"Ebizo!"
"If your Nindō is so fragile, then let me make you stronger."
"Frenzied Sand, unending life!"
"Feel my Nindō!"
Rasa hauled up Ebizo, who wanted nothing but death.
Ignoring everyone in the room trying to stop him, he pushed open the conference room doors and beat Ebizo in front of Sunagakure's residents, every punch striking flesh.
Ebizo wanted to use his death to stir Sunagakure's grief and indignation.
Then he, Rasa, would first use his authority as Kazekage to shatter the Advisory Council’s Untouchable Status that Chiyo and her brother had built, right before Sunagakure's people.
Ebizo wanted only to die.
But the Sunagakure interest groups united under him, leeching off the village, wanted the opposite.
They wanted him alive.
That way.
Neither the Kazekage Faction nor the Advisory Faction would have anyone step forward to stop this farce.
And when a senior adviser was savagely beaten by the current Kazekage, without a single subordinate intervening...
Who would think there was nothing wrong with him?
That way.
If Ebizo sacrificed himself afterward, not only would it fail to stir Sunagakure's grief and indignation, it would instead help the Sand Shinobi unite under the Kazekage's banner and integrate into the Hidden Xuan Village.
At the thought of all this.
Rasa's punches grew faster and fiercer.
His left hand dealt heavy damage, and his right hand dealt damage heavily.
"Useless, useless, useless-"
Half an hour later.
After Rasa beat him all across Sunagakure, from south to north and east to west, in full view of its residents, Ebizo, a man in his seventies who had maintained his dignity all his life, finally chose to compromise for the sake of his pride.
He abandoned the misguided path of saving Sunagakure through his own sacrifice.
Everyone returned to the conference hall.
This