"Break through their lines! Cut off their retreat!"
"What the fuck are you doing?!"
"Without Takahashi Yū, have you forgotten how to fight head-on?!"
War had already spread into the Land of Lightning, and Danzo was no longer as amiable as before. He stood in the command post, furiously berating the ninja before him.
"Clan head... we..."
Danzo seized the ninja by the collar and hauled him up before his face. He showed his own clansman not a shred of consideration, his expression as vicious as ever.
"Call me commander on the battlefield!"
"Y-yes!"
"Useless!" Danzo flung the ninja aside and turned his gaze back to the map.
"You're my clansmen, yet you can't even take an enemy position, and you have the nerve to ask me for reinforcements!"
The Shimura ninja Danzo had thrown to the floor moved his lips but failed to get a word out.
Across the command room, Yamanaka Arashi could hardly bear to watch anymore. He spoke up in the Shimura ninja's defense.
"Lord Danzo, the Cloud Shinobi really have gone mad. They're trading lives for lives, and the casualty rate on the front keeps climbing!"
"Also, your clansmen have the highest casualty rate..."
At those words, something flickered in Danzo's eyes. But he knew that only by putting his own clansmen on the front line could he better motivate the other ninja.
When the commander's own clansmen charged ahead of you and died in greater numbers, wouldn't the other Konoha Ninja have to charge with everything they had?
Takahashi Yū placed a hand on the Shimura ninja's shoulder and gave it a gentle pat. His impression of the Shimura Clan had now changed completely.
With casualties like these, no wonder they were the worst off among the families of Konoha's F4. They could thank