Once the allied forces of the Four Great Ninja Villages had formulated their plan and assembled, they swiftly declared war on the Land of Grass.
Another great ninja war was about to begin!
However.
Amid this tense atmosphere, on the side of the Four Great Ninja Villages' allied forces—
"A bunch of fools!"
A roar suddenly rang out from within a certain camp!
The one who had let out that roar was Shimura Danzō—the Hokage's right-hand man, a former Hokage's Assistant of Konoha, the organizer of two wars against the Land of Grass, and the Number One Anti-Grass Person!
Yet.
The instigator of this war was exceptionally furious at this moment.
Though he had only one eye, the blazing rage in it and the gloomy aura radiating from his entire body were impossible to miss.
As soon as his words fell.
"What a pity. To think you were excluded just like that!" Orochimaru said from the side, his arms crossed and a smiling expression on his face that somehow seemed faintly strange. "Who would have thought the Three Kage would put forward such a suggestion?"
They had absolutely refused to grant Shimura Danzō any command authority, or even any position as an adviser!
Their attitude had been exceedingly firm, and the reason they gave had left everyone speechless... We suspect Konoha's Darkness of Ninjutsu has been cursed!
Even the old man had been put in a difficult position!
In the end, faced with that unwavering stance, Danzo—the man who had organized the declaration of war—was directly excluded!
But thinking about it...
Konoha's former second-in-command really had been rather unlucky!
Leaving aside how he had been captured repeatedly, nearly causing Root to disband because it could not pay wages... the Fourth Hokage, the Uchiha Clan, Sunagakure, and the factories established afterward—when