Yanbai looked at Kima Senju's gloomy face.
Because Hashirama and Mito had married early in this life, they had also had children much earlier.
Truth be told, Kima was old now, too.
Yanbai smiled faintly and asked, "Have the Land of Fire's textbooks been revised regarding the First Shinobi World War?"
"Uh..." Kima Senju frowned and answered honestly, "The textbooks used throughout the Land of Fire also describe the First Shinobi World War in brutal detail, urging everyone to remember that the Four Countries are eyeing us hungrily. When dealing with foreigners, even weak civilians, our people show absolutely no mercy in fleecing them."
"Mm. Was the publicity campaign I asked you to send people to carry out along the Land of Fire's borders strictly implemented?" Yanbai reached out to organize the documents he had just read.
Kima Senju nodded. "I reported this to the Daimyo. To be safe, I also sent Jonin from the Konoha Military Police Force who specialize in persuading enemies to surrender and studying criminal psychology to help with the publicity at all the major checkpoints."
At that, Yanbai raised an eyebrow. "So... what were the results?"
"Well..." Kima Senju stared blankly at Yanbai, unsure how to answer. After a long moment, he said, "We don't know yet."
Yanbai gave an inscrutable smile.
At the outset of the war.
Yanbai had asked Kima Senju to send people to the borders to publicize Kumogakure's declaration of war against the Land of Fire.
It was a routine public announcement.
There was no particularly elaborate rhetoric involved.
Besides warning residents along the Land of Fire's borders that war was imminent and they needed to prepare, they also had to make one thing clear to foreign residents beyond those borders: "Kumogakure declared war."
Kumogakure had started the war, not the