On the way to the battlefield, all the members flew with the core group at their center. A strategy meeting was underway there.
"We can now confirm that our enemies are single-digit in number, and they probably aren't any larger than ordinary humans." As expected, Minato Namikaze tried to steer the discussion from the very start.
It wasn't that no one saw what he was doing. Minato Namikaze made little effort to hide it.
But someone had to take that role for the strategy meeting to move forward.
The others weren't about to quibble over something so minor.
"That means this fight isn't quite the same as teaming up to fight a boss," Shokuhou Misaki said next. "At the very least, we can't just fire off skills. In that last fight, I could barely find a chance to act. The enemy was fast, and there were so many of us."
That was a real problem.
In their last attempt at cooperation, they had essentially traded lives to buy Toni time to charge her attack. Most of them hadn't even acted. Some couldn't find an opening or keep up with the enemy's speed. Others had simply held back, preferring to contribute nothing rather than die and be eliminated.
"So I suggest we choose a small elite group for the heart of the battle," Minato Namikaze said. "Everyone else can provide support and work together to restrict the enemy's movements." He added, "Those of us from the Ninja World have plenty of experience with this kind of fight. In several previous Ninja World Wars, we used our numerical advantage to defeat powerful opponents."
"That's right." A folded his arms and snorted. "Like the Second Hokage, who was killed by Kinkaku and Ginkaku."
He didn't like Minato Namikaze.
This Hokage, with his ever-gentle