Even incomplete tailed beasts had already allowed the Five Great Shinobi Villages to grow so powerful. Had the Five Great Nations not kept restricting the villages' development through resource constraints, the ninja probably would have destroyed the shinobi world when jinchūriki were fully deployed in the Second Shinobi World War.
At that thought, representatives of quite a few factions stared with bloodshot eyes at the tailed beasts that had looked so terrifying moments earlier. In the blink of an eye, those dreadful monsters had become magnificent treasures!
The Nine-Tails in particular found countless gazes converging on him. Those feelings, which were neither hostility nor killing intent, irritated him immensely. He bared his teeth at the crowd. "Keep staring and I'll slaughter every last one of you!"
The utterly serious threat in the Nine-Tails' voice swept across their hearts like an icy wind, instantly clearing much of the greed from their eyes.
"Ahem, well, how exactly will the Union make requests of the tailed beasts... no, of the Inspectors... how does that work?"
Daimyo Tsuruyama of the Land of Earth hurriedly asked.
That was only natural. Compared with shinobi villages, these great nations preferred biological weapons as devastating as the tailed beasts.
To put it bluntly, why did they support all these ninja and shinobi villages in the first place? Wasn't it simply to use ninja as biological weapons? If the tailed beasts could take orders directly from them without ninja acting as intermediaries, what a wonderful arrangement that would be!
As for Konoha setting up this Union and its supervisory bodies, the great nations did not care. They could even call it an advantage—
Even if they couldn't win a fight, surely they could win an argument?
Even if the Union's initial structure and equal voting rights diminished the authority