"Fine, fine, fine, you won't talk, right? Bring out the heavy torture!"
Fortune said soft-heartedly, "Alright, Fish Ball, don't waste your effort. This person has a Root cursed seal on her; she won't reveal any Konoha-related intelligence."
Fish Ball pointed at Fortune with a frozen fish: "Fortune, this Yakushi Nonō is your person. Did you secretly instruct her to assassinate the boss?"
Fortune got a bit anxious and pointed back at Fish Ball: "Fish Ball, don't go pinning labels on me! Are you trying to start a struggle here?"
"Hmph, you're definitely behind this. I'll definitely interrogate it out of her!"
"Fish Ball, you jerk, you're actually trying to frame me by interrogating Yakushi Nonō! I'll fight you!"
Nonō watched the two Hachimi fighting in front of her, somewhat speechless.
So these are the soldiers led by Ryou!
Ryou walked in and saw the two cats scratching and biting each other. Feeling frustrated by their lack of progress, he extended vines and tied both cats up.
"Candy, hit them for me!"
"You got it!"
When Nonō saw Ryou walk in, she became nervous and didn't dare to look at his crimson Sharingan.
She had no defensive capability against the Sharingan.
Ryou walked up to Nonō, who was currently tied to a pillar with ropes.
Having shed her disguise and returned to her original appearance, Nonō looked somewhat familiar to Ryou.
He stroked his chin and thought for a moment before finally figuring it out: "You are Yakushi Nonō, the director of the Konoha Orphanage! The former ace spy of Root—the Wandering Miko."
Nonō was somewhat surprised: "We have never met, how do you know me?"
Ryou smiled and didn't answer. He touched her face, which bore some injuries from interrogation.
Ryou then performed Medical Ninjutsu, healing the injuries on Nonō's body.
Immediately, Nonō's condition improved significantly. With shoulder-length light blonde hair and fair skin, her overall temperament was gentle and quiet, carrying a sense of healing.
Anyone who saw her would feel their heart calm down, sensing a sacred feeling of maternal love from Nonō.
Ryou almost triggered a passive urge to call her mother.
Nonō was somewhat puzzled. Why did Ryou heal her? She had just tried to assassinate his lover.
Ryou crossed his arms and looked at Nonō, saying, "Nonō, Danzo must have sent you to assassinate Tsunade, right?"
Nonō remained silent.
Ryou smiled: "Do you think I can't threaten you if you don't talk? Candy—no, Snowy, Nekomata, where are you?"
"Your general is here!"
A tabby cat with a scar on its face and a thuggish aura emerged from the floor of the interrogation room, accompanied by a white cat with blue fur on its ears—it was Nekomata.
Ryou instructed the two Shinobi Cats: "Go to the Land of Fire and find Yakushi Nonō's orphanage for me. At the orphanage entrance, play only mother is good in this world."
"ヾ(;ﾟ;Д;ﾟ;)ﾉﾞ."
Snowy and Nekomata showed expressions of shock because this was truly too cruel.
Nonō finally couldn't hold back and pleaded with Ryou: "Uchiha Ryou—no, Lord Ryou, I beg you, please don't hurt the children at the orphanage."
Although the Konoha Orphanage carried Konoha's name, it wasn't actually in Konoha but on its outskirts, and Konoha had never provided any funding.
The orphanage's funds all came from Nonō's former mission fees; for the sake of the orphanage, she had even re-entered the devil's den of Root.
Nonō was a great person.
Ryou laughed twice: "Nonō, so you can beg people too!"
Then Ryou had Snowy and Nekomata untie the ropes on Nonō and gave her some water.
Ryou used Wood Release to create a stool, sat on it with his legs crossed, and began teaching interrogation experience to his Shinobi Cats.
"Some people's will is like steel; you can't break them no matter what. But such people inevitably have a faith more important than their lives."
"Perhaps it's a certain ideology, or perhaps it's a certain person."
"Their weakness lies within their faith. Interrogation is about attacking their weakest point."
The cats nodded. Fish Ball and Fortune pleaded: "Ryou, can you let us down before educating us?"
"Quiet! You two useless fellows. Especially you, Fortune. This time Yakushi Nonō used your connections to get close to Tsunade. You deserve punishment."
"Candy, confiscate Fortune's vault."
"Nooooo—"
Fish Ball couldn't help but laugh.
Ryou then walked up to Nonō, grabbed her hair, and interrogated her: "Speak, why did you assassinate Tsunade?"
"..."
Nonō still didn't speak. Ryou got a bit annoyed, his Sharingan staring into her calm eyes.
"Do you really think I don't dare to kill you?"
Nonō stuck out her tongue, using this method to tell him she had a cursed seal and couldn't say anything.
Who would have thought Ryou would misunderstand? Seeing Nonō stick out her tongue, he stuck his out as well.
"(˘³˘)♡(๑•́ω•̀๑)."
Nonō tried to struggle, but her strength was no match for Ryou's immense power; she could only be continuously drained by Ryou.
...
Konoha.
The Five Kage had selected the commander of the alliance—the Third Hokage.
This was no surprise. After all, Konoha contributed the most troops, and its experts were the most numerous among the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
Although they had lost the top-tier Medical Shinobi Tsunade, rumors said Orochimaru of the Sannin was still around.
Konoha remained the number one Village in the Shinobi World.
They had Minato, known as Konoha's Yellow Flash who possessed the Flying Thunder God Technique, and Minato's teacher, Jiraiya of the Sannin.
There were also Konoha's major Shinobi Clans: Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga...
Any one of these clans had been a prestigious existence during the Warring States Period.
The Third Hokage was around 56 years old now; at this stage, he could still fight and hold his own.
While he wasn't the strongest among them, he was the most trustworthy commander.
With the Third Hokage as Commander, Ōnoki was the chief of Staff, and the Fourth Raikage was the General Captain of the Alliance.
A series of subsequent units—Intelligence Unit, Surprise Attack Unit, Daimyo Protection Unit, First Division...
The officers for these units would be arranged later. The Five Kage Summit was for discussing the framework of the Shinobi Allied Forces, which was a more important matter.
Danzo stood up and said, "Everyone, we must prepare in advance for what happens if we lose this war."
The Fourth Raikage said, "We won't lose, and we can't afford to lose!"
Danzo said, "There is no such thing as a war that cannot be lost. As long as it is war, there will be winners and losers, especially a war against Uchiha Madara."
"Therefore, I propose that when the battle becomes irrecoverable, we kill the Jinchuriki, thereby killing the Tailed Beasts to delay Uchiha Madara's Eye of the Moon Plan!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was shocked—especially the Jinchuriki behind the Five Kage, who all glared at Danzo.
The Konoha side was also very surprised because Danzo's proposal had not been discussed with them at all; it was his own initiative.
Killing the Tailed Beasts was entirely feasible.
But Tailed Beasts do not die; they revive after a period of time.
For example, after Rin died, the Three-Tails died, but later the Three-Tails revived in the lake where it usually lived, and Yagura personally sealed the Three-Tails inside himself.
Danzo wanted to use this method to stall for time. If they really couldn't defeat Madara, they would kill the Tailed Beasts.
That way, Madara would have to wait for the Tailed Beasts to revive before he could execute the Eye of the Moon Plan.
That would give the Shinobi Allied Forces more ample time to prepare.
Some shrewd individuals had already mentally accepted Danzo's plan.
Especially Ōnoki.
In the original work, on the eve of the Fourth Great Shinobi War, Kurotsuchi had proposed to Ōnoki to kill the Jinchuriki.
This would both sabotage Madara's Eye of the Moon Plan and weaken the strength of other Villages.
Killing the Jinchuriki to delay the Eye of the Moon Plan was completely viable.