Even If You're Broke, Dare to Slack Off

A picked up a bottle of liquor, opened it, and downed more than half in one go.

Perhaps it was the alcohol, but after brooding in silence for a while, A finally spoke.

"That old bastard, the Tsuchikage, actually dared to threaten me! If Iwagakure and Kumogakure fight to the death, Iwagakure will probably end up worse off."

"When they've been driven into a corner, fighting to the death is their only option. The Tsuchikage's real aim is simply to use the pressure from the Five Kage Summit to force Kumogakure to end the war. Since you, the Raikage, refuse to end it, he naturally has to prepare for the worst. Iwagakure can't hold out much longer."

"With thousands, even tens of thousands of shinobi on the battlefield, the daily consumption of supplies is no small sum."

Since A wanted to talk, Yan decided to chat with him for a bit.

In any case, this had nothing to do with him or Konoha.

He could just quietly be a handsome man and enjoy the show.

Iwagakure could not buy much in the way of supplies from Konoha, so it certainly could not hold out for long. That was precisely why A was even more unwilling to accept this outcome.

If both sides had been evenly matched, or if they had fought until there was nothing left, then choosing to slack off and prepare to fight to the death would have been understandable.

But damn it, Iwagakure had already reached the end of the road, while Kumogakure was still at its peak.

Yet Kumogakure was being forced to end the war. Anyone would get a headache if that happened to them.

"Hokage, does Konoha have any way to monitor Ōnoki?"

He had come to vent the anger bottled up inside him