When Mingye returned to Konoha, quite a few villagers had gathered around his house. Two expressionless ninja flashed to his side and moved to arrest him without a word, but before they could act, four ninja dressed in Anbu attire moved even faster and restrained them.
"I have never seen either of you. Your names were not in the old ninja registry or the current one—not among the chunin, genin, or jonin. So that raises a question: whose ninja are you?"
The two ninja did not answer, but Mingye looked toward a shadowed corner, where Shimura Danzō's figure seemed to stand. He raised his hand, then lowered it, and the Anbu ninja promptly severed the two men's heads.
"Ah! Murder!"
"..."
When the gathered villagers saw Konoha ninja suddenly kill ninja dressed in Konoha uniforms, they cried out in terror and scattered. Mingye no longer looked toward the shadowed corner and walked straight into his house. Inside, a disheveled girl was sobbing. Her hands and feet bore marks from being tied up, and when Mingye entered the room, her face immediately filled with terror.
"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!"
As she spoke, the girl kept pressing herself into the corner as though Mingye were some terrifying monster. The window was smashed through, and a Ruyi Staff suddenly appeared, tapping the girl on the forehead. Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared at the window the next second.
"If not for me, this girl would have been scared to death just from seeing your face, Wu!"
Mingye stood by the bed, expressionlessly watching the girl whom Sarutobi Hiruzen had knocked unconscious. Sarutobi Hiruzen sat in a nearby chair.
"Yesterday, when you left Konoha to go to market, someone secretly entered your house. They planted poison and some especially cruel and disgusting tools,