The Extravagant Iwagakure
"But for more than a year now, you have all done very well. You haven't started any wars. That is good."
Only then did a faint smile appear on Ōnoki's face. "Listen to you, Lord. How would we dare disobey your orders?"
Lord Torifu looked at him with satisfaction. "The main reason you wanted war was to obtain resources for development. I can understand that."
"But war is not the only way to develop. The people of the shinobi world do not like war. Aside from bringing benefits to big figures like you, all it brings the people of the shinobi world is tremendous suffering."
When Ōnoki heard that and thought it over carefully, it was indeed true. He had always looked at problems from the perspective of the Tsuchikage, yet had forgotten to view matters from the perspective of ordinary people.
That was why he had started wars without restraint. A single word from him had torn countless families apart, leaving wives separated from husbands, children without parents, and homes destroyed.
And over the past year or so, he had truly experienced that feeling himself.
The deterrence Lord Torifu brought to Iwagakure was like a sharp sword hanging over his head, keeping Ōnoki constantly on edge.
He had been hoping all along for Lord Torifu to arrive, yet he also feared his arrival.
And as he watched Sunagakure develop at a rapid pace, the entire village changing with each passing day, Ōnoki could not help sighing in admiration again and again.
"Lord Torifu, I have come to understand it deeply. War only brings suffering to the shinobi world, and development does not have only one path in war. In the end, I was simply too greedy."
When he was young, Ōnoki had been a very ambitious