Shimura Danzo made this "confession" only because he was absolutely sure of his impunity. After all, what can you take away from a dead man? He had nothing to lose, nothing to worry about. Who would have thought... If he had known in advance that his soul would become someone's food, he would never have taken this fatal step.
One wrong step and Sarutobi Hiruzen swallowed him up.
The other hidden villages knew nothing about the events in Konoha. Their spies only recorded a colossal surge in Uchiha Yue's power, which then just as suddenly and inexplicably faded away. Fortunately for the observers, they showed proper prudence. Or rather, they kept an extremely safe distance. Upon noticing the first signs of an anomaly, they immediately retreated, rightly judging that the role of the viewer in this performance was too dangerous.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in a secret laboratory hidden in the depths of the Shinobi world, Senju Tobirama and Orochimaru's research has finally borne fruit.
— Ha ha ha… The second one is Sama, we did it! Orochimaru's trademark predatory smile appeared on his face, which he hadn't shown for a long time.
—Hmm,— Senju Tobirama nodded curtly, looking at the result of their joint work with satisfaction.
A suit of armor stood on a pedestal in front of them. Forged from a metal that conducts chakra, it was speckled with a myriad of tightly fitting sealing formulas, making it seem like a mysterious and otherworldly artifact.
Soon Nagato appeared in the laboratory.
— So this is the fruit of your labors? He looked at the armor and ran his fingers over its cold surface. — Is he able to block Uchiha Yue's power?
"He's capable. All that remains is to fill it with a huge amount of chakra, and the sealing armor will be ready," Senju Tobirama confirmed. His gaze lingered on Nagato's eyes.
Rinnegan… To think that the legendary eyes really exist. And this young man, Nagato, is also related to Konoha.…
Tobirama mentally replayed the information he had received from Orochimaru. Nagato turned out to be a student of Jiraiya, who in turn was a student of his own protégé, Sarutobi Hiruzen... at the thought of these two, the Second Hokage's face turned to stone.
The whole current catastrophe — the Shinobi world in ruins, the threat named Uchiha Yue—was on their conscience. After his death, these two not only did not smooth out the conflict with the Uchiha clan, but also brought it to an extreme point... to the point of ordering its complete extermination.
And they gave birth to a monster. After all, before that, Yue was an ordinary person, a peaceful resident of Konoha. Weak and harmless.
Damn these idiots! Tobirama's inner anger boiled over. — If the Uchiha were preparing a coup, the conspirators should have been executed! An attempt on the Hokage's life is a betrayal, the way of nukenin. Announce their crime and bring them to justice. Why arrange a secret massacre? Why kill the entire clan, including the women and children? What have ordinary people like Yue done wrong?!
And you, Danzo, are a fool! You accused the Uchiha of betrayal when you were scheming behind the Hokage's back! How are you better than them? At least they didn't have time to put their plan into effect, but you did!
Thinking about his successors, Senju Tobirama was at a loss for words. He left them the village, and they turned it into a hotbed of chaos.
Even a monkey would have handled the controls better!
Until now, he was sure that the extermination of the Uchiha clan was the work of Danzo alone...
I wonder what's wrong with Konoha now.…
All this time he was absorbed in his work and did not follow the fate of the village at all. All he knew was that Konoha still existed. And that's a good thing.
Orochimaru, who was standing next to him, took on the role of a lecturer, explaining the principle of the armor. It was based on brute force. At the moment, they had not found a single material or type of energy capable of completely blocking Yue's absorbing aura.
This power seemed absolute. Of course, there was one solution: Yue couldn't draw energy through the barriers of space-time. Theoretically, one could wrap oneself in a space-time film. But the technology for this was beyond their current capabilities. In addition, this created a new problem: to attack, one would have to step out from behind the barrier, which was tantamount to suicide. Having approached Yue, the attacker would have been instantly drained of both body and soul.
So they went the other way. The principle of their creation was similar to what was currently being fought over in Konoha: the armor worked as a giant external source of chakra. With the help of sealing techniques, a colossal amount of energy was poured into the armor, and then into the wearer, allowing him to directly resist the absorbing force.
However, this solved only half of the problem. A simple infusion of chakra would not have saved the wearer from death: his life force, biochemical energy — all this would also have been sucked out. A body overflowing with chakra would have died of exhaustion.
Their ingenious solution was a conversion system. After activation, the armor not only nourished the Shinobi with chakra, but also constantly transformed it into other types of energy, supporting all vital functions of the body. It took months of work to debug this delicate mechanism.
Orochimaru smiled wryly. Fortunately, the chaos that engulfed the Land of Fire provided them with an inexhaustible source of experimental material. In peacetime, mass disappearances would inevitably attract Konoha's attention.