The second batch of intelligence Yamanaka Fū sent over was thicker than the first.
This time, the summoning bird had to peck repeatedly outside the hole in the kitchen's rear window before Chaluo let it in. The wax-sealed data scroll felt heavy in Shinichi's hands. When he opened it, he found it was divided into three layers—by Yamanaka Fū's habit, the more urgent the intelligence, the more layers it was folded into. Three layers meant the highest classification.
The top layer contained a complete structural diagram of the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal.
When Shinichi saw the diagram, the pen in his hand stopped. The Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal was Danzo's core method of controlling Root members. Every Root member received this cursed seal upon official enlistment. The seal was engraved at the root of the tongue. Once its bearer attempted to reveal Danzo's or Root's secrets to outsiders, their entire body would instantly become paralyzed, even their vocal cords freezing solid. In his previous life, when he watched anime, this cursed seal had only been a few lines of setting. Now that Shinichi held its complete structural diagram in his hands, he realized that its precision far exceeded anything he had imagined. This was not a simple mental suggestion, but a complete three-layer composite seal. The outer layer controlled speech, the middle layer blocked Chakra reflux, and the deepest layer directly bound itself to the bearer's vital signs—if the three seals were forcibly broken by an outside force, the bearer would die on the spot.
Yamanaka Fū had marked the node locations and decoding sequence for every layer of the seal in red ink beside the diagram. The remarks column was crammed with dense technical notes. On the final line, he wrote: "This cursed seal is the lifeline of Danzo's