The Seventh Hokage, Naruto, and Hinata, who had supposedly been killed, appeared completely unharmed.
Kawaki was not Naruto's son at all. Instead, he was the culprit who had imprisoned Naruto.
And Boruto, whom everyone had been hunting down, was Uzumaki Naruto's real son.
People's perceptions could be altered, but after Ada died, no one remained to continuously alter their perceptions.
And since there were neither image records of Kawaki as a child nor any traces of Kawaki having lived in Konoha,
coupled with Naruto repeatedly using broadcasts to prove that Boruto was his son,
the people of the Shinobi World finally realized that someone had used a secret technique to alter the perceptions of the entire Shinobi World.
But everything happening outside had little to do with Mitsuki.
He returned to Orochimaru's laboratory in a daze.
Mitsuki felt a sense of humiliation lingering in his heart.
"Even mistaking your own sun... what a disgrace to Orochimaru."
Senyo's words were like a sharp blade stabbing into Mitsuki's heart.
Thinking about how he had mistaken an enemy for a friend for so long, and had even worked hard to hunt Boruto during that time,
Mitsuki was overwhelmed with shame.
Orochimaru in this timeline still had a laboratory, but he had to report to Konoha whenever he conducted any kind of experiment.
Naruto also had the saintly personality of wanting everyone to be satisfied.
Naturally, anything dangerous was rejected, anything ethically controversial was rejected, and anything requiring a large amount of funding was rejected too.
Simply put, this wasn't approved, and that wasn't approved either.
Orochimaru had naturally become a couch potato, spending every day in the laboratory working on old projects.
Repairing his damaged soul, or studying himself.
As for creating Mitsuki, that had merely been a byproduct of wanting to continue