Mirai's paranoia was unfounded, but he had a feeling that killing the Feudal Lord would not be so simple.
"Oh, right, there's another strange matter. The coroner said that although the Feudal Lord's corpse was fresh, it looked as if he had been dead for a long time. According to the test results, his time of death really was midnight yesterday!" Yagura said.
"Something like that happened?"
When everyone heard of this phenomenon, they became even more confused.
Mirai was startled. This fake-corpse technique looked so much like that man's handiwork. Was it really you—Oromo...?
Although Mirai had thought of a clue, he did not tell the others. For one thing, they were people of the Land of Water after all; they were not from the same country. For another, if someone besides Oromo had used this method, he did not want to bring some inexplicable trouble upon his companion Oromo.
Mirai said, "The Feudal Lord's cause of death is no longer important. Since someone helped us kill him, that saves us a lot of trouble! But as the saying goes, this has already alerted the enemy. It will most likely be impossible to launch a sneak attack on the Mizukage again..."
Old Zhao was deeply anxious. He had wanted to attack the Mizukage while punishing the Feudal Lord, so that they would have a justified cause. But now that the Feudal Lord was dead, without the Elders' support, he feared that many people would not believe them or give their all to rally together.
Yagura watched coldly from the side. He saw through Old Zhao's thoughts but did not spell them out. Instead, he changed the subject.
"Oh, right, there's something else I haven't explained to everyone. Although the Feudal Lord is dead, I've already contacted Elder in secret.