Hokage Administration Building!
This building did not contain merely a single Hokage's Office.
At that moment, a conference room inside the Hokage Administration Building had been put into use.
The conference room was not large, roughly the size of an ordinary living room, and its internal furnishings were extremely simple, consisting only of a long wooden table and a dozen high-backed chairs.
With long black hair draped over his shoulders, a white kimono underneath, and a black haori layered over it, Hiashi Hyuga walked into the room at a leisurely pace, his pure white eyes sweeping across the conference room to find that quite a few people had already gathered inside.
Hiashi Hyuga did not actively strike up a conversation with the people in the room, instead walking calmly to the second row of seats closest to the head of the table and sitting down.
Throughout the entire process, every movement of Hiashi Hyuga was like that of a robot, completely conforming to the etiquette of a major clan without a single deviation. Even after sitting down, his spine remained straight and upright, entirely devoid of the sloppy, slouching, and improper postures displayed by the others in the venue.
Hiashi Hyuga glanced at the empty seat opposite him and thought to himself, Didn't the Uchiha come?
Then, Hiashi Hyuga's gaze swept over the others. Anyone able to enter this conference room was bound to be the head of a Konoha shinobi clan; ordinary shinobi were not qualified to occupy a seat at the table in this venue.
Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, Aburame, Inuzuka, Kurama, Shimura...
Yet unlike Hiashi Hyuga's calm and composed posture at that moment, the heads of these shinobi clans all wore solemn expressions and dejected spirits.
Hiashi Hyuga quickly figured out what was going on, realizing in his