The village's rumors simply could not be contained. Even when the shinobi tried to suppress them with force, the villagers only swarmed forward in response.
If they taught all these villagers a lesson, the village would descend into complete chaos. Faced with such a thorny situation, they could only report it to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Upon receiving the news, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt a headache coming on. He had thought that sending Danzo over as support would put the attack behind them, but who would have expected the news to reach the villagers' ears and trigger such widespread unrest? Faced with the villagers gathered below in protest, Hiruzen Sarutobi had no particularly good solution.
Villagers were not the same as shinobi. More accurately, the two depended on each other. Moreover, Konoha could restrict shinobi from leaving, but it could not restrict villagers from leaving. If this incident made the villagers resent Konoha and they all left for other villages during the war, it would have a major impact on Konoha's economy.
Without these villagers, the village's missions would be cut in half outright.
Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was considering a response, a whole row of noisy footsteps came from outside the door. He stopped working and looked up at the sliding door.
Those who could come to the Hokage's office certainly were not villagers. Sure enough, the ones who knocked and entered the next second were the clan heads of Konoha's major clans. There was no need to guess why they had come. The clan heads crowded around Hiruzen Sarutobi and began airing their grievances at him.
"Hokage-sama, is this true? We all know the village has been targeting the Uchiha Clan in secret, but this concerns the course of the war. We hope you can exercise restraint now!"
"Yes. If the