"Konoha's internal affairs are complicated. We might not necessarily be able to bring in reinforcements. The help we need won't come from Konoha."
Uchiha Mai explained.
Returning to Konoha or heading to the war zone for reinforcements meant facing two problems.
The first was that Sarutobi Hiruzen was currently in a superposition of Ninja Hero and Ninja Bear. Uchiha Mai could not be completely certain that Sarutobi Hiruzen would agree to make a move against Hanzo.
It was impossible to bring experts from Konoha without alerting Sarutobi Hiruzen.
At that moment, Uchiha Mai was like a Kuomintang officer during the War of Liberation.
To keep the principal in the rear from issuing blind orders, he had cut the phone lines and refused telegrams. Even after losing a battle, he would not contact Chiang the Bald and instead break out on his own.
Only after successfully breaking out would he call and send telegrams to Chiang the Bald, afraid that the bald man might suddenly get the urge to micromanage.
If they reported this matter and Sarutobi Hiruzen decided that less trouble was better, saying they could deal with Hanzo a few years later, would Uchiha Mai fight or not?
This concerned two years of development. Killing Hanzo would allow Uchiha Mai to gain strength comparable to a village Kage two years earlier.
The second reason was that Uchiha Mai was greedy.
There were no experts in Konoha who could clearly counter Hanzo. Even if he brought Hatake Sakumo and a few others to kill Hanzo together, it would still be "Hatake Sakumo led a group of Jonin to slay the demigod."
How could he make big news by acting alongside such a great expert?
To earn a massive amount of Style Points, it had to be "Uchiha Mai planned and