"My ancestors developed a Sealing Jutsu that sealed all Nine Tailed Beasts inside a piece of Cloud Stone."
"By absorbing the power of the Cloud Stone, you can obtain Tailed Beast Chakra without having to worry about the Tailed Beasts' resentment."
Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze were stunned by each successive sentence. You could do that?
"Wait! You mean all Nine Tailed Beasts are in Konoha?"
Hiruzen asked in astonishment. He simply couldn't believe it. If the Tailed Beasts hadn't been distributed, how had the other villages maintained peace?
Torifu nodded. "That's right. All nine Tailed Beasts are in Konoha. They've been there ever since they were captured."
"You didn't give them to the other villages as bargaining chips for peace? Why not?"
Hiruzen was perplexed. Even Second hadn't been able to reverse Lord Hashirama's decision, yet their version of Konoha had all nine Tailed Beasts!
In other words, Lord Hashirama hadn't given the Tailed Beasts away. Instead, he'd found another way to get all the villages to sign peace agreements.
Hiruzen was growing more and more curious about that Konoha. If his own Konoha had all nine Tailed Beasts, he couldn't imagine how powerful it would be!
"Without Tailed Beasts, how did the other villages willingly sign the agreements? How did you manage it?"
It wasn't a secret, so Torifu told Hiruzen, "Naturally, it was thanks to Lord Hashirama's strength. The God of Shinobi's might shook the entire Shinobi World. Who would dare refuse?"
Hiruzen's eyes dimmed. "But after Lord Hashirama died, everything would go back to how it was."
Torifu gave him a meaningful smile. "What if I told you Lord Hashirama was still alive?"
Hiruzen slammed his hand on the table. "Impossible! If Lord Hashirama were still alive, he'd be in his eighties or nineties by now!