Interrogation methods...
It does not simply mean taking a whip and lashing someone over and over.
Nor does it mean heating an iron and burning a scarred seal into someone's flesh.
And it certainly does not mean using the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms for a frenzied barrage of rapid-fire attacks.
Those were merely the most primitive methods.
Mental torment, words, pressure, hallucinogens, toxins, drugs...
After becoming the deputy head of the Torture Department.
Hyuga Sho had learned many especially, especially unique interrogation methods from the big man, Morino Ibiki.
How long had it been since the last time he had interrogated a female ninja?
The first time...
When he was five, interrogating Kōseki, the female ninja from Iwagakure, had been Hyuga Sho's first practical operation.
Later, Pakura—the second time.
Now.
It was the third time.
"I'm very patient... Next, let me test your tolerance..."
As Gui trembled and shook all over.
The elaborate interrogation began...
No one knew how much time had passed.
Hyuga Sho obtained the intelligence he wanted.
That included Gui's life history, age, hobbies, personality, and worldview.
The methods Shimura Danzō used to control his subordinates.
The training and promotion systems of Root and the ANBU.
Of course...
There were also the methods used to persecute him.
Sending him to infiltrate the side of the Third Raikage had been a conspiracy from beginning to end.
It was exactly as he had guessed. Shimura Danzō intended to expose his identity, then pretend to rescue him. It was the same old trick.
The facts proved it.
As long as one's heart was made of steel and one refused to be threatened.
One could remain safe and sound.
One reason Hatake Sakumo had committed suicide.
Was that he had a son.
Even if he was not afraid of Shimura