After leaving Shimura Danzō's subordinate waiting for over a day, Hanzo finally had an Amegakure ninja bring him into the office after he repeatedly requested an audience.
"I hope what you have to say is worth wasting my time on." Hanzo sat in his office chair, looking coldly at the Root ninja before him.
If the Root ninja had not repeatedly stressed that the matter was extremely important and that only Hanzo, the leader of Amegakure, could decide it, Hanzo would not even have bothered seeing him himself.
Amegakure was not made up of Hanzo alone. Hanzo had subordinates too.
Feeling Hanzo's icy gaze, the Root ninja's breathing tightened involuntarily.
"Lord Hanzo, this concerns Amegakure's very survival. There is no chance I am wasting your time," the Root ninja said solemnly after quickly steadying himself.
"Amegakure's survival?" Hanzo's eyes turned sharp and hostile.
Amegakure had been doing perfectly well. It had not even gotten involved in the Ninja World War. Where could such a massive crisis have come from?
The Root ninja felt uncomfortable under Hanzo's stare, but as a specially trained ninja, he still forced himself to continue. "That's right."
"But for you and Amegakure, this is also an opportunity. An opportunity to eliminate an opponent."
"An opponent?" Hanzo frowned at the Root ninja.
"Don't you want to destroy Ninshu and kill Sōsuke, the man who ruined your reputation?" the Root ninja said in a tempting tone.
Before the failed attempt to surround and kill Sōsuke, Hanzo had been seen throughout the ninja world as an extraordinary top-tier powerhouse.
But after losing to Sōsuke, Hanzo had used cooperation as a pretext to lure Ninshu into a trap and kill them, nearly destroying the good reputation he had built over the first half of his life.
Now, when people spoke