Instant Annihilation of the Hidden Cloud Envoy Team! Death as Brilliant as Fireworks! (Continued)

"What are you trying to say, Danzo?"

Shimura Danzō said coldly, "Use Kotoamatsukami against the Uchiha clan..."

"Is that your method, Hiruzen?"

"What's wrong with it?"

"I cannot trust the Uchiha clan."

Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned deeply. "So using Kotoamatsukami to change their will and stop their rebellion—isn't that the right path?"

Shimura Danzō said in a low voice, "Hiruzen, you've overlooked one crucial point..."

His jackal-and-vulture-like eyes lifted and fixed fiercely on Uchiha Shisui.

"The man standing before us is also a member of the Uchiha clan!"

Uchiha Shisui's heart jolted.

"Lord Danzo, you still don't trust me?"

"I already said it. I cannot trust any Uchiha clan member, and that includes you."

"How can I be sure that everything you said is true?"

"How can I know that you truly used Kotoamatsukami to control all the Uchiha clan members, making them abandon their rebellion and pledge loyalty to Konoha?"

"And how can I know that you won't secretly undo the control, allowing the Uchiha clan to gather strength in secret and launch another rebellion?!"

Uchiha Shisui's expression changed drastically.

"I... I would never do that!"

"Those are merely your words!"

Uchiha Shisui had never expected that after finally summoning the courage to reveal his last trump card, he would be met with such suspicion.

Furious and unwilling to accept it, he said to Hiruzen Sarutobi, "Lord Hokage, do even you not trust me?!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi had indeed trusted him greatly before.

But now, Shimura Danzō's words inevitably made him waver.

Although Uchiha Shisui appeared utterly loyal...

It was indeed as Danzo had said...

What if?

The key was that Kotoamatsukami's power was so terrifying that he had no way to distinguish truth from falsehood...

If the Uchiha clan had not been brainwashed, but he himself had been brainwashed instead...