What exactly had Kakashi just said?
It was actually very simple—just twenty-one words in total.
"Third Lord, last night, I dug up the graves of my teacher Minato and Mistress Kushina!"
See? Just one short sentence!
Yet the amount of information packed into that sentence was simply enormous!
For a moment, the Third Hokage wondered whether he had hallucinated it. Otherwise, why would Kakashi say something like that?
If it had not come from Kakashi, the Third Hokage might even have thought the speaker was provoking Konoha!
Who were Minato and Kushina?
They were Konoha's Fourth Hokage and his wife, heroes of the village!
And now, someone had actually dared to walk into his office and say they had dug up their graves. Was that something any normal person would do?
After hearing Kakashi's words, the Third Hokage first doubted his own ears, then suspected Kakashi had misspoken, and finally even wondered whether the Kakashi before him was an impostor.
Kakashi was the Fourth Hokage's disciple!
Yet he had just said he had dug up his teacher and mistress's graves. The Third Hokage truly could not understand it.
To be honest, if anyone else had dared to say such a thing to him here, the Third Hokage would have ordered the Anbu to seize them long ago.
Only because it was Kakashi could the Third Hokage remain calm enough to hear why he had done such a thing.
"Kakashi, let me ask first—I didn't hear that wrong, did I?"
After coming back to his senses, the Third Hokage looked at Kakashi and asked seriously.
"Third Lord, you heard correctly. What I said is the truth!"
Kakashi nodded directly, affirming it.
That made the Third Hokage fall silent again.
At a complete loss, the Third Hokage took two hard drags from