After the appointments were settled, Minato naturally became supreme commander of the Allied Forces, with Ōnoki as chief adviser, Mei Terumi as commander of the Allied Forces, Sasori in charge of the long-range combat division, and Samui and Mabui heading the advisory unit.
Once the Five Kage had been assigned their roles, they began selecting the captains of each division.
Countless members of the Allied Shinobi Forces looked up at the leaders on the raised platform and began following their orders. The forces gathered from the major ninja villages numbered nearly sixty thousand, a vast crowd whose end could not be seen, making people feel involuntarily tense.
As orders were issued one after another, quite a few of the ninja below began arguing among themselves.
Having fought wars against one another, the major ninja villages could not trust each other at all. Many had even lost relatives to the other side. Several fights broke out among them, throwing the scene into chaos.
Minato threw several shuriken, and a yellow flash lit up. Almost simultaneously, every fight among the ninja was stopped in its tracks. At the same time, Minato began his solemn speech.
Anyo listened throughout. Minato's experiences were legendary. He had lived through the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars, and now, with the Fourth Shinobi World War beginning, he had shouldered the greatest responsibility of all. His moving speech soon had the ninja below listening intently, and some were even moved to tears.
"So that's where Naruto got his Talk no Jutsu."
Anyo chuckled and vanished.
Beneath a secluded cliff, inside an ordinary-looking five-story building, the daimyo of the various nations who had been brought there were playing Hanafuda. Every so often, one complained, "Isn't there anything else to do?"
Another daimyo replied, "I have something here. Five