But after all these years, Kirigakure had still seized a Byakugan from the Main Family.
"Yes..."
Ao looked grim as he reported what his [Byakugan] had just seen.
"The chakra flow inside the Fourth Mizukage is extremely chaotic. It looks nothing like what a normal person's should."
In plain terms.
Someone had placed the Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, under genjutsu control!
Only ninja controlled by genjutsu would exhibit chaotic chakra flow.
Mei Terumi had thought of the same thing, and her expression turned just as grim.
"Karatachi Yagura is the Three-Tails Jinchūriki! How could someone control a jinchūriki with genjutsu?"
Among the most common ways to break genjutsu in the Shinobi World.
One was to break it by injecting chakra from an external source.
Under normal circumstances.
Because a tailed beast was sealed inside a jinchūriki's body.
The tailed beast could use its chakra to help the jinchūriki escape genjutsu control.
Speaking purely in theoretical terms.
A jinchūriki could achieve "immunity to genjutsu."
"But this is the truth. The [Byakugan] cannot possibly be wrong."
Ao shook his head and spoke sorrowfully.
"Lady Mei, the Fourth Mizukage really is being controlled by someone's genjutsu...
"No wonder, no wonder..."
Ao did not finish his thought.
But Mei Terumi understood exactly what he meant.
No wonder Karatachi Yagura's actions were nothing like those of a normal Mizukage!
"Karatachi Yagura is just like the Third Mizukage before him-"
Mei Terumi blurted out the complaint.
But before she could finish, she suddenly realized something.
Mei Terumi raised her head in horror, her gaze meeting Ao's in midair.
The same thought sprang into both their minds at once-
"Could the Third Mizukage have been controlled by someone's genjutsu back then too?!"
The two Kirigakure ninja stared at each other in silence, their foreheads covered in countless