"En and Koharu didn't mean that just now..."
"Lord Third."
Uchiha Minamoto spoke firmly.
"The Nine-Tails' Attack-everyone thought it was a natural disaster.
"Now the facts are completely clear. The Nine-Tails' Attack wasn't a natural disaster, but a man-made one!"
Yes, a man-made disaster...
Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed.
He had previously thought it was man-made too, only a "man-made disaster" orchestrated entirely by the Uchiha Clan.
Now the answer was out.
The culprit wasn't the Uchiha Clan, but...
"On the night of the Nine-Tails' Attack, the Uchiha Clan and the Konoha Military Police Force were both stationed at the edge of the battlefield, armed and ready."
Uchiha Minamoto sneered.
"But what finally came was an order forbidding us from joining the battle!
"And that order seems to have come from Shimura Danzō, doesn't it?
"If Shimura Danzō had nothing to hide, why would he refuse to let the Uchiha Clan fight?"
Yes...
It all connected...
Everything connected...
Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed again, his bitterness almost written all over his face.
Working backward from the intelligence they now possessed, he reconstructed the rough course of the Nine-Tails' Attack.
First, the classified information about the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki giving birth had been leaked. Then someone had released the Nine-Tails from its seal and summoned it into the center of Konoha. Immediately afterward, Shimura Danzō had forbidden the Uchiha Clan, who specialized in dealing with the Nine-Tails, from participating in the battle...
Viewed that way...
If the mysterious Masked Man was the direct perpetrator of the Nine-Tails' Attack...
Then Shimura Danzō was the mastermind lurking behind the mysterious Masked Man!
That mysterious Masked Man possessed the [Sharingan], operated under the name "Madara Uchiha," had modified his body with Hashirama cells just like Shimura Danzō, and knew practically everything about the Nine-Tails...
Other than Shimura Danzō...
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