Hearing this, Senju Toka considered the scene the First Elder had described.
She abandoned the idea of using that double-edged sword.
Then she looked at the three of them and said, "As for the most important matter, the bases, I intend to put the Third Elder in charge!"
"He'll take the people from the patriarch's branch who stepped down today, along with the elders from the other two branches."
"The hidden bases will mainly be small ones with a hundred to five hundred people, managed by the elders."
"The people who stepped down from the patriarch's branch will each be responsible for a base of a thousand. Those will all remain in the open to draw attention!"
The three considered her words for a moment, then nodded in unison.
He was indeed suited to the job.
For nurturing people in secret, they needed someone like the Third Elder.
A more upright person would have a harder time doing it well.
As for who managed the bases, that was a minor matter.
Seeing that they all agreed, Senju Toka turned to the only elder who had yet to receive an assignment. "Second Uncle, sorry for the trouble, but please keep an eye on those wolf cubs."
"Study them, help me oversee the clan and arrange various odds and ends, and communicate with our allies!"
In her view, her second uncle was so old that sending him out would be unsuitable.
And as an old fox, he was just the person to deal with the little foxes.
The Second Elder, whose eyelashes were practically hollow from age, heard her arrangement.
He glanced at Toka and nodded helplessly.
The talk of arranging odds and ends and dealing with allies was just for show.
With so many people around, how could they leave those