Why had Kazuma and his group managed to conceal their movements for so long without being discovered?
Why had Chiriku, the abbot of the Fire Temple, known the intelligence yet failed to inform Konoha?
Shihōin Naraku himself would not believe that the Land of Fire's daimyo had no hand in this.
Still, that was just how complicated the relationship between the villages' Kage and their nations' daimyo was.
Sometimes good, sometimes bad!
There was no shortage of cooperation, but conflicts always existed behind the scenes.
The entire shinobi world was like this.
It was only because Naraku had no interest. Otherwise, he could have overthrown the daimyo and taken the seat himself long ago.
He was not even particularly interested in remaining Hokage. He had already received the system's reward anyway, and staying in office only gave him a chance to check in and earn a draw.
Ever since the system's update had finished, it had supposedly been possible, but despite all the time that had passed and all his check-ins, Naraku had not earned a single draw.
It was easy to imagine how low those odds were.
Now he finally understood what the system meant by low odds.
Shaking his head and putting those thoughts aside, Naraku said, "Since the daimyo hasn't said anything and only those nobles have complaints, let them vent. It has nothing to do with us."
Once war broke out, they would have plenty to look forward to.
Having Naraku deal with those people now would only feel like a hassle to him.
They were all just little bugs anyway, and there were plenty of ways to deal with them. Making Naraku think up a way to handle them would give these pawns far too much credit.
"Oh, right. I've already spoken to Shikaku. Send