Without the Daimyō, and without any missions to take, the Five Great Shinobi Villages had lost their livelihoods completely. This was far more deadly to them than a shinobi war!
The Five Kage and their villages' senior officials all pitched in, yet barely managed to maintain their teetering order. By the end of the day, they were beyond frazzled-they were having outright mental breakdowns.
There was no helping it. Shingetsu's move had been truly ruthless.
She had smashed their rice bowls and dug out their foundations. It was worse than digging up every last one of their ancestral graves.
Against the culprits who had destroyed their livelihoods, the Five Great Shinobi Villages were more united than ever. Every one of them was itching to charge in and tear them to pieces, yet none dared voice their anger.
In terms of strength, the other side had Edo Madara, Hashirama with the Rinnegan, and Shingetsu, a walking weapon of mass destruction.
Any one of those three could trounce every shinobi in the world. Charging at them would be suicide.
They had already learned that lesson thoroughly in the Fourth Shinobi World War, which had just ended. A huge pile of corpses still awaited resurrection, and now those people had poached another sizable batch of their personnel...
The shinobi villages were weaker than ever.
At this point, even if the Five Great Shinobi Villages assembled another Allied Shinobi Force, they would only be marching to their deaths. No Kage with any brains would do something so foolish.
"What the hell do those bastards want?!"
Inside the Hokage Office, a furious Big Tsunade smashed her desk to pieces once again. Ever since she had taken over as the Fifth Hokage, she had been stuck with an enormous mess.
And the disasters had only kept