Minato Namikaze saw that everyone agreed and dropped the subject. He sat in his chair, lost in thought for a long while.
"All right! Let's move on to the last matter!" Minato Namikaze's voice had grown noticeably quieter, and exhaustion seeped into it.
No one present found fault with Minato Namikaze. After all, he had only recently suffered severe injuries and had yet to fully recover, and he had just personally condemned his own son. They would have found it strange if he had acted as though nothing had happened!
"What do you all think we should do about the Four Great Ninja Villages that cooperated with Danzo and attacked us, directly or indirectly?" Minato Namikaze planted his elbows on the table and rested his chin on the backs of his hands as he addressed everyone.
"If none of you will speak, then I will! Each village will pay Konoha five hundred million in reparations! For the next ten years, they'll pay us another hundred million every year! Of course, if they're willing to pay the full one and a half billion at once, we have no objection!" Minato Namikaze said.
"Lord Hokage! Doing this could easily spark a war, especially with the Stone Ninja Village and the Hidden Cloud Village. Neither is weak, and they've only just finished paying us reparations for the Third Shinobi World War. They may well be unable to come up with the money we're demanding!
"In that situation, they could very well go straight to war! Besides, six of the first-generation Konoha 12 are now severely injured, and the rest are wounded too. Going to war under these circumstances would put Konoha at a disadvantage!" Shikaku explained.
Everyone fell silent. Shikaku was right. This time, the first-generation Konoha 12, the Konoha Sannin, and the