Yamanaka Kei returned the two Ninjutsu Scrolls after reading for less than fifteen minutes.
With the speed-reading and memorization abilities enhanced by the Blue Entry Ninja World Know-It-All,
fifteen minutes had already been the result of him deliberately holding back.
If he were truly in a hurry, he could have forcibly stored the contents of those scrolls in his Memory Palace and examined them slowly afterward.
Leaving the somewhat oppressive Scroll Chamber,
Yamanaka Kei asked one of the clerks on the first floor and learned that Nara Shikaku was on duty at the Mission Assignment Office again today.
Too lazy to make another trip, he decisively opened his umbrella and headed for the Intelligence Division.
He would see Nara Shikaku by tomorrow evening at the latest anyway.
Reviewing those sealed confidential files also required finding a suitable opportunity and time.
A day earlier or later made little difference.
He might as well go to the Intelligence Division first and ask the staff there whether they had any information on Mountain Graveyard.
The drizzling morning rain gradually grew heavier as time passed.
Raindrops pattered against the umbrella's surface, splashing up tiny droplets.
Walking through the chilly curtain of rain,
Yamanaka Kei spun the umbrella handle in his hand. Watching raindrops scatter from its edge, he thought of the Darkness Genjutsu he had just read about, and his mood improved further.
The reason Darkness Genjutsu could completely shut down Sharingan with Three Tomoe or fewer, while being so difficult to dispel, was simpler than he had imagined.
This technique truly was Genjutsu.
But its creator had craftily incorporated Sealing Technique methods into it.
Thus, when the technique was cast, the target would first see darkness around them rapidly closing in like tentacles and wrapping around them, gradually robbing them of light.
This