The conference room was so quiet that even the crackling sound of the burning wick of the oil lamp in the corner was clearly audible.
Utatane Koharu's withered lips twitched, trying to refute, but it felt like a ball of water-saturated cotton was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't spit out even a single word.
Shikaku Nara tried the medicine himself!
Nara Clan Head, who is most afraid of trouble and acts most cautiously, has experienced the effects of the medicine with his own body!
"Three elders."
Shikaku put away the test tube and put it back into his arms. He adjusted his green Chunin vest, put his hands in his pockets, looked past Utatane Koharu, and looked directly at Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was deep in the shadows.
"In your eyes, Minister Senju Chen is engaging in clan private property, amassing money through the Medical Department, and is he gradually draining the village's financial system?"
"I... am I wrong?" Hiruzen exhaled a puff of thick green smoke, and the eyes behind the smoke were as sharp as hooks, "If this unregulated strategic technology is allowed to grow wildly in the dark, once he Senju Chen has other ideas, Konoha will be in doom!"
"You were right."
Shikaku nodded and actually admitted Third's judgment on the spot.
Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura were about to look happy when they saw a mocking smile on Shikaku's lips.
"I think your judgment is accurate. But the problem is--Lord Third, the way you look at the problem is still the same as it was thirty years ago."
"What do you mean?!" Mitokado Homura shouted.
Tsunade on the side also recovered his mentality at this time, raised his legs, and looked at Shikaku Nara and the other three elders.
"Yan." Hiruzen shouted, "Let Elder Shikaku finish."
Shikaku Nara walked slowly to the huge Konoha map of the whole territory.
On the map, Five Great Nations stretches across the territory, and the borders are densely covered with red and blue deduction marks.
"Lord Third, you have been maintaining 'balance' throughout your life."
Shikaku Nara stretched out a finger and lightly clicked on the Konoha mark in the center of the map. "Second died in battle Land of Lightning, and you were ordered to do so in danger. At that time, Konoha powerful enemies were waiting for you. By wooing all the clans and maintaining balance, and by relying on the sacrifices of the older generation of ninjas, we managed to survive the second time, Third Shinobi World War. At that time, your 'Will of Fire' and your 'ninja balancing technique' really allowed Konoha to survive."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's face looked a little better, but Shikaku's next words were like a basin of ice water, extinguishing the remaining fire in his eyes.
"But, Lord Third, times have changed now. Haha, I learned this sentence from that kid Senju Chen."
Shikaku Nara turned around and looked condescendingly at the declining old Hokage.
"In the past few decades, what is the ultimate bargaining chip to maintain the balance of Shinobi World Five Great Nations? It is the Jinchūriki of the major ninja villages, and it is the destruction-level Tailed Beast weapon."
"Iwagakure has Four-Tails, Five-Tails; Kumogakure has Two-Tails, Eight-Tails; Kirigakure has Three-Tails, Six-Tails; Sunagakure has One-Tail."
"As long as the Jinchūriki in each village are still there, the major countries will be wary of each other. No one dares to easily risk the wealth and life of the entire family to launch a war to destroy the country. This is what First master was doing for Shinobi World the entire peace. The most groundbreaking thing we have done is friction, compromise, peace talks at the border, and then friction again. Over the years, the entire Shinobi World has become accustomed to this set of rules, and even regards this set of rules as the eternal iron law of Shinobi World."
Shikaku Nara's eyes suddenly became extremely deep. "But, everyone, do you still remember who the person who broke this iron law is?"
The air in the conference room suddenly dropped.
Tsunade leaned on the office chair, with a proud and wanton curve at the corner of his lips, and lightly tapped the mahogany tabletop with his fingertips.
Hiruzen's pupils shrank sharply.
The person who broke the iron rule of Shinobi World for so many years is Senju Chen!
Third Shinobi World War At that time, Iwagakure, in order to reverse the situation of the war, brazenly dispatched Five-Tails Jinchuriki Han and Four-Tails Jinchūriki Roshi.
According to the logic of past wars, Konoha would either send a large number of ninjas to desperately contain it, or use Nine-Tails to face the bomb head-on.
But what's the result?
Senju Chen, who was only more than ten years old at the time, led a little-known team to the frontal battlefield and captured Five-Tails Kokuō alive on the spot, which was said to be able to level the mountains!
Moreover, in that battle, Senju Chen not only captured Five-Tails alive, but also Four-Tails Jinchūriki fell into his hands at the border of Land of Earth.
What's even more ridiculous and shattering the entire Shinobi World worldview is that Senju Chen did not hand over Tailed Beast to the village as a strategic deterrent, but instead made an unprecedented big deal - selling Four-Tails to the wealthy Kumogakure. Then he turned around and forced Ōnoki to cede territory and pay compensation, signed an extremely humiliating alliance under the city, and paid a huge ransom to redeem the empty shell of Five-Tails Jinchuriki!
Tailed Beast... This existence that was like a nuclear weapon in Shinobi World, in the hands of Senju Chen, completely lost its sacred cloak of "natural disaster" and became a war commodity that can be clearly marked with a price!
"After that battle, the myth of Tailed Beast was completely shattered."
Shikaku Nara's voice echoed in the empty room, "Except for Kumogakure who is good friends with us, and the entire Shinobi World, which village dares to release Jinchūriki to perform field missions? Ōnoki That old man was sold to Tailed Beast once and was so frightened that now Five-Tails doesn't even dare to go out of Iwagakure's door for fear that we Konoha will put a sack on him and carry him away again!"
"Since Tailed Beast, the ultimate strategic weapon, has been abolished, what will ultimately determine the outcome of future Shinobi World wars?"
Shikaku pointed at the map, his eyes like knives. "I have thought about it several times in the past few days. Since Tailed Beast can no longer be used as a weapon for other villages to deal with us Konoha, then in the future they can only rely on the number of regular ninjas and the absolute crushing quality of a single ninja!"
Mitokado Homura stared blankly at Shikaku. The old brain circuit was running crazily, but it couldn't keep up with Shikaku Nara's dimensionality-reducing attack-style deduction.
We are going to discuss Senju Chen's private sale of potions tomorrow morning. Why did you get involved with me in the Shinobi World war???
"I checked Konoha's battle damage reports in recent years."
Shikaku Nara continued, with a chilling sobriety in his tone. "Uchiha Military Police Force has carried out a total of 472 high-risk nationwide pursuits and border bandit suppression missions. The overall survival rate is a terrifying 78.4%!"
"I used to think that this was because Uchiha Clan was already strong, and that these achievements were all because Senju Chen threw Public Security Department and Police Force into the battlefield of life and death for military training."
"But when I saw this bottle of 'Mental Enhancement Potion', I understood everything."
"The core members of the Public Security Department and those members of the Uchiha Clan who have grown rapidly in recent years. Their neurological reactions, Chakra control, and Taijutsu bursts may not have been honed in battle at all!"
"Or maybe it's not just the kind of routine battles we always thought were honed."
"They have probably used First Enhancement Solution a long time ago! They have even used this magical medicine that enhances the spiritual dimension!!!"