"It wasn't me who wanted to start a civil war. Your demands are simply too excessive!" Nawaki looked arrogantly at the gathered senior officials across from him. "Don't forget, I am the Land of Fire's Grand General. Even the Hokage has no right to dispose of me as he pleases!
Without evidence, what right do you have to investigate me? So what if you have numbers on your side?"
"Boom!" After speaking, Nawaki unleashed his full aura, stirring up a violent blast of air.
"Crack, crack, crack..." The existing cracks in the laboratory walls spread further under the pressure of his aura. This secret laboratory was far sturdier than an ordinary building, yet it still could not withstand it, showing just how overwhelming that aura was.
Among Konoha's senior officials present, most of the younger generation had fought in the previous Shinobi World War under Nawaki's command, so they were not surprised by his display. The older generation, who had remained in Konoha for years, had only learned of Nawaki's strength through written reports and had never formed an intuitive understanding of it. Now that they saw the aura he had revealed, they finally realized just how terrifying his power was.
"What terrifying chakra reserves... They can rival the First Hokage's, perhaps even surpass them!" Koharu nervously clasped both hands over her chest without realizing it. She had not made such a gesture in decades. A woman in her fifties making a maiden-like pose looked truly embarrassing and unsightly, but no one noticed her.
Has he already reached this level? A miscalculation. We absolutely cannot provoke Nawaki into a direct conflict! Homura thought silently, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
Damn it! His aura alone suppresses thirty percent of my strength? Wood Release... I must obtain that power! Veins bulged