UK:GSW Chapter 431 – Before the Release of The Last Ninja, Konoha #2 Runs Into Trouble
Day by day, time passed. The Konoha Gaming Guild did not continue releasing promotional videos for The Last Ninja, simply stating that two weeks later a new game launch event would be held. At that time, The Last Ninja would officially be unveiled to all players.
This directly caused The Last Ninja's popularity to not only remain high, but even break new records due to its imminent release.
Countless people could not wait to play The Last Ninja, to experience the shock brought by this unprecedented masterpiece, to see what the "Second World" mentioned in the official tagline was really like.
While previous genjutsu games were breathtaking and highly realistic, due to the scale of the games, they could by no means be called a "Second World."
This kind of unprecedented scenario was irresistible.
Of course, not everyone thought this way. At the very least, many shinobi were thinking they would now have a new place to train.
Yes—train.
Let's not forget, when genjutsu games first appeared and received strong support from the then still conservative Konoha leadership, it was because of their immense strategic value.
For shinobi, genjutsu games were an extremely effective training ground, offering the greatest nurturing effect for ordinary shinobi at low cost. Even games like the shinobi world version of Fruit Ninja could give powerful shinobi valuable training opportunities.
Back then, Uchiha Madara himself became a devoted fan, addicted to that very game.
Moreover, those early genjutsu games had multiple versions—one for sale externally and one for internal use—with completely different levels of realism.
To get their hands on the so-called "uncut internal version," other hidden villages even spent large sums of money to import it. Though they were reluctant to pay Konoha or cede benefits, in a shinobi world still in an arms race, "you have it, I don't" was the greatest sin.
Because of this, whether in Konoha or elsewhere, shinobi had become accustomed to training inside genjutsu games.
Especially after the release of Ultimate Storm and Shinobi World Continent, two highly competitive games, the trend reached its peak. Nearly every shinobi in the world—including reserve shinobi such as academy students in every village—had become genjutsu game users.
It could be said that it was with these two games that genjutsu games became deeply bound to the shinobi profession.
One game directly trained a shinobi's one-on-one, squad, and team combat coordination abilities. The other directly trained a shinobi's command abilities, capable of producing excellent military strategists at minimal cost.
The benefit these two games brought to the shinobi community was unprecedented.
Thus, with The Last Ninja about to debut, shinobi naturally wondered what kind of training and growth this game would offer them.
Some things, just imagining them filled shinobi with anticipation, even excitement to the point of wanting to dive in immediately and begin a life of cutting down foes.
Of course, for the major hidden villages, this was yet another headache and source of pain, because a brand-new game of this caliber meant they would have to import it—just like before, with the uncut version.
To make that happen, they would have to cede more benefits to Konoha or directly spend huge sums to purchase it—or both.
For the major hidden villages, this was a bleeding wound, something that made them want to explode just thinking about it, leading to an instinctive resistance.
However, no matter how they resisted, they would have to find a way to import it. As mentioned earlier, in a shinobi world that has never abandoned the arms race, "you have it, I don't" is the ultimate betrayal of the village's interests—a blunder of the highest order.
In fact, with the current recognition that genjutsu games are closely tied to shinobi, any village or faction unwilling to import them would be seen as foolish and incompetent. This was an open scheme—something that made the leaders of other powers gnash their teeth in frustration but left them helpless.
Although it might sound absurd for the leader of a military organization to be influenced by public opinion, in a shinobi world full of trouble-makers in every village, it was completely normal.
Let's just say, in the shinobi world, the worst fate was clan extermination—which targeted only shinobi clans and had nothing to do with civilians. This alone was enough to create a population of bizarre, unruly people.
In short, The Last Ninja had caused shockwaves throughout the shinobi world, and the entire world had entered "waiting mode" for its release day.
Moreover, the major hidden villages had already sent delegations ahead of time to Konoha to negotiate the import of this new game.
Naturally, they were also working to investigate the reasons behind the recent major shifts in the Land of Fire's national policy. Many speculated that the Land of Fire's daimyo might have fallen under Konoha's control. But without conclusive evidence, it was mere speculation—useless even if spoken aloud.
After all, Konoha could simply have the daimyo publicly deny it.
Still, the speculation alone was enough to motivate various powers to act, even with excitement and expectation.
After all, if proven true with solid evidence, they could deliver a heavy blow to both Konoha and the Land of Fire, then take the opportunity to send troops and seize all the value the two had created.
Yes—if this were under the old "rules of the game," that would be entirely correct thinking, with a high probability of success.
Once the truth was confirmed, Konoha would inevitably face a united assault from the other daimyos—a full-scale attack. Konoha could even end up experiencing the same treatment Uchiha Obito faced in the original story: confronting the Allied Shinobi Forces.
With its former strength, Konoha would have had no chance of holding out.
But to Konoha today, what was the Allied Shinobi Forces?
If not for the sake of maintaining stability, buying time for complete control and reform, and avoiding excessive destruction to the shinobi world, Konoha could already have launched a great expedition that would completely transform the shinobi world—and would absolutely win in the end.
Now, Konoha's leadership was not concerned with whether it could win another shinobi world war, but how to minimize casualties while still preserving its vitality, and ensure that the transformation of the shinobi world was swift—while also guaranteeing that old classes could blend into the new era and continue causing trouble after the reforms.
Even with the learning platform provided by Uchiha Kei, such preparation required time.
Now that they controlled the Land of Fire, it was even more necessary to work overtime to cultivate administrative talent. A civil service system had quietly begun.
With the help of Uchiha Kei's learning space, Konoha's leadership had avoided many detours and saved much effort in training personnel—truly enjoying the "cheat mode" lifestyle.
Of course, how far they could go would depend on Konoha's future.
After all, people's hearts change. How long could Konoha's current purity last? Who could say?
For Uchiha Kei, there wasn't much he could control. What he had done, aside from fulfilling his own needs, was simply helping his friends.
And just as The Last Ninja's release was being awaited and all factions were investigating the Land of Fire's internal changes, the No. 2 World suddenly encountered a situation—Konoha #2 faced unexpected trouble.
Well—perhaps not entirely unexpected. It was simply that various problems caused by the Akatsuki had begun to erupt.
As anticipated, without Uchiha Obito posing as Uchiha Madara as the big boss, and without the Pain's Assault on Konoha, Konoha's interest in events was low—the whole process was a mere token participation. The classic Five Kage Summit ended up being a failure, degenerating into a shouting match.
The Cloud and Stone Villages, due to the death of the Third Raikage in the Third Shinobi World War, argued heatedly, turning the summit into an argument fest.
Although the Mist Village, with its Fourth Mizukage under Obito's control, also hated the Akatsuki and supported the Cloud's proposal to attack them, the Sand Village—despite also having suffered an Akatsuki attack—remained non-committal.
As Fifth Kazekage, Gaara did not, as in the original, support the Cloud. Instead, like Konoha, he became a spectator. When the Cloud mentioned that he himself had been captured by the Akatsuki, Gaara expressed anger and condemnation toward the Akatsuki, but voiced doubts about forming an alliance—remaining on the fence.
It was an official, formulaic stance that left others baffled, even displeased—thinking him cowardly and disgraceful for being attacked by the Akatsuki and yet showing no fight.
But Gaara's attitude remained calm, unshaken.
After all, before the Five Kage Summit, Gaara had secretly met with his friend Naruto.
That day, Naruto told him many things—enough to change his original decision to fully support attacking the Akatsuki.
After all, with the Akatsuki already gone, what was there to attack?
Though he didn't know what Konoha was up to, since it was a friendly suggestion, Gaara decided to listen and planned to visit Konoha afterward to learn how they had quietly dealt with the Akatsuki.
Thus, the scenario in the original story—where most villages supported confronting the Akatsuki after being attacked, Obito and Sasuke crashed the summit, and everyone united to form the Allied Shinobi Forces—never happened. The alliance was stillborn, and the Kage returned home with their own agendas.
Not long after, the Fourth Raikage found Killer B, only to discover he had never been captured—and was off enjoying himself. The Raikage's fury was immediate.
After all, the Raikage had gone to the summit to form an alliance to rescue B, endured anger there—all because B had been "captured." And now? B was fine all along, partying away? Anyone would blow their top.
As a result, B was dragged back and put in confinement. Even the proposer of the alliance—the Cloud—dropped the idea.
Though the Cloud had still lost the Two-Tails and its jinchuriki, they could not compare to Killer B.
So, still unaware of the truth, the Raikage decided to simply wait in the Cloud for the Akatsuki to attack—maliciously anticipating their assault on Konoha.
After all, Konoha possessed the strongest tailed beast, the Nine-Tails, making it an inevitable Akatsuki target—it was only a matter of time.
In reality, the Cloud—and the Raikage—harbored deep resentment toward Konoha. He had always had his eye on Konoha, eager to crush it and become the true superpower of the shinobi world.
After the Nine-Tails' Rampage, with the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and many Konoha elites dead, the Raikage made no secret of his ambition—even kidnapping the Hyuga clan leader's daughter.
All this proved that while the Fourth Raikage was a rough and wild man, he was also unscrupulous. To think he had an honorable heart beneath the exterior was naïve.
Thus, he was deeply displeased with Konoha's inaction at the summit—an attitude that, to the uninformed, looked like they were just watching other villages suffer and reaping the benefits.
This only made the Raikage angrier, determined to see Konoha suffer once the Akatsuki attacked.
Yet he did not simply wait. He sent many to investigate the Akatsuki—whose sudden silence, after such intense activity, was suspicious.
Having already had his backyard raided by the Akatsuki, the Raikage could not stand the thought and dispatched scouts everywhere. Thanks to earlier searches for Killer B, the Cloud did find something.
For example, they discovered the Rain Village had lost its leader—and that the Rain had been the Akatsuki's base and birthplace.
Following this, they uncovered more—including the place where Nagato had undergone modifications by Black Zetsu.
This was no great feat of Cloud intelligence—the No. 2 Black Zetsu had intentionally left clues, fearing Nagato might be hard to control, so he planted trails outsiders could follow, eventually learning certain things.
In the original story, Kabuto finding Uchiha Madara's remains may have had Black Zetsu's hand behind it.
It was his way of introducing more controllable variables while pushing the plan toward rescuing his "mother."
In this way, following Black Zetsu's trail, the Cloud learned much—and eventually discovered that the Akatsuki's leader had already set out to attack Konoha, long ago.
But that was impossible—there had been no news of an attack on Konoha.
What was hidden here?
When the Raikage received the intel, he immediately sensed something was off. Konoha must have done something—perhaps even endured an Akatsuki attack without casualties and wiped them out completely.
The thought made his scalp tingle and his heart pound.
Because if this were true, Konoha would be terrifying—and it would mean everything the Akatsuki had, including the Rinnegan and several tailed beasts, had fallen into Konoha's hands.
Most importantly, Konoha had achieved such a victory without any fanfare!
This thought only deepened the Raikage's fear and suspicion.
After all, Konoha had been weakened for 17 years, with no new geniuses like the Fourth Hokage. Its only standouts were two of the Legendary Sannin; the rest were nobodies. Even "the greatest genius under the Hokage," Kakashi Hatake, though excellent, was far from Minato's level.
So how had such a Konoha quietly annihilated the Akatsuki?
Fear of the unknown grew within the Raikage, who shared his suspicion with his advisors—leaving them equally shaken.
One suggested a possibility: the Impure World Reincarnation.
If Orochimaru had used it during the Konoha Crush to kill the Third Hokage, then surely Konoha could use it to wipe out the Akatsuki—after all, the technique originated in Konoha. No matter how much they claimed it was a forbidden jutsu sealed in the Scroll of Seals, such words were just for show.
The Cloud researched all kinds of forbidden jutsu—and was secretly building a terrifying chakra cannon that could make the entire shinobi world tremble.
By that measure, why would the Raikage believe Konoha was innocent?
Konoha was weakened by the Nine-Tails' Rampage, not turned into fools. He never believed in their "goodness." Even the records of the First Hokage bowing to the other Kage for peace were, to him, just a joke—surely hiding some incident where Konoha had lost and written the record to save face.
To him, Konoha was an evil, despicable, hypocritical village.
The Five Kage Summit and Akatsuki affair only proved it—Konoha had likely eliminated the Akatsuki but kept silent, letting others remain tense, quarrel, and panic while they sat back.
Such behavior was the ultimate schemer's play, and the Raikage's wariness rose to the extreme.
Not willing to let Konoha continue fishing, he decided to cause trouble—publicizing the findings.
He didn't add the Cloud's speculations, just edited the intel to point subtly toward Konoha.
Even this alone made all powers reach the same conclusion as the Raikage—turning their eyes to Konoha with deep wariness.
After all, if the intel and the speculation were true, Konoha would be far too dangerous.
The only power without a reaction was the Sand.
Because shortly after the Five Kage Summit, Gaara quietly visited Konoha #2, learning much.
When he returned, he overruled objections and began promoting genjutsu games in the Sand and the Land of Wind.
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