Chapter 501: Man in White Attacks Konoha, Minato in Danger
"Judging by the methods that fellow displayed, over these past few years, his strength has probably evolved to a scalp-numbing degree!"
Hearing this, Hashirama cast his gaze toward the window, shaking his head along with him while a trace of carefree ease lingered in his expression.
"No matter how strong or absurd he becomes, anyway, those two brothers of ours have witnessed everything Gekkō Raito has done these past few years with our own eyes."
"If he really wanted to deal a fatal blow to the other shinobi villages, with those invincible fists of his, he would have swept across the Shinobi World long ago; why would he wait until today?"
"Even though Kirigakure now has momentum fierce as a hungry tiger coming down the mountain, frantically squeezing out other villages' territories, this is simply the iron law of the jungle and the fairest game!"
This was the torrent of an era, where big countries consumed small countries and big fish ate small fish; even without fighting with real blades and guns, the ending was the same.
Using soft-knife methods like economics and culture to tighten the necks of other countries step by step was a trend no one could stop.
Forget Kirigakure, even if you replaced the protagonist with Konoha, the approach would probably be no different.
With tens of thousands of mouths up and down Konoha, they certainly couldn't starve themselves to fulfill others just to be great saints.
If they were truly that saintly, waiting until the day others climbed onto their heads, the unlucky fellows crying while being squeezed out would be Konoha itself.
Therefore, this was the inevitable path of the wheels of an era rolling forward.
Aside from this, there was simply no second