During this period, there were certainly plenty of people who expressed sentiments similar to Ōnoki's.
They also realized just how much destruction someone like Xia Yan could inflict on their villages.
Perhaps Kirigakure was better off. After all, it was so far away, and even though Kirigakure hated Konoha, they had no plans to do anything to Konoha at present.
They also had their own affairs to attend to. Though they were filled with emotion and displeasure, they did not focus too much attention on this matter.
Kumogakure, however, was rather different. In particular, the Fourth Raikage frowned when he saw Xia Yan's battle record.
Like Ōnoki, he felt deeply conflicted. On the one hand, he had not formally signed an armistice with Konoha. They had merely suspended the war temporarily, with no agreement to protect them.
After all, Konoha had been under siege at the time and did not want any more enemies, while the Third Raikage had been overwhelmed by thirty thousand Iwagakure ninja. The Fourth Raikage had not wanted to remain entangled with Konoha either.
Strictly speaking, they were actually still at war. If Konoha wanted to do something and sent this fellow into their village, it would be a disaster!
He certainly did not want that to actually happen.
On the other hand, however, the Fourth Raikage was particularly eager to fight this fellow!
Ever since Minato Namikaze had fought him and his younger brother, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer B, to a draw in a one-against-two battle, he had wanted to settle that score.
But reality was far harsher than his ideals. He had never had the opportunity to do so, nor could he allow himself to be too willful. After all, he was already the Raikage.
He needed to consider his village's interests. Any willful,