"I was undercover in Kumogakure for a month and a week... Do you know how the 'textbook' of Kumogakure records it?"
Before that, Hyuga Sho had been in Kumogakure.
He certainly hadn't been wasting his days.
In Mihai's room were the books he had read from the time he was an Academy Student until he became a Jonin.
Among them... was the official history textbook of Kumogakure.
"All the Tailed Beasts gathered together, marking the first Five Kage Summit. First Hokage Hashirama Senju distributed the Tailed Beasts at the summit. Our Konoha received the 'Nine-Tails'... From then on, the Nine-Tails became Konoha's treasured possession..."
But.
What did Konoha's textbooks say?
"The Nine-Tails is a natural disaster, a gathering of humanity's negative emotions. Every so often, the Nine-Tails appears and plunges the world into chaos..."
Who exactly had altered Konoha's history?
Why had they done it?
What benefit was there in concealing the Nine-Tails?
"Looks like... you don't know either..."
Hyuga Sho stared at Yakushi Nonō's expression.
He knew at once that this was a secret even she didn't know.
Perhaps.
Only Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, and a few other high-ranking officials knew.
In the end.
Yakushi Nonō agreed to Hyuga Sho's demands.
She refused to cooperate with Shimura Danzō.
Hyuga Sho would provide the source of the money.
As for protecting the children, Hyuga Sho said he would find a way.
In fact.
Hyuga Sho didn't care in the slightest whether Yakushi Nonō or the others lived or died.
He was doing this.
Simply because he wanted to disgust Shimura Danzō.
Early the next morning.
Shimura Danzō once again brought Orochimaru and Aburame Ryoma here, and made an even more despicable demand.
"To obtain this information, one of my men was lost, so I'm taking one child from here