After Konoha officially acknowledged the unknown spatial ability user, the clan's first reaction was anything but calm.
Many Uchiha ninja felt it was time to give chase.
Since their opponent had left traces, and the Hokage Building had acknowledged that someone like that had approached Konoha, the Uchiha should strike while the iron was hot and drag him out.
That thought was natural.
It was also dangerous.
In the clan meeting hall, several young ninja were fired up.
They had endured too much for too long.
The suspicions surrounding the Night of the Nine-Tails, Root's oppression, the successive plots against Shisui and Itachi, and the clan district being forced to prove its innocence again and again.
Now that the true outside manipulator had finally shown a trace of himself, of course they wanted to strike back immediately.
Only when Shisui stepped forward did the hall gradually quiet down.
He did not use his status as the clan's prodigy to pressure anyone.
Nor did he say that he had been the closest to their opponent that night.
He simply spread out the records from that day.
"I saw him."
That single sentence made everyone perk up.
Shisui continued, "But I'm not confident I can catch him."
Someone immediately said, "Shisui, even your Body Flicker Technique can't keep up?"
Shisui shook his head.
"Speed isn't the problem."
He pointed to the spatial rupture in the records.
"Our opponent doesn't simply escape quickly. He can make himself disappear from normal routes. If we pursue him, we may well fail to find him while leaving behind evidence that the Uchiha acted without authorization."
The voices in the hall faded.
Shisui continued, "If I had chased him that night, the Hokage's Anbu, the Hyuga, and Nara would only have been able to record that Shisui