Chapter 146 - 41: International Ninja Alliance (Part 2)
Jinghang's approach this time was rather bold. By establishing such an organization, it seems like a "sports" organization, but in fact, it has promoted a grand alliance among the major ninja villages. It's akin to founding FIFA only to slowly realize you've inadvertently founded the United Nations!
To be more precise, it's more like the League of Nations during Earth's First World War. The reason why the ninja continent has been plagued by endless wars for so many years is largely due to the lack of formal, official communication channels.
Note—formal and official. Take the Iwa-Suna War from a year ago as an example; the cause of such a war is almost unimaginable on Earth. It's like the big bear and the second bear wrestling, and when the second bear couldn't hold up, it silently touched the rabbit's mushroom. Isn't this just asking for trouble?
At least give a heads-up, right? No one said you couldn't rent it. Why resort to such underhanded tactics?
Why does this happen?
In four words—ninja mentality.
Don't think of ninja as some noble profession; it never was. Before the First Shinobi World War, the ninja group was originally hired by wealthy people to complete various special tasks: kidnapping, assassinating enemies' leaders, enforcing family laws, etc. That's what ninjas usually did.
To put it bluntly, as long as you pay, anything from finding cats and dogs to staging coups was on the table. It's not much different from more powerful organized crime groups.
It wasn't until the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, founded the first ninja village—Konoha—that ninjas finally broke free from this wild growth, becoming a military group of a country, with some rules and order. However, this unscrupulous ninja mentality still exists.