Surrounded by Anbu ninja out of nowhere, Uchiha Tianchong was utterly bewildered.
Everything had happened too suddenly—the shadow from before, Mito Kangze's death, and now being surrounded by the Anbu.
"Are you trying to frame me?"
In just a few minutes, Uchiha Tianchong had more or less pieced together the situation.
These people were trying to frame him!
But Mito Kangze really was dead, which made Uchiha Tianchong somewhat doubtful.
"Please do not resist. As long as you did not do such a thing, Konoha will not falsely accuse you without cause."
"Now, come with us."
The leading Anbu ninja directly took out a scroll.
Uchiha Tianchong knew this scroll well. It was used to deploy sealing techniques.
It could seal away all of the target's chakra while continuously releasing electric currents to numb the person being sealed.
If he allowed himself to be restrained, getting out afterward would probably be difficult.
Uchiha Tianchong knew exactly what kind of people the Anbu were.
He had never held much goodwill toward Konoha's upper ranks to begin with. Now that something like this had happened, his instinct was to distrust them.
"If you resist, we can consider you to have betrayed the village."
"At that point, it may no longer be as simple as an investigation."
"Even your entire Uchiha clan may be investigated."
"Please think this through carefully."
Sensing the fluctuations of chakra from Uchiha Tianchong, the leading ninja spoke again in warning.
Though they would prefer such an outcome, they still had to say what needed to be said.
"Betraying the village?"
"The entire Uchiha clan being investigated?"
"Should I say you're too confident, or that you're underestimating us?"
At that moment, a figure appeared there.
A calm, disdainful voice rang directly in the ears of the Anbu ninja.
"Uchiha