"Sure enough, he was knocked unconscious? That was quite cleanly done. Hirohiko didn't notice a thing. That Kirigakure shinobi must be fairly strong. Hirohiko took him down with a single move. Now that he has the Mangekyō Sharingan, Hirohiko's strength probably isn't much weaker than mine. He might even be stronger than me."
At one side outside the cell door, Chiba dusted himself off and stood before an opened hidden door. Looking at the furnishings inside, which were much like Hirohiko's old room, and the still-breathing Konoha ninja wearing a forehead protector who was slumped half over the bed, he murmured to himself.
Then, after standing there with a frown and thinking for a while, Chiba slowly shut the hidden door, turned, and left.
He had already checked. The guard ninja responsible for watching over the detention cell system was not in mortal danger. It seemed that the Kirigakure shinobi who had infiltrated to attack Hirohiko had not intended to kill him.
But that was only natural.
If a Konoha ninja died—especially a guard ninja assigned to watch a serious criminal—Konoha would certainly take it seriously.
After all, the detention cells had guards stationed here partly because Hirohiko bore the grave crime of killing a fellow villager. On the other hand, the Sharingan in Hirohiko's eye sockets could not be allowed to fall into enemy hands.
Kakashi's successful Sharingan transplant was still there as precedent, so Konoha could not possibly remain indifferent. It was only because Kakashi was a hero, and Obito had given his Sharingan to Kakashi of his own will. As the last wish of a hero who had sacrificed himself, even if the Uchiha Clan used the excuse that their clan's Kekkei Genkai could not be passed to outsiders, they could not remove Obito's Sharingan from Kakashi's