Konoha.
Hashirama Senju established Konoha with his own hands, and 57 years had passed since then.
Konoha had always been the most powerful ninja village in the ninja world, and no enemy from any other ninja village had ever successfully advanced to the gates of Konoha. Today, however, Fourth Mizukage Yagura Karatachi was leaving behind a record.
Many people had gathered outside the outer gates of Konoha Village, but the scene was exceptionally quiet, and not a single person made a sound.
In the central area of the crowd, the teenage-looking Fourth Mizukage Yagura Karatachi and the elderly Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted each other, while a group of Uchiha watched them like tigers eyeing their prey from the flanks.
This formed a strange three-way balance.
The Uchiha, Yagura Karatachi, and Hiruzen Sarutobi each harbored their own hidden agendas.
Although Yagura Karatachi was controlled by Obito's genjutsu, it did not mean he lacked a brain. Genjutsu control merely twisted his inner thoughts; it did not format his thinking.
Yagura Karatachi did not wish to face a joint pincer attack from the Uchiha and Hiruzen Sarutobi either, so he wanted Hiruzen Sarutobi to stand aside and watch first.
It was obvious that Hiruzen Sarutobi could not agree to this condition. Once he allied with the Mizukage, he would become a village-selling traitor, and when the Senju brothers were summoned at that point, there was no telling who they would beat up.
However, Hiruzen Sarutobi was also unwilling to fight Yagura Karatachi to the death on behalf of the Uchiha, so his inner conflict was currently extreme.
The Mangekyo Uchiha were all at the Kage level, but facing the supra-Kage-level Hiruzen Sarutobi and Yagura Karatachi, regardless of victory or defeat, they would suffer severe casualties. The death of any single Uchiha was