If he were an ordinary villain.
He would definitely stomp around at a time like this, shouting that it was impossible.
But Shimura Danzō was unfathomably deep.
He represented Konoha...
He was the darkness of the entire Shinobi World.
He concealed his smile and quietly waited for Hiruzen Sarutobi to make his announcement.
At the same time, his thoughts churned.
What was the matter with Orochimaru?
Many years ago.
Orochimaru and Danzo had reached some sort of agreement.
Shimura Danzō provided forbidden techniques, research facilities, and research materials to Orochimaru.
For him to conduct his research.
Likewise.
Orochimaru fed back some of his research results, helped him with certain matters, and even... joined his ranks.
This time, diverting Hyuga Sho.
Had been done with Orochimaru's approval.
And it was precisely because Orochimaru was the commander.
That everything had gone so smoothly.
That bastard Orochimaru had actually saved the Main Family's Byakugan.
What was he really planning?
Afterward.
Orochimaru's good news kept arriving via summoned snakes.
They appeared one after another, as if following a rhythm.
"The Byakugan was preserved... Hyuga Sho appeared like a god of war..."
"!"
When he heard this news.
The corner of Shimura Danzō's mouth twitched.
Hyuga Sho... survived?
Then that must mean that kid killed "Mi"...
Even the Swift Release Kekkei Genkai failed?
How exactly did that kid manage it?
No matter how hard Shimura Danzō racked his brain, he could never have imagined it.
That Hyuga Sho had blasted apart his own eyes and unleashed the Shinobi World's one and only Void Rending Eye Stab.
"He killed Nakayoshi, Kirigakure's strongest Sensor Ninja, with a single boulder..."
Everyone: "..."
"After losing this Jonin, the other Mist Village Ninjas who witnessed him being killed instantly gauged the gap between their strength and Hyuga Sho's, collapsed on