The iron box in the Uchiha secret chamber had given Shinichi three things: an assassination order signed by Danzo to exterminate the clan, a detailed inventory of Sharingan recovered on the night of the massacre, and correspondence between Danzo and the masked man revealing their conspiracy. Together, these three pieces of evidence were enough to nail Danzo at a high-level meeting for "actively conspiring to slaughter the entire Uchiha Clan." But Shinichi knew that the massacre alone would not bring Danzo down. Danzo was best at portraying himself in moments of crisis as a tragic figure who had "done what he had to for Konoha's stability"—the massacre had happened years ago, and while the Third Hokage and the other advisers had not directly participated, they had all tacitly approved the subsequent sealing of the Uchiha Clan District. That meant they had already chosen compromise to some extent. If he threw out the massacre evidence now, Danzo could easily claim, "Everything I did was to protect Konoha from the threat of civil war," and might even turn the tables by accusing the whistleblower of "undermining Konoha's current diplomatic stability."
To bring Danzo down completely, proof of the massacre was not enough. What he needed was for multiple crimes to explode at once—betraying the village, human experimentation, embezzling forbidden weapons, colluding with Orochimaru—enough to leave Danzo unable to utter even a single word about "doing it for Konoha."
Shinichi drew an evidence-gathering progress chart in his notebook. He checked off the three documents related to the massacre. Beside the Sharingan recovery inventory, he circled it in red and wrote: "Sources of the eleven Sharingan in his right arm confirmed. Specific transplant records can be traced." Then, in the blank space, he listed a new row of objectives: Root's protection records and illegal