With Hiruzen Sarutobi mediating, the banquet could finally proceed normally.
However, wherever Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy went, every conversation veered off course.
In the end, the three of them talked while everyone else listened.
Still, at least there were no more awkward silences, and the atmosphere returned to what it had been before Danzo arrived.
While everyone ate and drank, Danzo wore a dark expression, his mind awash in cold sweat.
Uchiha Fugaku's son was called Uchiha Itachi.
Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Itachi...
Uchiha Yellow Weasel!
Danzo's eyes suddenly widened.
A coincidence?
No, he did not believe this was a coincidence.
In other words, the Uchiha had known all along that he was conducting human experimentation!
The more Danzo thought about it, the more alarmed he became.
The Uchiha seemed to be playing a long game.
And it had started several years ago.
The Uchiha had actually held leverage over Danzo all along.
If they wished, they could expose the human experimentation and Hashirama cells transplant experiments, and he, Shimura Danzō, would never have a chance of becoming Hokage again.
At that thought, Danzo's breathing grew heavy, and cold sweat poured down his body.
To think the Uchiha were this clever.
They truly were inherently evil.
No wonder, no wonder the Uchiha had always tolerated his suppression at every turn.
So that was it. They had known his secret all along.
But Danzo could not understand why Uchiha Fugaku would choose this very moment to warn him.
Danzo thought it over, his gaze unconsciously drifting toward Bieshu Feifan and the other two, who were enjoying their food.
Could bringing those three along have crossed Uchiha Fugaku's bottom line?
While Danzo was brainstorming, because of the outsiders' arrival at this banquet,
none of the Uchiha Clan felt much like