Inside the Hokage's Office.
After looking Mitsuki up and down several times, Jiraiya finally asked with an incredulous expression, "He... he really is Orochimaru's son?"
"Yes!"
Hyuga Kagami nodded solemnly.
Tsunade's expression was somewhat strange. "Kagami, this joke isn't funny at all."
Without offering any further explanation, Hyuga Kagami directly asked Mitsuki in front of everyone, "What is Orochimaru to you?"
Mitsuki obediently answered, "Orochimaru is my father."
Hyuga Kagami spread his hands at the others.
Even the Third Hokage could no longer sit still. He moved closer to Mitsuki and observed him for a long while before saying, "Indeed. There is a resemblance to Orochimaru when he was young in his brows."
With even the Third Hokage saying so, Jiraiya and Tsunade naturally had nothing more to say. Even so, they still found it hard to believe that someone like Orochimaru could have a son. Their expressions could not have been stranger.
"Orochimaru probably hasn't had an easy time these past few years. After defecting from the village, he joined the Akatsuki, then defected from the Akatsuki as well. They hunted him down time and again, forcing him to live a miserable life constantly hiding from place to place..."
Hyuga Kagami embellished Orochimaru's plight, portraying him as a Rogue Ninja wandering endlessly through the Ninja World, destitute and barely surviving from day to day.
It was downright tragic!
After hearing Hyuga Kagami's account, the Third Hokage, Jiraiya, and Tsunade all fell silent.
Clearly, they believed him.
It was not that they lacked judgment. The Akatsuki had simply placed far too much psychological pressure on them. If the God Organization had not intervened, the Five Great Shinobi Villages might have long since been wiped out by the Akatsuki. Even the Five Great Shinobi Villages had suffered so greatly, so by