The Exposure of the Incident

"We've already captured them, Young Clan Head."

Hane, who had been meditating, slowly opened his eyes. A flash of azure light passed through them.

"Make them talk as soon as possible. Confirm all the evidence, then strike those old bastards like thunder."

"Yes, Young Clan Head!" Uchiha Retsuyō lowered his head, a hint of excitement flashing through his eyes.

"Right. How are preparations for the clinic going? Who exactly is in charge?" Hane asked softly.

"Reporting to the Young Clan Head, the pharmacists cultivated by the clan have already entered production mode. Once the Young Clan Head's pills are refined, the clinic can open tomorrow. The main person in charge is Sosuke of the Twelve Guards."

Hane smiled faintly. "Sosuke? He's a steady Uchiha. In that case, once this matter is over, we'll open with great fanfare. It's time to show the outside world a different Uchiha!"

"Yes, Young Clan Head. Once your pills are released, the entire Ninja World will surely be shocked!" Uchiha Retsuyō was growing ever more eager for the Uchiha's future.

He truly wanted to see just how far the Uchiha could go under the leadership of this youth who seemed like a god. The intensity of that thought made his right eye ache faintly.

Konoha Root.

Danzo listened to his subordinate's report with a grim expression.

"So you failed to get them back."

"Lord Danzo! This subordinate is incompetent!" The Root ninja knelt before Danzo, not even daring to breathe too loudly.

"What exactly happened?" Danzo asked, a sinister glint in his eyes.

"More than a dozen Uchiha enforcing the law for the Military Police Force had Three-Tomoe Sharingan. The captain sensed that he was no match for them. On top of that, public opinion was against the Anbu at the time. The captain could not withstand the pressure, so he let them pass!" The Root ninja briefly described the scene.

Danzo sprang up from his chair. "What? You said the more than ten Uchiha enforcing the law all had Three-Tomoe Sharingan?" A trace of fear flashed through Danzo's eyes.

"Yes, Lord Danzo! If they had been the Military Police Force's enforcers from before, the captain would never have taken them seriously."

"No. I need to see Sarutobi. The current Uchiha have completely slipped out of Konoha's control." With that, Danzo ignored the Root ninja kneeling below and hurried toward the Hokage Building.

The moment he entered the Hokage Building, he saw that Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura had already arrived.

"Sarutobi, the Uchiha Clan has become far too arrogant. You absolutely cannot continue indulging them over this matter!"

Danzo ignored the three silent figures and voiced his thoughts.

Sarutobi did not answer Danzo immediately. Instead, he silently began smoking his pipe.

The entire meeting room fell into a strange atmosphere.

"Danzo, the issue now is no longer whether we suppress the Uchiha. You should be figuring out how to wipe your own ass as quickly as possible."

"Danzo, tell me honestly. Are the missing children in the village connected to you?"

Sarutobi's voice was incomparably low.

"Sarutobi, what do you mean? You approved the human experiments!" Danzo narrowed his eyes.

"Yes! It was all my fault. I should never have agreed to this. And because of that, you actually dared to use the village's children for experiments!" As he spoke, Sarutobi's suppressed fury finally erupted.

"Everything was for Konoha, for the village. What does a little darkness matter?" Danzo stubbornly refused to admit fault.

"Fine, fine! This is what you did for the village!" Sarutobi slammed a stack of documents into Danzo's face.

Danzo picked them up. Every page bore the Military Police Force's seal, and the contents made his pupils contract uncontrollably.

"How could the Military Police Force have moved so quickly?" Danzo asked in disbelief.

Meanwhile, beside the Military Police Force's bulletin board, the crowd had long since become outraged.

The Military Police Force's operation that day had been massive. Nearly half of Konoha's villagers knew about it. The large-scale arrests of child traffickers had not been limited to the market alone.

The Military Police Force had destroyed no fewer than five child trafficking dens. There were dozens of criminals in the various hideouts, and naturally, some places resisted fiercely, even resulting in several intense clashes.

However, with the Uchiha, almost all wielding Three-Tomoe Sharingan, leading the teams, not a single trafficker escaped. More than thirty children were rescued, including children from ninja clans.

Such a major operation naturally could not be concealed, so when the Military Police Force withdrew, a large number of civilians followed them.

They had originally thought it would take the Military Police Force some time to uncover the truth. Yet in less than half a day, the results were announced.

The reason the Uchiha had solved the case so quickly was related to twelve clan members with Mangekyō Sharingan. One of them possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan technique Illusion, an infinite hypnosis technique. Even if the criminals knew how terrifying the Uchiha Sharingan was and closed their eyes to avoid confessing—

Under Illusion's invisible hypnosis, they all spilled every detail of their crimes as if pouring out beans.

By then, the Uchiha Military Police Force had recorded all the confessions and used them to find every piece of evidence. A complete child abduction and trafficking chain was laid bare before everyone, and every criminal act pointed directly at Konoha's upper echelon.

The Uchiha had no intention of cleaning up Konoha's upper echelon's mess. They directly announced the entire criminal process and submitted an arrest warrant to the Third Hokage.

At that moment, on a small mountain not far from the village, a large number of Uchiha ninja had directly surrounded the hill within Konoha's Forest of Death.

Behind them stood a large number of clan ninja, as well as some civilian ninja.

The Uchiha had not concealed their actions. Once the facts were announced, a large number of Military Police Force officers rushed straight to the scene.

"Captain Retsuyō, after surveying the area, we've confirmed that this is the place!" An Uchiha reported to Uchiha Retsuyō, who stood at the scene.

"Send out clan members with powerful sensory ranges. Find the entrance as soon as possible." Uchiha Retsuyō gave the order coldly.

"Yes!" The Uchiha clan members immediately sprang into action.

Under the tense gazes of the surrounding ninja, the Uchiha quickly found the entrance to the secret base.

Uchiha Retsuyō did not hesitate. He immediately led the main force into the secret base.

The ninja from the other clans exchanged glances, then followed without hesitation. Even now, they could not believe that the child traffickers were connected to Konoha's upper echelon, but the evidence presented by the Uchiha was simply too overwhelming to refute.

Moreover, they could not ignore the fact that children from several clans had been imprisoned in cages at the scene. Over the years, every clan had spent enormous manpower and resources searching for their children who had vanished without explanation.

Yet all clues had pointed to ninja forces outside the village, and in the end, they had no choice but to let the cases fade away.

However, the moment they entered the experimental base, they witnessed a horrifying scene. In cylindrical glass tanks standing throughout the spacious hall, green liquid soaked one tiny body after another. There were children from the Aburame Clan, Yamanaka Clan, Hyuga Clan... nearly every clan in Konoha was represented.

There were also many civilian children. Counting them one by one, there were no fewer than a hundred corpses. The sight plunged every clan ninja and civilian ninja present into silence.

Hyuga Hiashi in particular trembled inwardly when he saw the Hyuga girl who had been dissected into a specimen inside one of the tanks.

He still remembered how a clan uncle from the Main Family had rushed over in panic, saying that his daughter had gone missing. The entire clan had been shaken by the matter, and they had mobilized the clan to search for a full year without finding any trace of her.

Even now, the incident remained a thorn in the Hyuga Clan's heart. The disappearance of Branch Family members was not considered a major issue, since the Caged Bird Seal meant the Hyuga did not fear others stealing their bloodline.

But the Main Family was different. Yet now, Hiashi saw his own niece here, looking at the little girl split into two halves and the two missing eyes.

Hyuga Hiashi's breathing grew ragged as he clenched his fists tightly. He did not dare imagine just how much pain his niece had endured here.