Ibiki Morino's office.
He was organizing the materials from the first exam. Once sorted, these materials would be filed away and sent to the Hokage's office for the Third Hokage to review. If approved, they would be sent to the archives for storage.
These materials contained evaluations of examinees from other hidden villages. They could be treated as strategic intelligence, and in wartime, they might prove crucial.
Never overlook any seemingly insignificant detail. Sometimes, such an insignificant detail could play an unexpected role at a critical moment.
This was valuable experience intelligence operatives had gained through bloody lessons.
Although Ibiki was currently only in charge of interrogations, his intelligence-gathering abilities were not inferior in the slightest.
Just then, someone suddenly knocked on the office door.
"Come in!" Ibiki placed the materials into a folder and looked up.
The door opened, and a subordinate entered carrying a box of videotapes. He said to Ibiki Morino, "Lord Ibiki, Lord Anko Mitarashi gave this to me. She said it might be useful to you."
"Oh?"
Ibiki looked at the videotape in his subordinate's hands and thought, What is Anko Mitarashi up to? How could this possibly be useful to me?
Ibiki could not figure it out, but the answer was clearly inside this videotape.
With that thought, Ibiki waved his hand and said to his subordinate, "Play it."
The subordinate immediately followed Ibiki's instructions and prepared the tape for viewing. Everything was ready; all that remained was to press the play button. He informed Ibiki, "Lord Ibiki, I'm starting it."
"Mm." Ibiki casually replied while holding a file in both hands, his gaze settling on the screen.
As the subordinate pressed play, the footage appeared.
Three figures appeared on the screen. At the front was a blond-haired boy, tall enough to be over