This move could do more than test Kumogakure.
It could also reverse Yugito's feelings and max them out instantly.
Finally...
It could boost Naruko's favorability and deepen Sasuke's cuckolded-husband plan.
Motoi would certainly explain what had happened to Naruko.
After learning about the "sacrifice" she had made, Naruko would definitely train even harder.
Before confirming whether he was truly dead, Kumogakure would not dare act rashly, no matter what schemes they had in mind.
"Heh heh... Sho-kun, so everything really was within your calculations..."
Orochimaru stared at the completely unharmed Hyuga Sho and smiled.
Orochimaru's acting was also superb.
That was obvious from how he had pretended to be a "good person" in Konoha for decades.
He had given up on becoming a windmill and instead chosen to observe the greatest windmill of all, Hyuga Sho, watching how he stirred the wind and drove the Shinobi World forward.
Several days later.
The Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Han, arrived at Turtle Island off the coast of Kumogakure under the protection of Hatake Sakumo, Kakashi, and Yamato.
News that the White Devil had been gravely wounded and was on the verge of death spread throughout the entire Shinobi World.
For a time.
The winds were changing, and the clouds were gathering.
The alliances the various countries had just formed were already on the verge of collapse.
However...
They still could not confirm the White Devil's death, so... no one had torn off their masks yet.
Still.
Some secret scheming was inevitable.
Kumogakure.
The Third Raikage and his son, A, sat together, speaking with Motoi through a monitor.
The place where one trained to become a Perfect Jinchuriki was called "Turtle Island."
Although it was an island,
it was actually an ecosystem supported by a living creature.
The island's body was a gigantic