What did this mean? Madara had controlled Kirigakure's forces and sealed the Three-Tails inside Rin Nohara, but this had not been ordered by the Third Mizukage. Moreover, the goal had not been to let the Three-Tails rampage and destroy Konohagakure, but to deliberately make the plan fail so that the young Obito Uchiha would witness Rin's death, completely lose his attachment to this world, and become nothing more than Madara's pawn.
Are you saying that as early as Year 47 of Konoha, during the Third Mizukage's reign, Madara had already controlled the core upper ranks of Kirigakure's government? If we extrapolated Kirigakure's history from that premise, we would find several points that simply did not add up. The clues regarding the Fourth Mizukage's new ruling faction taking power, as well as how he became the famed perfect Jinchuriki, would be completely cut off. We knew that if a Jinchuriki wished to fully control a Tailed Beast's power, they had to earn the Tailed Beast's complete recognition as a companion. A wicked person whose heart had been corrupted could never be acknowledged by a Tailed Beast or become a perfect Jinchuriki...
Or was there an even more terrifying possibility? Was all of this a warning issued by the "Masked Man" to centralize power both inside and outside Kirigakure? Had the perfect Jinchuriki, from the very beginning, merely been a bluff meant to deal with enemies waiting to make their move against Kirigakure?
Speculation was still speculation. To weaken the power of a village he already controlled just to cultivate an Obito Uchiha whose future was uncertain—you were thinking far too narrowly of Madara. Here, we could arrive at a more logical explanation.
In the Third Shinobi World War, the Third Mizukage had approved and commanded a two-pronged strategy intended to severely