The scene returned to Navy Headquarters, to the Anti-Grass Special Task Force meeting.
And today's meeting...
Was the first one they had held since secretly establishing this Anti-Grass Special Task Force at Navy Headquarters.
However...
Unlike Fleet Admiral Sengoku, the task force's chief director, who wore a grave expression, the four people across from him...
Were filled with complicated emotions at this very moment.
After all, the scene before them...
Looked familiar no matter how they saw it!
The only difference was probably... their identities were no longer the same as they had been in the shinobi world~
At present, they were spies sent here by the Land of Grass!
Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed inwardly, removed the pipe from his mouth, and subtly signaled Danzo beside him. What do we do now? Did the Land of Grass say anything?
The Land of Grass told us to handle it ourselves. And that Grass bastard said we were not to contact him again in the future. He was worried Navy Headquarters would misunderstand!
??? x3
After receiving Danzo's signal, Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other two were immediately stunned.
Though what Danzo said sounded somewhat strange, still... the Land of Grass truly had a big heart!
No contact in the future?
Were they not afraid that the four of them would genuinely defect to the World Government?
That was right.
There was indeed still Kabuto, an undercover agent, and Mujie, the infamous Grass ninja utterly devoid of shinobi virtue, but relying on just those two to stop them—was that not looking down on the four of them too much?
No matter what, they had once been the leaders of Konoha, the greatest ninja village in the shinobi world!
But...
It had to be said.
The three of them were indeed feeling rather complicated at