I won't give up!!
Hyuga Hiashi's hand clenched tightly within his sleeve.
Hokage Office.
After the meeting ended, the Third Hokage, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura came here.
The three sat in the office, facing one another in silence.
Because they could all see the helplessness in each other's eyes.
"Looks like conventional methods won't be enough to take back the Pharmaceutical Department."
After a long while, the Third Hokage was the first to speak.
"Yeah. He's young, but he's even harder to deal with than Tsunade."
Mitokado Homura raised a hand and rubbed his brow. He had thought Tsunade was troublesome enough, but Jingyi was even harder to handle.
In order to reclaim the Pharmaceutical Department, the Third Hokage had repeatedly used the casualties on the front lines to pressure Tsunade.
Because he knew Tsunade would head to the front lines for the sake of the village.
The plan had gone smoothly. Without much effort, he had Tsunade hand the Anbu over to Jingyi before going to the front lines herself.
The next step had been to find an excuse to make trouble, then take back the Pharmaceutical Department while they had the chance.
But the Third Hokage had never expected that the moment his arranged man opened his mouth, Jingyi would flip the table and expose the Logistics Department's obstruction of medicinal ingredient supplies.
He berated the Shimura Patriarch so fiercely that the man was left utterly humiliated.
"Troublesome or not, we have to deal with it. Without the Pharmaceutical Department, the village's Medical System is like a person missing a leg. No, it's even worse than that!!"
Utatane Koharu's expression was extremely unpleasant.
People were greedy by nature. Having finally regained control of every department in the Medical System, she naturally had no desire to see the