Invite the Nara Strategist

The elderly might not have much energy, and their strength was far inferior to what it had been in their youth, but they had experience and insight in abundance.

Perhaps most of the younger generation in the village had never witnessed the First Hokage's glory or seen Uchiha Madara's power, but they had.

Even if they had not seen them fight personally, they still remembered what the Valley of the End had looked like afterward, and they could still see the dense forests surrounding Konoha.

The only things capable of utterly destroying an entire village were Wood Release and the Susanoo awakened by the Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan.

As for the Nine-Tails, it was still in the village under Anbu surveillance. It could not possibly have run to Amegakure while everyone slept, then returned in an instant.

Unless Namikaze Minato had sealed the Flying Thunder God together with the Nine-Tails, carried the Nine-Tails to someone else's home with Flying Thunder God while they slept, fired off a Tailed Beast Ball, then used Flying Thunder God to return to Konoha.

That way of fighting was far too underhanded, but it really did seem like a viable tactic. Thinking of it, he could not help but sigh.

"Hiruzen? Did you think of something?" Utatane Koharu asked curiously as she watched the Third Hokage sigh.

"I thought of Minato. If he were here now, perhaps we would not need to rack our brains guessing what happened in the Land of Rain," the Third Hokage said slowly.

"Do we still need to guess?" Danzo's voice rose as he heard the Third Hokage's words. Holding the photos, he pointed at them as he spoke.

"Wood Release brat, please..."

Given what was happening now, my opinion was undoubtedly extremely important.

"It should have been Susanoo..." the Third