So, the next task was the most important one.
It was also the task Lord Chiba had repeatedly emphasized.
Could it be that Lord Chiba, like me, was extremely wary of this person? Noticing the figure entering the corner of his left eye, Uchiha Fugaku stopped thinking entirely, focused all his attention on that figure, and slowly rose to his feet.
"You've worked hard, Lord Orochimaru."
Then he turned around and respectfully addressed "Hui Tian."
"His... hiss..."
At that moment, "Hui Tian" raised a hand and slowly peeled the skin off his face, revealing a pallid visage that was almost frightening.
It was Orochimaru.
It seemed that Taki Chiba had extended an olive branch to the Uchiha Clan. Was he working with the current Hokage?
It seemed I could not trust Danzo too much either.
I needed to carefully consider what to do next...
After tearing off Hui Tian's human skin mask, Orochimaru casually tossed it away. With a sizzle, the skin that landed in the bonfire immediately began to burn, swallowed by the flames.
As he watched the skin burn in the fire, Orochimaru slowly drew a scroll from his robes. In his mind surfaced memories of when the plan to stop Iwa from sabotaging the Peace Alliance had been finalized.
That day, after leaving the Hokage's Office, he had been stopped by the young man he had once missed out on. The youth had asked him to become an undercover agent on Iwa's side, and without the slightest hesitation, had ordered him to kill one of the Iwa envoy group's guards, infiltrate the Iwa envoy group, monitor Iwa's every move, and handed him this scroll containing detailed arrangements for everything he was to do.
And the next day, as promised, he had sent him detailed information on the