Chapter 573

Konoha Camp.

Somewhere in the camp.

Maple was sitting in front of the bed playing Landlord with Shuriken and Kurenai.

The meeting was too boring. He had already killed the Third Raikage, so naturally, he was too lazy to discuss the follow-up plan to deal with Kumo, so he casually found an excuse that he needed to rest after the war, and no one dared to force him to attend the meeting.

Landlord was taught by Maple to Shuriken and Kurenai. Originally, the four of them could make a table of mahjong, but Tsunade was in the meeting, and Lin was with Minato on the battlefield in the Land of Water, so they could only make a three-person poker game for entertainment after the war.

He estimated that it would take at least a year for him to open the sixth gate of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, and with this progress, he might be able to practice the Sage Mode faster. After all, his current Chakra volume has exceeded that of a Jonin, and he is gradually approaching the bottom line of practicing the Sage Mode.

"Three and one, that's it!"

Shuriken smiled and threw the last card in her hand.

Maple stared at his hand for a while, then silently put down the card and said: "You guys did very well, Shuriken, I didn't even notice the mark you made … Kurenai, your observation and skills have already caught up with me."

"Huh?!"

Kurenai looked at Shuriken in amazement and said: "Did Shuriken make a mark on the card?"

Silent Sound's expression froze for a moment as he carefully looked at Maple and asked, "When did you discover it?"

"Actually, I didn't notice, it was just a feeling."

Maple chuckled and said: "It seems like you don't have much confidence, it's not hard to guess that you cheated."

Kurenai said with dissatisfaction: "That's why I felt like I was seen through."

"It's nothing, I never said that cheating is forbidden in the first place." Maple smiled and said: "This is also a way to train your ninja ability."

Just as Kurenai was about to say something, a figure suddenly walked in from outside the tent. The moment they saw the other party, Kurenai and Shuriken stood up at the same time.

Both of them immediately bowed to the other party.

"Hokage-sama!"

"Well, I'm here to check on Maple's recovery, you two can leave first."

Sarutobi smiled kindly.

Kurenai and Shuriken didn't dare to disobey, so they nodded and left the tent.

Maple sat on the bed and tidied up the cards on the bed and said casually: "Thank you for your concern, Hokage-sama. Did something happen on Kumo's side?"

"No, it's nothing."

Sarutobi shook his head and said: "Kumo's condition for peace talks is to hand you over to them. It seems that they have no intention of peace talks at all. If they want to continue fighting, then even if the war continues and the casualties increase, we can only continue to fight. No matter what, we can't hand over the hero."

Kumo's condition for peace talks is interesting.

If it were anyone else, perhaps they would have been moved by Ape's Flying Sun's words. However, Feng Ye sensed something else from Ape's words.

First, he proposed Kumo's condition for peace talks, then he rejected it, and then he added the 'casualties increase' and so on … Isn't this implicitly telling him that his sacrifice can be exchanged for the end of the war, so that Konoha and the Land of Fire can be freed from the suffering of war?

Due to his current strength and status, he couldn't be asked to make a sacrifice by anyone else. He had to be the one to do it.

This operation is really like Hokage's!

It's worthy of being the number one shinobi village in the Shinobi world during the Third World War. It developed all the way to the point where Orochimaru's invasion was enough to kill them.

'You're probably a spy from the enemy village lurking in Konoha, but day after day, you weren't called back, and finally you became Konoha's Hokage!'

Maple really wanted to raise his Kusanagi sword and directly chop off Sarutobi's head.

'Do you think I'm as retarded as everyone else?!'

"If sacrificing me alone can really bring peace, then I'm willing to be the bridge to build peace, but Hokage-sama, do you trust Kumo?"

Maple looked at Sarutobi with an indifferent expression.

This question immediately stopped Sarutobi's mind, because it's impossible for him not to consider this point. He knows very well that Kumo can't be trusted.

"You're right."

Sarutobi nodded and said: "Kumo can't be trusted, so there's no need to think about this kind of thing, we Konoha have the confidence and ability to win this war."

Maple's words made him clearly realize the fact that the boy in front of him is no longer a ninja that he can control.

In Konoha, the ninjas that control the dark side, whether it's Danzo or Orochimaru, are all under his control, but Maple, relying on his strength and achievements, has already left the scope of his control.

In fact, Kuroto is a little conflicted right now, Maple is no longer a ninja that he can control, and for someone like him who has a strong desire for control, this is a crisis that he can directly feel.

There are only two choices he can make.

Either he can train Maple as a candidate for the 4th or 5th Hokage, or he can start suppressing Maple as much as possible and not let him touch the upper echelons of Konoha.

In fact, Sarutobi prefers Minato Minato, because he knows that Minato Minato is a ninja who only cares about the development of Konoha, and doesn't care about power and other things, so Minato Minato is the most suitable candidate to be the Hokage.

Maple is the disciple of Orochimaru.

He will definitely support Orochimaru as the Hokage.

And once Orochimaru succeeds as the 4th Hokage, then the 5th Hokage will basically be Maple. Sarutobi doesn't really want Orochimaru to take over Konoha.

That's right!

Sarutobi suddenly thought of something, that is, Maple's younger brother Kakashi is a disciple of Minato Minato, and he is also an excellent ninja!

If Minato Minato is chosen as the successor of the 4th Hokage, and Kakashi is trained as the 5th Hokage, it will definitely indirectly affect Maple's attitude!

As for whether the power of Konoha will completely fall into the hands of Kakashi and Maple when Kakashi succeeds as the Hokage of Konoha, it doesn't even need to be considered.

Because that is at least 20 or 30 years later.

"By the way, I want you to go to the Land of Rain." Sarutobi didn't mention the previous matter and changed the topic.

"Land of Rain?"

Maple looked at Sarutobi strangely.

Sarutobi explained the situation of the battlefield in the Land of Earth and mentioned that Hanzo led the Rain ninjas to attack Konoha, which caused the situation to become bad.

"I didn't expect that Orochimaru-Sensei would suffer a loss by cooperating with Danzo."

Maple's eyes were full of surprise.

Could it be that Shimura Danzo dug a pit for him?

If that's the case, then it's fine, he can directly get rid of Danzo and pave the way for him to take over Konoha in the future. Also, he doesn't have to be on guard against Danzo all the time.

With his current strength, it's still difficult for him to deal with the mastermind behind the scenes of the shinobi world, but on the surface, he can clean them up.