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Judge, Jury, and Executioner

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The laws of justice are very simple in the shinobi world: You exact your own.

No exemplifies this rule quite so well as the Ino-Shika-Cho cell of Konohagakure. To an enemy caught by them, justice exacted is swift and brutal.

First, the target realizes that their mind is no longer their own. Their body moves seemingly of its own will as the sensation of cold, clever hands moving files through their minds with calculating precision settles heavily upon them. Nothing is hidden, nothing is not privy to the judge who searches out their guilt.

Next, just as their bodies become their own again, the target is paralyzed from the feet up, unable to move an inch in any direction. This is a different feeling, not the sensation of psychic invasion but of an outside force bearing down on them as, with a slow, lazy voice the jury pronounces sentence upon them.

The last thing the target ever sees is a shadow descending upon them, a shadow to block out the sun, as the executioner speeds towards them, implacable and undaunted.

A flock of crows rises shrieking from the canopy. However flawed, a shinobi's justice has been served in Hi no Kuni.