The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki had been captured.
The Land of Shadow announced reforms, opening its borders wide to welcome people from all over the world.
Three days had passed since the announcement.
Over those three days...
People from neighboring small nations had steadily gathered in groups and made their way to this vast, fertile land.
Of course, because of the distance, the common people of the Four Great Nations were still watching and waiting.
But according to the news coming out, the Land of Shadow had delivered the houses and farmland it had publicly promised.
Even though the Daimyo's Residences of the Four Great Nations did everything they could to suppress it, the news inevitably reached their people.
A wave of migration immediately began right under the Four Great Nations' noses.
Even their Kage could not stop migration on such a massive scale.
The law could not punish everyone. Killing one or two people might serve as a deterrent.
But how could they simply order hundreds or thousands killed?
Doing so would inevitably make their own people hate the Kage and the Daimyo's Residences.
This was Naruto's plan: an open stratagem.
Preventing the poorest people from moving somewhere better, or even beating and killing them as a warning, was an extremely dangerous course of action.
It would inevitably create domestic problems affecting people's livelihoods.
Yet standing by and watching their people leave in droves was tantamount to a slow death.
Naturally, those at the top did not want to see that happen.
Thus, while only small groups were migrating, the Daimyo's Residences of the Four Great Nations were forced to call a Five Kage Summit.
Of course, the Land of Shadow, which had started it all, also received an invitation.
The talks would take place in the neutral Land of Iron.