The rumors in the village simply could not be stopped. Even when the ninja tried to suppress them with force, groups of villagers swarmed them in response.
If they taught all those villagers a lesson, the village would descend into complete chaos. Faced with this thorny situation, they could only report it to the Third Hokage.
After receiving the news, the Third Hokage felt a pounding headache. He had thought that sending Danzo as support would let the attack be brushed aside, but who would have expected the news to reach the villagers' ears and trigger such widespread unrest? Facing the villagers gathered below in protest, the Third Hokage had no good solution.
Villagers were not the same as ninja. More accurately, the two depended on each other. Konoha could restrict ninja from leaving, but it could not restrict villagers from doing so. If this matter made the villagers resent Konoha and they all left for other villages during the war, it would have a severe impact on Konoha's economy.
Without these villagers, the village's missions would be cut in half immediately.
Just as the Third Hokage was considering a solution, a whole row of noisy footsteps came from outside, making him stop working and look up at the sliding door.
Those who could come to the Hokage's Office were certainly not villagers. Sure enough, the people who knocked and entered the next second were the heads of Konoha's major clans. There was no need to guess why they had come. The clan heads surrounded the Third Hokage and began airing their grievances.
"Hokage-sama, is this true? We all know the village has been targeting the Uchiha family in secret, but this concerns the course of the war. We hope you can restrain yourself now!"
"Yes. If the Uchiha family