Mai Shiranui saw that her Dance of the Black Swallow had struck Kamizuki in the abdomen and thought she had succeeded. She relaxed a little.
But before Mai could smile, the body she had just hit went "poof" and vanished into a cloud of smoke.
Only after the smoke from the clone had dispersed did Mai realize what had happened. She hurried to get away.
Just as she pushed off with one foot, ready to leap away, a hand suddenly shot out of the ground and grabbed the foot she hadn't yet lifted.
"Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Mai was dragged into the earth. While her body was being buried, Kamizuki jumped out of the ground beside her.
After emerging from the earth, Kamizuki lightly brushed the dirt from his hands. As he turned around, his eyes changed once more, becoming the moonlight-colored Tenseigan. He crouched down and looked into Mai's eyes.
Kamizuki immediately used the Tenseigan's Mind Reading technique and began to read Mai's memories.
In some ways, Kamizuki was a very lazy person. If there was an easy, straightforward way to do something, he would never choose a complicated one. For example, now that he had a technique that could directly read someone's memories, he wasn't going to interrogate them instead.
Kamizuki wasn't the sort of person who liked prying into other people's minds, so he only looked for what he wanted to know.
Kamizuki had assumed that Mai was someone Danzo had sent to monitor him. After all, he was now not only a ninja but also the Hyuga Clan's next head.
When Mai had used a trip to the bathroom that day as an excuse to enter the Hokage building, Kamizuki had suspected she'd gone to report