Land of Iron!
The country of samurai, the Shinobi World's universally recognized neutral country.
During the three Great Ninja Wars, the Five Great Shinobi Villages fought tooth and nail, yet none of them ever made a move against the Land of Iron.
Precisely because the Land of Iron had no conflicts with any shinobi village, Fourth Raikage A chose this place as the location for the Five Kage Summit.
Only here would the Kages of the other four nations dare to come and keep the appointment.
The Hokage certainly has a grand air! To actually keep so many people waiting. Ōnoki, the short, elderly man with a red bulbous nose, said with dissatisfaction.
Having received the invitation letter from Fourth Raikage A, Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi, Kazekage Rasa, Fourth Raikage A, and Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki had already arrived in the Land of Iron.
The four Kages sat at a U-shaped conference table, waiting for the Hokage, who had yet to arrive from among the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
"The Third Hokage has passed away, and the newly elected Hokage was just chosen, so a delay is forgivable," said Mifune, whose head was wrapped in bandages and who wore a beard on his lips and chin, smoothing things over.
Mifune!
The samurai leader of the Land of Iron.
With the dawn of the shinobi era, the way of the samurai gradually declined, causing the samurai community to split into traditionalist and reformist factions.
Reformist samurai believed that the samurai system should also advance with the times, with samurai learning the methods of chakra cultivation and integrating chakra into their sword techniques. Examples included Konoha's White Fang Sakumo Hatake and Kumogakure's Cloud-Style Swordsmanship.
Traditionalist samurai stubbornly clung to their heritage, believing that cultivating chakra was a desecration of Bushido.
Mifune was precisely