Yin Release Master! Memory Rewrite!

Mist Ninja turned into shriveled, waterless corpses beneath Scorch Release.

The Sand Ninja were either pierced through by water spears or had their internal organs shattered outright by Water Release. Their flowing blood dyed the deadly torrents red.

In just one exchange, aside from Pakura, whom Yamanaka Kei had deliberately spared, everyone had lost their lives.

Such a brutal scene perfectly matched the aftermath of a clash between the two sides.

It only needed a few minor adjustments.

Once the details of the scene were handled, it would be easy to fool any investigation.

"How did you use Scorch Release?"

Namikaze Minato looked at Pakura, the sole survivor, knowing she was the scapegoat Yamanaka Kei intended to leave behind. He said nothing further about it.

What he could not understand was this.

Pakura was under the control of the Mind Confusion Dance Technique, so Yamanaka Kei should have been the one controlling her body.

How could she still use Scorch Release?

According to the information he had learned before, after the Yamanaka Clan's secret techniques seized control of another person's body—

Clan members with slightly weaker mastery of the secret techniques could not use the controlled person's body to cast ninjutsu.

To accomplish that, one needed exceptionally profound Yin Release attainments to sever the victim's consciousness from their Chakra.

And since Chakra itself was a mixture of spiritual energy and physical energy—

Severing the victim's influence over their own Chakra was far more difficult than simply taking control of an enemy's body!

More importantly—

Under normal circumstances, any ninjutsu the controlled person could use had to be something the caster themselves knew.

The controlled person also needed to possess the Chakra nature corresponding to that ninjutsu.

It was true that Pakura could use Scorch Release.

But Yamanaka Kei...

Don't tell him he had learned Scorch Release too!

"After prolonged practice, some ninjutsu become muscle memory, body instinct. With only a simple prompt, the body completes the rest of the steps on its own."

Yamanaka Kei succinctly explained the general principle.

In the end, Pakura's mastery of Scorch Release was simply too high—especially her signature technique, Scorch Release: Over Steam Kill.

He had merely copied Pakura's hand seal sequence.

Before the brain could even issue an order, her body's instincts would swiftly complete work it had performed countless times.

"Muscle memory... body instinct..."

Namikaze Minato nodded thoughtfully.

"Minato, adjust the traces at the scene and see whether anything was missed. I'll deal with her."

Yamanaka Kei gave Minato his instructions.

Then, controlling Pakura—whose eyes were full of hostility and killing intent—he walked toward an abandoned, dilapidated house nearby.

Yin Release was the power to create form from the formless.

Representing spiritual energy, it could often accomplish things that ordinary people found unimaginable!

It could interfere with another's five senses, create illusions indistinguishable from reality, sense Chakra from afar, probe another's memories, control another's body, convey one's own emotions and perceptions, injure another's mind, destroy another's consciousness...

It could even alter another person's memories!

As the sole owner in all of Konoha of the Red Entry Transmigrator—

Yamanaka Kei possessed unimaginably powerful spiritual energy.

With such a tremendous boost to his spiritual energy, the Purple Entry Yin Release Master possessed power beyond anything ordinary people could imagine.

Take altering other people's memories, for instance.

As far as he knew, no one else in the entire ninja world could accomplish it!

Even Shisui Uchiha, who would awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan in the future and obtain the ultimate Eye Technique, Kotoamatsukami, could only alter a person's will—not their complete memories!

Within the Yamanaka Clan, Yamanaka Inoichi's attainments in the clan's secret techniques were second only to Yamanaka Kei's.

He had once attempted to alter someone's memories last year.

Not only had the victim died on the spot, but he himself had suffered a backlash from Yin Release. Blood had flowed from all seven orifices, his mind had been injured, and he had spent more than two months bedridden at home.

In other words, this method of altering memories—

Was currently something only Yamanaka Kei could do!

He laid Pakura on a bed inside the small house.

Forming a seal with one hand, Yamanaka Kei rapidly sent the power of Yin Release into her mind.

He extracted memories from his Memory Palace—memories he had read from various ninja while serving in the Analysis Team.

Piecing them together, he rewrote Pakura's past, turning her into a spy Konoha had sent to the Sand Village during her childhood.

He incorporated scenes of spies exchanging intelligence.

He filled in the memories supporting her identity as a spy.

Then he focused on changing her memories of today, removing all traces of himself and Minato and placing all the blame on the already dead Suikazan Fuguki.

Yamanaka Kei began the final step, seriously forming hand seals with both hands.

He cast the Memory Sealing Technique Kushina had taught him back then.

After completing the long, complex sequence of hand seals, he pressed one hand lightly against Pakura's head, temporarily sealing away all the altered memories of her life as a spy.

He also left a tiny gap in the seal, ensuring that it would gradually unravel over the next one to two years.

The human brain possessed an extremely powerful ability to repair and fill in memories on its own.

By the time those memories had completely "recovered"—

Pakura would only become more convinced of the spy identity within them.

"Isn't this way better than the Mind Transfer Sand Technique?"

Yamanaka Kei wiped the sweat from his brow, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.

The Uzumaki Clan's Memory Sealing Technique could perfectly hide the seal within the brain. It was far more reliable than the Mind Transfer Sand Technique, which required needles to be inserted into the brain!

Even if Pakura returned this time and the Sand Village used secret techniques to inspect her mind, they would not find anything unusual!

Ding~ You have greatly altered a supporting character's fate and slightly interfered with the World Line's development. Obtained: Entry Draw Chance ×1, Entry Gift Chance ×1.

"System, you're fucking stingy!"

Yamanaka Kei looked at the System notification, rolling his eyes so hard they nearly went skyward.

He had gone through all that trouble—altering memories, using sealing techniques—and had even turned the future hero of the Sand Village into a Konoha spy.

Yet the reward was actually the same as simply killing Suikazan Fuguki?

He grumbled inwardly for quite a while.

Seeing that the System remained as silent as Ya, he curled his lip in boredom.

He immediately began drawing Entries, using the two Entry Draw Chances he had just obtained.

Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Blue Entry "Water Release Mastery" and the White Word Entry "Smiling Face."

Water Release Mastery (Blue): Years of training have granted you precise command over the nature transformation and shape transformation of Water Release Ninjutsu. Your efficiency in learning, studying, improving, and creating Water Release Ninjutsu is increased. The casting speed, power, and effects of Water Release techniques are increased.

Smiling Face (White): Your facial muscle nerves are permanently altered. Whenever your expression changes, every expression becomes a smile. Affinity is slightly increased. The likelihood of depression is increased.

"Oh! A Blue Entry!"

The moment Yamanaka Kei saw the Blue Entry Water Release Mastery, his mood immediately brightened.

The exhaustion caused by heavily using Yin Release to alter another person's memories vanished without a trace at that moment.

Never underestimate a Blue Entry.

Shimura Danzo, as the disciple and Shadow Guard member of Second Hokage Tobirama Senju—

Had struggled for his entire life.

Yet his greatest achievement in ninjutsu was merely Wind Release Mastery.

With one simple Entry draw—

He had obtained an ability that a fairly talented ninja would need an entire lifetime of effort to acquire.

What was there to be dissatisfied about?

Without any hesitation—

Yamanaka Kei decisively chose to activate Water Release Mastery.

As for that White Word Entry, Smiling Face, which had merely come along to fill the numbers—

Heh~

What kind of decent person only knew how to smile?

And depression?

A single Genjutsu in the ninja world could provide powerful psychological counseling. What the hell use was depression!