[Rengoku's Timeline]
[Konohagakure]
The prison from back then was blown up by Danzo and was never rebuilt.
It was only after Rengoku took the seat of Hokage that it was constructed again.
Now there are two prisons. One is built at the original location, but it only holds ordinary criminals.
All serious offenders are now locked up in Orochimaru's basement, used as experimental materials.
And compared with other ordinary cells, this prison cell is completely different.
Walking into this cell, you can see that it is fully equipped with household appliances. The room is spacious and bright, spotless and neat.
If not for the windows and doors being made entirely of solid iron bars, anyone would probably doubt whether this was really a place used to imprison criminals.
At this moment, sitting quietly inside the cell was an old lady whose face was covered with age spots, Granny Chiyo.
Ever since that thrilling and intense battle ended half a year ago, she had been imprisoned here.
What was surprising was that Konoha treated this prisoner very kindly. Not only did they provide rich and delicious meals every day, but her living conditions were also quite generous.
Compared to Sunagakure, where she used to be, Konoha's food was without a doubt much better.
Because of that, after just half a year of nourishment, Granny Chiyo had even put on a little weight.
At first, when she had just been captured, her heart was filled with vigilance and unease.
She kept guessing how Konoha planned to deal with her, a former enemy.
However, Rengoku had disappeared.
So the matter of how to handle Granny Chiyo was temporarily put aside.
As the days passed, the doubts in Granny Chiyo's heart gradually faded, and she slowly began to accept the reality that she was now a prisoner.
After all, things had come to this. No matter how much she racked her brains thinking about it, it seemed she could not change the situation in front of her.
Although she did not lack food or clothing in this cell, living cut off from the world for a long time, with no access to any outside information, still made Granny Chiyo feel somewhat bored.
She only knew that the fierce war had already come to an end. As for the specific details and what had happened afterward, she knew absolutely nothing.
This sense of confusion about the unknown world was like a thick fog, always lingering in her heart, impossible to dispel.
In front of her, six books were neatly placed, and without exception, they were all travel guides and food recommendation books.
For the former Chiyo, these kinds of books were something she would have disdained and not even bothered to glance at.
But now, she had already flipped through these books several times over.
Chiyo slowly stood up and gently twisted her waist, trying to ease the stiffness and discomfort caused by sitting for too long.
Then she mobilized the chakra within her body and precisely attached it to the soles of her feet.
Just like that, she steadily walked from the floor up to the ceiling, then safely returned along the same path back to the ground.
She repeated this again and again, treating it as a special kind of walking exercise.
You should know that this place had a powerful formation specifically designed to suppress chakra, forcibly reducing Chiyo's originally abundant chakra by a full eighty percent.
It was only because Chiyo was a puppet master, with extremely fine control over chakra, otherwise, she probably would not even be able to perform something as simple as walking on walls.
After a short but effective round of movement, Chiyo walked at an unhurried pace toward the door of the cell.
When she reached the door, she stopped and looked out through the narrow gap.
As far as her eyes could see, apart from two stern faced guards standing upright, there was nothing else.
These two guards changed shifts every three hours.
No matter how Chiyo tried to speak to them, they always remained silent.
Like two statues without any emotion, they strictly upheld their duty.
If Chiyo herself had not always been passionate about all kinds of academic research, a daily life of imprisonment like this would have been unbearable for her long ago.
'Could it be that no one is coming today either?'
At this moment, deep in her heart, Chiyo desperately hoped someone would come and break this suffocating silence.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
A rhythmic sound of footsteps came from far to near.
This series of sounds was like a bolt of thunder, instantly striking Chiyo's somewhat drowsy heart and making her spirit lift sharply.
After being trapped here for so long, she could easily distinguish even the footsteps of the guards who came to change shifts.
However, the footsteps this time were clearly different from before. It was obvious that more than two people were coming.
Before long, a figure appeared first in Chiyo's line of sight.
Looking closely, it was the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato.
Behind him followed two others: Tsunade and White Fang.
Only, at this moment, White Fang was dressed in ANBU attire, his face tightly hidden behind a black mask.
When Chiyo's gaze met Minato, she froze as if struck by lightning.
An expression of undisguised shock immediately appeared on her face, because the Hokage robe he wore had four striking words embroidered on it: "Fourth Hokage".
Although Chiyo was not particularly familiar with Minato, just looking at this iconic outfit, how could she not recognize the person in front of her?
At this moment, Chiyo's mind surged like a stormy sea, countless questions and thoughts flashing through it.
'Didn't this man due few years ago?'
'Why did he suddenly appeared here now?'
'Could it be that the news of his death before has all been false?'
All kinds of thoughts intertwined together, instantly breaking her originally lazy and bored state of mind, replacing it with an unprecedented alertness and seriousness.
Just then—
Click! Click! Click!
A crisp sound rang out. The door lock was slowly turning.
Immediately afterward, as the door swung open, the mysterious formation on the wall was also lifted at the same time.
A fresh breath of air rushed in, and the chakra that had long been suppressed slowly began to move again.
Chiyo took a deep breath, trying hard to calm the waves in her heart.
As chakra surged through her body, Minato, Tsunade, and White Fang stepped into the room together.
Minato was not familiar with Chiyo, so Tsunade stepped forward first to negotiate.
With a faint, hard to read smile on her face, Tsunade spoke softly in greeting, "Elder Chiyo, have you been well lately?"
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