The Shinobi World, Hidden Stone Village.
"Old man, what's this? A coffin you prepared for yourself?" Kurotsuchi looked bewildered as Ōnoki kept stroking a high-tech device in the Tsuchikage Building's office. It glowed with sacred light, but looked just like a coffin.
"What do you know, you little brat? This is something the Holy Church gave our major Shinobi Villages to improve our combat experience." Ōnoki rolled his eyes at his increasingly rebellious granddaughter.
"What? There's something like that? How does it improve combat experience?" Kurotsuchi hurried closer to inspect it.
"Hehe, I hear it's called a Tower Defense Game Pod. It immerses you in a game where you defend a tower as a powerful Ninja!" Ōnoki gazed fondly at the Game Pod beneath his hand. Ever since peace had come to the Shinobi World, Ninja like them had rarely had a chance to fight all out for real.
That was good in its own way. They no longer had to risk their lives to secure a future for their villages, but Ninja who had lived through the years of war inevitably felt a little at loose ends.
He had never expected the Holy Church to think of even that. When it summoned the Five Great Kage Villages for a meeting, it bestowed over a thousand of these machines on each village, letting them play whenever they had time and earn Holy Church contribution points in the process. Those points were scarce in every Kage Village; whether they could obtain better opportunities for development from the Holy Church depended on how many they had.
Whenever he thought about that, he felt incredibly envious of Konoha. It was always receiving secret missions from the Holy Church, leaving the other Shinobi Villages far behind.
After bringing back these thousand-plus machines, he summoned