"Looks like the event where the Third Raikage fights one against ten thousand and dies from exhaustion might still repeat itself!"
"But that's fine too! As long as that guy is alive, it does Konoha no good!"
"And if he goes to the Land of Earth to cause trouble, Iwagakure will have no choice but to withdraw its troops. That will bring Konoha only benefits and no harm."
Akira thought to himself.
"That works too!"
Sakumo nodded. Next, all they had to do was wait for the adviser to arrive.
In the blink of an eye, another four days passed.
Homura Mitokado finally arrived late.
However, the peace talks had basically already ended yesterday. All the compensation matters had also been fully negotiated, and Kumogakure had already agreed to them.
Now, only the final signing of the alliance agreement remained.
"Huh?"
After Homura Mitokado arrived and heard this news, he froze on the spot.
Immediately afterward, he looked angrily at Shikaku, Sakumo, and the others, questioning them. "Did you not receive Lord Hokage's letter? How can such an important matter as peace negotiations be casually decided with the enemy? You people have no experience in this area. If you damage the village's interests, can you bear that responsibility?"
When Akira heard this, he immediately became displeased and replied at once, "How can we not bear it? How exactly have we damaged the village's interests? You're certainly experienced. I've read the historical records. During the Second Great Ninja War, Konoha's peace talks with Kumogakure were handled by you, weren't they?"
"And what was the final result?"
"We were clearly the victorious side, yet you people naively gave up Kumogakure's material compensation for the sake of so-called peace, hoping Kumogakure wouldn't hold a grudge and start another war."
"And what happened? What exactly is this current war?"
"This is what you call not damaging the village's interests? This is what you call experience?"
"Then your experience has truly opened my eyes!"
Who was he looking down on?
A useless old fossil who only knew how to stay in the village, sit safely in the rear, and dared not go to the front lines—what right did he have to point fingers here?
"How dare you!"
Homura Mitokado was momentarily choked by the rebuttal. Then, enraged, he pointed at Akira and snapped, "What status do you have, brat? You dare speak to me like this? Do you even know who I am?"
"To be disrespectful toward an adviser—do you know your crime?"
Since he could not win through reason, this guy flew into shameful anger and immediately wanted to use his status to suppress him and slap a label on him.
When Akira heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and killing intent flashed through them.
"Boom!"
In the next moment, Conqueror's Haki erupted violently. Under Akira's control, all of it fell onto Homura Mitokado and the few unpleasant-looking dogs beside him.
Homura Mitokado and the others' expressions changed drastically at once. With a loud "bang," all of them were crushed to their knees before Akira by the terrifying pressure. They could not stand up even if they wanted to.
That horrifying Conqueror's Haki pressed down on their bodies and wills, nearly causing them to pass out.
And this was still the result of Akira deliberately holding back.
Having them faint directly was not what he wanted. That would not relieve his anger at all.
When Shikaku, Sakumo, Minato, and the others saw this scene and sensed the tiny trace of Conqueror's Haki leaking from Akira's body, they were all stunned.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
Homura Mitokado struggled to raise his head and look at Akira. At this moment, his face carried both shock and, even more so, fear.
The ground beneath his feet had cracked apart as well, showing just how much pressure he was enduring.
"What is wrong with this brat? What kind of method is this?"
Homura Mitokado roared inwardly.
However, he did not dare speak.
That was because he could not feel even the slightest respect from Akira toward him as an adviser. Instead, Akira was filled with killing intent.
He felt that if he continued provoking Akira, this brat might truly kill him.
"Now, tell me. What status do you have?"
"And what did you just say I should know?"
Akira looked down at Homura Mitokado indifferently and spoke in an icy voice.
A dog-like thing like him actually dared to scold and threaten him?
Killing him would be as easy as slaughtering a chicken.
"You…"
Homura Mitokado wanted to angrily rebuke him, but he did not dare.
His heart was filled with hatred, frustration, and fear.
At this moment, Sakumo, feeling that it was about enough, stepped forward to smooth things over. "Alright! Akira, let him go! I believe our Lord Adviser knows his mistake now, right?"
After saying this, Sakumo looked toward Homura Mitokado.
If he dared say a single word of refusal, then even if Akira killed this old dog today, Sakumo would not care.
As for this adviser, he had long found him unpleasant.
He suspected that what happened to him back then was also connected to them.
Homura Mitokado, Koharu Utatane, the Third Hokage, and Danzo—among the four of them, not a single one was a good person.
They were all old things with extreme selfishness and lust for power.
Sometimes, Sakumo even wondered how the Second Hokage had chosen his disciples back then.
How had he ended up choosing these four things?
Did power truly corrode people's hearts this much?
Could it turn them into this kind of disgusting appearance?
Or were they like this by nature?
In any case, this scene right now was extremely satisfying.
After hearing this, Akira did not retract his Conqueror's Haki. Instead, he looked toward Homura Mitokado.
Homura Mitokado nodded in humiliation. "Yes! I know my mistake! Please forgive me and let me go!"
"Very good!"
Akira nodded in satisfaction. "Lord Adviser, there is no greater good than knowing your mistakes and correcting them! I forgive you!"
After saying this, Akira withdrew his Conqueror's Haki. Homura Mitokado and the others immediately felt their entire bodies loosen as the pressure vanished, and they collapsed to the ground one after another.
Immediately afterward, their old faces flushed red. They awkwardly climbed back to their feet, but they lowered their heads and did not dare look at Akira.
They were like mice that had seen a cat.
However, the hatred in their hearts had not disappeared. Instead, it had grown even stronger.
Akira had mastered mind reading, so he understood all the hatred and thoughts in their hearts at this moment. He immediately looked at them with a smiling expression and said, "I know that you're actually still hating me in your hearts. In fact, you hate me even more than before!"
When these people heard this, they immediately panicked and wanted to explain something. But Akira directly raised his hand and stopped them. Then he continued with a smile, "That's fine! I welcome you to come seek revenge at any time. However, when that time comes, please be prepared to die! There won't be a second chance!"
He was not afraid of these people's retaliation at all.
A group of useless trash. If they dared target him again, he would dare wipe them out directly.
At that time, he would no longer have any scruples.
After hearing this, Homura Mitokado felt both humiliated and terrified.
But in the end, it turned into only one sentence. "I wouldn't dare!"
Akira's smiling face looked so terrifying in their eyes.
"Whether you dare or not doesn't matter!"
Akira waved his hand indifferently. "There's only the alliance agreement left to sign here. Go sign it quickly and head back early!"
As he spoke, Akira waved toward Nara Shikaku and said, "Also, Senior Shikaku, let our adviser senior properly look over the compensation terms we negotiated with Kumogakure!"
"Let him see whether we damaged the village's interests or not!"
"At the same time, let him properly see what rights and interests a victorious nation should fight for!"
Nara Shikaku immediately handed a list to Homura Mitokado.
Homura Mitokado accepted the list in humiliation and read through it once. Then his pupils shrank.
So many things!
All these compensations added together were probably no less than five billion, right?
At the thought of this, he could not help raising his head in shock and looking at Akira and the others.
This was completely inconsistent with the Third Hokage's thinking.
No wonder these people had rushed to finalize these terms with Kumogakure.
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