejudices and united to resist her.

But Hinata merely wanted to unify the Shinobi World and establish a government ruled by shinobi.

The benefits were obvious. What the major Shinobi Villages truly could not let go of was nothing more than their respective villages' legacies.

The Five Kage had inherited their villages from their predecessors, so naturally, they did not want those legacies to end in their hands.

What was more, the several major wars that had taken place in the Shinobi World over the past three years had long since made everyone understand what true power was.

And Hinata had revealed the secrets of Sage Jutsu.

The public disclosure of Sage Jutsu would undoubtedly accelerate the unification of the Shinobi World.

Even someone like Ōnoki, who had served as Tsuchikage for decades, might have many things he could not bear to part with. But once he let go of some of them, he might no longer be as determined as before to die in battle to preserve his reputation.

Dying in battle was easy, but did Ōnoki truly have nothing he wanted to protect?

For the tens of thousands of shinobi in Iwagakure, Ōnoki would not easily seek death.

The benefits of unifying the Shinobi World were no longer merely mundane gains such as power and money. They also included the right to divide the