When the wide-open surroundings came into view...
A figure dressed in black also appeared in Sasuke's eyes.
"He is..."
Naruko's guardian, the White Devil, Hyuga Sho.
When Mizuki saw Hyuga Sho appear,
he was scared stiff.
He sat on the ground, trembling.
Hyuga Sho stood with his back to Sasuke and Naruko, his hands behind his back.
He neither said nor did anything.
Simply standing there, he seemed like a great mountain pressing down on them.
"Big Brother!"
When Naruko saw Hyuga Sho's figure, her eyes slowly widened.
She seemed unable to understand why Hyuga Sho had appeared here.
Then Hyuga Sho slowly turned around.
He stared at Mizuki.
"Mizuki... you've been jealous of Iruka since you were young. You were extremely jealous whenever you saw others encouraging and helping Iruka. As for saying that you wanted to be friends with Iruka, you only did so to use him."
Hyuga Sho spoke one word at a time.
"You're cruel by nature, the kind of person who will resort to any means to achieve your goals. During a mission to seize a scroll, you personally killed an injured comrade to complete the mission, covering your teammate's mouth and nose with your hand and suffocating him to death... Yet in the report on your comrade's death, you claimed it was a leg injury..."
Hyuga Sho exposed the truth.
Not only did it leave Naruko with an expression of disbelief,
even Sasuke looked at Mizuki in astonishment.
"This guy... actually has so many heinous deeds to his name!"
"You deceived those above and below you... taking advantage of the Third Hokage's compassion to do things that violated the Will of Fire... Mizuki, what crime do you think you deserve?!"
Hyuga Sho's questioning nearly drove Mizuki to collapse.
He had never imagined that the