Meanwhile, in Meeting Chamber No. 3.
"This..."
Looking at the scroll in his hand, its ink still fresh, Mitokado Homura frowned again and involuntarily let out that sound.
Across from him, Utatane Koharu, who had already read the scroll, had her previously relaxed expression—brought on by Chiba coming up with a solution—tighten once more, her face grave.
She had still imagined Chiba's plan too optimistically.
This plan was absolutely a desperate gamble.
Even the slightest mistake could lead to irreparable consequences. The risks of this plan far exceeded her expectations.
"So, I think this plan still needs refining," Chiba said. "The risks of this plan are basically proportional to the difficulty of resolving this matter. One careless move, and we might end up helping Iwa instead. Konoha could descend into chaos first, and then things might become even more impossible to control."
Although Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura had spoken with absolute certainty earlier, Chiba himself still lacked confidence in this plan.
There was no other reason. The risks were simply too great.
Moreover, the consequences of failure might be too much for Konoha to bear. And because there had been so little time to think, the plan still had quite a few loopholes. It would be easy for someone to exploit them and cause the plan to fail.
Although he had judged it to be seventy percent feasible, that was only because this was currently the sole solution, and there was no time to consider any other options. That was why it had a seventy percent feasibility rating. If there were other methods, this plan's feasibility would basically be below thirty percent.
This was merely the best of bad options.
And now, seeing Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura's expressions, Chiba increasingly felt that this plan was not suitable to