Mirai asked them, "Has the Mizukage always been like this?"
Old Zhao shook his head and sat on the ground as though deep in thought.
Terumi Mei said that she had only met the Mizukage once, so she did not know. Ao had only seen him half a year ago, so he could not answer Mirai's question either.
Only Old Zhao understood the past.
Old Zhao looked troubled. He took a deep breath and frowned. "In the past, although the Mizukage's policies were cruel, they were limited to ninja training. In recent years, his temperament has become increasingly strange. Not only did he begin killing innocent people, but he also secretly assassinated many people who opposed his views, one after another, leaving no survivors. That was also how that bastard Dolphin Ghost gained power! But ever since I was secretly arrested, I haven't seen the Mizukage. I can't believe he's become so strange! This really is..."
"Could it be... that he's under a spell?" Mirai asked.
"It shouldn't be... unless..." Old Zhao raised his eyelids, about to say something, but when he saw Mirai, he swallowed the words back down.
"Unless what?" Mirai asked.
Old Zhao brushed it off. "Perhaps I was overthinking it. It shouldn't be an illusion... With the Mizukage's strength, there are very, very few people who could trap him in an illusion..."
Only then did Mirai understand why Old Zhao had stopped himself. The Mizukage had not been subjected to any magic... Was Old Zhao implying the Uchiha clan's Sharingan???
But as far as he knew, the only one with such illusion techniques was Uchiha Fugaku! Could it be him? No, no. Fugaku had never left Konoha. Everyone knew that. It couldn't have been him.
Could it be... that there were other unknown masters within the