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While the trio were staring suspiciously at the 'dead' body of the dangerous doctor they caught. Its open eyes that had no light in them suddenly twitched as life came back to them and dark energy started emanating from the broken neck fixing it immediately and allowing Shinno to examine the person that could see through his disguise.

To his surprise, just as the voice indicated, it was only a kid, and after examining him carefully, he remembered a certain piece of information he gathered while collecting information in Konoha, information about a certain genius appearing in the Uchiha clan ' so this is…'

Just as Shinno was lost in thought, Bakorio smirked at him and said "oh how come you stopped playing dead?"

Meanwhile, the trio were startled by this outcome and quickly put their guard up again as they looked at the doctor coming back to life out of nowhere " Tch, we were almost tricked…" Mukai clicked his tongue while Minato and Fugaku simply observed coldly.

Shinno shot Bakorio a frown remembering what he felt just moments ago, a terror that rose from the deepest part of his soul telling him that he was going to experience a fate worse than death if he didn't wake up right away, that's why he didn't think the kid was simply bluffing.

Of course, that feeling was intentionally made by Bakorio with some simple emotional manipulation…

"It's not good to ignore someone when they are talking to you… sigh, so old yet have no manners" said Bakorio in a mocking tone that finally got a reaction from Shinno as he gritted his teeth and said "What do you want?"

Bakorio put on a pondering look before he replied "hmm, let's try asking something simple, how did you fake your own death?"

Many thoughts flashed through Shinno's eyes, and Bakorio quickly cut him off with a cold look "You lie, you die, believe me, I have many ways to find the information I want"

Shinno could clearly tell thanks to his great experience, the little monster in front of him wasn't lying so he let out a long sigh and his primary desire turned into preservation, preservation of his village…"It's thanks to the body revival Jutsu, this Jutsu takes advantage of the dark chakra and allows the user to fake his death… It's also the reason I could push my body to a superhuman level as it also grants great regenerative abilities"

"Oh" Bakorio shot him a playful smirk before he said to the trio beside him "Tempting isn't it guys?". They were smart enough and didn't need his reminder as Mukai turned to him with a similar smirk as he said "Indeed, I wonder why this hostage would go to such great length to explain that this Jutsu has other uses?"

'Shit, they could easily tell' thought Shinno distressed that his plan in showing how valuable his knowledge was might not work as he's intending and that was confirmed when he heard the kid say "Are you guys interested in something that could be nullified by a Byakugan or Sharingan user, seems pretty useless to me"

Bakorio was hinting at the fact that Mukai can easily disable Shinno at his peak form thanks to his Byakugan and hitting his Tenketsu, and from what they told him about their fight, he concluded that the Sharingan could do the same, although with less precision. So right now, he was purposefully undervaluing Shinno's worth to get him to spill more information, after all, he wasn't sure if they could use mind-related Jutsu to get the information they wanted.

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"Hmph" Shinno snorted at this before he said "It can also increase the life span of its user!". Bakorio looked at him thinking 'Well this is interesting, it seems this is why It's so attractive to these people huh'

"Well, we can talk about that later, now I want to ask you this. What do you know about the death of the first Hokage?" Bakorio's eyes had a terrifying glint as this was also something that concerns his life.

Shinno seemed surprised by this before his eyes suddenly dimmed and he started to hysterically laugh to the dismay of the people present before he said with a mocking grin "Well, your great Hokage bit more than he can chew, tha…'

Before he could finish his talk, Bakorio smashed the wall of the cave right beside his head causing it to cave in, showing the people present what could have happened to Shinno before he said "Please elaborate more, I'm all ears" And his murderous aura kept getting higher and higher suffocating Shinno who was its main target until a hand landed on Bakorio's shoulder calming him down slightly

Bakorio nodded at Minato before turning back to Shinno who was sweating bullets and being understanding what kind of monsters they provoked, a monster that had no mercy in his eyes towards him or his village so he said " I-I will tell you but with one condition"

"Sure, you can ask of anything as long as it doesn't concern the village hidden in the sky" said Bakorio with a dark smile making Shinno shiver slightly before he gained back his calm 'I can't let these people discover the village and disrupt our plans!'

"I'm the only survivor of the village so of course, my request isn't about that" Shinno let out a remorseful sigh before he said "Please just make sure that the little kid I've been taken care of, Amaru, would be cured of the rest of her illness, I'm sure Konoha has the capabilities to do this much" 'Hopefully this will buy us some time and the other people will notice my absence and lay low for a while' thought Shinno

'Oh, playing the emotional card? Won't work here buddy' thought Bakorio before he said "Sure that's not a problem, now answer my previous question"

Shinno let out a sigh and was about to speak but he was suddenly interrupted as Bakorio said "And I can tell if you lie or not, just a friendly reminder"

Shinno's mouth twitched slightly before he decided to tell them the truth "Darkness is everywhere, we simply found the way to manipulate it, as for Hashirama Senju, the greatest ninja of his time… I'm not sure how he died exactly, all I know from our ancestors is that he visited a forbidden ground that only the hosts of Zero tail could find. The rest you probably know better than I do since he died in Konoha"

"Zero tail huh…" Many conjectures started racing through Bakorio's head, he knew what Shinno said was true, and the rest of the people with him could also tell from his reaction, but Minato's eyes narrowed slightly before he said " You said you found the way to manipulate it, how exactly?"

Shinno's face had no reaction to what Minato said but Bakorio could feel that his heart was in turmoil and refocused on the conversation.

"Of course, we used the zero tail as a converter, it can absorb negative emotions and transform them into dark chakra, and with time, a select few of us also mastered how to do the same, however, we could never reach the efficiency of the zero tail" said Shinno calmly.

At this Minato simply smiled and said "I see, well then, please enlighten us how this zero tail came to be" 'It seems like I've been ignoring the talent of the people around me huh?' Bakorio shot an appreciative look at Minato as he remembered that, while he has a system to rely on, the people around him reached the peak of this world purely thanks to their own talents, so they should never be underestimated.

After coming to this realization, the ego he started to grow started to shrink slightly and as he turned to look at Shinno, his eyes widened in surprise because just when this doctor opened his mouth and decided to answer, his face suddenly went stiff and his dim eyes dimmed even further.

The four of them immediately used their investigative abilities to understand what was happening, but the only thing they saw was some kind of black smoke emerging inside of Shinno's heart before dark blood started coming out of his mouth with a terrified look on his eyes and his body twitching constantly until he finally went limp….

'What the hell just happened?' The people present exchanged startled looks because although they couldn't tell what happened to Shinno, they all felt something else, a very dark presence gazed at them before it disappeared leaving an ominous feeling in their hearts…