Danzo didn't believe for a second that Minato and Hiruzen alone had sealed the Nine-Tails.
"Hmph. Root was slow to mobilize, but you're certainly quick to get the news. Of course the two of us sealed the Nine-Tails. If you don't believe me, ask the Anbu who were there."
Danzo gritted his teeth in fury. Ask the Anbu? They were all your people! Why would I ask them?
Seeing that the two peacemakers beside them were about to start arguing again, they continued trying to calm them down.
They had grown up together, after all, and their words carried some weight. As soon as they spoke, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō fell silent.
"What's done is done. Arguing won't help. We should think about how to rebuild Konoha. We're running short on funds," Mitokado Homura said with a sigh.
The economy was already poor after the war, and the funding allocated to Konoha had been reduced.
It was still enough to cover the village's daily operations, but now this had happened.
Konoha's finances were suddenly stretched very thin.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze also felt a headache coming on. Funding had always been a difficult problem for the major shinobi villages.
The shinobi villages were at the mercy of their countries, which supplied most of their funds. If a country cut off its funding, the village's development would suffer a serious setback.
Sunagakure was an example of this.
But Shimura Danzō didn't care about any of that. The more disorder in the village, the better it was for him.
He'd been looking forward to this day for a long time. With the Hokage facing criticism, he could propose an impeachment. And with no successor in place, he could put his own plan into motion.
So Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze's