Peace Talks End, Yin Seal Put on the Agenda

Minato Namikaze spoke calmly.

His gaze met A's directly, without the slightest fear.

"Regardless of what just happened, the purpose this time is peace talks."

"Before the peace talks yield a result, I won't let you leave so easily."

A raised his head, his chest heaving violently a few times as his face darkened to a terrifying degree.

But in the end, he did not lash out.

"Kumogakure... will withdraw its troops."

After dropping those words, A turned and walked out without looking back.

Samui immediately let out a breath of relief.

She nodded to Minato Namikaze, then quickly followed after him.

This time, Minato Namikaze did not stop them.

Although no formal agreement had been exchanged, the other side had publicly promised to withdraw its troops. That was an acceptable outcome.

Outside the courtyard walls of the council hall, people had long since gathered in a tense standoff.

They were the guard units brought by all three sides.

When they heard the explosion from within, they had immediately rushed over.

They faced each other nervously outside.

When Kumogakure's side saw A emerge first with a grim face, they immediately gathered around him.

A's expression shifted slightly. He drew his right hand back into his tattered sleeve to hide it, then shouted coldly:

"Leave!"

The Kumogakure ninja exchanged looks.

Though they did not know exactly what had happened inside, judging from their leader's terrible expression and his early departure, it was certainly nothing good.

But since their highest-ranking leader had ordered a retreat, they naturally would not linger.

They merely shot vicious glares at the Konoha people around them.

In this shinobi world war, Iwagakure and Kumogakure had not fought on any particularly large scale.

Naturally, Kumogakure's people blamed A's misfortune on Konoha.

Obito and Ebisu, of course, were not