"Too weak! Back where we're from, he'd be a squad leader at best. Someone like that can lead a ninja village? And stage a rebellion?" Yūichi said, curling his lip.
Yūichi thought nothing of his words, but Kakashi and the others beside him, along with Natsuhiboshi, stared at him in shock!
With his own strength and that strange Mysterious Peacock Method, Akahoshi could at least be considered an elite jonin.
Even with Konoha's current military strength, elite jonin were still its backbone. Yet from the way Yūichi spoke, their strength seemed utterly ordinary!
And when those three had moved just now, even Kakashi had only caught their afterimages. He felt that even if he faced them himself, his chances of winning would be slim!
His own strength was already at the peak of Kage level! That meant all three of them were at Super Kage level!
There wasn't a single person at Super Kage level in all of Konoha right now. How had he run into four of them on one mission?
Kakashi certainly didn't believe Hatake Yuichi could command three Super Kage-level fighters simply because he held a higher position! As true samurai of the Land of Iron, those three probably obeyed him so readily because he was stronger than they were!
"Koichi, go get that stone. We're heading back!" Yūichi called.
"Yes, Lord Yūichi!" one of the three replied.
Upon receiving the order, Hatake Koichi swept aside the collapsed building with a single slash and walked to the stone platform in the middle. He picked up the pitted, purplish-black stone and hefted it in his hand. Finding nothing special about it, he casually tucked it inside his clothes.
"Lord Yūichi! It's done!" Koichi said as he returned to Yūichi.
"Good! Let's head back!" Hatake Yuichi nodded, then said