Shadow Guard · Assemble!

While the Raikage Building discussed the details of the peace talks, the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers quietly arrived at the Chakra Cannon research base.

Every researcher stationed here was a member of Kinkaku and Ginkaku's Hagoromo clan.

Though they carried the bloodline of the Sage of Six Paths and had not awakened any special bloodline techniques, they had forged their own technological branch in the field of sage ninja tools. Through their unique methods of decipherment, the Chakra Cannon had come into development.

They had already received word that the Raikage had invited Tobirama Senju to Kumogakure to sign a peace treaty.

Kinkaku raised a hand and stroked the barrel, forged entirely from chakra metal, his eyes revealing unconcealed reluctance.

They were clearly only one final step away.

Once this cannon was completed, its estimated power would be enough to shatter meteors falling from the heavens. If its muzzle were aimed at the Land of Fire, striking Konoha itself with a single blast was not impossible. Such an ultimate ninja tool, with destructive power beyond all convention, could completely reverse the war's decline and turn the entire situation around.

Even if Konoha sought peace then, the initiative would remain firmly in Kumogakure's hands.

Yet that shortsighted Raikage simply could not see any of it.

He had destroyed Kumogakure's dream of rising to greatness.

"Big Brother—"

At that moment, Ginkaku walked over. He even held a white robe in the Raikage's exclusive style, which he draped over Kinkaku's shoulders from behind.

Kinkaku asked in surprise, "Second Brother, what are you doing?"

"Big Brother, are we really going to remain dependent on the Raikage's line forever?" Ginkaku's expression was cold and severe. "The position of Second Raikage should have been yours in the first place. It was only because the First was