Konoha's Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and Kirigakure's Fifth Mizukage, Mizuki Ember, were friends?
At that moment, everyone except the two involved was completely dumbfounded.
When had they gotten to know each other?
No one could come up with an answer to that question.
If they had to put it that way, the two of them did indeed count as having "known" each other.
It had been during the early stages of the Third Ninja World War, when Kirigakure had been the first to launch a war against Konoha.
At the time, Mizuki Ember had briefly served as Kirigakure's commander-in-chief on the front lines of the war against Konoha.
And Konoha's commander in that battle had been Minato Namikaze.
Back then, neither of them had yet ascended to the position of Kage.
But that had been them "knowing" each other as enemies!
What did that have to do with being close friends?
Could mortal enemies on the battlefield really develop feelings for one another through fighting?
They said one mountain could not hold two tigers unless one was male and the other female.
But both Minato Namikaze and Mizuki Ember were men!
This was simply too strange.
After all, it was precisely because the Kirigakure led by Mizuki Ember and the Konoha led by Minato Namikaze had fought to a standstill on the battlefield that Mizuki Ember's fame had truly spread throughout Kirigakure.
Afterward, when the Third Mizukage personally went to the front lines, he died at Minato Namikaze's hands.
Did that comparison not make Mizuki Ember's strength and command ability seem far superior to those of the Third Mizukage?
Although Soji had secretly joined forces with Minato to trap and kill the Third Mizukage in that battle, no one besides them knew that, did they?
In everyone's eyes, Konoha's Golden