Chapter 326: This Is the Reason
"That reminds me, I heard from the Fourth, at the last summit, you seemed to say, Ōnoki, that after the Tailed Beasts are stolen from the Five Great Shinobi Villages, being unable to set an example for other nations is a supreme humiliation, and that recovering them in secret is the usual common sense."
"So what about now? Where are the Rock Shinobi's Four-Tails and Five-Tails?"
Kazan's string of words left Ōnoki completely speechless.
"What on earth is that Hokage's deal?" Kurotsuchi gritted her teeth in the shadows.
"He's speaking the truth; the Tailed Beasts of our village were indeed stolen, right before our eyes! And besides, we really did ask Konoha for reinforcements." Kitsuchi sighed.
He had known upon coming that, given his father's temper, the Rock Shinobi would undoubtedly put up a fight for the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
Even if they weren't scheming against others, at the very least they couldn't allow themselves to be schemed against-that was what Ōnoki was thinking.
Yet the problem was, what did the Rock Shinobi have to compete with Konoha?
Kazan's words didn't sound pleasant, and every single sentence struck deep at the heart, but every word was the truth.
"Does everyone have nothing to say? Then listen to me."
"Konoha already proposed forming an Allied Shinobi Forces during the last Five Kage Summit, and I don't want to drag on about what happened in between."
"The purpose this time is the same: gather the strength of the Five Great Shinobi Villages and even other villages to face the largest-scale war in history."
"I've finished speaking. Who is for it, and who is against it?"
The conference room fell silent.
It came back to the same point: the Allied Shinobi Forces