So when Mei Terumi brought up that point, everyone present fell silent.
Because she really wasn't wrong at all.
If Bai Ye truly wanted to control Kirigakure, what would be the best way to do it?!
Of course, he would simply use force!
Why bother with so many twists and turns?!
Whatever else they might say, they had no way to refute Mei Terumi's argument.
With enough strength, you really could do whatever you wanted.
And after Mei Terumi finished speaking, the Mist Ninja were faced with a possibility.
The Fourth Mizukage, Yagura, might really have been controlled by someone!?
Just like Genji and the others had been before.
If they now looked at everything on the assumption that Yagura had been controlled...
Then that would fully explain all those outrageous actions.
After all, Mei Terumi's argument was genuinely well-founded and convincing!
She had laid out every point clearly.
Even if they didn't want to believe it, the facts were right before them. Saying anything else was pointless.
Perhaps things really were just as Mei Terumi had said.
"So... Lord Yagura really was being controlled?!"
"I think it's entirely possible. Mei Terumi is right. If Bai Ye really wanted to control Kirigakure, it wouldn't be difficult with his strength!"
"Then doesn't that mean everything that happened over all these years was because someone was pulling the strings behind the scenes!?"
"Who was it?! I knew this couldn't be what Lord Yagura wanted! He saved my life on the battlefield back then, and from spending time with him, I could clearly tell he was a gentle person!"
At that moment, everyone's opinions began to shift.
At first, they had all believed Bai Ye had come to overthrow Kirigakure's government.
Now, they suddenly saw him as someone who had come to save