"Shikamaru, we can be sure now, right?"
Seeing Shikamaru stop halfway through his words, Choji's face flickered with hesitation, and he could not help asking.
"What else is there to be uncertain about? Isn't this already obvious?"
Hearing Choji's words, surprise flashed across Ino's face. She could not imagine what else there was to be uncertain about. This was already a certainty, wasn't it?
These three rooms had already explained everything.
She could not think of any remaining doubts.
"No, there's no mistake. This friend of Teacher Asuma's, the ninja whose name was carved onto the Monument of Spirits as a hero yet left behind no recorded deeds, was named Taki Chiba!"
Hearing the two of them, Shikamaru did not keep them guessing and spoke directly.
There could not possibly be any other doubts about this matter.
No matter how suspicious he was by nature, he could not remain uncertain now.
These three doors, these three nameplates bearing Yukina, Hirohiko, and Chiba, had already explained everything.
Originally, they had merely been unsure whether Taki Chiba or Nitta Neko Yabu was the right name. Of course, they also could not rule out the possibility that the three names merely happened to coincide with Uncle Inoichi's information about the Strongest Ninja.
But now, the three names on these doors confirmed that the Strongest Ninja was named Taki Chiba. The name Choji had copied from the Monument of Spirits was completely correct.
Adding the traces of training he had seen by the back door earlier, it fully proved that Taki Chiba, Uchiha Hirohiko, and Hyuga Yukina were definitely the Strongest Ninja Uncle Inoichi had spoken of, the genius of the Uchiha Clan, and the main family of the Hyuga Clan.
This Japanese-style wooden house with its garden was the place they had been