Conquering the ninja world from capturing the white eyes

Three days later.

Konoha Village, Hokage Building, Conference Room.

At this moment, the small conference room was full of people. In addition to Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo, Mito Monobu, and Koharu Kaden, who were at the top, some of the clan heads and some jounin were also present.

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Most of them rushed back from the front line in the past three days. If it were not for the purpose of maintaining stability on the front line, I am afraid there would be even more people coming back.

Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at everyone present and said in a heavy voice:

"I believe you have all seen the situation in the village. This is the first time that Konoha Village has been invaded by a foreign enemy since its establishment.

"This invasion resulted in the destruction of nearly half of Konoha. As the Third Hokage, I have no shirking responsibility!

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Saying that, Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up and bowed deeply to everyone.

Everyone saw this and hurriedly spoke.

"It's not your fault, Hokage-sama, it's because the enemy is too cunning!"

"Hokage-sama, you have done a great job. At least there were no casualties among the civilians in the village!"

"Yes, Hokage-sama, you protected everyone!"

After hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi stood up and looked at everyone with a moved expression:

"Thank you for your understanding and support!

"Yes, although half of the village was destroyed this time, fortunately, the people in the village had evacuated in advance and there were no casualties.

"It doesn't matter if the house is destroyed, as long as we are still there, we will soon be able to rebuild a new, bigger and better home!"

"So everyone, please don't be depressed, let alone bring your depression to the front line. We in Konoha are still the strongest ninja village!"

After hearing this, the expressions on everyone's faces immediately improved a lot, and some people even ignited their fighting spirit on the spot.

"Hokage-sama is right, we are still the strongest in Konoha!"

"Not only will this invasion not dampen our will, but it will ignite our fighting spirit and allow us to burst out with stronger strength!"

"A mere Kirigakure village dares to invade Konoha, just wait, now we will repay double what Konoha has suffered!"

Looking at the people in front of him who were full of fighting spirit, Sarutobi Hiruzen finally felt relieved.

What he was most worried about before was that this invasion would trigger a chain reaction, leading to low morale of frontline ninjas, and ultimately Konoha's defeat.

Now it seems that he has been worrying too much. Konoha ninjas are much tougher than he thought.

Not only did he not feel depressed because of this, but he also burst out with a stronger fighting spirit.

As expected of the next generation trained under his wise leadership!

Sarutobi Hiruzen said with pride in his heart.

At this time, Nara Shikaku, the young leader of the Nara clan, suddenly asked:

"Hokage-sama, I wonder how many people died in this invasion?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately showed a sad expression after hearing this:

"A total of 267 people died in this invasion, including 6 special jounin, 108 chunin, and 153 genin.

"When the village needed them, they stood up without hesitation. They are all heroes!

"Especially among them, Matt Dai was the biggest contributor to this incident. It was his heroic sacrifice that brought the safety of countless villagers!"

When they heard that the biggest contributor to this incident was Matt Dai, many people present were a little confused.

"Who is Matt Dai? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"I haven't heard of it either. Is it some big shot in ANBU?"

"I do know a person named Matt Dai, but he is just a genin, so it shouldn't be him, right?"

"Genin? That's definitely not the case. It's probably the same name."

Just when everyone was discussing who the big boss was, Sarutobi Hiruzen interrupted them again:

"It's that genin named Matt Dai, oh no, we should call him a jounin from now on.

"Before, everyone in the village misjudged Matt Dai's strength and thought he was just an ordinary genin.

"But in fact, he is one of the top ten strong men in the village. Once he bursts out with all his strength, even I have to avoid his edge!

"He was the first to discover the invading enemy, and used his life to delay the enemy with all his strength, buying time for the village before we had time to evacuate the people. He is the real hero!"

Now everyone present was dumbfounded.

They never imagined that a genin saved the village.

Some of the people who had laughed at Matt Dai were even more ashamed now and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.

Looking at the different expressions of everyone present, Sarutobi Hiruzen continued:

"It was my fault for not realizing Matt Dai's strength before.

"He should have had more dazzling achievements and a more glorious life. It's my fault that he can only be an unknown genin.

"Although it's too late to say anything now, I still want to do my best to give him some compensation.

"I declare that Matt Dai will be posthumously conferred as a Jonin, and he will be buried with the highest honors. The pension will also be paid according to Hokage standards, and his son Matt Kai will be rewarded with a house and three forbidden arts lessons!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was silent for a moment, and then burst into warm applause.

"Hokage-sama is wise!"

"This is how a hero should be treated!"

"Now Mattai will be able to rest in peace in the Pure Land!"

Looking at the cheering crowd in front of him, Sarutobi Hiruzen smiled in his heart.

'This is indeed the most appropriate way to deal with it.'

In fact, before holding this meeting, he and Danzo discussed for a long time how to deal with Matt Dai.

Danzo believed that Metadai's achievements should be buried, saying that he, like other genin, died while defending the village.

As for why Matt Dai’s achievements should be buried.

Danzo's reason was that Metadai was a political stain on Konoha.

Promoting his achievements and strength is equivalent to admitting that Konoha does not know people well, it is difficult for civilian ninjas to have room for advancement, and there is bullying in the village.

In short, this is not a good thing for Konoha's top management, so it is best not to publicize it.

Sarutobi Hiruzen actually agreed with this point of view in his heart.

Not only did he think about what Danzo said, he even wanted to take credit for Matt Dai's achievements on himself, so as to offset the negative impact of Konoha's invasion on him.

As long as they find a way to convince Metkai, who would care about a "ten thousand year genin"?

However, Ayatian's intervention forced Sarutobi Hiruzen to abandon this plan.

Although Ayatian did not say it clearly, Sarutobi Hiruzen guessed that the other party wanted to use this matter to launch public attacks and destroy Konoha's internal unity.

If the Kirigakure Village publicizes this matter and Konoha chooses to conceal it, then he, the Hokage, will be in a dilemma.

It might even make some lower-level ninjas develop a rebellious mentality.

In order to prevent this from happening, Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to publicize Matt Dai's achievements.

Although he will suffer some negative comments in this way, it will definitely be much better than being attacked by the enemy.

If done well, even negative reviews can be eliminated.

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ps: In the original work, even though Matt Dai had an impressive record of kicking seven people with useless ninja swords, he was still unknown, and few people in the village knew about it.

This can be seen from the fact that Uchiha Itachi only knew that there was Metkai, but not that there was Metedai.

Therefore, Konoha probably did not promote Matt Dai's achievements in the original work.