"Urgh-I'm going to throw up."
Nawaki did not deliberately raise his voice, but he made no attempt to hide it either, putting on a look of imminent nausea.
Utatane Koharu's face instantly turned livid, almost rivaling an alien's.
"Advisor, the fighting on our side is desperate too."
Hatake Sakumo paused briefly, then repeated exactly what Xuan Zhe had taught him earlier:
"It's not that we don't want to reinforce Lord Hokage. We simply lack the strength. Sorry for the trouble, but please go back and tell Lord Hokage to give us just six months. We'll finish the fighting here within six months, and then we'll go reinforce him."
"For now, please head back."
At that, Hatake Sakumo raised a hand in a gesture toward the exit.
"You-you people! You're aiding a tyrant!"
After Hatake Sakumo finished speaking, Utatane Koharu realized that not one of the major clan heads present-Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Chōza Akimichi, or Hyuga Hiashi-had stepped forward to object.
Trembling with anger, her voice carrying unmistakable panic, she pointed at them and shouted:
"What are you trying to do? **?!"
"Advisor, isn't that going a bit too far? We're merely telling the truth. How does that make it **?"
Senju Nawaki, head of the Senju Clan, propped his chin on one hand and retorted with a sneer:
"If you don't believe us, Advisor, we can take you to the battlefield again so you can see for yourself how the fighting is going here."
The battlefield?
Fuck that. After wrenching her back on the battlefield last time and nearly losing her life, Utatane Koharu had sworn never to set foot on a battlefield again.
Wasn't it better to sit safely in the rear, sipping tea and waiting for others to deliver the fruits of victory?
Looking again at the