"What, is there something you need!?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi suppressed the anger inside him.
Since taking the Hokage position, this was the first time Hiruzen Sarutobi had encountered anyone who spoke to him like that.
Beside him, Uchiha Fugaku frowned and was about to step forward to stop Ning Feng, but Ning Feng said calmly, "As a member of Konoha High Command, all you can do is offer the Hokage advice. The final decision still rests with the Hokage."
"If the daimyo of the Land of Fire learned that so many things actually require Hiruzen Sarutobi's approval, and that the Hokage is just a dispensable puppet, I'm sure the look on his face would be quite something. Don't you think!?"
By this point, a hint of a threat had entered Ning Feng's gaze.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had been utterly dismissive, immediately gave Ning Feng a startled look. He had never imagined this brat would actually dare threaten him.
And he was even using the daimyo of the Land of Fire to pressure him!
Although Konoha was the Land of Fire's ninja village and its most important military base, many of its resources required the daimyo's support and allocation.
The daimyo could be considered the emperor of a country, while the village's Hokage was the equivalent of a general commanding its military forces.
It was quite easy for a daimyo to keep his ninja village in check.
Back after the Third Shinobi World War, it was precisely because Minato Namikaze had performed so well that the daimyo had appointed him Hokage, putting him in charge of running and managing Konoha.
And once the daimyo realized that he was refusing to relinquish his grip on power, the daimyo of the Land of Fire would likely take all sorts of measures against him. That