The Anbu Captain, Dog, saw what was written on the scroll, and his expression changed.
If this reached the Hokage, there was no way Danzo could talk his way out of it.
Tekka looked up and roared:
"Seal every scroll!"
"Anyone who touches one loses a hand!"
The Uchiha Police Force members' eyes were bloodshot.
The more they searched the base, the angrier they became.
There was simply too much evidence.
The Uchiha Clan's movements.
Assessments of young clan members' potential to awaken the Sharingan.
Personality analyses of Police Force members.
There was even a "list of recoverable targets."
Recoverable.
Those three words set the Uchiha off completely.
One young Uchiha's eyes reddened on the spot.
"They really think of us as materials!"
Another clan member clutched a scroll tightly.
"My brother's name is on here..."
"They said his body was taken by the enemy after he died in battle."
"So it was Root!"
"Root!"
Anger spread through the underground base.
If Fugaku hadn't ordered them in advance to take prisoners alive, the Root ninjas would probably have been torn to pieces on the spot.
Just then,
Shin-getsu and Shisui entered the base carrying a Sealing Box.
Tekka immediately went to meet them.
"Shin-getsu!"
"How did it go?"
Shin-getsu opened the box.
An empty bottle of Sharingan Preservation Fluid lay exposed inside.
Tekka froze.
The next second, his eyes were red as if they might bleed.
"This is..."
Shin-getsu said:
"Those who tried to escape brought it out."
"There's also a list of missing clan members."
Tekka snatched up the list.
After reading a few lines, his whole body began to tremble.
"Uchiha Ryosuke..."
"Uchiha Shinji..."
"Uchiha Aki..."
He read the names one by one.
With each name, someone nearby turned pale.
These weren't names of strangers.
They were members of the Uchiha Clan.
People who had once been alive.
Some had died in battle.
Some had disappeared.
Some had been lost on missions, their bodies never recovered.
Now the truth was right in front of them.
Their eyes might have ended up in Root's bottles.
Tekka spun around and seized a Root prisoner by the collar.
"Where are the eyes?"
"Where are those Sharingan?"
The Root prisoner stayed silent.
Tekka punched him in the face.
"Talk!"
Blood ran from the Root prisoner's mouth, but he still said nothing.
Shin-getsu stepped forward.
"Move aside."
Tekka backed away, breathing hard.
Shin-getsu crouched down and fixed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan on the Root prisoner.
"You don't have to tell me. I already know."
"This is only an outpost."
"The real Sharingan wouldn't be kept here."
"They should be in the Core Laboratory under Danzo's personal control."
The Root prisoner's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly.
Shin-getsu caught it.
He smiled.
"Looks like I guessed right."
Killing intent surged in Tekka's eyes.
"The Core Laboratory?"
Shin-getsu stood up.
"This is just the first thread."
"Root's real rot lies deeper."
The Anbu Captain, Dog, said gravely:
"These pieces of evidence must be taken to the Hokage Building at once."
Tekka looked at him coldly.
"Of course we'll send them."
"But not just to the Hokage."
"The Uchiha will keep a copy too."
The Anbu Captain didn't object.
Under the circumstances, anyone who said the evidence should only go to the Hokage would make the Uchiha turn on them on the spot.
Shin-getsu looked toward the depths of the base.
"Are there any areas we haven't searched?"
Inabi hurried over.
"There's a Sealed Door at the very back."
"We can't open it."
"The Anbu say they need the Hokage's authorization."
Tekka sneered.
"Authorization again."
Shin-getsu's eyes lit up.
A Sealed Door.
Places like this often hid the biggest secrets.
He said at once:
"Take me there."
Shisui frowned.
"Dangerous."
Shin-getsu replied calmly:
"Danger means it's valuable."
The group quickly reached the depths of the base.
A black iron door was embedded in the wall.
Countless Sealing Runes were carved across it.
An Anbu Sealing Ninja was examining it.
"This is Root's Internal Lockdown Technique."
"Forcing it open may trigger the destruction mechanism."
Shin-getsu activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and studied the Sealing Technique.
He couldn't understand every part of an ordinary sealing technique.
But he didn't need to understand all of it.
He only needed to find the chakra flow nodes.
[Causality Retrospection] activated.
Ten minutes earlier.
A Root ninja had tried to approach the door.
But before he could open it, the Uchiha had stormed in and interrupted him.
A little earlier.
A pulse of chakra had come from the other side of the door.
That meant someone was behind it.
Or an automatic destruction technique had already been activated.
Shin-getsu's gaze turned cold.
"Don't break the seal."
The Anbu Sealing Ninja was taken aback.
"Then how do we open it?"
Shin-getsu pointed to the bottom right corner of the door.
"There."
"The chakra pathway in the sealing technique is weakest there."
"Use Earth Release to break through the wall. Don't touch the door."
Everyone froze.
The Anbu Sealing Ninja checked and his expression shifted.
"He's right... The seal on the door is strong, but it doesn't cover the entire wall."
Tekka burst out laughing.
"Even Root cuts corners?"
Shin-getsu said:
"They didn't cut corners."
"They just thought no one could spot the weak point in the seal so quickly."
Tekka waved a hand.
"Earth Release users, move!"
Two Anbu Earth Release ninjas formed hand seals.
"Earth Style: Cracking Earth!"
Boom!
The wall to the right of the iron door was smashed open.
The next moment, the seal on the door failed to activate.
The group entered through the hole.
The room inside was small.
There was only a table,
a Sealing Cabinet,
and a piece of black cloth hanging on the wall.
Tekka yanked the cloth down.
Everyone's pupils contracted.
Behind it was a surveillance map of the Konoha clans.
The Uchiha.
Hyuga.
Aburame.
Inuzuka.
Nara.
Yamanaka.
Akimichi.
All the major clans were listed there.
The Uchiha district was marked in red more densely than anywhere else.
Shin-getsu's gaze fell on the line at the very center.
Uchiha Priority Elimination Plan.
Tekka read the words aloud, one by one.
Then the entire room fell silent.
Priority Elimination Plan.
This was no longer surveillance.
This was a plan to wipe out the clan!
Tekka's hands were trembling.
Shisui's face was deathly pale.
Even Dog, the Anbu Captain, fell completely silent.
Because if this document came to light, Konoha High Command and the Uchiha would have irrevocably fallen out.
Shin-getsu walked over to the Sealing Cabinet.
His Three-Tomoe Sharingan fixed on the cabinet door.
"Open it."
The Anbu Sealing Ninja swallowed nervously and stepped forward to break the seal.
A moment later, the Sealing Cabinet opened.
There was only one scroll inside.
Four words were written on its cover:
Night Owl Plan.
Shin-getsu picked up the scroll and slowly unfurled it.
At the sight of the first line, killing intent exploded in his eyes.
If signs of an Uchiha rebellion are confirmed, Root, a special Anbu squad, and Uchiha informants will jointly carry out the Nighttime Elimination.
Priority targets: Police Force leadership, the Radical Faction within the clan, and Sharingan awakeners.
Targets to be preserved: controllable young subjects, Special Bloodline Samples.
Every Uchiha in the room stopped breathing.
What was this?
A blade prepared in advance.
The very blueprint for the Night of the Clan Massacre!
Shin-getsu slowly rolled the scroll back up.
[The host has discovered Root's "Night Owl Plan" ahead of time.] [The underlying plan for the Night of the Clan Massacre has been exposed prematurely.] [The causality of the Uchiha Clan Massacre has shifted significantly.] [Causality Points gained: 10000.] [Current Causality Points: 16700.] [Night of the Clan Massacre Deviation increased.] [Current deviation: 25%.]
Shin-getsu looked up at everyone.
His voice was icy.
"Take it with us."
"We're going to the Hokage Building."
Tekka gritted his teeth.
"Who dares suppress this now?"
The Three-Tomoe Sharingan spun in Shin-getsu's eyes.
"Whoever tries."
"Is an enemy of the Uchiha."
That night,
the Uchiha hadn't merely destroyed a single outpost.
They had unearthed a blade already poised at their throats.
And now,
they would smash that blade into the Hokage's face with their own hands.
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