"Sir, are you all right...?"
Gui looked at Hyuga Sho with some concern—or perhaps fear.
"I'm fine. I'm doing great."
Hyuga Sho's face was pale, making him look as though he had just suffered through a serious illness.
No...
The people in the Torture Department understood even better what this condition meant.
It was the weakened face that appeared after enduring endless interrogation.
So.
What exactly happened to him underground?
Morino Ibiki thought about this.
When he heard that Hyuga Sho was going to set off to find "Sasori of the Red Sands," his first reaction was that Sasori was simply too powerful to fight.
Because in this short year, Sasori of the Red Sands had already destroyed several small nations.
His madness.
Had caused many minor ninja villages to send out their ninja.
But...
Not a single one had returned.
The name "Sasori of the Red Sands" had become so famous that almost no one was unaware of it.
Even many Elite Jonin had died at his hands.
To send someone to deal with him.
However one looked at it, it would have to be a Kage Level fighter.
And among Konoha's Kage Level fighters who could still be sent into battle.
That left only Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
The Hokage and the other senior officials definitely could not go.
Because they had to remain in Konoha.
Yet Hyuga Sho had actually said he was going to kill Sasori of the Red Sands.
This...
"Keep an eye on the Torture Department, especially Yakushi Kabuto and Yakushi Nonō. I don't want to come back and find that either of them is gone."
Hyuga Sho glanced at Morino Ibiki.
His tone was casual.
As though he were the actual director of the Torture Department.
"Understood..."
Morino Ibiki swallowed.
Hyuga Sho was clearly