But Utatane Daitō did not waste time on that. He was quite rational.
It was not that he trusted Tsunade, but that he believed Tsunade and the others would not tell such a simple lie, one that would fall apart at the slightest probing.
And the result was exactly what he had expected.
Before long, Utatane Koharu emerged from her family's records room, utterly dazed.
Then she sat there with her head lowered, saying nothing.
Well, she did not need to say anything else. One look at her was enough for Utatane Daitō to know the result.
So he hurriedly summoned the clan elders for a meeting.
He briefly explained everything that had happened to the Utatane Clan's elders.
Upon hearing it, the elders all erupted.
At that point, they no longer cared about Utatane Koharu's various identities as a Konoha elder, the clan head's older sister, a staunch supporter of the former Hokage, and so on.
They could not afford to.
Nothing mattered more than having food on the table.
Utatane Koharu was about to leave them eating dirt. Why the hell should they care?
Besides, she had caused such an enormous mess this time that the Fourth Hokage was bound to impose some other punishment.
As for the compensation, leaving everything else aside and judging the matter on its own merits, they owed that money. It did not count as punishment.
Most importantly, the Utatane elders knew perfectly well that their clan was on bad terms with the Uchiha Clan.
No, to be more precise, the two clans were riddled with conflicts.
In the past, the Uchiha had never had an opportunity, but now this rare chance had come along, and those bastards had actually ended up in the right.
If the Utatane Clan really could not come