After speaking, Yanbai gestured for Shikaku Nara to hand the prisoner-of-war disposition plan to Ōnoki and Blue B of Kumogakure and have them sign it and affix their fingerprints.
In the past, these people of the shinobi world had signed agreements every time they held a Five Kage Summit. They looked like peace agreements, but they were really only temporary and could be torn up at any moment.
Yanbai honored the spirit of a contract. They could sign-the enemy ought to pray that he kept his word.
With his heart pounding, Ōnoki accepted the surrender document and the prisoner-of-war disposition plan. His hands trembled, but he still exercised a little caution and read through them first as a matter of course.
Once he read the contents, Ōnoki regretted it.
The more he read, the less he wanted to sign.
But if he refused, the venomous beauty beside him would make every head in Iwagakure "bloom."
He read through it word by word, sentence by sentence, line by line.
This Tsuchikage, who would have lorded his seniority over others in his original fate, felt his heart plunge into ice, chilled to its core.
How terrifying!
Ōnoki would now rather face the straightforward Asura of the Ninja World, Madara Uchiha, than the widely admired Princess Senju.
Madara Uchiha was powerful, but he would never be as inhuman as Yanbai.
The "atonement system" Yanbai proposed would make their lives worse than death.
They had to work at least fourteen hours a day. They could not arrive late, leave early, slack off, or display a bad attitude. Any excuse could be used to deduct their "Good and Evil Points" at any time.
They could not seek death or neglect their duties. If they died, their colleagues and the friends and relatives in their village