The once-serious Five Kage Summit had turned into a sales pitch, with Uchiha Mu once again talking at length. This phone had only recently been replicated, but it had little practical use and cost a fortune to produce.
Then the discussion veered off course. Sure enough, something novel enough, or profitable enough, could easily divert people's attention.
"We've gotten off topic," Tobirama Senju interjected at an appropriate moment.
"Ahem, right. Mu, what are your thoughts on Sunagakure?" Hashirama furrowed his brow, wanting to confirm Uchiha Mu's intentions.
"Sigh..."
Uchiha Mu let out a long sigh. He felt there was no need to hide anything anymore; it would all come back to him in the end anyway. "Sunagakure is a village in the Land of Wind, and Sha Yi is its Kage. I am the Monarch of the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation. If a village's Kage seeks help from a king, the king has no reason to refuse."
"Sha Yi, what do you think?" The Kage turned to White Zetsu.
White Zetsu wasn't worried about this. To be honest, he was even a little tempted to expose himself just to see their expressions. That would surely be fun. But after considering the consequences, he decided against it and began explaining.
"As I just said, rather than swallow a slow-acting poison, I need to stabilize the village quickly. There will be risks, but the village will suffer no further casualties, and there will be no danger of confrontation or civil strife."
Sha Yi's words were airtight. Compared to a more chaotic future, they certainly needed a stable environment. But this, too, was a slow-acting poison. In the end, would Sunagakure really still be Sunagakure? The other villages' Kage remained skeptical.
There was nothing more they could say. They intended to check with Sunagakure's