Chiyo's words echoed across the northern battlefield, where the smoke had yet to clear, like a final judgment—carrying unquestionable authority and cold resolve.
The air seemed to freeze beneath that ultimatum. The surviving Konoha Ninja looked at the black-haired, black-clad figure, reverence and fear intertwining in their eyes until they were almost tangible.
He stood there without even deliberately releasing his aura, yet he had already become the absolute center of the entire battlefield.
Every Konoha shinobi swept by his gaze—
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Minato Namikaze...
—all felt a chill in their hearts.
They clearly realized that after this battle, the core of Konoha's power had undergone an irreversible shift.
The scales of power had completely tipped toward this young Uchiha Clan Head.
He was not the Hokage, yet at this moment, his will surpassed even the Hokage's orders.
"Three days..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi took a deep breath of air tinged with the smell of char and blood, then answered gravely.
"Fine. We'll do as you say.
Minato, immediately dispatch the fastest Intelligence Team to deliver the news...
—as well as the details of the battle—to the Four Great Shinobi Villages truthfully."
He deliberately emphasized the word "truthfully," meaning that Chiyo's godlike power and the desperate reality of two Kage being captured had to be conveyed without concealment.
Minato Namikaze nodded solemnly.
"Understood."
He gave Chiyo a deep look, then vanished in an instant, personally arranging the information that would shake the entire Shinobi World.
Shimura Danzō's single eye was hidden in shadow, his fingers trembling faintly.
Not out of fear, but from an extreme excitement and greed.
He looked at the Third Raikage and the Tsuchikage, tightly guarded by Uchiha elites and covered in sealing marks.
Then he looked at Chiyo, who seemed as though he had merely done