When the black strokes left the paper, they did not take the entire sentence with them.
They only stripped away the links that assigned responsibility.
Obito actively controlling the Nine-Tails became Obito and the Nine-Tails having appeared at the same time.
Black Zetsu modifying the lunar surface path became Black Zetsu having studied the moon.
A breach in Konoha's old authority became a gap in the sealing records.
Every fact remained.
But who had done what was becoming blurred again.
Black Zetsu knew this kind of erasure better than anyone.
Once cause and effect were severed, those who came afterward would fill the blanks with the most convenient explanation.
The Uchiha, with their Sharingan, would still be the easiest answer to insert.
Gen did not order all four archives to reinforce their defenses at once.
Black Zetsu was waiting for chakra to flow into the paper.
Any unified seal would become a new bus for the pseudo-ten-tails core.
"Let the black strokes go."
The Konoha recorder thought he had misheard.
Gen broke the Night of the Nine-Tails verification sheet apart.
Names on one page.
Actions on another.
Times and locations listed separately.
The Four Preservation Sites no longer defended the connections Black Zetsu had left behind. Instead, they renumbered them in ordinary ink.
The third entry on Page A corresponded to the seventh on Page B.
The Land of Rain knew only what had happened in the Demonic Statue's damaged opening.
The Land of Rivers retained only when the materials from all four parties had been verified.
Konoha kept the orders and rescue records.
The Observation Zone kept the actions Obito himself had admitted to.
No single site held all the originals.
All four could prove that no one should replace the other three.
Black Zetsu immediately turned on the