The Daimyo Was Starting to Panic Too

He looked like his spirit had been drained from him. The shock he had suffered must have been considerable, though at his age, a little stimulation was probably good for him.

Watching the Third Hokage leave, Jingyi waved at Fugaku Uchiha. "Fugaku, dispose of the body."

"?"

Fugaku Uchiha froze. It was not that he was unwilling to help collect the body. Forget handling a corpse—even if Jingyi wanted to chop Shimura Danzō into minced meat, he would be happy to do it.

It was just that... that was not what Lord Jingyi had said earlier!

"My lord, weren't you planning to..."

Jingyi had just said he would personally turn Shimura Danzō into a puppet and place him in front of the Hokage Office Building to vent the villagers' anger.

Yet now he was telling him to dispose of the body.

This...

Was he supposed to really dispose of it, or only pretend to?

Were you really stupid, or just pretending to be?

Jingyi had already left, while Fugaku Uchiha remained standing there in a daze. Shikaku Nara gave him a solemn reprimand:

"Fugaku Uchiha, did you truly think he would turn Shimura Danzō's corpse into a puppet and put it in front of the Hokage Office Building?"

"What would that look like?"

Hyuga Hiashi added with his hands clasped behind his back:

"Lord Jingyi hated Shimura Danzō. He could kill him, but he could not humiliate his corpse. If word got out, it would harm my lord's reputation."

You could abuse a corpse in secret all you wanted, as long as it did not become public.

Turning the body into a puppet and displaying it at the Hokage Office Building would be going too far.

It might feel satisfying, but it would also tarnish his own reputation.

"I understand.