In the real world, people watching the events in the Hokage's office had already picked up on a few things.
Just as Minato Namikaze had said, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, bore no ill intent toward Kikyo. At the very least, he had no intention of using forceful methods against her.
Judging solely by his tone and attitude, he treated her entirely like an old friend, rather than how the leader of a major power would treat a subordinate.
As for Shimura Danzo, he was the standard scheming old bastard, and he was probably on very good terms with the Third Hokage.
Otherwise, no leader of any powerful faction would tolerate a subordinate barging into their office without knocking.
What was more, Shimura Danzo's attitude was anything but polite. Was that something a subordinate could get away with? It was practically a textbook example of courting death.
Precisely because of this, Hiruzen Sarutobi probably did not know about the things Shimura Danzo had been doing behind his back. But now that Minato Namikaze had arrived, no one knew whether he would report everything truthfully, nor how Hiruzen Sarutobi would deal with Shimura Danzo's private little schemes.
This was some gossip worth looking forward to.
In Yingzhou, in the Kyushu region, Hiruzen Sarutobi—the founder of Sarutobi Corporation and a retired man in his seventies—first stared at his appearance in the Light Screen footage in surprise. Then, watching the conversation between "himself" and that Shimura Danzo, his expression became rather complicated.
Smacking his lips, Hiruzen Sarutobi muttered, "Why does it feel like the old me in the Light Screen footage treats Shimura Danzo the same way those incompetent national leaders in history did—letting their subordinates and people around them push them around and bully them at will?"
"How could someone like that