After a fierce and brutal war ended, the ninja who had fought on the front lines always had to be given some time to rest.
But the surviving Allied Shinobi Forces had already returned to Konoha in batches and had rested for quite some time.
Only the two thousand whom Shihōin Naraku had led back last had not had much time to rest, because they had been clearing the battlefield.
Of course, clearing the battlefield was not a particularly demanding task.
Naraku had not deliberately pursued speed, either, which was why it had taken several days to finish the task.
So the ninja who had spent those days working on the battlefield had also gotten a fair amount of rest.
With that being the case, they naturally could not let tens of thousands of ninja stay in Konoha indefinitely.
Leaving everything else aside, the supplies they consumed alone were no small amount.
Although the major nations were still continually supplying Konoha, there were tens of thousands of people here. The war was over, after all, and they could not keep consuming supplies like this without limit.
Still, compared with supplying an army of a hundred thousand ninja before the war, their numbers had at least fallen by more than half.
That was a cruel reality.
For various reasons, then, the Allied Shinobi Forces, numbering more than forty thousand in total, could not stay in Konoha for long.
It was just that Shihōin Naraku, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Shinobi Forces, had only just returned to the village. After resting for a night, he summoned the other senior leaders for a meeting the next day.
"Does anyone have any other opinions?"
In the spacious, brightly lit conference room, Naraku sat at the head of the table, with Tsunade, Gaara,