Too Torturous

"Danzo, why are you looking at me so strangely?"

Shimura Danzō's Mansion.

Bored out of his mind at home, Renye had come to his good brother's place to sunbathe.

But he found that Danzo was looking at him rather oddly.

"It's nothing."

Shimura Danzō withdrew his gaze.

Had this guy really forgotten what had happened that day?

He looked as if that incident had never happened at all.

But had Renye truly forgotten?

"What are you spacing out for?"

Renye's words pulled him back to his senses. "If you've got nothing to do, make me a glass of juice."

Shimura Danzō nodded at that and headed for the kitchen to squeeze some juice.

The scene from the courtyard that day kept replaying in his mind.

Back then, Renye had seemed like a completely different person, nothing like the Renye currently lying there sunbathing.

If his memory had not been wrong,

he would have suspected that he had been caught in a genjutsu.

"Here, your juice."

Shimura Danzō handed the juice to Renye, intending to observe his good brother closely.

Perhaps he was merely hiding it.

Renye drank his juice while sunbathing, completely oblivious to his good brother's gaze.

Seeing him acting like such a salted fish, Danzo could not help but grow suspicious.

Had that day's events really been an illusion?

No, Koharu knew about it too.

It definitely had not been an illusion!

For a moment, he could not understand why Renye was pretending to know nothing.

Forget it. He would take things one step at a time.

Surely, he would learn the answer someday.

Shimura Danzō made up his mind. As long as Renye said nothing, neither would he.

Tobirama Senju's Mansion.

"Old bastard, still processing documents?"

Uchiha Renye had not even stepped into the courtyard before his