The Royal Capital of the Land of Fire.
By now, the Third Hokage's message had reached the hands of the various lords in the Royal Capital.
All the nobles of the Land of Fire were unanimous in their opinion of Amegakure's heinous massacre of the Mitarai clan!
This war had to be fought!
And it had to be fought loudly!
They had to show the might of the Land of Fire!
Otherwise, if other countries saw how easily the Land of Fire could be bullied and kept sending assassins every few days, these lords would never know peace again.
The six lords gathered in a grand conference hall.
If the other lords were all elderly, one of them stood out as the most striking presence: a beautiful young woman dressed in elegant aristocratic attire.
As the daughter of a lord, Shijimi Tamako had been engaged to the Mitarai clan.
Without a doubt, after the Mitarai clan was wiped out, she smoothly inherited their vast fortune with the help of Lord Shijimi, who was wracked with guilt.
She also inherited the right to vote on decisions made by the six lords of the Land of Fire.
That was why she was now able to sit here in the decision-making chamber, a place reserved for those with the highest authority in the Land of Fire.
At the start of the meeting, she stated her position.
"I support Konoha's decision. No matter what, the crime of assassinating a lord is enough to warrant Amegakure's punishment!"
Shijimi Tamako's face was cold as she spoke in a chilling voice. Then she fell silent.
The other lords looked at her and assumed she was so eager to advocate for war because her husband's entire family had been massacred.
Shijimi Nobuo, seated at the head of the