Chapter 486 Surrender

A senior member of the Sand Village heard Ebizo's analysis and felt that the Sand Village was helpless, so he whispered that they should agree to Minato Namikaze's conditions.

Ebizo immediately glared at the senior official with sharp eyes, asking him if he wanted to make the Sand Village, one of the five major ninja villages, a vassal of Konoha?

The senior executive immediately lowered his head and stopped talking.

At this time, another senior executive could not help but say: "Advisor Ebizo, you just said it yourself, no matter what we in the Sand Village seem to do, the final result will be failure.

Konoha's ninja troops will attack tomorrow. After we fail to resist, the Sand Village will still become a vassal of Konoha, and a part of its manpower will definitely be consumed.

We have few ninjas in the Sand Village to begin with. If we lose another batch and are forced to become a vassal of Konoha, it will be difficult for us to turn things around.

Since the results are the same, why not preserve the manpower of our Sand Village?"

At this time, another senior executive expressed his opinion.

The senior official said, "Indeed, we can retain the village's manpower, so that we at least have a chance. We can pretend to agree to become Konoha's vassal and bring Gaara back to the Sand Village. Then we can use Konoha's resources to slowly accumulate strength and finally rebel against Konoha. Isn't this also a solution?"

The anger on Ebizo's face disappeared, and he began to carefully think about the feasibility of this plan.

Ebizo was already inclined towards this plan, because in this way, the Sand Village could minimize its losses and would be able to turn the situation around after it developed.

But...if the Sand Village, one of the five major ninja villages, becomes a subsidiary ninja village of Konoha, then the Sand Village will completely become a laughing stock in the ninja world, and in the future there will be four major ninja villages, not five major ninja villages.

The highest leader of the Sand Village can no longer be called Kazekage and can only be called Chief.

All past honors will completely disappear.

Chiyo looked at Ebizo and persuaded him: "Ebizo, this plan seems to be the only feasible plan at the moment. We don't have much time. We must find a way to preserve the Sand Village now."

Ebizo nodded helplessly: "I understand, let's do it this way, everyone here, follow us to meet Minato Namikaze."

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Chiyo and Ebizo brought the senior officials of the Sand Village, and then more than 20 senior ninjas, to look for Namikaze Minato.

On a sand dune, Chiyo and Ebizo saw Minato Namikaze and Konoha's ninja troops again.

Namikaze Minato glanced at the people hiding behind Chiyo and Ebi: "What? You want to stop us here? It seems that your numbers are not enough."

Chiyo and Ebizo stepped forward and said, "We choose to surrender and accept the conditions of becoming a vassal of Konoha. We also agree that Konoha ninjas can enter the Sand Village, but we hope that Lord Hokage can agree to a few of our requests."

Minato Namikaze didn't feel it was strange that Chiyo and Ebizo would actually agree to the Sand Village becoming a vassal of Konoha.

Because the Sand Village has no power to resist Konoha's attack, the Sand Village can't do anything except cause unnecessary losses.

Namikaze Minato stared at Chiyo and Ebizo in the distance and said, "Since you have chosen to surrender and accept becoming a vassal of Konoha, then we can talk. Tell me what you want."

Ebizo said, "First, I hope that after becoming a vassal of Konoha, the Sand Village will still have autonomy. Secondly, I hope that Konoha will return the Jinchūriki to the Sand Village. Finally, I hope that Konoha will not be too harsh on us in the Sand Village. We are also victims of this incident and were used by Orochimaru and Chiba."

Namikaze Minato thought for a moment and said: "After the Sand Village becomes a vassal of Konoha, it is impossible to give you all the autonomy. You only have a part of the autonomy. The Jinchūriki can also be returned to you, but most of the power of the tailed beasts must be extracted and left in Konoha, and the remaining small part of the power of the tailed beasts will remain in the body of the Jinchūriki and returned to you.

Finally, since the Sand Village has become a vassal of our Konoha Village, we are all one, and naturally we will not be too harsh on you."

Regarding Namikaze Minato's statement that they only had partial autonomy, Chiyo and Ebizo could have expected this result. After all, they had become vassals and it was impossible for them to have all the power as before.

The reason I said this was that I hoped to get a promise from Minato Namikaze, so that he could at least retain some autonomy.

Chiyo frowned and said, "Drawing away half of the power of the tailed beast? Konoha already has a Jinchuriki, so we don't need Shukaku from the Sand Village anymore, right?"

Namikaze Minato looked at Chiyo coldly and said, "You are just a vassal ninja village. We in Konoha will protect you, so you don't need to be too powerful."

Namikaze Minato finally asked: "So, do you accept it?"

Chiyo and Ebizo looked at each other and agreed with difficulty: "We accept it."

Namikaze Minato stretched out his hand and waved.

In an instant, a large number of Konoha ninjas surrounded Chiyo, Ebizo and others.

Chiyo questioned in a deep voice: "Hokage-sama, haven't we already discussed this? What does this mean?"

Namikaze Minato replied: "It's just a verbal agreement now, and your Sand Village has no leader now, so I can't be sure whether what you said is true, so you will be controlled by us until we successfully enter the Sand Village and take over it.

So, if you really want to surrender and become a vassal of our Konoha, don't resist!"

Chiyo and Ebizo relaxed their tense bodies and accepted the control of the Konoha Ninja, allowing the Konoha Ninja to seal their chakra meridian system and prevent them from using techniques.

Minato Namikaze gave a wink to the Konoha ninja who controlled Chiyo, Ebizo and other high-ranking members of the Sand Village.

These Konoha ninjas formed hand seals at the same time and pressed on each other's heart.

"Seal! The seal of the heart curse!"

A sealing ritual appeared on the chest of Chiyo, Ebizo and others, and as the seal ended, the sealing ritual entered the body.

Chiyo, Ebizo and others all felt as if someone was grabbing their hearts.

Ebizo knelt on one knee, tightly grasping the clothes on his chest, terrified and sweating profusely: "Namikaze Minato, what did you do to us?"

Namikaze Minato explained, "I originally wanted to kill all of you after conquering the Sand Village and replace you with a group of people from Konoha. Since you are so sensible, I can't kill you. So it's better to leave a safe one. After all, I can't always watch you in Konoha.

Your hearts are now bound by the curse, which means that I have the power of life and death over you. You can only obey my orders, otherwise your hearts will be crushed by the curse."

Namikaze Minato waved his hand and announced: "Lead the way and enter the Sand Village!"