The Third Hokage finished reading the Master Ledger but did not immediately affix his seal.
"Once the situation that night was over, this order was no longer enforced."
The Hokage's Direct Subordinate Recorder did not dispute that.
The Konoha Military Police Force was indeed no longer required to stay away from the Nine-Tails.
District deployments had also returned to normal long ago.
The problem was that ceasing enforcement was not the same as formally invalidating an order.
No "further notice" had ever been issued.
No department had received a revocation.
Nor had anyone explained whether the original grounds for designating the entire clan as a risk were valid.
If the Third Hokage merely added a statement that the order had ended long ago, the Master Ledger would still preserve that error for the next emergency.
He raised another practical concern.
If the old order were fully revoked, would Konoha lose the means to impose swift restrictions if the Nine-Tails fell under Sharingan control again?
Gen did not ask the village to abandon its precautions.
New emergency rules could target confirmed eye power control, anomalous spatial arrival points, and specific suspects.
They could also temporarily isolate techniques capable of continuing to control the Nine-Tails.
They could not treat a surname as sufficient evidence again.
Fugaku agreed that the Uchiha would submit to the same verification of their conduct.
If a clan member showed concrete signs of controlling a tailed beast, the Konoha Military Police Force could not invoke clan autonomy to obstruct an investigation.
In exchange, the village could not preemptively restrict every uninvolved clan member simply because the Sharingan made such control possible.
Revoking the old order did not mean leaving Konoha defenseless.
It meant shifting the target of its precautions from bloodline to verifiable conduct.
That was precisely where