Steel Plate Piercing stopped asking questions after hearing Uchiha Yato's explanation and began taking notes.
These explanations and records would serve as the best evidence to submit to the Konoha Newspaper for publication.
Uchiha Yato thoughtfully provided photographs recorded by the Police Force as well, to be published alongside the report and make it more convincing.
All of this had been completed before the ANBU arrived.
The ANBU were extremely puzzled. Why had delivering a message taken them so long?
That was right—it was Uchiha Yato's Mangekyō Sharingan.
By the time they were supposed to collect evidence, the ANBU had actually already arrived.
Uchiha Yato adjusted the time of the man and the small area around him, while he himself remained unaffected by the technique.
The man would only wonder why he had arrived so late.
Afterward, Uchiha Yato would only need to find a way to adjust his perception to perfectly avoid this minor crisis.
Ever since the trio that had come to assassinate Uchiha Yato earlier, he had already figured out the price he had to pay to manipulate the time of an area and himself.
During his battle with Rasa, he had used genjutsu to become more proficient with this ability.
Naturally, there was a price to pay.
Uchiha Yato's ocular power had declined. He could only wait for the system update to finish before finding a way to replenish it.
Nor could the ANBU stop it when the evidence was already conclusive.
After all, civilian ninja were watching nearby. If they interfered, it would mean that the Hokage's upper echelon knew about the dirty secrets behind this matter—or had even been the ones to do it.
Hiruzen Sarutobi would not commit such a self-incriminating act.
Uchiha Yato had originally thought Shimura Danzō would be unable to