In the Hokage Office, Sarutobi and Danzo fell silent as they looked at Ebizo's corpse before them...
Akaseki had just explained that Luo Yan's corpse had been too badly damaged by Fire Style to recover. But with Ebizo here... Luo Yan had presumably been killed as well.
"On my way back, just as I was approaching the Land of Fire's coastline, I thought they might kill ordinary people to vent their anger, or even run into other comrades from Konoha. Remembering the Will of Fire, I resolutely turned back and lured them to the Land of Whirlpools. Using some of the seals left behind in Uzushio Village, I separated the three of them and killed them!" Akaseki said, mixing truth with lies.
Ebizo's corpse was here, and he had been killed by "Susanoo." With the damage inflicted by dojutsu power, only limited memories could be recovered, so Akaseki wasn't worried about him exposing anything.
After a brief silence, Sarutobi slapped his chair's armrest and declared, "Excellent!"
"With Ebizo's corpse, Kirigakure will have an even harder time smearing us!" Sarutobi said with satisfaction.
Akaseki had already learned from Grandma Chizuru...
That old bastard, the Third Mizukage, hadn't wanted the Karatachi Faction to have an easy time even after his death. To that end, he had stubbornly insisted that the Sand Ninja had been hired by the Karatachi Faction.
After all, if he had acknowledged the Sand Ninja as his allies, their accepting employment from the Karatachi Faction would have made no sense. It would have been obvious that the Mizukage had planted a mole in the Karatachi Faction.
That was why he had accused both the Sand Ninja and Konoha of being hired by the Karatachi Faction...
Although hiring both villages at once seemed strange when they were at war, it