Don't Cue Me, This Hokage Is Here Just to Make Up the Numbers

What Kumogakure couldn't do didn't mean other villages couldn't, especially Konoha.

Yan could accept benefits. Since he had told him such a vicious trick, he definitely had a way to counter it.

Once Kumogakure showed enough sincerity to move him and asked for his help, Ōnoki would be the one in trouble.

That was why Ōnoki remained clear-headed. He knew he couldn't push his luck. All he needed was to force the Raikage to agree to end the war.

He absolutely couldn't drag things out by demanding benefits.

Otherwise, he might end up playing with fire and getting burned.

It was another fruitless day. After Ōnoki completely gave up trying, A no longer dared to keep pressuring him.

And so, today's meeting ended in a muddle.

It seemed like little progress had been made, but in reality, they were nearly there. Since A had taken one step back, it meant he would keep making concessions.

He wanted to win the war, not be dragged down to die alongside Iwagakure.

Ōnoki's move of simply giving up had struck A right in his weak spot, leaving him caught between advancing and retreating.

Kumogakure wasn't afraid of enemies stubbornly butting heads with them, but they couldn't afford to gain nothing while only getting themselves covered in trouble.

They wouldn't do something that left them battered all over.

Don't think brutes had no brains.

That they only knew how to charge ahead blindly.

What exactly was going on? How had Ōnoki come up with such a vicious trick?

At the Raikage's residence, every piece of furniture in the room had been smashed to pieces by the enraged A.

The Land of Iron simply pretended not to know. If people from the Land of Lightning notified them, they would replace the furniture. If not, they