Starting a Verbal War at the Drop of a Hat!

It had to be said, this was a tremendous irony. Given the Daimyos' lifestyle and work habits, did anyone really think they would spend the same immense effort as a village Kage managing a shinobi village?

Besides, what they needed to manage was not a single village, but an entire country—or more precisely, the nation's taxes. Of course, others handled all that for them. All they had to do was wait for the money to come in, then distribute it.

Furthermore, even if a Daimyo truly had that ability, which shinobi village would let a Daimyo decide everything? Being allowed to participate, make suggestions, and exercise certain veto rights was already quite good.

Even the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, who gave Sunagakure such headaches, could not interfere too much with the village.

The only Daimyos who were somewhat presentable were those of the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning. As for the Land of Fire, that had never been possible—not since Konoha was founded. Neither Hashirama Senju nor Senju Tobirama would have tolerated others telling them what to do.

Although the Third Hokage had made quite a few concessions, most of the time, the Daimyo was still little more than someone who paid the bills.

Dream on if you wanted to control a shinobi village. At the very least, without equal strength, don't even think about it. But how many Daimyos possessed formidable personal strength? Apparently, not a single one...

Unless it was like the Land of Rain in the original story, with everything firmly under one person's control. But that was not the Daimyo's control. It was Nagato alone who had completely taken over the entire Land of Rain. What Daimyo? He could go play somewhere else.

"Looks like there might be a good show,"