Bang!
It was the familiar sound of a door being slammed, except the person who had left was Hiruzen Sarutobi...
"Continue!" Danzo said with a trace of hostility as he looked at the Jonin, who did not dare make a sound.
"Appoint Shimura Takumi as minister of the Konoha Finance Department!"
"Appoint Shimura..."
"Appoint Shimura..."
The string of Shimura names left everyone somewhat shocked. Almost all the survivors of the Shimura Clan from the battlefield had been given high-ranking positions.
Yet, to their surprise, the Jonin found that they did not seem opposed to it.
Those names had all emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Every one of them deserved to be called a warrior who had crawled out of hell!
They also knew that, if war broke out again, those names would appear on the casualty lists before their own.
Besides, anyone who engaged in corruption while bearing the Shimura surname would surely meet a more miserable end than anyone else!
Lord Danzo might well skin them alive.
Just like the Senju of old...
The Jonin suddenly realized: when had "Shimura" become comparable to "Senju"?
Perhaps the piles of bones in the Land of Lightning spoke of their valor, or perhaps it was the lack of visitors to the Shimura's vast clan grounds. More likely, it was the endless rows on the Memorial Stone...
Danzo's string of appointments echoed through the meeting room. This time, he was simply letting the Jonin know so they could cooperate.
They were to understand how Danzo did things in office. Of course, appointing these people publicly also amounted to vouching for them: if anything went wrong, come to me!
"Finally!"
"Orochimaru!"
Orochimaru had been bored out of his mind on the sidelines, feeling that coming to this meeting was simply