Chapter 127 (1/2)

Konoha's front camp.

Inside some kind of tent.​​

Erase, Kurenai and Shizune was sitting on the bed playing cards.

After killing the Third Raikage, Yeruashi was too lazy to go to the meeting and discuss the strategy of further fighting with Kumo, so he just said that he needed to rest after a hard battle, no one dared to object and try to force him to go to the meeting.

If there were four people, they could play Manjong, but Tsunade left for the meeting and Rin followed Minato to the Kirigakure battlefield, so they could only play poker for three.

Since the opening of the sixth gate will take more than a year, it may be time to pay attention to the Sage Mode, because now his chakra volume has gone beyond the Jounin level and is gradually approaching the minimum level required to practice the Sage Mode.

”Hehe, seth!”

Shizune grinned and opened her cards.

Erase looked at the cards, put them aside and said: ”You've settled in pretty well. Shizune, those marks you left on the maps, even I didn't notice them right away...Kurenai, you count cards as well as I do.”

”What?!”

Kurenai looked at Shizune in a daze, ” Shizune, did you mark the cards?!”

Shizune stiffened and looked piercingly at Erase: ”How did you figure that out?”

”I didn't actually find the marks themselves, it was just a guess...”

Yeruashi smiled, ” Watching your behavior, I immediately noticed some oddities, it wasn't hard to jump to the conclusion that you were cheating.”

Kurenai grumbled in disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e: ”Ah, that's why, as the game progressed, there was always a strange feeling that I was being seen through.”

”It's okay, no one said that cheating is prohibited.”

Erase said quietly: ”It's not a bad way to train a shinobi.”

Just as Kurenai was about to say something, a figure entered the tent.

Seeing the newcomer, Shizune and Kurenai abruptly stood up, turned around and greeted him.

”Lord Hokage!”

”I came to know about the recovery process of Erase you can go.”

Hiruzen smiled pleasantly.

Kurenai and Shizune immediately left the tent, not daring to disobey the Hokage.

Erase sitting on the bed, gathered the cards in the deck and quietly said, ”Thank you Lord Hokage for your concern, what about Kumo?”

”Ah, the situation hasn't improved...”

Hiruzen shook his head, ” The Raikage agrees to negotiate, but on one condition...he demands to hand you over. It seems that peace talks are impossible, Kumo will fight to the last....”

Then he sighed heavily and said confidently, ” Ah, even if this terrible war continues and the number of casualties only increases, we can only fight with all our might, because we will never sacrifice our hero!”

It may be in the place of Erase someone else, he would have been moved by the words of Hiruzen, but Erase saw everything in a completely different light.

At first, he voiced Kumo's demands and said that peace talks were impossible, and then focused on the sacrifices that the continuation of the war would bring....encountering Erase the idea that his sacrifice can save Konoha and the Fire nation from the misery of war.

Given Yeruashi's current strength and status, other people can't force him to sacrifice himself, only he can make such a decision.

And this old man is really ”good”...

The most powerful village, which successfully held off the onslaught of all the other Great Villages, during the Second and Third World Wars of the Shinobi, later experienced ”incredible growth” and was almost destroyed by one of the Sannins.