Chapter 315 Losers Always Pay a Price
Looking at Utatane Koharu's expression which was gradually becoming ferocious.
Kaito spread his hands towards her with an innocent look on his face.
"Losers always have to pay a price, don't they?"
"But."
Utatane Koharu was about to speak when she was interrupted by Sarutobi Hiruzen who was standing beside her and waved his hand.
He also saw what was marked on the document.
"Mirukawa-sama, you should know that the above requests are simply impossible. Most of them are beyond my control."
In fact, what Sarutobi Hiruzen said was true.
Don't think that Konoha is so wealthy now.
After continuous wars, Konoha has long been unable to make ends meet.
The vast majority of supplies also need to rely on subsidies from the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
Not to mention that among the conditions proposed by Kaito, there are conditions such as building a new port on the territory of the Land of Fire.
However, Kaito still had the same expression and said nonchalantly.
"It doesn't matter. If the conditions are not suitable, we can talk about it slowly. We are not in a hurry about this."
"You"
Utatane Koharu was a little defensive and wanted to point her finger at Kaito, but after hesitating for a moment, she did not raise her hand in the end.
Kirigakure has not received any information yet.
In fact, just last night, the Four-Tails Jinchuriki Roshi and the Five-Tails Jinchuriki Han from the Iwagakure side led a large number of Iwagakure ninjas to attack the northern line camp of Konohagakure.
Although they were forced back by Jiraiya and Namikaze Minato.
But Konoha also suffered heavy casualties.
If Konoha wasn't left with only one elder, Utatane Koharu, they would be a little undecided.
At this time, Kushina, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, may have been sent to the front line.
"Kaito, do you really think that we in Konoha have no strength to fight?!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen leaned forward, as if he wanted to suppress the kid opposite him with his momentum.
However, Kaito didn't care at all about the threats from his defeated opponent.
Indeed.
Considering the existing military strength of Konoha, even if the entire army was mobilized at all costs, they would not be able to fight in one battle.
It is not impossible to drive all the remaining three ninja villages out of the Land of Fire.
But so what?
This is bound to be a lose-lose battle.
After the war, it remains to be seen whether the remaining ninjas in Konoha can maintain the current situation.
Maybe even ordinary daily commissions can no longer be undertaken.
After all, ninjas still have to rely on missions to make money.
This is also the reason why the Kirigakure Village has the advantage in this war and is still preparing for peace talks.
Otherwise, even if they obtained more tasks, with the current five or six thousand ninjas of Kirigakure, they would not be able to complete them even if they tried their best.
Instead, it will lead to the loss of word of mouth.
Even before this battle, the elder Genji was considering the possible loss of a large number of ninjas if the war was lost.
All the corresponding arrangements are made according to the fact that Kirigakure will completely shrink in the next ten years, abandon all tasks outside the Land of Water, concentrate on training the next generation, and wait for Kaito to rise.
Of course, now that Kirigakure has won, they will naturally not give up their deserved interests, and will be more ruthless.
Kaito slammed the table and pointed at Sarutobi Hiruzen's nose and cursed.
"Old man! Don't we in Kirigakure have the strength to fight?"
"Don't forget! It was you who gave up the peace talks on your own initiative!"
"According to the agreement between the two sides, it was us, Kirigakure, who attacked Kumogakure, tying down their forces! That gave you bastards a chance to catch your breath, but you are making excuses and obstructing the peace talks! You even let that bastard Shimura Danzo come to Kirigakure to cause trouble!"
"Now you come to tell me you still have the strength to fight? If you want to fight, then keep fighting!"
Kaito, who had been smiling, suddenly jumped up, which scared the people on the opposite side.
But what Kaito said is also true.
The reason why Konoha is now able to pull some troops away from the northern battlefield of the Land of Fire is really because of the chain reaction caused by the previous attack on Kumogakure led by Kaito.
Regardless of whether Danzo's behavior was personal or not, he was caught on the spot and there was no way he could deny it.
Before this, even the Sunagakure Village had protested to Konohagakure and withdrew some of its troops from the vicinity of the Land of Stone to contain the Iwagakure.
Moreover, Konoha is indeed in urgent need of the return of Sarutobi Hiruzen and the nearly one thousand ninjas captured by Kirigakure.
Forced by the situation, Sarutobi Hiruzen also knew that it was not appropriate to continue to be tough.
He simply put aside his pride and started to analyze this "little bit of compensation" point by point and argue with Kaito and Ao.
In the end, the negotiations lasted for more than ten hours.
At the beginning, the few people were able to maintain basic rationality, and even though there were some minor frictions, they were relatively restrained.
Later, everyone put aside their pride and almost started a fight.
Even Tsunade, who had been stimulated by hemophobia before the meeting, later stiffened her neck and engaged in a heated argument with Kaito.
Zabuza and Mei, who were serving tea and water, broke out in cold sweats.
The negotiations finally came to an end when the sun rose completely the next day.
Fortunately, the people present were all ninjas with good strength, and there were two of the top medical ninjas in the ninja world, so no one showed any symptoms due to not sleeping for a night and the high-intensity confrontation.
But in the end, the more urgent Konoha side faced the reality and chose to give up some of their interests just to bring back the combat power earlier.
Although the peace agreement has not yet been formally signed, it still needs to be reported to the daimyo.
The contract can only be officially signed under the witness of officials sent by the daimyo of the two countries, the Land of Water and Fire.
However, the basic treaty will not change any more.
The daimyo does not have much actual say in matters like these, and he merely plays a nominal role.
Even if some of the conditions might be painful for the daimyo himself, he would only make up for it by providing military funding to Konoha later.
The final conditions of both parties are as follows:
The Land of Fire and Konoha need to recognize the ownership of the Land of Water and the Kirigakure Village over the Land of Whirlpool.
At the same time, a piece of land with an area of xx thousand square meters on the territory of the Land of Fire on the other side of the Land of Whirlpool will be leased to the Land of Water for the establishment of an open port, and the Kirigakure Village will be allowed to send ninjas to be stationed there on its own. The lease period is one hundred years and the rent is one or two ryo.
Secondly, Konoha's main task share in several small coastal countries such as the Land of Bear and the Land of Wave was handed over to the Kirigakure Village.
Return the lost 'Explosive Blade: Shibuki' to Kirigakure, compensate Kirigakure for the war's military expenses of xx billion ryo, as well as a number of precious metals, food and other supplies.
He also copied a copy of the ninjutsu in the "Scroll of Seals" and donated it to the Kirigakure Village free of charge.
The Kirigakure Village needs to completely withdraw from the territory of the Land of Fire.
Release more than 800 Konoha ninjas including Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo, and Mitokado Homura.
At the same time, the two villages formed a strategic alliance, advanced and retreated together, and contributed to the peace of the ninja world.
(End of this chapter)