Haruno Mebuki's speech was completely different in style from the previous three. He did not get hung up on lofty topics like revival, peace, or rising from the ashes.
Because to ordinary villagers, topics like those were far too distant. They might sound stirring and impassioned when spoken aloud, but they did not feel very real.
After all, most people had no time to concern themselves with problems that big.
If not for Haruno Mebuki, Hyuga Hiashi, who focused on peace and stability, might have won this round of the villagers' vote. Because compared with whether the village could revive or return to the peak of the Shinobi World, they cared more about whether their own small lives could continue steadily and peacefully.
But under Araki's guidance, Haruno Mebuki's focus was even more grounded than Hyuga Hiashi's!
Vague peace, in the eyes of most villagers, was better than some talk of rising again, but it still did not feel concrete enough. If this had been in a country like the Land of Rain, which had been invaded year after year, perhaps the effect would have been much better.
But Konoha?
Sorry, although they had also experienced plenty of wars, those wars had rarely reached the area around Konoha. Most of the villagers here could not truly understand the pain brought by war firsthand.
After all, this time there had been no Nine-Tails Incident, nor had anyone come to Konoha to carry sacks of rice.
By comparison, as members living in a ninja village, they had seen with their own eyes the many benefits and privileges of becoming ninja, and the strength ninja displayed was something they sincerely envied and yearned for.
And because most families had never produced a ninja, they did not understand the dangers ninja faced. All they