Father and Daughter

The Land of Wind was also part of the Four Nations Alliance, but its relationship with Peach Country was far from close—one could even call it rather distant. Although the Wind Daimyo wanted to improve relations with Peach Country, his purse simply was not deep enough. Shiraishi Yoshijo could not even be bothered with the poor man, and whenever they met, he treated the Wind Daimyo with marked indifference.

As for requests for a marriage alliance—what a joke. Even if his daughters could not find husbands, he would never send them off to the Land of Wind to eat sand.

Sunagakure, on the other hand, had a very close relationship with Konoha, and the two sides had even jointly held two Chunin Exams.

Meanwhile, the alliance between the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning grew increasingly solid.

The pressure brought by the Four Nations Alliance was simply too great. If they did not unite, they would sooner or later be devoured without even scraps of bone left behind.

Kumogakure now had nearly thirty thousand ninja, and Iwagakure was in much the same situation. Under pressure from outside forces, the conflicts between the Kage and the Daimyo were temporarily suppressed. The Daimyo of Lightning and Earth had no choice but to grit their teeth and pour investments into their ninja villages, expanding their military strength to cope with the worsening international political situation.

Over the past three years, Peach Country had made another breakthrough in technology. They launched a satellite of their own. Though it remained in space for only four short hours, it was undoubtedly another advance in technology.

Shiraishi Yoshijo attached great importance to the matter and went to the research institute almost every month.

Once they had satellites, no movement anywhere in the Shinobi World would