After Black Zetsu entered the network of old orders, his footprints vanished.
He no longer moved through the earth.
Instead, he jumped between textual relationships still recognized by the Shinobi Villages.
The first anomaly appeared at a border warehouse in the Land of Earth.
A permanent wartime requisition order suddenly began registering chakra again.
The order had originally been used to requisition stone and transport ninja.
After the war ended, actual requisitions had stopped.
The document, however, had never been withdrawn, only sealed away in the war-readiness catalog.
Black Zetsu followed the clause "may be reactivated for wartime needs" into the next warehouse.
The Land of Earth disclosed only the order number and the fact that it could still be activated.
It did not disclose the transport routes or the quantities of supplies involved at the time.
Using the number, the Land of Rivers confirmed that black fluctuations had appeared.
The other nations could not use tracking requests to obtain complete war-readiness records.
The second anomaly came from the Land of Water.
An isolation order targeting a particular Bloodline Family had long since ceased to be enforced.
Yet the people concerned had never received a formal revocation.
Black Zetsu exploited the clause "identity-related risks remain present," disguising himself as a subject requiring secret handling.
If the tracking team entered, it would have to acknowledge that the old isolation procedures remained valid.
In the end, the Land of Water opened access to only the three lines Black Zetsu had touched.
The names of all other affected people were concealed.
Those three lines were enough to prove that the order had no expiration date.
They were also enough for the local authorities to restart the withdrawal process.
The third anomaly appeared in the Land of Lightning.
An order to hunt down a