"Have you thought it through?"
Shimura Danzo did not oppose the idea, but instead asked his friend again for his opinion.
In his view, the village's power was naturally the stronger the better. The tailed beasts of the other ninja villages were all gone, and only Konoha still had two tailed beasts in its hands.
Didn't this indirectly prove Konoha's strength?
But since Renya had taken the initiative to propose returning the tailed beasts to the mountains, he must have his own considerations.
There was no need for Danzo to refute it—he only needed to agree.
In fact, his friend was right. The current village no longer needed to rely on the power of tailed beasts as a deterrent in battle.
"I've thought it through. There's no need to search for new jinchūriki anymore. When the time comes, just release the tailed beasts and let them leave."
Renya did not hesitate at all and directly finalized the matter.
He knew Danzo would not refute his opinion. All along, Danzo had never opposed him.
This time was no exception.
Sure enough, just as Renya had expected, Shimura Danzo did not object.
After a moment of silence, he nodded in agreement.
"Fine. We'll do it according to your idea."
Hiruzen saw the two of them decide to release the tailed beasts in just a few sentences.
For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
You settled it so quickly—then why did you call us here?
There was no sense of participation at all!
Having only the right to make suggestions but no decision-making power was exactly like this.
Shimura Danzo's authority in the village was unshakable. No one could veto his plans.
Of course, except for Renya.
In a sense, Renya's decision was Danzo's decision.
But the reverse was not true…
Uchiha Kagami sighed inwardly when he saw this. Danzo actually allowed Renya to participate in decision-making.
One had to know that Danzo had always valued power highly and never allowed others to influence his decisions.
It wasn't that they, the Hokage's advisors, had never opposed Danzo's decisions before.
But without exception, it had never had any effect.
Only Renya could make Danzo abandon a plan he insisted on.
The two of them truly lived up to being good brothers!
"Do you have any objections?"
Shimura Danzo looked at the others, seemingly asking for their opinions.
Everyone: "…"
If both Renya and Danzo agreed, would their opposition really matter?
"Very well. Then this matter will be handed over to Renya to handle."
After all, Renya was the one who proposed it in the first place. Letting him handle it posed no problem at all.
...
Senju Tobirama's residence.
"You want to release the tailed beasts?!"
Senju Tobirama stared at Renya with a strange expression, unable to understand what he was thinking.
Since when did this kid become so compassionate?
He actually cared about the freedom of the tailed beasts!
If he remembered correctly, most of the tailed beasts had been killed because of him, right?
After all, Uchiha Madara only captured half of the Nine-Tails. The other tailed beasts were all captured by Renya.
It could be said that he was the accomplice of the "Eye of the Moon" plan, the chief culprit who indirectly caused the deaths of the tailed beasts!
Could it be that he had caused too much slaughter, and his conscience had finally awakened?
"Don't you think imprisoning the tailed beasts is too cruel?"
Renya couldn't possibly say that he was worried about future Nine-Tails jinchūriki being killed by the tailed beast, so he could only use this kind of explanation.
Senju Tobirama: "???"
This is bad. This kid must have personally killed Uchiha Madara, which caused problems with his mental state.
There was a very high possibility that he had developed another personality.
Otherwise, there was no way to explain the current situation. With this kid's laid-back personality, he didn't even care about Uchiha Madara's plan for peace in the ninja world.
It was even more impossible for him to care about the freedom of two tailed beasts!
Senju Tobirama's pair of red eyes stared intently at Renya, trying to discern something from his expression.
"Why are you staring at me?"
Facing Senju Tobirama's extremely aggressive gaze, Renya subconsciously took a step back.
Has this old man gone crazy?!
He was just planning to release two tailed beasts back into the mountains. Was it really necessary to have such a huge reaction?!
Why look at him with that kind of gaze?
Senju Tobirama stared at him for a long time. Only after finding no problems did he withdraw his gaze.
"Since you've thought it through, then do whatever you want."
Konoha was no longer in its founding days. Now it no longer needed tailed beasts as a deterrent force.
Whether the village had tailed beasts or not was no longer important.
Besides, the tailed beasts of the other ninja villages were long gone. It didn't matter if Konoha lost its tailed beasts as well.
Everyone was on the same starting line. Konoha would still remain in an absolute hegemonic position!
When the time came, they would just need to warn the other ninja villages not to set their sights on the tailed beasts…
After obtaining Senju Hashirama's approval, Renya knew this matter was settled.
As long as this old man didn't oppose him, no one in the village would oppose him.
...
Senju Hashirama's residence.
"Renya, are you saying that the village won't need jinchūriki in the future?"
Uzumaki Mito looked at Renya with surprise on her face.
"Yes. In the future, I will release the Nine-Tails and let it regain its freedom."
A smile appeared on Uzumaki Mito's face.
She hadn't expected Renya to propose such a thing, but it was fine.
What Hashirama had done back then was indeed somewhat inappropriate.
She had spent so many years with the Nine-Tails and naturally knew that its nature was not bad.
Unless someone actively provoked the tailed beasts, they would not casually attack humans.
...
Sealing space.
"Is this guy really planning to release me?!"
The Yang Nine-Tails revealed an expression of disbelief after hearing the conversation between the two.
It had thought that it would remain in the sealing space for the rest of its life, but it never expected that the Uchiha kid wanted to release it and let it regain itself.
This was something it wouldn't have dared to dream of, yet it actually happened in reality!
For a moment, it was so excited that it couldn't even speak.
Only the nine tails behind it, wildly swaying, showed how unsettled it was at this moment.
"Hahahaha!"
The Nine-Tails finally couldn't suppress the joy in its heart and burst into loud laughter.
Those other tailed beasts that were absorbed by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path probably never imagined that it would have a day of rebirth, even until their deaths.
Fortunately, Uchiha Madara still retained some humanity back then and only absorbed half of its chakra.
Otherwise, how could it have had a chance to escape?
"The other me—if you knew about this, you'd definitely be happy for me too, right?"
If the Yin Nine-Tails saw its current expression, it would definitely be so angry it couldn't say a word.
Unfortunately, the Yin Nine-Tails had long since become part of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Originally, since Renya had followed Uchiha Madara, the Nine-Tails didn't have a good impression of him.
But now it was different. He had become the first human the Nine-Tails had acknowledged since being sealed for decades.
...
Some unknown place in the ninja world.
"Madara-sama, that's the situation."
Black Zetsu truthfully reported what had happened in Konoha.
"Oh? That kid actually wants to release the tailed beasts…"
Uchiha Madara sneered. That kid wouldn't think that with his death, everything was completely over, would he?
But this was good too. Capturing the Three-Tails in the future wouldn't be so troublesome.
"No need to monitor that kid anymore. Has the Rinnegan been properly placed on the pawn?"
"Reporting to Madara-sama, everything has been arranged properly."