Take the Initiative!

### Anyone who was not an idiot could tell that Hiko was mocking the Daimyos, but every one of them remained silent. Hiko dared to say such things; they did not. Pretending they had not heard him was the best choice.

Put nicely, this was casually criticizing the Daimyos. Put bluntly, it was high treason.

But if anyone dared to jump in front of Hiko and say that to his face, Hiko would slap him to death.

"Just wait and see. We still don't know what the final outcome will be." As he spoke, Hiko could not help thinking of that old immortal Black Zetsu. He wondered when Black Zetsu would begin acting. If it happened soon, then the Third Ninja War would end early.

For Black Zetsu and Nagato, creating the Six Paths of Pain would not be too difficult. With Black Zetsu's help, everything would be easy.

What Hiko cared about was when they would begin to act.

The biggest problem now was that the war was not under Hiko's control. Simply put, even if he wanted to stop it, he could not—unless he went alone and took on the others. But doing that would definitely provoke the enemy villages' fury. What would happen afterward was still unknown, and directly fighting Konoha to the death would not be worth it.

But if the war caused too many casualties, dealing with the enemy later would become troublesome.

Hiko frowned in thought. Hatake Sakumo and his two Elite Jonin attendants could only remain silent, unwilling to disturb him. They all thought Hiko was considering how to fight Iwagakure. They had no idea that Hiko's thoughts had already wandered far, far away.

Forget it. No matter what, the people of the Five Great Shinobi Villages would ultimately be nothing more than