Late at night, in Hidden Leaf Village.
The lights in every household gradually went dark, and even the Hokage Office Building beneath Hokage Rock was the same.
Deep underground beneath the Hokage Office Building, Aburame Tatsuma held a file in his hand and walked silently down the dim corridor.
Not far ahead of him, at the end of the corridor, a faint light seeped through the crack of a room's door.
That was the storeroom usually used to keep classified documents and Sealing Scrolls.
Aburame Tatsuma gently pushed open the storeroom door.
The hinges gave a soft creak, especially clear in the silent corridor.
In the dim room, only a desk lamp beside the table was lit, its yellowed light casting a long shadow across the wall.
Danzo, dressed in the Hokage robe, was currently hunched over the desk in the center of the secret room. By the lamplight, he was absorbed in the forbidden jutsu recorded in the final volume of the Sealing Scroll.
The scroll was very long, hanging all the way from the desktop to the floor. It was densely covered in writing, along with complex runes and diagrams of formations.
Two days had already passed since he returned from the Land of Iron. Although the four Kage all had their own thoughts, in the face of a common enemy, the Five Kage Summit had ended fairly smoothly. At the very least, they had reached a basic consensus on forming the Shinobi Allied Forces.
As for that mysterious man, "Tobi," who had suddenly barged into the Five Kage Summit and claimed he could help them fight Asura, all four great shinobi villages knew he definitely had unspeakable secrets.
But when they learned that he was a member of the "Akatsuki" and represented the "Akatsuki," the four great