"The Uchiha Clan seconds the motion!"
Uchiha Fugaku raised his other, free hand high. The moment had finally come, and he could finally lower the hand clamped over Yashiro's mouth.
"The Inuzuka Clan seconds the motion!"
"The Aburame Clan seconds the motion!"
"The Gekko Clan seconds the motion!" Gekko Yūma swiftly appeared at the very front of the conference room. It looked as though his katana had only just returned to its sheath.
As expected of someone whose name contained the character for "courage"!
He had almost sneaked up behind Sarutobi!
Being able to turn invisible really did let you do whatever you wanted!
"The Kurama Clan seconds the motion!"
All Danzo's hard work over the past few days hadn't been without reason. Watching Sarutobi's expression grow darker and darker, Takahashi Yū felt a rush of satisfaction!
Now that was what it meant to have the people's support!
Takahashi Yū looked at the utterly unperturbed Ino-Shika-Cho Clans. They were famously the "Hokage faction": whoever was Hokage, they supported.
Their silence at this moment was enough to cut him to the core!
The brothers Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi sat there, their faces filled with panic. Their eyes darted about, as though they had completely lost all sense of what to do.
They exchanged glances, each seeing the other's bewilderment and confusion, not knowing whom to bet on.
Inexperienced!
Under Takahashi Yū's influence, Danzo hadn't even tried to win over the Hyūga.
Sarutobi, too, hadn't gone to court the Hyūga's support, because their reputation was so rotten now.
The Hyūga were like outsiders in Konoha. They could only sense the village's surging undercurrents, and they knew about the covert clashes between Danzo and Sarutobi.
But they had never imagined these two would play for such high stakes!
Their hesitation now left them