In a flash of lightning, Hiruzen Sarutobi's mind raced, already imagining the terrifying future Konoha would face if this matter was not handled properly.
The crowd completely erupted.
"Why does Danzo have a Sharingan?"
"He stole Uchiha Naraku's Kekkei Genkai!"
"Danzo deserves to die!!"
"Kill him!!"
"Clan Head, kill him!!"
Especially the Uchiha Clan members, who believed this was one of Naraku's eyes, looked at Danzo with such hatred that they wished they could devour his flesh raw. Each of them wanted to personally dismember this scumbag.
Even the loyal families who had always sided with the Hokage gritted their teeth, silently wishing Uchiha Fugaku would crush this old man to death.
"Let go of me!… You, let go of me… Ahhh—!"
Kakashi's throat filled with a sweet, metallic taste. He gasped for breath, letting out a ragged, bellows-like roar, staring intently at the eyeball in Fūyō's hand, his eyes almost splitting open.
If Jiraiya and Shizune hadn't held him back, he would have already drawn his ninja sword and killed Danzo to avenge Naraku.
"Speak! Where did you hide the children?! Tell me and I'll leave your body intact!!"
Fugaku roared, shaking his bone hand. Danzo was flung around, spitting a few mouthfuls of blood, his head lolling half-dead, but he refused to speak.
"You won't talk, huh?"
Tsunade wasn't sure if this was Naraku's eye, but her heart ached with hatred, and her fists cracked audibly.
"Even if you don't talk, I have a way! The Yamanaka Clan can read the brains of corpses too!"
"Cough cough…" Danzo finally decided to speak, his eyelids half-closed, his breath faint as a thread, "They're not with me…"
Tsunade made a move as if to smash his head, but unexpectedly, Danzo dropped another bombshell as soon as he opened his mouth.
"The children were all given to Orochimaru. He said he needed research samples… This eye isn't Uchiha Naraku's… It was Orochimaru's reward to me."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's scalp instantly prickled, and he accidentally crushed his cherished pipe.
-- Could Orochimaru really… No way…?
"What!?"
"Lord Orochimaru!?"
"Oh my god!"
The Konoha Ninja were completely stunned.
Two pillars of the Village collapsing in a blink of an eye—the impact was so immense that even the sky falling and earth sinking couldn't describe it.
"That's impossible!"
Jiraiya immediately loudly refuted, exposing Danzo's sinister intentions: "You're just trying to drag Orochimaru down with you to lessen your guilt!"
"Oh, Jiraiya, you're surprisingly clever at times."
A familiar husky voice sounded from not far away. Everyone moved aside, revealing Orochimaru, who had just arrived at the scene and heard a heavy accusation being thrown at him.
Even being slandered like this, Orochimaru spoke calmly and smoothly, with a slight smile: "I was completely unaware. If anyone doesn't believe me, feel free to investigate."
Jiraiya let go of the exhausted Kakashi, leaving him for Shizune to care for, and walked over to sling an arm around his old partner's shoulder, patting him hard.
"I knew you couldn't do such a thing!"
He then turned to incite Tsunade.
"Tsunade, maybe it's better to just finish him off. It'll save us from his endless lies!"
"No, Tsunade-nee!"
At some point, Kushina had also climbed onto Susanoo's hand, forcefully examining the various seals on Danzo's body: "If he dies, his brain will be destroyed instantly, and nothing can be read from it!"
Boom boom boom—!!!
A sudden, massive explosion erupted from the northwest corner of the Village, and continuous, violent tremors reached the Hokage Building without subsiding.
Everyone's gaze was drawn to look in that direction. Only Danzo, with closed eyes, subtly curled the corner of his mouth.
-- Good, the evidence has been eliminated.
But he didn't see that amidst the vast cloud of dust raised by the explosion, a colossal, pure white skeleton was faintly visible, rising from the ground.
Carrying the constantly falling earth, stone, and dust from its body, it gradually became complete and flawless, standing tall against the moonlight upon the earth.
Despite being a dry, terrifying skeleton without flesh and blood, it faintly shimmered with a pure white, lustrous glow.
"What… is that…?"
Fugaku controlled Susanoo to move closer, unable to believe the sight before him.
Susanoo…!
The Uchiha Clan's, second Mangekyo!!
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