"No matter what you say, I still don't believe that man was Kagami. That's all I have to say. Root still has plenty of work to do, so I'm leaving."
With that, Danzo stood up and left.
"Danzo!"
"Enough. Let him go."
Mitokado Homura had wanted to try persuading Danzo, but Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped him.
"Hiruzen."
"It's fine. Danzo needs some time to cool down. Let's continue the meeting."
Hiruzen Sarutobi tapped the table as he spoke.
"We can now be fairly certain that the Masked Man called Tobi is Kagami. What we need to figure out next is why they were resurrected, what their goals are now that they're back, and why they came to Konoha to steal the Scroll of Seals."
Orochimaru licked his lips and spoke.
"Teacher, I have a theory."
"What theory?"
"Perhaps Senior Kagami came for Impure World Reincarnation."
"Impure World Reincarnation?! The technique Lord Second Hokage developed that can bring back the dead!"
As the current Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi had naturally read the Scroll of Seals. He knew that it contained such a forbidden technique.
"That's right. My theory is that after Senior Kagami died, someone or some organization resurrected him.
"But their resurrection technique may have some flaw or limitation. So they wanted to steal the Scroll of Seals and study Impure World Reincarnation to perfect their own technique."
At that point, Jiraiya raised a question.
"But judging by what we just saw, the resurrected Senior Kagami didn't seem to have any flaws."
"No, perhaps he did, but he concealed them."
Tsunade spoke thoughtfully.
"From the very beginning, he used the Transformation Technique to take on Jiraiya's appearance. Even after his identity was exposed and he undid the transformation, he put on a mask.
"If he wore the mask to conceal his identity,