Seven days later...
Hyuga Sho walked out of the training room.
The integration of the dark release bloodline limit was finally complete.
Over those seven days...
Hyuga Sho had lost count of how many times his left arm had burst apart.
The torment inflicted on his bones, muscles, nerves, chakra pathways... exceeded anything anyone could imagine.
And when "Dark Release: Star Point" lit up on the "Kamimusubi" Evolution Chart within his mental space...
At the center of his left palm...
The defining mark of dark release finally appeared.
A diamond-shaped hole.
Or rather...
"Dark Release: Space-Time Hole" was a more fitting name.
Irregular black grooves wound around Hyuga Sho's outstretched left arm, looking like scars, or perhaps some kind of curse mark.
As a joke...
He could even call it the Kirin Arm.
These were permanent scars left by the distortion of space-time forces.
After acquiring Dark Release: Star Point, Hyuga Sho gained a degree of proficiency in "Space-Time Ninjutsu."
That ability manifested in the dark release pattern on his left palm.
The pattern was a space-time rift.
It connected the real world to dark release's independent space-time.
Just as Uchiha Obito had gained an independent alternate dimension after awakening his "Kamui: Mangekyo Sharingan"...
Hyuga Sho had also gained a small, independent space-time of his own.
As he left the Torture Department Subdivision...
Hyuga Oto followed behind Hyuga Sho the whole way.
At the entrance to the main department...
Morino Ibiki and the other Torture Department members were seeing the last Jonin out.
Of the Konoha Jonin who had previously been brought in for interrogation...
One had committed suicide.
One had been "retired."
One had been transferred to the Reconnaissance Team.
And one... was the genuinely innocent man standing before them.
Beside this Jonin, who had been cleared and released...