Facing those familiar faces, Sarutobi Hiruzen forced a smile, despite the anger simmering inside him.
He turned to the two ninjas whose bodies had clearly been twisted by experimentation.
"Just what grievances have you suffered? You can explain everything to me, the Hokage, in detail."
As soon as Sarutobi Hiruzen finished speaking, the two jonin, Takechiyo and Kihoshi, opened their mouths slightly, but before they could say anything,
a commotion broke out nearby...
The crowd slowly parted, opening a path.
Uchiha Genmei entered the scene with a dozen or so jonin from the Police Force.
He glanced at the two ninjas.
Then he turned his head and, before the Third Hokage had even reacted to his arrival, lowered his gaze and asked pointedly:
"Lord Hokage, I happen to know these two jonin, Takechiyo and Kihoshi."
"The village's ninja registration system clearly lists them as having died in the war... So why have they appeared here now?"
"They've been shouting all along that Shimura Danzō is responsible. I ask Lord Hokage to give us an explanation."
Uchiha Genmei was right. As the head of the Police Force,
and with the historical knowledge he'd gained in his previous life, he felt that anyone who wanted to accomplish great things needed to be good at remembering and recognizing people.
He was still very inexperienced at recognizing people, and didn't know much about it yet.
But remembering people...
Even if he couldn't match Liu Heng, who remembered even the lowliest stable hand by name,
he'd managed to memorize the names of every jonin in Konoha.
To be honest, this incident had also caught Genmei by surprise.
He had indeed had Hikari use Yachihoko to make Danzō expose himself.
But he truly hadn't expected that Danzō had already become so unhinged.
At this point,
Shimura