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 already failed at the Jonin Council, he won't be able to affect you."
"Besides, those three shinobi villages probably don't have the strength to wage another war right now."
As the commander of one of the battlefronts, 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 had misunderstood this time. Chihane had never worried that the Three Great Shinobi Villages would actually have the courage to declare war on Konoha.
Even if they did, he had beaten them once and could certainly beat them again. If they came, they would only be 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 meeting ended, Orochimaru visited Konoha's major clans and many of its prominent Jonin, one after another.
He made all those visits openly, which made even some of the village's ordinary ninja sense that something unusual was happening.
For a time, the entire village seemed to settle into the final calm before the storm. Every clan was waiting for Hiruzen Sarutobi's counterattack.
Unexpectedly, however, Hiruzen Sarutobi made no moves at all. He went about his daily business as usual.
Among the village's civilians, however, different voices quietly