That was right. The current state of the Shinobi World was far from good, and the Five Great Ninja Villages were anything but harmonious at the negotiating table...
Especially during the latest round of negotiations, the major ninja villages had all clung to their own positions and refused to give ground!
After obtaining the Three-Tails, Mist had become more confident as well. Though it was not as aggressively confrontational as Kumogakure at the negotiating table, it was no longer willing to back down as easily as before...
Especially when it came to Konoha...
Among the Mist ninja Yei and the others had killed during their previous mission were one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and several Jonin. Mist had also used this as an excuse, demanding that Konoha pay a price...
However, Konoha retorted that Mist's rogue ninja had attacked Konoha's Border Outpost, and that Mist ninja had aggressively obstructed Konoha Anbu operations. The two sides began arguing over the matter...
After all, negotiations were nothing more than pinning blame on the other side and digging up their past mistakes to secure greater influence and greater benefits for oneself...
In the end, there had been no true winner in the Third Shinobi World War. It could even be said that all Five Great Ninja Villages had lost...
The ceasefire had not come because one ninja village had declared surrender to the others. Rather, by the later stages, the upper ranks of the Five Great Ninja Villages had realized that continuing to fight was not a solution.
None of them could afford to keep spending resources...
That was why the large-scale war had come to a halt, and the higher-ups of the Five Great Ninja Villages had entered negotiations.
As the instigator of the war, Kumogakure had successively