"When we were first attacked, what sprayed out of that 'waterskin' should have been some kind of animal's blood... or human blood. A kekkei genkai that controls blood? But the Chinoike Clan should already be extinct, and his eyes didn't look like the rumored Ketsuryūgan either. Strange."
"And at the end, how did he pull the fleeing enemy back?"
Danzo closed his eyes, replaying that scene over and over in his mind, trying to identify the ninjutsu or trick Shinji had used.
Unfortunately, no matter how much he thought about it, he found nothing.
Shinji had only said, "Come back," and the enemy had actually flown backward toward him.
"Could it really have been his voice? Hypnosis or genjutsu?"
Danzo was thoroughly puzzled. He felt that explanation made no sense either. "Come back" might simply have been something blurted out in the circumstances, no different from shouting "Die!" while attacking or "Stop running!" during a pursuit.
"Lord Danzo, these people were unusually clean. They had nothing on them that could identify them. All that remained was this mask..."
Danzo opened his eyes and glanced at the animal mask Yamanaka Fū had brought over.
"Interesting. Are you saying the people who attacked us just now were from the Konoha Anbu?"
"I wouldn't dare."
"Heh. Put all these things away. We'll discuss it when we get back."
"Yes, Lord Danzo!"
With Danzo's experience in dirty tricks, it was naturally easy for him to see that these people had deliberately meant to pin the blame on the Konoha Anbu.
Or rather, to arouse his suspicions!
As long as he remained alive, those masks would inevitably raise one possibility: could someone in Konoha want him eliminated?
And he would inevitably consider that possibility.
They had prepared for multiple outcomes from the start. If their