Yes, that was right.
There was only one possibility: Deputy Captain of the Defense Force! This scroll revealed only one thing—that Hyuga Yukina was the Deputy Captain of the Defense Force!
There was no other possibility! The moment those words fell, the room suddenly went silent.
Whether it was Shikamaru Nara, Akimichi Choji, or Ino Yamanaka, all three stood frozen in place, staring without blinking at the document before them, from which all useful information had already been erased.
Their eyes were all fixed on that red mark, that olive-leaf-shaped trace of red.
Could something like this... really happen? At that moment, Akimichi Choji and Ino Yamanaka could not help but have the same thought.
Though they might not have reacted as quickly as Shikamaru Nara, they understood very well what an enormous discovery it would be if Hyuga Yukina really was the Deputy Captain of the Defense Force.
And what an enormous shock it would bring.
Yes, a shock.
At that moment, this discovery was shattering their common sense.
Piece by piece.
The situation was already very clear. Hyuga Yukina was the Deputy Captain of the Defense Force.
After all, the Defense Force was one of the most unique departments in the entire village. Only someone at the captain level of the Defense Force could issue this sort of written order, and there were only two captain-level positions in the Defense Force: Captain and Deputy Captain.
Moreover, each position could only be held by one person.
The entire Defense Force had only one Captain and one Deputy Captain.
And Hyuga Yukina could not have been the Captain of the Defense Force. After all, the current Captain Watanabe had occupied that position for nearly twenty years. Judging by the timeline, Captain Watanabe had already been Captain during the period when