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Chapter 56
"What should we do?"
"The plan failed. We all deserve to die to atone."
"Death isn't the worst part. The worst is that Lord Danzō failed to achieve his goal. I deserve death."
"It was me hesitating just now. This is my responsibility. I'll commit suicide to atone right now!"
"Captain, no—right now we need to think about how to help Lord Danzō minimize the damage."
A group of Root captains and vice-captains gathered together, arguing intensely.
Tenraku Kumo watched them with a cold sneer, her eyes glinting with schadenfreude.
They deserved it!
All of them deserved it!
Root people were all idiots, and Danzō was the biggest idiot of them all.
Although Tenraku Kumo was being coerced by Danzō, he had never implanted a curse seal in her—precisely to avoid Uchiha Itachi noticing anything unusual.
So she still had the right to curse Root and Danzō like crazy in her heart.
Right now, Tenraku Kumo felt extremely happy. Seeing Root's plan about to fail filled her with joy.
Playing with fire and getting burned, huh? Tsk tsk… these demons would all die sooner or later!
Tenraku Kumo tried hard not to laugh out loud and quietly waited for their decision.
Uchiha Itachi was approaching. In desperation, the Root members finally reached a conclusion.
They decided that Tenraku Kumo would proceed with the original plan: impersonate Uchiha Sakyo in front of Uchiha Itachi. The only difference was skipping the part where "Sakyo" attacks Tenraku Kumo.
This way, Uchiha Itachi would trust even more that Tenraku Kumo was really his little sister.
As for the plan regarding the real Uchiha Sakyo, they would report the situation here to Lord Danzō first and let him decide.
This allowed Root to preserve Danzō's long-standing plan with Uchiha Itachi and make Itachi fully believe Tenraku Kumo was his sister…
But now a very critical problem had arisen.
Tenraku Kumo's Sharingan couldn't be deactivated. She was already struggling, and her chakra was depleting rapidly.
Regarding this, the Root captain suggested: "First switch her eyes back to normal ones. When the siblings meet, they probably won't talk about Sharingan."
"Even if they do talk about it, they won't actually make her use it, right?"
"Even if they do make her use it, she can make an excuse to leave and find the hidden medical ninja to switch them again."
"Even if Uchiha Itachi still suspects…"
Nearby, Tenraku Kumo listened to Root's plan and a trace of fear and dread appeared in her eyes.
Switching eyes… the medical ninjas' skill level was indeed sufficient, but their methods were far too brutal.
It hurt!
No—not just hurt. It hurt tremendously!
When she was little, even getting sand in her eyes made her cry for half a day.
And now? Root wanted her to switch eyes multiple times in a single day.
But… she had no choice. She could only let Root arrange it.
The only thing Tenraku Kumo could do was silently use every curse word she had learned or could imagine to mentally bombard Root and Danzō.
"Mm! That's what we'll do!"
Soon, Root reached their decision.
The Root captain waved his hand. After giving a few instructions to several medical ninjas, they approached Tenraku Kumo carrying normal black-pupil eyes…
Tenraku Kumo instinctively took a step back, desperately trying to overcome her fear.
She kept telling herself over and over: she was doing this for her parents, so it was all worth it…