"Welcome back. How was it? Feeling better now?"
Uchiha Yato did not ask Pakura about the outcome. He only asked whether she felt better.
Pakura was still stained with blood. Instead of answering Uchiha Yato, she looked at Chiyo before her.
After all, Chiyo held a higher position than Ebizo. It would not be an exaggeration to call her the foremost person beneath the Kazekage.
"When you sold me out back then, you had a hand in it too, didn't you?"
Pakura clearly intended to learn every crucial detail she had been unaware of before answering Uchiha Yato's question.
Fortunately, Ebizo had already explained the current situation to Chiyo beforehand. Otherwise, things would have become even more chaotic and disastrous.
Seeing Pakura return, Chiyo knew that ninety percent of those old enemies who had opposed her were probably already dead.
For reasons even Chiyo herself did not understand, she directly told Pakura everything she knew, as well as most of the plan from back then.
As for the small part she did not tell Pakura, Pakura had already experienced it herself. There was no need to say more.
After hearing this, Pakura did not sink into despair as she had before.
She had long prepared herself for the worst, even imagining scenarios far worse and more vile than this.
Still, what gave her a little comfort was that, despite how dire things had become, a few of the higher-ups had ultimately held on to the last shred of their conscience.
Otherwise, the night of extermination the Uchiha Clan had once endured might have been reenacted in Sunagakure tonight.
By then, Sunagakure's higher-ups would have vanished as though they had evaporated from the world, leaving no trace behind.
And the next morning, when Sunagakure's residents woke from their dreams, they would