This should be about enough.
Even if Minato Namikaze tried to come up with some excuse, I could shut it down with things like "rapport" and "talent."
Thanks to Yukina. If it hadn't been for her perfect proposal, my plan probably wouldn't have passed.
But...
Yukina was just too incredible.
The moment I told her my plan, she had immediately drawn up this proposal. I couldn't compare to her in that regard.
Watching Minato Namikaze, who had already sensed something, Chiba felt completely at ease. He knew his strategy had succeeded.
Before this, after Kakashi voiced that idea, this strategy had surfaced in his mind.
That was, to use Kakashi's idea this time to keep Kakashi in the Engineering Corps—at least for a while—then elevate Hirohiko to the point where he could command, or secretly command, the corps.
Of the two possibilities Chiba had considered at the time, Kakashi was bound to leave the Engineering Corps, and the burden of the corps would inevitably fall onto Chiba's shoulders. Yet it was impossible for him to personally take part in commanding the corps and spend his days consumed by it.
Even though he had been the one to establish the corps.
Keeping Kakashi, or finding a replacement for him, was essential.
However, keeping Kakashi was naturally impossible. As for a replacement, the only person capable of reaching Kakashi's level was Hirohiko.
Like Kakashi, Hirohiko had led the Engineering Corps. In terms of rapport and popularity, Hirohiko did not lose to Kakashi. Moreover, Kakashi oversaw the big picture and directed the overall course, rarely spending much time among the students themselves. Hirohiko was the opposite. He had led the students step by step, completing one construction target after another—their daily tasks—and had truly immersed himself among them as their instructor. Therefore, although