Ōtsutsuki Toneri did not join the Akatsuki. He rely beca allies with Black Zetsu and Obito.
Kimimaro, however, had no idea. He had finally seen a faint hope of curing his bloodline disease, only for that hope to be directly snuffed out by Black Zetsu and Obito—not only that, they had even set their sights on his own Byakugan.
And not long after Ōtsutsuki Toneri descended into the shinobi world, Uchiha Chizumi also returned to Konoha.
"The Allied Forces are growing larger and larger…"
Inside the Hokage building, Tsunade looked at Uchiha Chizumi in front of her, her expression complicated.
As word of what Chizumi had done in the Grass Country spread across the shinobi world, and as the Earth, Wind, and Lightning countries began gathering their coalition army, the daimyō of the smaller nations also began joining the alliance one after another.
In just a few short days, the combined forces of the Earth, Wind, and Lightning countries had reached a terrifying number—thirty thousand.
Among those thirty thousand were wandering ninja, forr missing-nin, and samurai. Once the daimyō across the entire shinobi world joined hands, the strength they could rally was enough to make even Konoha feel alard.
Even if all thirty thousand were only ordinary ninja, that number alone was frightening enough.
And as the coalition's montum grew stronger, so ninja clans and hidden villages from smaller countries also began sending shinobi into the Allied Forces. The entire shinobi world was now caught in a state of high excitent.
The daimyō of the three great nations were especially thrilled. Even they hadn't expected their own influence to be this powerful.
With thirty thousand troops gathered together, forget killing Uchiha Chizumi—in their eyes, this force was enough to sweep through the Land of Fire itself and seize the most fertile land in the shinobi world.
"I'll face them alone. That's enough."
Uchiha Chizumi could see Tsunade's concern.
Or rather, the allied army of the Earth, Wind, and Lightning countries wasn't even trying to hide its intentions. They clearly ant to seize this rare chance to crush the Land of Fire outright.
That was also why the smaller nations were joining in. They all wanted a share of the spoils.
"Facing the entire Allied Forces alone…"
Tsunade looked at Chizumi's unchanged expression, and her originally uneasy heart gradually settled.
She had once heard from Senju Tobirama that her grandfather, Senju Hashirama, had used Wood Release to dominate the entire shinobi world. But she hadn't seen that with her own eyes, so deep down, she was still unsure whether one person could truly face tens of thousands of ninja.
But the mont Uchiha Chizumi said it, Tsunade sohow believed he could do it.
"Does the Grass Country also need a Police Force arranged?"
After receiving Chizumi's answer, Tsunade's headache shifted to the Grass Country.
Chizumi had killed nearly all of the Grass Country's nobles, leaving barely one in a hundred alive. That ant the Land of Fire could absorb the Grass Country with almost no obstruction.
The problem was that Konoha genuinely didn't have enough ninja right now.
As the allied army of the Earth, Wind, and Lightning countries kept growing, Konoha had also fallen into a warti atmosphere. Every border of the Land of Fire needed reinforcents, and on top of that, they had to keep enough elite troops in reserve for ergency support.
"Yes. The Grass Country is rotten from top to bottom. If there's no Police Force to restrain it, then with that country's atmosphere, it won't take long before it returns to how it used to be."
Uchiha Chizumi couldn't help frowning when he ntioned the Grass Country.
The reason he had returned to Konoha wasn't because the Grass Country's problems were solved. It was because he had discovered that the Grass Country's philosophy of survival of the fittest had already taken root in everyone's hearts.
Even if he slaughtered one batch after another, by the end, who knew how many people would even be left in the Grass Country?
This was the most difficult problem he had encountered so far.
When a belief took root in a region—when it was planted deep in every person's heart—even Uchiha Chizumi couldn't simply keep killing forever.
His justice was Absolute Justice, but slaughter was not the only way to carry it out.
"By the way, I brought back a mber of the Uzumaki clan from the Grass Country."
"She's about the sa age as Naruto and Sasuke. You can arrange for her to enter the Ninja Academy."
After shaking his head, Chizumi brought up Karin Uzumaki.
In the end, Karin had followed him back to Konoha.
"A mber of the Uzumaki clan?"
Tsunade froze slightly at Chizumi's words.
Konoha had once been extrely close to the Uzumaki clan. But during the Second Great Ninja War, the Uzumaki clan had been wiped out, and the last Uzumaki in Konoha had been Naruto's mother, Kushina Uzumaki.
"As for the academy, Neji has graduated early."
Tsunade planned to go see Karin later, but then she brought up Neji.
"Judging by Neji's attitude, he's probably planning to join the Special Mobile Unit. It's a newly established ninja force. They won't wear Konoha's insignia, but they'll enter the battlefield and help you as much as possible."
After Konoha realized the three-nation coalition was coming with overwhelming montum, it hadn't done nothing.
This Special Mobile Unit was a newly created ninja corps. Its only mission was to provide the fastest possible support to any battlefield once war broke out.
"Neji…"
"Let face this war alone."
"Only by crushing the three-nation Allied Forces all at once can we make the daimyō of the Earth, Wind, and Lightning countries understand that Absolute Justice is not sothing they can stop."
Uchiha Chizumi shook his head, rejecting the idea of letting Konoha's Special Mobile Unit join the war.
For him, only by openly and directly crushing the entire three-nation coalition could he make the shinobi world understand the power of Absolute Justice.
Only then could the evildoers of the world truly understand—
justice was invincible.
"There's one more thing."
"Jiraiya confessed to us that the Akatsuki who fought Iwagakure may very well have been founded by the three students he once took in back in the Land of Rain. The one who attacked Iwagakure appears to be Yahiko."
"He wanted to go to the Land of Rain himself to check, but those two toads stopped him."
By now, the Akatsuki was no longer a secret in the shinobi world, and Konoha was paying especially close attention to any intelligence about them.
After all, based on the information they currently had, the Fourth Hokage's death was very likely connected to the Akatsuki.
On top of that, the Akatsuki had previously ambushed Uchiha Chizumi.
Most importantly, they had actually managed to escape from him.
That made Konoha care about Akatsuki intelligence even more.
"Among Jiraiya's students, Yahiko is already dead. Nagato used the power of the Rinnegan to turn Yahiko into a kind of puppet."
Uchiha Chizumi did not hide anything. He directly revealed the Akatsuki's deepest secret.
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