After Uchiha Yato killed Shimura Danzō, he discovered that the choices he made afterward were easily anticipated and countered by the other side.
Otherwise, given Uchiha Yato's current strength, how could so many enemy spies possibly steal the information he had stored away?
Anyone involved in espionage understood that they had to make the greatest possible gains by exploiting the advantages of their identity.
After all, many espionage operations could not be completed in just one or two years. A shinobi village generally had to invest tremendous effort into them.
Uchiha Yato sensed that his current circumstances seemed to be affected by some unknown factor.
Since that was the case, why not make use of this unknown influence?
Now that he had a legitimate reason, it was the perfect time to put a plan into action.
That was why Uchiha Yato was now coordinating the bigger picture, laying out a massive chessboard that encompassed every shinobi village.
Setting Kannabi Bridge as the location for this decisive battle was also Uchiha Yato's way of testing this unknown situation.
As the meeting continued, Uchiha Yato summarized several more key points.
Because Uchiha Yato was being exceptionally meticulous this time, the two advisors who had yet to retire, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, were still being put through the wringer by him at their age.
Yet they truly did not want to give up the resources and status they currently possessed.
Uchiha Yato understood their thoughts, so he simply used them as if they were twenty-year-olds.
If people from Uchiha Yato's former society saw the methods he used to discipline these two elderly comrades,
then Uchiha Yato would definitely be the sort to end up hanging from a streetlamp.
Meanwhile, the Shinobi Village Alliance had obtained the intelligence it wanted and began