Kazemori Masaki and the six other members of Konoha High Command entered the Medical Department and made their way into a room. Inside, medical ninja led by Tsunade were busy testing the secret medicine Heizo Hattori and the others had brought back, carefully analyzing its ingredients.
"Have you found anything?" Kazemori Masaki asked Tsunade as she came out during a break in the testing.
"We have some results." Tsunade looked solemn. She knew where this secret medicine had come from and understood how much importance the leadership placed on it, so she had been extremely thorough. "This isn't ordinary secret medicine. Its effects don't come entirely from its medicinal properties. There's something else in it."
"Something else?" Kazemori Masaki glanced at the secret medicine. It looked perfectly ordinary, but his sensory ability detected a subtle presence within it. If it were merely medicine, that would certainly be unusual. He had suspected there was more to it from the moment he first saw it.
"Some of its ingredients do have conventional medicinal properties, but their effects aren't particularly strong. They're nowhere near the secret medicines passed down within certain clans," Tsunade said, glancing at Torifu Akimichi.
Torifu Akimichi nodded thoughtfully. Naturally, he had been very curious when he heard about the Evil God Worshippers' secret medicine. His clan's own medicine had not been developed overnight. It was the culmination of the Akimichi Clan's wisdom over many years, with considerable assistance from the Nara Clan, who excelled at growing medicinal herbs.
Yet the rootless Evil God Worshippers had somehow produced secret medicine comparable to the Akimichi Clan's. Torifu Akimichi had been eager to discover how, only to learn from Tsunade that its medicinal properties were not actually all that impressive.
"Then why does it have those effects?" Shimura Danzō asked at once.