Shingetsu swept his gaze over the records on the laboratory table.
His expression gradually turned cold.
Wood Style compatibility residual experiments.
Bloodline rejection tests.
Mental obedience enhancement.
Root New Generation Vessel Project.
After reading them, Tekka smashed the laboratory table with a single punch.
"That old dog Danzo!"
"Even dying a hundred times wouldn't be enough!"
Itachi stood nearby, his face pale.
He had seen darkness in the Anbu.
But experiments that treated children as vessels still chilled him to the bone.
One of the little girls looked up at Shingetsu.
Her voice was very soft.
"Were you... here to take us away for experiments too?"
Interrogation rooms, Root, Konoha, Uchiha.
Those words meant nothing to them.
They only knew that whenever someone opened the door, someone would be taken away.
And never come back.
Shingetsu fell silent for a moment, then crouched down.
He did not smile.
Nor did he offer pretty words.
He simply reached out and pulled the chakra-suppressing needle from her shoulder.
"No."
"The experiments are over."
The little girl stared blankly at him.
"Really?"
Shingetsu nodded.
"Really."
A boy beside her suddenly asked in a trembling voice:
"Then... can we still have names?"
The moment those words were spoken, the entire core chamber fell silent.
Tekka turned his head away, his eyes reddening.
Shisui closed his eyes.
Itachi's fingers trembled slightly.
The cruelest thing about Root was not merely killing people.
It was stripping away their names first, then stripping away their lives.
Shingetsu looked at the child, his voice steady.
"Yes."
"Starting today, no one can call you by code names again."
The boy stared at him blankly.
The next second, the System Prompt sounded.
``` [Host has rescued Root's remaining experimental subjects.]
[The Root New Generation Vessel Project has failed.]
[Obtained Causality Points: