[You captured several Anbu Ninja and used Mind Invasion on them, but found nothing.]
[You waited until Hiruzen Sarutobi left the Hokage Office Building, then infiltrated it.]
[As you searched, you recorded everything, thinking that even if you failed to find the Scroll of Seals this time, you should at least find some clues to help with your next Life Simulation.]
[You inspected the first floor.]
[You found nothing related to the Scroll of Seals.]
[You were discovered.]
[A large number of Anbu Ninja pursued you.]
[You killed some Anbu Ninja.]
[More Anbu Ninja appeared.]
[You died.]
[The Anbu Ninja brought your corpse before Hiruzen Sarutobi.]
[Hiruzen Sarutobi used this to hold the Uchiha Clan accountable.]
[Fugaku Uchiha chose to yield.]
[More members of the Uchiha Clan were sent to the battlefield to fight Kumogakure ninja. They were not allowed to return unless dead.]
[Uchiha Itachi hated you fiercely, believing that you were the one who had harmed the Uchiha Clan.]
[Please choose one of the following two options as your reward.]
[1: Genjutsu: Firefly.]
[2: The item you were holding before your death.]
Uchiha Setsuna hesitated only briefly before making his choice.
"I choose 2!"
A sheet of paper appeared in Uchiha Setsuna's hand. It was the record he had made after infiltrating the Hokage Office Building during the Life Simulation, detailing the situation on the first floor.
It was only a genjutsu. Uchiha Setsuna did not particularly need it.
But this record of the Hokage Office Building's first floor could be of considerable help to Uchiha Setsuna.
If it existed in the Life Simulation, it might exist in the real world as well.
"Another not particularly successful Life Simulation."
Uchiha Setsuna's eyes flickered.
"The general direction of the plan was sound."
"First, sell the intelligence and have Kumogakure launch a war against Konoha, throwing Konoha into chaos."
"But the reaction of the Konoha High Command was the worst outcome I had anticipated."
"The Konoha High Command did not choose to temporarily set aside their conflict with the Uchiha Clan. Instead, they treated the Uchiha Clan as cannon fodder."
"Fugaku Uchiha actually had no intention of resisting at all."
"Even after seeing this, Uchiha Itachi still stood with the Konoha High Command. It seemed he believed the Uchiha were supposed to make such sacrifices—that it was both natural and justified."
"But never mind. I never had any expectations for those two in the first place."
"Logically, Uchiha Yashiro should have resisted after seeing something like this. Yet the Life Simulation did not reflect that. There must be some problem here."
Uchiha Setsuna still had a favorable impression of Uchiha Yashiro.
He was not a cowardly or weak-willed person, nor did he value Konoha above the Uchiha Clan. He cared deeply about the clan.
His only flaw was that he was a little too weak.
He possessed the strength of an Elite Jonin.
"Before infiltrating the Hokage Office Building, I captured Mizuki and used Mind Invasion on him, but found nothing."
"Yet in the original plot, Mizuki really did guide Naruto into stealing the Scroll of Seals."
"There are two possibilities."
"At the point in time of this Life Simulation, Mizuki had not yet obtained the information."
"The second possibility is that the entire incident was a conspiracy aimed at Mizuki, a trap."
There was a third possibility: Naruto had stumbled upon the Scroll of Seals by sheer accident.
However, Uchiha Setsuna dismissed it as impossible.
If Naruto had found it by accident, Mizuki could not have been so certain.
Moreover, Uchiha Setsuna had thoroughly investigated the first floor of the Hokage Office Building during this Life Simulation. There had not been the slightest clue regarding the Scroll of Seals.
There was no possibility of anyone stumbling upon it by accident.
The Hokage Office Building was enormous.
It had three floors in total.
The first floor had the largest area, followed by the second, while the third was the smallest.
Yet even the roof of the third floor had a diameter of dozens of meters.
"If only I had the Byakugan. It would make things much more convenient."
"But unfortunately, I do not yet have the technique for transplanting the Byakugan."
"If I want to use the Byakugan, I must first learn that technique, either from the Medical Department or by finding a medical ninja."
Uchiha Setsuna was not worried about obtaining a Byakugan.
Even if Uchiha Setsuna did not make a move against Hyuga Hinata, he could target Ao from Kirigakure. The Byakugan on Ao's body had also been taken from a member of the Hyuga Clan.
But Uchiha Setsuna had another concern.
To use the Byakugan himself, he would have to remove one of his Sharingan.
"Wait, I can actually do this."
Uchiha Setsuna thought of a way to use it.
He could seize a Byakugan but not use it in the real world, only within the Life Simulation.
Then, when choosing his reward, he would not choose the Byakugan but another option. His real-world self would remain unaffected and would still retain two intact Sharingan.
It would not affect his potential Mangekyo later on.
"This method works."
Uchiha Setsuna nodded.
"With the Byakugan, obtaining intelligence will become much easier."
Suddenly.
Uchiha Setsuna thought of something.
"Other than rewards, the Life Simulation does not affect anything in the real world."
"Then if, before dying in the Life Simulation, I hold the Byakugan in my hand, can I choose the Byakugan as my reward? It still would not affect my Sharingan in the real world."
"If I do this in one Life Simulation, the number of Byakugan I possess will become two."
"In the second Life Simulation, I can hold two Byakugan in my hands. When the simulation ends, I can choose the item I was holding before my death, and the number of Byakugan will become four."
"In the third Life Simulation, I can obtain eight."
"In the fourth... sixteen."
Uchiha Setsuna felt his heart pounding wildly.
"Wouldn't that be exploiting a bug in the Life Simulator?"
"Having more tomoe Sharingan would not improve me much, aside from using them for Izanagi. But if I want to use it several more times, I would still need to obtain Uchiha Shin's arm."
"And Orochimaru's arm transplantation technique."
"But the Byakugan is different."
"I remember that the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon once used Byakugan to create a Tenseigan."
"That Byakugan was somewhat different from the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan."
"The Otsutsuki Clan on the moon possessed Otsutsuki Chakra."
"The Hyuga Clan no longer does."
"But I can give it a try."
"It is only one Life Simulation."
"If I can exploit a bug, why would I go through a proper Life Simulation?"
"Even if the Byakugan does not work, I can still exploit this bug using Explosive Tags."
"Right, I remember Konoha having some architect who buried a large number of Explosive Tags in the village's buildings, didn't it?"
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