The contents of Fuguki Suikazan's and Jinin Akebino's letters were circulated among the gathered officials.
"So this is why our Hidden Mist Village's offensive against the Hidden Sand has been delayed and made no progress?"
"What are these two doing?"
"Engaging in infighting over personal conflicts and causing such huge losses to the village... are these two worthy of the village? Are they worthy of the positions they currently hold?"
The high-ranking officials of the Mist Village had absolutely no interest in understanding the rights and wrongs between Fuguki Suikazan and Jinin Akebino.
After confirming that the offensive's progress had been delayed due to the struggle between the two, they felt only anger and blame toward them, wanting to hold them accountable for this matter.
"Lord Mizukage, could Fuguki Suikazan be dissatisfied because of the punishment you gave him last time?"
One person stood up and asked.
Another person spoke up, "It's not impossible. Fuguki Suikazan has an extremely arrogant and perverse personality. Doing something like this fits his style."
The Third Mizukage looked around the room.
"I gave them the position of commander of the Mist army, but they failed to perform well. Regardless of the reason, this is a dereliction of duty on their part, proving they are incapable of handling this task."
"Since that is the case, remove them from their positions directly."
"The new commander of the Mist army will be Hozuki Mangetsu."
A voice of doubt arose.
"Lord Mizukage, Hozuki Mangetsu can't handle the position of commander, can he? Aside from killing, that guy doesn't know anything."
The Third Mizukage glanced indifferently at the speaker.
"Knowing how to kill is enough."
"The strength of our Hidden Mist Village is already much greater than the Hidden Sand. Once Hozuki Mangetsu arrives on the battlefield, as long as he kills people, he can lead our Hidden Mist to victory."
"Besides, it won't just be Hozuki Mangetsu alone."
"Elder Genji, this time, you will make the trip with Hozuki Mangetsu."
An old man stood up and nodded.
"Yes, Lord Mizukage."
When Fuguki Suikazan and Jinin Akebino received the news, both were instantly stunned.
"What's going on?"
"Lord Mizukage just removed us from our positions directly?"
Fuguki Suikazan wanted to advance too badly.
Everything he did was to advance, to obtain a higher position and possess greater power.
Therefore, he was extremely dissatisfied with Jinin Akebino, who had divided his authority.
After Kocho Suikazan's dream, Fuguki's hatred for Jinin Akebino had reached its peak.
"Not only did you snatch my authority and credit, but you also want to kill me?"
"In this world, there is no room for both of us."
Fuguki Suikazan had sent a letter to the Mist Village making a very small request.
Namely, to let Jinin Akebino lead the main offensive while he himself would be responsible for support from the flank.
He argued that Jinin Akebino lacked support experience, and a frontal assault would be simpler for him.
Kocho Suikazan's dream made Fuguki Suikazan terrified to expose his back to Jinin Akebino.
Before sending the letter back to the Mist Village, Fuguki had actually proposed this to Jinin Akebino first.
However, he was rejected.
This made Fuguki even more certain that Jinin Akebino intended to stab him in the back.
That was why Fuguki wrote the complaint letter.
As for Jinin Akebino, firstly, the fact that Pakura's transfer wasn't communicated to him in advance left him completely defenseless against the Sand Village's surprise attack, causing heavy losses.
Then came the proposal for him to lead the main attack.
Jinin Akebino immediately felt something was wrong.
"With Fuguki Suikazan's personality, would he be willing to give the opportunity for merit to me? Impossible. There must be a conspiracy."
"Not giving me the intelligence about Pakura last time was very likely intentional."
"Let me lead the main attack? He probably wants me dead."
The two Mist commanders suspected each other, and for a time, the battle situation fell into a stalemate.
Jinin Akebino's complaint letter emphasized the issue of Fuguki Suikazan not sharing intelligence. In the Mist Village, or any ninja village, this was a major taboo.
Jinin thought Fuguki would be punished.
And that he himself would not be.
After all, he hadn't done anything.
But what Jinin didn't expect was that doing nothing, in the eyes of the village, was also a mistake.
Both he and Fuguki were stripped of their command positions.
"The village higher-ups are actually like this?"
Previously, Jinin Akebino had never climbed to this position, so there was actually a layer of separation between him and the village higher-ups.
Jinin had originally thought the village higher-ups and the Third Mizukage were quite good.
But now, Jinin changed his mind.
"This is too unfair!"
Moreover, both were very puzzled by the appointment of Hozuki Mangetsu as the commander.
It wasn't until that Mist squad actually arrived at the front lines that the two of them finally understood.
Hozuki Mangetsu carried the Hiramekarei, his eyes focused only on that ninja sword.
He didn't care about other people or matters.
Using the sword to kill was Hozuki Mangetsu's greatest hobby.
Such a person definitely couldn't be a commander. Holding the title of commander, he was just a puppet.
The true decision-maker was the person standing behind Hozuki Mangetsu at this moment.
Elder Genji.
Two young figures stood beside Genji.
One was a young man with short blue hair, wearing green clothes, with one eye covered by an eyepatch.
The other was a slightly younger girl.
With long orange-red hair and wearing blue clothes, she looked around constantly, her eyes twinkling with curiosity.
"Elder Genji."
"Elder Genji."
Fuguki Suikazan and Jinin Akebino stepped forward simultaneously.
As for Hozuki Mangetsu, he was completely ignored by the two.
But Hozuki Mangetsu didn't care at all.
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...
"Arrived!"
Rasa's figure was positioned high in the sky, a mass of gold dust supporting his weight.
Below was the combat zone between the Hidden Rock and Konoha.
But at this moment, Rasa couldn't see the people below at all.
It was too high.
So high that even the mountains below looked like small mounds of earth.
"This should be the place."
Rasa checked the wind direction.
Then, he took out a storage scroll.
Opened it.
Immediately, a massive amount of propaganda flyers poured out.
Under the influence of gravity, they plummeted downward.
To prevent them from being blown away by the wind, Rasa had deliberately tied stones to the flyers as weights. Furthermore, these stones were specifically collected from the Land of Earth.
While scattering them downward, he moved from directly above the main Konoha ninja army toward the airspace directly above the Rock army.
A massive number of propaganda cards fell like snowflakes.
A Konoha ninja looked up.
"What is that?"
Rasa saw the points on the system panel in front of him rising at an extremely fast speed.