After the Raikage finished speaking, two groups from Kumogakure—one dark-skinned, the other pale to an extreme—immediately broke into applause and cheers!
"Lord Raikage is wise! With this, Kumogakure will flourish too!"
"Doesn't this mean Kumogakure's gyms will have a chance to open all across the Shinobi World!?"
"I was originally planning to buy a bunch of things from Konoha and haul them back for myself. Now I don't have to transport them—I can just go back to Kumogakure and buy them there. Oh yeah!"
The grand promises painted by the Five Kage left the audience delighted.
But!
At this moment, the feudal lords and nobles were in an uproar.
Inside the feudal lords' private boxes, the Feudal Lord of the Land of Lightning stared wide-eyed, the fat on his body trembling with rage. He shoved aside the two attendants in his arms and smashed the fruit platter on the nearby table.
"What is A trying to do!?"
"Rebel? He made such a huge decision without even discussing it with me?"
"When did I ever agree to let him do these things!?"
Meanwhile, the Feudal Lord of the Land of Wind snapped his smoking pipe in fury, his face twisted into a savage expression.
"I think Rasa believes the funding I've given him these past few years has been too generous! How dare he do something like this behind my back?"
"When did I permit Black Oil and mineral resources to be sold!?"
"He's got some nerve!"
Compared to those two, Iwagakure's feudal lord was much calmer. Though he was somewhat dissatisfied that Ōnoki had made the decision without consulting him, he understood that this would indeed allow the people of Iwagakure—and even the Land of Earth—to live better lives.
"Don't be so angry, you two. If their lives improve, are