Might Duy could only sit there quietly and listen. From the very beginning, he had been completely unable to understand what they were talking about.
"Chihane, you don't need to worry about the Five Kage Summit in five days. Since my teacher has already lost at the Jonin Council, he naturally won't be able to affect you."
"Besides, those three villages probably don't have the strength to wage another war now."
As the commander of one battlefront, how could Orochimaru fail to see that the Three Great Shinobi Villages were merely putting on a brave face and had no strength left to wage another war?
And he believed that if he could see it, his teacher certainly could too.
But Orochimaru was mistaken about this. Chihane had never worried that the Three Great Shinobi Villages would actually have the courage to declare war on Konoha.
Even if they really did declare war, he had beaten them once and could certainly beat them a second time. Coming back would only mean offering him a few more heads.
He simply felt that these three villages had some nerve provoking him after losing the war. It seemed he needed to show them exactly what kind of man Chihane Hatake was.
Three days passed quickly. After that Jonin Council meeting ended, Orochimaru visited Konoha's major clans and many of its prestigious Jonin, one after another.
He made all these visits openly, making even some of the village's ordinary shinobi sense that something unusual was happening.
For a time, the entire village seemed to have entered the final calm before the storm. Every clan was waiting for Hiruzen Sarutobi to strike back.
But unexpectedly, Hiruzen Sarutobi made no move at all. He continued going about his daily business as usual.
Among the village's civilians,