Several days later, news of Juzo Biwa's defection spread. However, it did not cause much of a stir in the Shinobi World, as every nation's attention had been drawn to Skywalker's coronation ceremony. Compared to that, the infighting among Kirigakure's remaining forces was hardly worth mentioning.
Ever since the third successful petition at the Office of the Grand General that day, the Land of Fire's upper ranks had thrown themselves into preparing the coronation ceremony. The entire Land of Fire could hardly wait for Skywalker to ascend to the position of daimyo.
Fortunately, the Land of Fire had already completed preparations for the daimyo's succession ceremony, and the arrangements for the two events were largely similar. Building upon that, the new coronation ceremony was ready after only a few days.
In addition, the upper ranks of the various nations who had originally remained in the Land of Fire's capital were invited once more to attend Nawaki's coronation ceremony! Only then did they suddenly realize that they seemed to have been played by Skywalker!
The upper ranks of every nation in the Shinobi World had opposed Skywalker becoming daimyo. They simply did not dare to openly stop him out of fear of the Land of Fire's strength, but neither did they wish to support him.
If the delegations from every nation attended the coronation ceremony, it would mean that they all recognized the legitimacy and orthodoxy of Nawaki becoming daimyo. In the future, shinobi serving as daimyo would become an established precedent!
Under normal circumstances, therefore, the nations would not have sent delegations to this coronation ceremony. They could have handled the matter with an ambiguous stance of neither opposition nor support, and the Land of Fire would have had no reason to start a war over it.
But now, every