I just want to be lazy, I was forced to become Hokage

The sale and purchase of tailed beasts is a matter of great importance, and decisions cannot be made easily.

Moreover, the "price" for purchasing a tailed beast requires each buyer to carefully consider it based on the actual situation of the village.

The purpose of buying tailed beasts is to enhance the overall strength of the village.

But if for the sake of the tailed beast, the village cannot make ends meet and is full of deficits... isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

Sarutobi Hiruzen took advantage of the "tailed beast trade" to secretly observe the shadows of several other villages.

The demand for tailed beasts in Kazekage and Sand Hidden Village is undoubtedly the lowest.

Luo Sha was not even willing to get involved in this topic.

The reason is also very simple.

Sunagakure Village already has one and one tail.

One and one tail are enough.

It’s definitely not because the village is poor and can’t afford to buy tailed beasts, nor can it tolerate other rich people buying and selling tailed beasts…

As for the other three villages.

Kirigakure and Iwagakure have roughly equal attitudes towards pursuing tailed beasts.

The Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure Village seems to be the most enthusiastic about the "Tailed Beast Purchase Qualification" released by Konoha.

However, Yunyin Village is very persistent in its pursuit of power.

Troy's performance did not arouse Sarutobi Hiruzen's suspicion.

Several Kage had a heated exchange of words over the "tailed beast trade".

Until dinner time, no specific rules were discussed.

As the moderator and host of the meeting, Mifune saw that it was getting late and simply suggested adjourning the meeting temporarily and talking again tomorrow.

There are too many major events that need to be discussed at the Five Shadows Conference, and it won't be over for a while.

Several actors who came to attend the meeting were mentally prepared to stay in the Kingdom of Iron for ten days and a half.

At this moment, after hearing Mifune's suggestion, the five shadows greeted each other and left the conference room one after another.

Konoha envoys, temporary residence.

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked out the window at the Iron Kingdom-style buildings while recalling the contents of the meeting during the day.

After a while, he turned around and looked at Nara Shikaku and Namikaze Minato who were standing quietly next to them.

These two people can be regarded as Sarutobi Hiruzen's current "right-hand man".

After discussing the content of today's meeting with the "left and right hands" for a while, I also speculated on the thoughts of other villages.

In the end, Sarutobi Hiruzen slowly looked at Nara Shikaku and spoke slowly.

"Shikaku, send Kumogakure and the other villages' thoughts back to the village."

An idea flashed in Nara Shikaku's brain.

what idea!

Aren't there just a few other villages who want to take back the tailed beasts?

Ho--

King Mu of the Five Tails is already a member of the Nara clan! He will belong to the Nara clan forever and ever!

"yes."

Nara Shikaku lowered his head and responded.

While he despised the wishful thinking of the Iwagakure ninjas, he also realized the true intentions of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The so-called "sending information back to the village" is actually...

"I'll contact the clan leader right away."

…

Konoha, Platycodon City.

"Madara Uchiha and the tailed beast?"

Nara Langui was lying on the tatami in his house, holding his chin with one hand and looking lazily at the old patriarch who came to report the news.

"Is the Five Shadows Conference really just about these things?"

Seeing Nara Langui's lazy appearance at this time, Nara Shikano's lips moved, wanting to say something.

But he suddenly realized that it always seemed like this when he was at home...

That's okay.

"To put it bluntly, the Five Shadows Conference is just a gathering of the leaders of five villages to discuss matters."

Nara Shikano sat cross-legged on the tatami and poured himself a cup of hot tea.

"This time it just happened to be the end of the war...

"Uchiha Madara is an unexpected situation, and the tailed beast is an unavoidable problem.

"Not only the tailed beasts, but also the distribution of post-war profits, the disposal of prisoners... there must be a lot of trouble ahead.

"Suck--it's been a long time!"

Old patriarch, when you "love" your son, can you stop sipping the tea?

He doesn’t look distracted at all!

Nara Langui reluctantly sat up straight and poured herself a cup of tea.

"Don't worry about Uchiha Madara's problem. As for the tailed beasts, does the third generation ask Brother Shikaku to send a message back? Does he want King Mu?"

"He dares!?"

Nara Shikano's eyes widened, and he assumed an even more angry posture than when he felt sorry for his son just now, but it disappeared in a flash.

“King Mu belongs to our family.

“The Nine-Tails and Three-Tails have been sealed.

"In my opinion, the Third Generation's intention is probably to sell the Eight-Tails. And the reason why I asked Langui for your opinion is probably because the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki is your prisoner."

As the leader of the Jonin class of the previous generation, Kano Nara spent a long time with Hiruzen Sarutobi and had a deep understanding of his character.

When analyzing the reasons, Nara Shikano also analyzed the reasons why Sarutobi Hiruzen made this tendency.

There are too many tailed beasts, the potential risks are too high, and the war losses are serious...

"Probably those are the reasons."

"Qilabi and Eight-Tails..."

Nara Langui held the teacup in his hand and glanced at the old patriarch.

"Old patriarch, what do you think about this matter?"

"How can I see that?"

Nara Shikano rolled his eyes, not wanting to show his presence on this special issue.

"I'm not the clan leader, let alone the Hokage. Lan Gui, you can make your own decision!"

If Nara Kano's true thoughts were true, he would be inclined to resell the Eight Tails.

Put aside the many reasons just analyzed.

The most important point is that Nara Kano knew that his own Nara forest also "imprisoned" a two-tailed Jinchuuriki.

There are only two tailed beasts in total in Cloud Hidden Village.

Eight tails and two tails.

It's all in Konoha now.

There is no one left in Yunyin Village!

If you can, if you can take this opportunity, sell the eight tails to Yunyin Village again.

So Kumogakure owns the Eight-Tails.

Kirigakure has six tails, Iwagakure has four tails, and Sunagakure has one tail.

Except for the strongest Konoha, the other four villages once again formed a "tailed beast balance", and it was a more balanced balance than before.

This world structure of "one super, many powerful" is definitely beneficial to the overall situation of the ninja world.

It was probably for this reason that the first Hokage divided and sold the seven captured tailed beasts to other villages.

certainly.

This is just Nara Kano's personal opinion.

He had no intention of interfering with the decision of his new patriarch on this issue.

"The third generation's reasons do sound reasonable."

Nara Langui pondered for a moment.

"In principle, I have no objection to selling the Eight-Tails back to Kumogakure."

For Nara Langui, the greatest value of Kirabi and the Eight-Tailed Gyuuki is probably the "Eight-Tailed Chakra".

As for the rest...

All the secret arts information in Kumogakure Village was basically swept away by the "Nara Raikage".

There are no useful scrolls left on Kirabi.

The same goes for Eight-Tails.

Tailed beasts look very strong, but strictly speaking, they only have so many methods.

In addition to the Tailed Beast Jade, the Eight-Tailed Gyuuki also has some abilities such as spitting ink and flinging tentacles.

Nara Langui was not interested at all.

Just recycle the waste!

but.

This also depends on the Hidden Cloud Village and Hiruzen Sarutobi, how much they can pay in the "Eight-Tails Sale".

If the offer was too low, Nara Langui wouldn't mind locking Kirabi in Konoha prison for the rest of his life.

The jinchūriki are not big resource consumers.

Even if Kirabi is really locked up in prison for the rest of his life, it will only give him more mouths to eat.

The old patriarch didn't know Nara Langui's true thoughts. After hearing the latter's words, he thought that the other party also understood the meaning of the "Tailed Beast Balance Strategy".

"Then I'm going to reply to Shikaku right now?"

"Well, no problem. Please tell the old clan leader and Brother Shikaku that if Kumogakure wants to get the Eight-Tails back, there is no problem. You have to pay more!"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Nara Langui thought for a while, and before the old patriarch stood up, he spoke again.

"Can we sell the Eight-Tails and the Jinchuuriki separately?"

Um? ? ?

Several question marks appeared on Nara Shikano's forehead.

How else could this Jinchuuriki be sold separately?

Sell ​​an arm today and a leg the day after tomorrow?

"Old Patriarch, I don't think I told you about this before? Didn't I also capture the Five-Tailed Jinchuuriki before?"

Looking at the confused expression of the old patriarch, Nara Langui quickly realized the other party's doubts and quickly explained.

“Later I rescued King Mu from Han’s body.

"But Han did not die directly because of this. He is still alive and well."

Oh formidable.

Nara Shikano's mouth twitched.

This little monster of my own is really outrageous.

The jinchūriki can be revived even if the tailed beast is extracted...

"The Eight-Tails and the Jinchuuriki are sold separately, I understand... Is there anything else?"

"Well, old patriarch, do you think the octopus legs can be sold separately?"