Utatane Koharu stood there in a daze, unable to believe what she was seeing.
An icy chill surged from the soles of her feet to the crown of her head.
That feeling...
Was even more terrifying than seeing a ghost.
Although.
In a sense, the Utatane Koharu standing before her... or rather, the "original body" standing before her, was itself a ghost.
And when Reanimated Utatane Koharu, this "old woman brought back from the dead,"
Saw her own twenty-year-old face for a split second...
Her eyes suddenly widened.
"Who are you?! Why have you taken my form?!"
The dead woman returned from the Netherworld demanded loudly.
"This, this is..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes widened.
He was equally shocked to the extreme.
Why... are there two Utatane Koharus?
"So that's how it is..."
Hyuga Sho glanced at the dead woman.
He first confirmed that the real Utatane Koharu was already dead.
Moreover, she seemed unaware of many things.
"Lord Koharu, may I ask what the final moment in your memory was like...?"
After previously fighting the Reanimated Third Kazekage, Hyuga Sho had also figured out a few things.
For example, the issue of the dead retaining their memories.
"?"
Reanimated Utatane Koharu glanced at Hyuga Sho, irritation in her eyes.
"I was with En and Danzo earlier..."
Utatane Koharu looked around, but saw no sign of Shimura Danzō or Mitokado Homura.
That statement.
Made Hiruzen Sarutobi even more puzzled.
Clearly, the dead woman had no idea that Shimura Danzō had defected.
"All right."
By then, Hyuga Sho understood.
He had a general idea of the time period when Utatane Koharu had died.
She must have died on the operating table.
More precisely, she had died at the moment the Wood Release Cells were transplanted.
Old Utatane Koharu had not made it through.