There was no day or night in the other dimension.
The old Supplyman could only judge the passage of time by how often the Masked Man appeared.
By the time the third interrogation began, the Masked Man already knew the northeast lead was false.
He tossed a new map in front of the Supplyman.
"The drag marks led northwest."
The Supplyman did not deny it.
"If you already know, why ask me?"
"What did that person leave behind?"
"Goggles, Metal Fasteners, and blood."
"Whose blood?"
The Supplyman raised his head and looked at the right eye behind the mask.
"Obito Uchiha."
The Supplyman did not raise his voice.
He simply stated the name, the items, and where they had been found, one by one, just as he had when registering ninja tools all those years ago.
The goggles were standard issue for young Konoha shinobi.
The repair seam matched the old belongings kept by his family.
The Metal Fasteners had fallen where the drag marks went underground.
These details were not meant to provoke the Masked Man into confessing, but to prevent him from dismissing the name as Kakashi's one-sided emotional judgment.
Every white pillar in the dimension seemed to fall silent for an instant.
The Masked Man did not admit it.
Nor did he say that person was dead, as he had before.
"What makes you so sure?"
The Supplyman described the crooked repair seam inside the goggles.
When he had registered the items back then, he had thought it was a scratch from battle.
Only after returning to the village and checking the Uchiha equipment had he learned that it was a personal mark Obito had left while repairing the frame.
"There were two Metal Fasteners. One was sent to the miscellaneous storage room."
"The other fell at