Hirakawa had handled three preliminary appendices to the Relocation Order.
Uchiha police conflict statistics.
Excerpts of public grievances following the Nine-Tails disaster.
A summary of Uchiha risk monitoring.
These three documents were not the Relocation Order itself.
Yet when Gen saw them, he felt a deeper chill than he had upon seeing the official order.
Because the final order was merely the blade coming down.
What truly sharpened that blade was often the material that preceded the order.
When the leadership met, they could not walk every street all over again.
They could only read the records delivered to their desks.
If those records had labeled the Uchiha as high-risk from the outset, then even if the Relocation Order wore the guise of a safety decision, the preliminary material had already pushed it in that same direction.
After reading the three appendices, Fugaku pressed his fingers against the tabletop and said nothing for a long time.
Those words did not directly vilify the Uchiha.
Every sentence even looked like an ordinary record.
The Konoha Military Police Force had argued with disaster survivors.
Uchiha clansmen had displayed intense emotions.
Villagers' trust in the Konoha Military Police Force had declined.
High-impact individuals required continued monitoring.
None of those statements was particularly damning on its own.
But together, they led to a very damning conclusion.
The Uchiha were dangerous.
The Uchiha were unstable.
The Uchiha needed to be relocated.
Gen said, "Risk appendices hurt people before orders do."
Che wrote that sentence into the clan's memorandum.
At the Hokage Building, Fugaku formally requested a review of the sources of all three appendices, along with any traces of deletions or alterations.
Danzo immediately objected.
"Public grievances after the disaster are real. The Uchiha cannot question every record simply because they refuse to face the