He muttered under his breath, "Hopefully, I'm just overthinking things. If I've really guessed right, what comes next is going to be troublesome."
As he thought, his entire body had already shot into the air, hurrying toward their base.
Once he returned, he would have to carefully consider what to do next.
The battle had reached this point, and there was no way he could slink back in disgrace.
The daimyō would never agree to it either.
So this battle definitely had to continue. The real headache was how to deal with Uchiha Yan, who might appear on the front lines.
Ōnoki thought it over and felt slightly relieved.
"Fortunately, Hiruzen Sarutobi is a guy who sent the entire Uchiha Clan to deal with Hidden Mist. The odds of Uchiha Yan coming over to our side are basically zero."
"Besides, the Uchiha Clan, including Uchiha Yan himself, surely knows that Hiruzen Sarutobi is deliberately making things difficult for them and ostracizing them."
"They probably already hate those people in Konoha's upper ranks to the point of gnashing their teeth. There's little chance they'll throw themselves into this battle."
"More importantly, Danzo is on our battlefield."
"I've long heard that he hates the Uchiha Clan to the bone and enjoys suppressing the geniuses in his own village."
"Uchiha Yan must have suffered at Danzo's hands when he was young, right?"
"Tsk, then there's even less chance he'll show up on our side!"
Thinking of this, Ōnoki almost wanted to laugh aloud three times and properly thank those two idiots, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō.
It was precisely because those two had desperately sabotaged Konoha from behind that the village had declined from the dominant leader among the Five Great Ninja Villages into its current state in just over twenty years.
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