"Hatake Sakumo had not left his home for several days, but he was still alive."
"Intensify the rumors. Have ordinary civilians go to Hatake Sakumo's doorstep and curse him, and at the same time, have someone influence his son, Hatake Kakashi!"
"Hatake Sakumo still had not committed suicide."
"Make Hatake Sakumo's teammates change their testimony and accuse Hatake Sakumo of the mistake of abandoning the mission to save his teammates. Elevate it to the level of the entire nation—this was a betrayal of the country, a betrayal of the village!"
"Hatake Sakumo committed suicide, dying from the betrayal of his closest friends and the rumors."
"Mission successfully completed."
With every line Kakashi read, his heart grew colder. To make his father commit suicide, Root had stopped at nothing. They knew they could not use force, so they had resorted to such despicable methods.
These records documented every step, every detail.
They had even forced his father's teammates to change their testimony, crushing the last of his father's psychological defenses!
It was like a cobra slowly injecting venom, watching helplessly as its prey died before its eyes. But his father was not prey—he was supposed to be Konoha's hero!
Even in the final line of the records,
it stated, "Mission successfully completed."
As though this were something worth celebrating.
In an instant.
Everyone's breathing caught, as if they had heard something they should never have heard. In the next moment, those words seemed to have entrusted the secret to the wind, and no one knew where it would spread.
"What? The death of the Konoha White Fang was actually a conspiracy?! I knew it! Danzo was no good!"
"Danzo really is utterly evil. Back then, he misled us and made us misunderstand Hatake Sakumo. If he were still alive, he might